By Ryan on November 26, 2008
New Macs that have Leopard are equipped well in the web department. You can start Apache up pretty easily if it’s not already running. First, find out if it’s running or not. You can do this by taking a quick peak at localhost. If your browser does not yell at you for going to a [...]
Posted in Apple, Tips | Tagged apache, Apple, mac, start
By Ryan on November 20, 2008
I was reading Coding In Paradise and learned something totally unrelated to coding but nevertheless really fun. Something about Playback in Quicktime, our ever favorite media player (not).
The post said that doing CTRL+Left Arrow would make the playback play in reverse. You know how some people will believe anything; conjuring up hidden words in songs [...]
Posted in Abstract | Tagged Apple, backwards, hint, keys, quicktime, reversed, voice
By Ryan on November 18, 2008
Daring Fireball posted a clever application called choosy, an intermediate browser between opening a page and your choice of browser.
You start off installing it like any other program. Then you set it as your system’s default browser (so there is no running process). Then you might click a link a document you downloaded and a [...]
Posted in Abstract | Tagged Apple, choosy, mac, productivity, program
By Ryan on October 26, 2008
If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch you’re probably aware of the lacking of pretty common features that are found elsewhere such as MMS, Flash/Java and Cut and Paste to just name a few.
I found iphonefeatures.org today, a place where you can sign more than fifty petitions to Apple for features. The site will [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, features, iphone, ipod
By Ryan on September 18, 2008
Keynote Sparkle Effect
In my computer technology class, we’re looking at the fancy features of Keynote this week. Keynote is similar to PowerPoint, it makes slide shows.
I’m well versed in both google doc slide shows and PowerPoint slide shows, at least until PP2007. The work flow in Keynote is similar to PowerPoint, but the variety of [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, keynote, mac, program
By Ryan on September 11, 2008
A couple of days ago, Apple released their new iPod Classic. The old iPod Classic had 80 Gigabytes of storage space. The new one, which is incredibly thin has 120 Gigabytes of storage space.
The size isn’t what interests me though. The scary thing is the price (and point). For instance, the new iPod Classic holds [...]
Posted in Apple | Tagged Apple, ipod, money, price