MoneyDance is one of my new favorite apps for the mac. I’ve been using a big Excel spreadsheet to keep up with my financing and its just not really efficient. With MoneyDance personal finance manager analyzing your finances, managing your checkbook, or tracking your portfolio is both quick and easy. I was considering picking up [...]
Handbrake for Mac is a DVD video copying application that makes it easy enough for just about anyone who can turn a computer on to rip, I mean backup, a DVD to their hard drive. Handbrake supports video sources such as VIDEO_TS, DVD Images, and real DVDs (including encrypted) and allows you to back up [...]
Growl is a notification system that will alert you to many differet types of activity that takes place on your computer. This may not sound like anything great, but once you use it you wont be able to function again without it. It works on tons of applications from Adium, iTunes, FTP apps, Firefox and [...]
VLC Media player is a multi-functional app that can handle both audio and video of just about any file type imaginable. Usually if im watching a video I’ll just use Quicktime because its set as the default player, but occasionaly there are some weird file types that Quicktime wont handle correctly. I have yet to [...]
I’ll start this post off with the disclaimer that I do not encourage or condone the act of copying songs that you do not own. That said, my next favorite peice of software is called iPod Rip and it does exactly what it says, rips the songs from an iPod and copies them to your [...]
If your like me, then you have about 4500 different accounts across the web for various things from blog admin, email, screennames, and whatever else you decide to sign up for on the internet. If your even more like me then you have more than one typical password that you will use for these log [...]
Up until a few months ago I wasn’t really into RSS feeds. I would just open up Firefox and open the bookmarks at all at once in tabs and figured that was a good enough for me. Looking back this is a stupid idea. Actually going to a webpage and looking at it is so [...]
Yahoo widget engine is a great application on the mac (theres also a PC version) that can display literally limitless amounts of information from the web. It has been around for a couple of years and started out being called konfabulator and was then bought by Yahoo! and the name changed to Yahoo! Widget Engine. [...]
Out of the box, OS X comes with an instant messaging client called iChat which works great and has a lot of great features with the video conferencing and all that. The only thing I dont like about it is that it’s not customizable. AdiumX is alot like Trililian or Gaim on the PC in [...]
So this blog has become pretty stale as I dont have anything creative like limmerick friday, top 10 thursday, parenting tips wednesday, or sports all day everyday to keep it going. Since I dont like talking about myself I was trying to come up with something to post on thats not time sensitive (keeping up [...]