Rogers Communication announced a deal to carry Apple’s iPhone in Canada. Eamon Hoey, a sour grapes management consultant whose client list includes most of Canada’s major telecom companies except Rogers, disses the deal, calling it too little too late: It just doesn’t matter anymore. There are now alternatives to the iPhone, which has been introduced … Read More »
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
How to rename files on your Mac with Renamer4Mac
Here’s the deal. Renaming files on a Mac is something of a pain in the rear. In Leopard you can select a single file, hit the Return key, which highlights the file’s name, then type in a new name. If you have 150 files to rename—photos, documents, music—repeat that pain 150 times. Or, use Renamer4Mac. … Read More »
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Use TextExpander or waste time typing
I’m an adequate typer, made better by spell checking on my Mac. Thanks to TextExpander, I’m now a quick typer for a couple of reasons: 1) I don’t have to remember what to type, and, 2) I don’t even have to do the typing. A good Mac utility should do the work for you, right? … Read More »
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Search for iTunes lyrics? Why bother?
OS X hint in Macworld on how to use Spotlight to search for lyrics in iTunes. Added to my ‘much-ado-about-not-much’ file. There are two fairly large caveats: first, Spotlight will only search MP3s, not AACs or any other file format, and second, you must have previously added the lyrics to the songs. Or, to grab … Read More »
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
iVolume is better than iTunes Sound Check
I hate it when some songs playing in iTunes are so much louder than others. iTunes’ Sound Check helps, but not enough. iVolume is the answer. The Techno Geek Speak: iTunes uses a very fast algorithm to quickly analyze the volume of its songs. It’s fast, but it’s not very accurate. iVolume corrects the volume … Read More »
Monday, April 28, 2008
Microsoft Mother’s Day Promotion
Get a free Mother’s Day portrait when you sign up for Windows Live, whatever that is. It’s here, here, there, and over there. From Fake Steve: Microsoft now has contracted a serious case of Ray Ozzie Disease, aka Featuritis Creepionis Complicationibus. And this is only the least of their problems. Sorry. Please accept my apology. … Read More »
Monday, April 28, 2008
New speed bumped iMac available without quad core
My disappointment grows in proportion to the money burning a hole in my pocket as I pine for a new quad core iMac. Instead, Apple tosses a bone. Just when you thought iMac had everything, now there’s even more. More powerful Intel Core 2 Duo processors. And more memory standard. Yes, that’s nice. Where is … Read More »