15 Must-Have Free Apps For Your Mac
I generally do not pay attention to these but this nailed so many of the apps that I use and swear by that I just had to put it up here. If you have not used any or all of these then your in for a treat!
I generally do not pay attention to these but this nailed so many of the apps that I use and swear by that I just had to put it up here. If you have not used any or all of these then your in for a treat!
Been to Facebook and found that you got a little more than you expected. I had two friends hit me up to fix this one on their systems. Click on the title above to go to a good site that will help you correct the problem.
This is a bit of rant because I just had to help this person dig their minivan out when they shouldn’t have been on the road to begin with.
Why do people go out on snow covered roads after emergency officials explicitly state that if you go out you are going to get stuck? Even after the Governor declares a state of emergency forbidding them to go out, they ignore it and decide to venture out anyways.
Case in point is my lovely neighborhood. If you have lived her more than a month, you already know that we do not get plowed until after every other area of town gets done. Our roads are always hard to travel because the wind drifts the snow up and the depth of the snow on the road makes it difficult for even trucks to travel.
But, low and behold, here comes someone in their Ford minivan plowing through the drifts looking more like someone on a jet ski breaking the wake of a boat. At first I thought, ok thats cool, they are at least moving. And then they stopped. For no apparent reason, they stopped! WTF, I mean, you don’t stop in the snow or you get stuck, and stuck is what they got.
So an hour and 20 minutes later, the good ole minivan is being towed backwards by some random guy with a jeep so the road can be cleared and available in case the snow plow trucks are generous enough to come today. Oye!
Google announced Buzz today, a photo/videos/link/status sharing service. The big news here isn’t really the functionality of
PownceBuzz, but that Google is boldly integrating this directly into Gmail - essentially taking the product from zero to millions of users in a matter of hours. If Buzz is a success it will mean real competition for Twitter and useful real-time public data for Google.After giving it a go for a couple hours, here are a few changes/feature requests for the Google Buzz team:
- It sounds stupid, but you need a simple url for public profiles, http://google.com/profiles/kevinrose is a mouthful. Imagine a CNN host trying to plug their profile and having to say “google dot com slash profiles slash larry king”, can we just have google.com/larryking? (side note: /profile/kevinrose should redirect to /profiles/kevinrose not 404)
- Speaking of public profiles, this entire page needs to be redesigned. Adding custom backgrounds and a design that feels a little less utilitarian would be a good start.
- This auto-friend stuff is just straight confusing. I get it, but just because I’ve emailed with someone a few times doesn’t mean I want to auto-follow them. Where is the setting to turn this off?
- Is there an option to prevent the Buzz(es?, i?) from coming directly into my inbox? When Buzz starts feeling like a task (email), that bothers me.
- Where is the ‘Compose Buzz’ link? Only within the Buzz tab? Can an email be converted to a Buzz? Having Buzz in my inbox but no way to compose a Buzz from my inbox seems odd.
Not sure where Buzz fits in my arsenal of social media tools, how often I’ll use it, or if it will eventually feel too much like unread email — but I’m happy to see Google taking social media seriously. It’s early days, let the attention/follower wars begin.
Have a feature suggestion for Buzz? Add it to the comments!
Here’s a quick tip that I found while reading Macworld magazine as I was snowed in during the blizzard of 2010.
Google, like Open DNS, allows you to use their DNS instead of your ISP’s. The only reason you would want to do this is for speed.
To use Google’s DNS, use the following: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
Its Apple keynote time again. I guess its no real secret that Apple will be releasing some type of new device along the lines of a tablet that will change the whole face of tablet computing.
To borrow a page from Kanye: Apple, thats tablet is nice and all and I am going to let you have your keynote, but the rest of Mac/iPhone peeps are expecting a bit more.
So thats my wish list for the Jan 27 keynote. Aside from the subscription service, I feel these are very reasonable expectations. Time will tell.