Just this morning I found out that the scrolling trackpad feature works within my Windows XP Pro install. Now that is something that really surprised me and I thought that would never work in anything but Mac OS X itself. I haven’t tried this yet, but anyone with Boot Camp could see if it works […]

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I’ve been a fan of Apple Mail ever since I started using Mac OS X. It’s very easy to use and works with both POP3 and IMAP email accounts. It also supports smart folders, sorting email and has great Junk-Mail filtering. Usually I have it set up so that my emails show in the top […]

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Just recently I found out people have created PDFs or CBR (much like a PDF) of comic books. Usually I would just read and view them in Preview which works ok, but Comic Book Lover is really much better. It allows me to easily keep a library of all my ‘digitized’ comic books. It has […]

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This little application just sits up in your menu bar and shows you how many unread emails you have. It works with the Apple Mail program included in every 10.3.x – 10.4.x system. You can choose which mail boxes it checks through to see if there’s any unread mail. It also allows you to choose […]

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As a kid I was always playing with LEGO’s and building giant worlds. The only thing that restricted me was the amount of LEGO blocks that I actually owned and my imagination. I loved to followed the provided instructions and built what was featured on the box, but I also enjoyed ‘wingin’ it’. I would […]

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Today Apple released a new version of it’s award-winning visual effects program, Shake. It will now run on the Intel and PowerPC based Macs and it’s running a lot faster! The Shake website covers a lot more about what this amazing application can do along with a visual tour of the program.

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If you’ve recently purchased a new Mac, you might be surprised that Appleworks is no longer included in the bundled software. The only dedicated word processor is TextEdit, which, if you’re used to Word, Pages, or BBEdit seems pretty cheap and limited. However, TextEdit is actually a pretty robust program – it’s also very fast, […]

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There’s a great article in Variety Magazine this morning, about Apple’s attempts at allowing full-length movie downloads through the iTunes music store. This has been rumored ever since the music store went live April 28, 2003. Apparently Steve Jobs has been on a campaign at the major Hollywood studios, trying to cement deals that would […]

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I am not sure how this one slipped by me, but Google has a new extension for FireFox that allows a user to sync many of their web browsers settings across multiple computers. So far you can syncronize bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords. As an everyday Mozilla FireFox user and as someone who […]

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