I’ve been looking for a tool to take out the trash and do my repetitive filling jobs for a while now and I think that I’ve found my favorite. Meet Hazel, my personal housekeeper.
Hazel is a background app that does so much. Hazel is a preference pane that you access through system preferences. When you open the Hazel preference pane you are greeted by 3 tabs; Folders, Trash and Info. I’m going to run through what each one does.
I recently downloaded the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) and I’m really loving it. I’m a developer for the Mac and I’ve found iPhone development an easy transition because the iPhone tools are the same as the tools you use on the Mac.
When I code for the Mac I tend to use Applescript Studio (part of Xcode). Once I installed the SDK I dived straight into Xcode to see how it had changed. The UI seemed the same – except for the intro screen which now included iPhone info.
After looking through the online documentation I discovered that it costs $99 to become a registered iPhone developer. You need to be registered to have Apple put your apps in the store. Although Blue Pyjama is growing we aren’t actually getting any money through our doors so that $99 enterance fee put my dreams of being an App Store developer a bit further out of reach. (more…)
Livestation is a great streaming TV catcher for Mac, PC and Linux. Just before Obama’s inauguration I downloaded it and have been loving it ever since.
Livestation has partnered with many of the big TV stations to bring high-quality TV to everyone. You have channels like BBC World, CNN, Al Jazeera, France 24 and Deutsche Welle right at your fingertips as well as “Viewer Channels” added by individuals around the world.
I was looking for a simple, easy way to control my Mac from my iPod Touch. I did a quick search an found a app called Telekinesis.
Telekinesis is an app of two parts, Thing 1 and Thing 2 (to quote Dr. Seuss). Thing 1 is the server side application that you run on your Mac, then you have an iPhone web-app. (more…)
