Archive for the ‘OSX’ Category

Favs. →

Posted on Sunday, March 11th 2012 by in OSX

Fav’ing things in Google Reader, your Twitter stream, Vimeo, Instapaper…But where do these starred items go after that? They get lost among the tons of new information, posts and tweets and are likely to never be seen again. Not anymore. Meet Favs.app I’ve been testing this app in beta for a couple of weeks and [...]

Redownload your purchased music from iTunes.

Posted on Saturday, January 14th 2012 by in Apple, OSX

Not sure if this is new or not but I haven’t notice it before so here goes: A couple of months ago, Apple added the “Purchased” option to the iTunes store. That option gives you a list of all the apps and books you’ve purchased in the past and gives you an easy way to [...]

Fire drill.

Posted on Saturday, January 7th 2012 by in OSX, Technology

It’s coming round to the time of year when I get the urge to do a clean install of whatever computer/laptop/phone I’m using. Not sure why. In one way to transition into the new year with a clean slate, but also sort of fire-drill. We all have backup systems in place, have everything synced up [...]

The cost of not buying good software. →

Posted on Saturday, October 15th 2011 by in OSX, Software

Good software is virtually free, regardless of its purchase price, because the payback dwarfs the investment. If your time is worth something, you’d be rational to pay hundreds of dollars for applications you use every day. An interesting and usual point of view, but one that’s spot on none the less: “good software pays for [...]

App Tip: Ringer (OS X)

Posted on Monday, March 7th 2011 by in OSX, Technology

One of my biggest gripes with the iPhone is the ringtones. There’s no easy, straight forward way to add ringtones or to make them yourself. The only thing you can easily do is turn a song from the iTunes music store into a ringtones. But that is going to cost you €0,99. When I got [...]