Archive for the 'Apple' Category

Witch is a System Preferences utility for Mac OS X, allowing you to customize the process of cycling between windows, which is traditionally accomplished with “Command + Tab” (“Alt + Tab” on Windows).

The traditional approach has a few drawbacks, specifically on Mac OS X:

You are limited to cycling only between open applications, as opposed to […]

Syncing iPhone Calendar with Google Calendar on OS X is easier due to Apple iCal. iTunes supports calendar sync only with Outlook in a Windows environment. This tip will take a look at bi-directional sync options, 2 of which are completely free, to keep iPhone calendar in sync with Google Calendar.

Most Mac OS X files are actually bundles. If you try copying and pasting bundles outside of OS X, they will copy in segments, ie: each piece of the bundle. This can cause unexpected behavior when uploading or emailing files that are actually bundles.

Testing websites and web applications that are optimized for iPhone is not possible everywhere unless the remote web resource thinks the client is an iPhone. Web-based and OS X applications exist to test iPhone compatibility, but this tutorial describes how to set Firefox up to fake the iPhone user agent.

Adobe came to Minneapolis for their Summer 2007 On AIR bus tour, where they introduced the new AIR runtime environment built to deploy internet applications to the desktop.

Over the holiday break, you are probably taking a lot of photos, all of which will eventually get imported to your computer. While picture taking is fun, importing is sometimes a laborious task, because not every picture is a “keeper.” You have to manually sift through each photo, and decide to keep it or trash it.

On Mac OS X, there are some tools that allow you to streamline this process more easily. So rather than spending New Year’s Day sifting through all of your photos, you can enjoy your holiday.

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to create a calendar of events that you’d like to share with others, specifically users of Apple’s iCal, Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook.

My winter basketball league recently released the schedules on their web site. We like the web site, but it’d be nice to be able to view the events (each game) in our own calendar applications.

PictureSync is an application that lets users easily annotate and upload their photos to various photo sharing services, or move annotated photos to another folder (FTP them to a remote site). Annotating a photo means to add descriptive information to the photo (metadata), such as a title, description, keyword, or geographic location (latitude and longitude). This data is different from the EXIF data that your digital camera records and embeds into the output file.

Unfortunately the preferred file systems for Windows XP and Mac OS X do not permit users to read and write data between each other. NTFS is the recommend file system on Windows XP and HFS+ is the preferred file system on OS X. Recent versions of OS X will read NTFS partitioned disks, but will not write to the partition. I have a PC and Mac, but my PC is my primary machine. I want one disk drive that I can swap between my Windows and OS X computers, so I found the overall easiest solution to be a Mac-formatted FAT32 single-partition external disk drive.

CoverFlow is a beautiful application that lets you browse your music collection by album cover. The interface is intentionally kept simple, allowing users to simply scroll through albums and make selections (that’s it). So what makes CoverFlow so great?