View from the Dock

This is my first post in a new category I’m calling ‘back to basics.’ With all the new Mac users out there, I’ve decided to periodically post some tips aimed at this crowd — a group that includes many of my friends who’ve crossed over from the PC. To get the ball rolling, I’ve compiled [...]

Here’s a tip for working with text on your Mac. Have you ever needed to copy over the text of an email from, say, Apple Mail to another application (like your blog?). I need to do this all the time.
Here’s the problem. Sometimes I use my lunch break at work to begin typing out a [...]

If the skies are clear where you live tomorrow night (or tonight, depending on your time zone), don’t miss your chance to witness the last lunar eclipse until Dec. 2010.

Here in Hawaii, I’ll be heading out to the beach around 11 p.m. While I won’t be bringing my Mac with me, this event marks a [...]

There’s an ongoing struggle in my household. I don’t want to use any names…but if it weren’t for my tireless, unrelenting efforts to keep my iMac (which is shared by one other person) free of desktop clutter, there would now be a virtual sea of files cluttering our desktop. You might never guess I was [...]

Want something fun and free to play around with this weekend? Here are three applications to try out:
1. Beautiful Dorena. It’s weird, it’s hard to describe, and it’s interesting in an experimental kind of way. Great for kids.
2. MozoDojo. I used this program to create a large mosaic print project. It’s amazing. Turn a photo [...]

This is a quick note about an experience I recently had with customer support from Agile Web Solutions, the creators of 1Password.
I’m not going to review this application — there are already hundreds of available online comments and reviews. Suffice it to say that I’ve come to depend on 1Password so much that I [...]