Steve Ballmer Applauding Apple?
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, had some really positive things to say about Apple during a speech he was giving at the University of Washington, specifically hailing the company for it’s creation of the App Store.
Apple Adding a “Explicit” Category in the App Store?
Well, if you haven’t heard already, Apple recently added a new category to the App Store labeled as “explicit”…and then…took it down. It seems as though Apple created the “explicit” category in the App Store to house some of the content of its massive early spring cleaning of applications (some 5,000+ apps!) that were determined by the App Store rating team as “overtly sexual” due to some complaints made by some people who apparently found the content objectionable (which most of the stuff was pretty subtle, but hey, I’m one person…) and some parents who were concerned about the content being looked at by the younger people of the world (which is understandable, but that’s why there’s parental controls on the iPhone.
Focus On the Day at Hand With Today 2.0
I’ve been looking for something like this from Apple for years. It isn’t a very difficult concept. It’s a simple idea, and something that doesn’t require a big window or elaborate interface. Just a simple list of what’s on tap for today, and maybe a quick peek at tomorrow. Well, that’s exactly what you get with Today 2.0.
How-To: Monitor your network on your Mac with Wireshark – Snow Leopard Tutorial
Wireshark is an amazing utility that lets you view and analyze captured packet data from your network. It has become a must-have for many institutions and their admins.
It features support for inspection and decryption of literally hundreds of protocols, with more being added constantly. It supports live capture, and also allows you to save, export, and compress data for further analysis later offline. It’s display filters are top notch, as well as it’s UI.
BumpTop Presents: Your Desktop in 3D (Well Sort Of)
Bump Technologies Inc. brings you the same 3D desktop environment you saw on Windows last year, in a new and multitouch capable version for the Mac.
With features such as Piles and four walls and a floor to throw your stuff around on, BumpTop’s interface is a versatile workspace to organize your files. It isn’t a Finder replacement, but if you like to organize your stuff in plain sight, such as multiple files relating to a project, or a bunch of pictures, you can resize them and place them on any of BumpTop’s surfaces. It’s also easy to quickly jot a note and literally throw it up onto the wall in front of you, sticking there to remind you about your son’s soccer game in two hours.
It’s A New Year, Get Organized With Help From Your Mac!
Admit it. If there’s one thing you need to do this year, it’s get organized. 90 percent of all your resolutions and promises will soon fall by the wayside, lost in an endless sea of assignments, work commitments, appointments, travel, and unexpected turmoil. But the Mac you use every day can help you lock down and keep track of your busy life. Here’s 6 tips to help you get started!
Upcoming iPhone Games to Watch
The AppStore is known for a lot of things, but easy navigation isn’t one of them. With tens of thousands of games on the service, knowing when a real gem comes out can be more of a challenge than it should be. Big games may get featured on the What’s Hot or What’s New pages, and they may sit at the top of the sale numbers for a few weeks, but unless you’re actively checking to see what’s new on a regular basis it’s almost inevitable you’re going to miss a golden gaming experience.
Today we’re taking a look at 5 upcoming game worth keeping an eye out for. Why miss out on the big names if we can give you the heads up before they happen?
Snowtape Review: Who Needs Satellite Radio
Radio is a technology that has been around for a very long time. It has also evolved a lot. We now not only have radio that is broadcasted through radio waves, but we now have internet and satellite radio too. But the real future of radio is not in waves or from satellites, it is in the Internet. There is almost limit to how many stations there could be, albeit, not all of them can be good stations. Today I will be talking about an application for Mac that controls Internet radio in a beautiful way: Snowtape.
2009 Apple Design Awards
Every year at Apple’s WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference), awards called the Apple Design Awards are given to, well, in Apple’s opinion, the best designed apps. But in this case, design does not only mean GUI, it means the internals too. They are the beast, all-around designed apps. And because the App Store is officially out for the first time during a WWDC, there were app winners too.
Mac@Work Series: Part 1 – Does the Mac belong at work?
Today we are starting a new series on MacApper regarding the Macintosh at work. A couple months ago I started living this series and thought there would be some value in sharing my experience. First I must build a bit of a foundation for the series, explain a bit about my short history with the Mac, and give us a jumping off point to the question “Does the Mac belong at work?”. This will be an ongoing series where I will walk through my experiences of bringing a Mac into a windows only work environment. This topic is close to me as I recently went through this process at my work. There have been challenges, disappointments, breakthroughs, wow moments, and a great sense of satisfaction along the way. Without further explanation lets pour our series foundation.
