Category Archives: mac

Delicious Library Comments Off

Delicious Library is the catalog application I’ve been searching for. Being able to use a firewire camera instead of a barcode scanner? Brilliant!

Macworld iPhoto 5 tips and tricks Comments Off

Macworld iPhoto 5 tips and tricks for working with your photos. I enjoyed the “The 3-Step Makeover”.

NetNewsWire vs iTunes Comments Off

As registered user of NetNewsWire, I’d like to respond to comments made by the developers related to Apple’s new iTunes podcasting features. There are two things that iTunes offers up that are so good and useful, I’m currently using iTunes as my podcasting downloader of choice.
iTunes stores podcasts away from your regular music files [...]

Apple New Year! Comments Off

Yeah… I’ve been out of the loop for awhile now as you can tell. World of Warcraft really is that great of a game to draw me away from blogging.
The annual Macworld San Francisco is starting again. If you remember last year I posted live from Starbucks during the streamed Keynote event. [...]

Install DBD::mysql On Panther 3

I spent a good deal of my evening last night installing DBD::mysql and DBI on Mac OS X 10.3.5 so I could upgrade Moveable Type to MySQL. Why bother? I wanted to see if it would improve the performance of MT and well, no it didn’t. While I was attempting to install [...]

Cherry Apple Pie Alamode Comments Off

Mixing cherries with apple pie just isn’t my thing, I’m sure for some of you though it could be the next best thing since sliced bread.
One of the main reasons I love Apple is not only for the wonderful OS but because the hardware just works. For those who still want to use [...]

Lot’s O’ Lust 1

Apple released a new version of their famed 12″ Powerbook last week. I know, this is a little late but I’ve been wrapped up in “Final Fantasy XI”:http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/index.shtml and now “World of Warcraft”:http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ so as you can see, I’m quite the busy MMO player.
Back to the 12″… I’d love to upgrade my existing model, [...]

Sounds Like A Personal Problem Comments Off

Let this be a reminder to “those of you”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/03/26/vlc_will_play_itunes.html out there that don’t “read the rules”:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93014. Nothing pisses me off more than someone complaining about something that has full disclosure.
Apple’s DRM licensing in regards to the iTunes Music Store is fairly loose, IMO. At any one time you can authorize 3 computers to [...]

The Gods Rejoice Comments Off

MacSoft has finally released a patch to Age of Mythology that is suppose to correct the dreaded online gaming issues with AoM I’ve spoken about frequently.
bq. Most of the changes for this version were for improving GameRanger support, which now works much better overall. In addition, the following specific changes were made:
– The initial connection [...]

AoM Developments… Comments Off

Way back in November I mentioned a huge problem with Age of Mythology for Mac. This one post has been the most active thread here on snapturtle by far with a lot of user comments and I’ve seen it linked in several Mac gaming forums on the net. So four months later,you’d think [...]