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I’ll quickly pile on to the oft-repeated sentiments on SSD – it makes a huge difference, and I can’t imagine ever going back. My boot time is light years faster, I’ve yet to see a bouncing dock icon since the upgrade, and my machine is more snappy and responsive than ever before. The biggest surprise though wasn’t the speed boost. It was discovering how lightweight I could operate my Mac and how liberating that was.
I downloaded Acorn today for a test run. I was a little lazy and launched the app from my Downloads folder and right after was pleasantly surprised to see this dialog box pop up on my screen.
It’s a small thing, but such a simple way to make the end user’s life easier. I can’t recall ever seeing this in another app. A very nice touch and a great first impression.
The most innovative Mac apps are not at the office suite tier, but coming from the small-to-medium size developer shops. Almost every application I have bought over the last year or so shares a common set of characteristics. If an app offers all of these (and solves a problem that I need fixed), it gets me to click buy every time.
I’ve recently reworked my desktop to embrace a lot of the ideas discussed on Minimal Mac. I’ve gone to an auto-hiding Dock, de-cluttered my menu bar, and removed any sign of files, drives, or folders from the Desktop.
I woke up this morning and saw a double recommendation for Notational Velocity, a note-taking app for the Mac, from two of my favorite bloggers, Giles Turnbull and John Gruber. How can I not give this app a test drive?
I just finished watching a series of MacBreak video podcasts on the new Services architecture in Snow Leopard, and I was really impressed. With Snow Leopard, Apple has completely overhauled this architecture and introduced a killer framework that will really benefit both the casual and advanced user.
In the most recent Mac Power Users podcast, ”Word Processing and Writing“, Katie (@maccore) and Dave (@macsparky) led a great discussion on Mac Word Processing Apps. I know… it sounds a little dry, but trust me. It was really good. By the time the podcast had wrapped up I not only had three new apps to test [...]
Leander Kahney: MacMedics, a repair shop in Millersville, Maryland, recently serviced a Macintosh IIci, which was on the blink after two decades of faithful service…The machine was putting up funny patterns on the monitor. The client thought it was the screen, but it was actually the main logic board. He’d been using the machine for [...]
We’ve reviewed hundreds of affordable applications over the years, from tools with just a few key features to complex software that can compete with more-expensive programs. Some of the Gems we’ve found are applications we can’t live without. As a grand finale to GemFest 2009, here’s a list of some of our all-time favorite Mac [...]
The Maine Department of Education said Tuesday that it plans to expand to high school students a program that has provided Apple notebook computers to all of the state’s middle school students for the past 7 years, creating “the world’s largest educational technology program of its kind.” As part of the deal, the Maine Department [...]