New Macs don’t ship with Adobe’s Flash player plugin. Why? Apple’s hot selling iPhone and iPad won’t play Adobe Flash video player. Why?The Proprietary vs. Open Irony It wasn’t that long ago when Adobe and Apple threw mud balls at each other over Flash. For Adobe, it’s... Read More »

What does Trash mean to a Mac user? It’s where we throw away those files, apps, images, documents, audio and video clips that we don’t want anymore, right? There’s your Mac’s Trash can, and then there’s a smart Trash can. Which do you have on your Mac?All Trash Cans Should... Read More »

Capturing your Mac’s screen is easy. All you need is to remember the right keystrokes. Or, use the built-in Grab app on your Mac. But what if you want to capture all you’re doing on screen into a QuickTime video? With sound? And clicks? And video effects, transitions, and easy upload to YouTube... Read More »

Rapper Eminem, who prides himself on being able to rhyme anything, tried to rhyme the word orange on 60 Minutes. That brought to mind my own bout with poetry in college and where I could have been had Macs been around back in the day.Poetry In Motion, Mac Style Where was Rhyme Genie and the Mac when... Read More »

If your family is anything like my family, it’s scattered. If not scattered around the country, it’s scattered through history. Look at your family and relatives and then ask a few questions. Do you have a family tree? Do your know where your family originated and when? Here’s how to... Read More »

One of my favorite and most used Mac apps is PTH Pasteboard. It’s a multiple clipboard tool that stores everything you copy and makes recent copies available again with a click. Even better, it’s a pop out shelf. Move the pointer to the side of the screen, and the most recent copies pop up... Read More »

The Mac is a machine of and for great inspiration. Writers use Macs to become published authors. Screen writers use Macs to create movie masterpieces. Cubicle dwellers use Macs to make a living and make the world a better place. This is the story of a Mac app that inspires and annoys.Click, Clickity,... Read More »

Apple’s product, revenue, and profit success in the past decade has been nothing short of astounding. iPod. iPhone. iPad. Stores. Mac (again). Hot on the trail of Apple’s success are the rip off artists and thieves. What is Apple doing with that $75-billion cash pile? Apparently, they’re... Read More »

Mac OS X Lion brings a number of new voices that are almost lifelike. Alex was good. Samantha is better. The only problem with all these new, multi-language voices, is that they read. They don’t talk. I want a Mac that talks back.Alex, Meet Samantha If you’ve upgraded your Mac to Lion, here’s... Read More »

My Mac runs two to five browsers at any one time. One of the is Apple’s Safari, which sees the most use. Second is Google’s Chrome. A new version of Chrome was made available today. Remarkably, it was already running on my Mac. Ditto for a bunch of new extensions in Safari. What’s going... Read More »

Like it or not, many Mac users are Cloud users. We store files on some unnamed server deep in a server farm somewhere on the outer edges (or, innermost regions) of the internet. Email, calendar, address book, photos are the basics we’ve been storing in the Cloud for years.Apple has announced... Read More »

Here she comes. iPad Head Girl. Cosmo for Guys is a new iPad publication and to drum up some publicity, Cosmo’s PR hacks dreamed up iPad Head Girl. A description might be worthwhile, but the video pretty much speaks for itself.Obviously, with four iPads attached to her head she can’t... Read More »

I’ve been browsing around Google’s Android Market. For all the complaints some have when using iTunes Store for the App Store—and, admittedly, there’s an awful lot going on in iTunes—it sure seems to work well compared to Android Market, which is typical Google—barren,... Read More »

While I was out late this morning someone left a phone message on our answering machine. The message proved yet again that the one man, one vote rule is totally wrong for the people, but good for politicians.My Skool’s Principle Is Stoopid The caller was male (a broad assumption that I made based... Read More »