One step forward, one step back
News flash: Apple ups the intellectual quotient of the iTunes store!
News flash: Apple undoes the same!
Flagged: Rip Ragged blog
Sure, we all know the Mac rumors sites, the Macalope, and other big names on "the Mac Web", but there a plenty of lesser-known gems out there as well. I'll point out these as I come across them.
Today I ran across Rip Ragged, a blog of musings on things Mac and other tech topics. All right, there's nothing new about that, but this blogger has a great sense of humor and a way with words to match. Consider me subscribed.
http://ripragged.blogspot.com/
Why isn't .Mac offering unlimited online backup?
People cheered when Apple upped the storage on its .Mac service from 1 GB to 10 GB, and rightly so. The company wants us to not only store important stuff on .Mac, but share our photos and movies as well – and those functions dig into storage like Elvis into fried chicken.
A spacious 10 GB will let you store lots of data, but there's one big, glaring need it won't take care of: backing up your computer itself. Read more »
Pessimist math
WebProNews writer Doug Caverly is no doubt a swell guy who likes puppies and bathes the homeless and all that, but he sure has a funny way with numbers. He suggests that the MacBook Air may be in trouble because "by year's end, transactions involving the Air will account for only 16 percent of Mac sales."
Commenters therein beat me to it before I could hasten to my keyboard, so give them "First Post!" credits, but I gotta say it too: Read more »
How-to: Add dynamic folders to the Dock
The new update to Leopard, 10.5.2, lets you have it your way: the new-style Dock "stacks" that Leopard wrought, or the simpler Dock folders of Tiger (10.4) and earlier versions of OS X. Users everywhere are happy: this is the sort of choice that makes an interface great. (For more on using 10.5.2's Dock, see Getting to Know the New Stacks.)
However you like your Dock folders to behave when clicked, how about having folders whose contents change dynamically? This could be a folder that shows all files you've opened in the past three days, or all Apple Pages files, or all TextEdit files that contain "Project" in the title and are less than one month old. Read more »
Sounds good! I registered as a member of your site, so am looking forward to developments.