Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

BumpTop: 3D Mac Desktop

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

BumpTop -- a Mac program that converts your drab desktop from 2D into 3D --  looks interesting enough to try. Tech Startups brings a "hands-on" review and opines.

Google Voice for iPhone via mobile Safari available NOW

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Even though the Google Voice app was rejected by Apple, Google went ahead and put out Google Voice through the web, via mobile Safari, at google.com/voice. I haven't had much time to test it out, but did make a test call using Google voice from my iPhone's Safari browser. All ...

WWDC 2009 Live Coverage

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

iPhone rumor roundup and the likeliness of each rumor I'll be following -- from my computer -- the Apple keynote address from the Worldwide Developer's Conference, Monday, June 8, at noon CDT where a new iPhone is expected to be announced. Here are a few sources covering the event live and a direct ...

Google Latitude Launches (with bugs?)

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Google Latitude, a web and mobile phone service that shows where your friends are on a map, has gone live.  However, it seems to have a few kinks left in it as the above iPhone screen grab shows.  Right now it doesn't seem to work at all on my iPhone. ...

Weird pasting behavior from Open Office

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Funny stuff.  The Asian characters below are what I get when I try dragging links from Firefox into Open Office (where they look normal) then into Word Press.  And I even tried saving as a Word document then using the "Paste from Word" button in Word Press. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????•?????????????‰????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????›?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????> Update: The Asian characters ...

Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” to Finally Work on Macs with Silverlight

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Update: http://www.netflix.com/silverlightoptin is the link to sign up for the Mac Beta, right now. It's about time. Crunch Gear says Netflix will enable its "Watch Instantly" feature for Intel Macs by year's end by utilizing Silverlight.  Looks like Netflix will still use DRM, but at least those Netflix subscribers with ...

Chromium for Mac is here but is very unstable

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Chromium   Slashdot has word of Chromium, a port of the Google Chrome browser for Linux and Mac from Codeweavers. I'm using it on my Mac as I type this post.  Chromium let me insert images via the "Add media" feature in WordPress, which is more than what Firefox and Safari let me ...