For the last week or so I’ve been beta testing a new piece of software to make posting links to Twitter very simple. It’s called Thurly App and uses the Thurly URL shortening service. Both were created by Elixir Graphics which is located right here in Orlando.
If you use Twitter all day long, then you’ll [...]
One of the things announced at MacWorld that excited me was Fox’s digital copy. Applications like Handbrake and Mac the Ripper have enabled people to copy DVDs to their hard drives for years. The argument for this process has always been fair use. However RIAA and the MPAA would beg to differ and have you [...]
In the ongoing attempt to encourage more creativity in my life I took a few minutes to slim down NetNewsWire yesterday. Dropping the subscription count from an impossible to keep up with 73 feeds down to a very manageable 33 has actually given me a chance to read the stuff in them. Imagine that? Reading [...]
It’s going on two years since I made the switch from PC to Mac and I haven’t looked back since. I still use Windows on occasion at work, since our database software is unfortunately Windows-only, though on the whole I’ve made the move full tilt. Over the last two years I’ve also made a switch [...]
You could say I’m slightly obsessed with my finances. Some of the habits I have developed are pretty good; I check my bank account at least once a day, which might sound a bit obsessive but it helped to spot fraudulent charges a few years back. However when it comes to balancing the checkbook, or [...]