why you should install Alfred for Mac right now
Alfred is an elegant and crazy powerful launcher application for Mac OS X. If you use a Mac regularly, you should definitely try it because it will change how you use your computer.
a quick look at Cathode for Mac OS X
Cathode is a fun alternative to the Terminal utility for OS X. It replicates a variety of old-school CRT monitors, with a bunch of options and sound effects to play with.
my mostly positive review of Hipstamatic Disposable
Hipstamatic Disposable brings some fresh ideas to the iPhone photo app model and is a delight to use, but some of the in-app purchases may rub you up the wrong way, and there’s a nasty bug going round.
Pixelmator: they’re not ripping you off
With the launch of the Mac App Store recently, Pixelmator, amongst a few other existing Mac apps, went Mac App Store Only. This means that eventually (once the application reaches version 2.0) users that already bought it from their website will stop getting free updates through the app, and will need to ‘transition’ to the [...]
iPhoto libraries and Dropbox – a warning!
You may be considering syncing your iPhoto libraries between various machines using Dropbox. I tried this recently and it works, but there are some serious caveats, that if you ignore could result in wiping out a lot of your iPhoto changes. Skip to the last paragraph if you want the short version, but for those [...]
these are a few (more) of my favourite things
Who doesn’t love using cool stuff to make their day to day survival more pleasing and less hassle? I’m sure I’m not the only one who’ll trawl the interwebz looking for cool stuff to buy or install, in the name of streamlining or at least aesthetically enhancing my workflow or daily routine, or just because [...]
mac stuff for photographers
If you’re a photographer and you use a Mac, chances are you’ve probably already heard of the vast majority of these, but it’s still a pretty good list so I really ought to link to it before I lose too many readers. The Ultimate Mac Setup for Photographers is a nice collection of apps that [...]
fun with Poladroid
Yesterday I mentioned an iPhone app called Camerabag that applies filters to iPhone photos. Today I happened across a free app for Macs and PCs called Poladroid. You drag an image from your computer onto the application (which is represented by a lovely icon of a Polaroid camera) and it makes that whizz and whirr [...]