My very first Mac App Store rec is Romain Piveteau's LiveQuartz, a simple and elegant image editor. It features all the basic image-manipulation verbs you'd expect, as well as support for layers and filters, and its UI is very polished and pleasant to work with. I used LiveQuartz to create most of the images used in my various Gameshelf essays and ( Read more... )

[Crossposted from Appleseed Blog]

My friend Noah, a sysadmin at MIT, reports that on October 1 he switched off the info-mac hyperarchive (hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu), one of the oldest websites on the internet. It was a web-accessible version of the info-mac archive, an online repository of Mac freeware and shareware, which before then was mainly ( Read more... )

I just discovered that Mac OS X's Spotlight, the OS's built-in search engine since Tiger, is quite useful for doing quick, voluntary spell-checking when in applications that can't spell-check for you, like the Terminal. Just type Command-Space, and then type in the word you're not sure about. If you've got it right, among the top hits will be a ( Read more... )

Oh boy! Rivet works much better in the new apartment, since now my sessile Mac is hooked directly to the router via Ethernet (thanks to dictator555's wire-running machinations, from back when she lived here). It didn't work at all when I was trying to play movies more than a few megs in size over my old 802.11b connection ( Read more... )

I'm kinda giving up on jmac.org/blog. I've already stated why I failed to leave LiveJournal, and there's no good crossposting tools that I can find. Meanwhile, the jmac.org blog has 0 subscribers. So LJ kind of wins ( Read more... )

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I set up a Boot Camp partition on the lappie last night, and then put Windows XP on it. I named the partition Limburger, to go with the lappie's existing name of Brie and the desktop's Stilton. So now when I start up my laptop I'm asked, without any other context, to choose between Brie and Limburger, and that cracks my shit up.

I then grabbed ( Read more... )

I wish it were otherwise, but after a few weeks of trial it looks like I'm going to keep Quicken as my financial software of choice for now. This is my third pentannual attempt to use Quicken, but it's the first time that I've been able to have it update all my numbers from all my banks and cards and investments over the Internet ( Read more... )

Any a' y'all have a favorite Mac time tracker/invoicer app for consulting work?

I posted the 10-minute proto-episode I made in June as my certification tape, and which aired in July. Also crappy, but apparently interesting enough that strangers recognized me and were asking me about it when mrmorse and I were last visiting the studio ( Read more... )