Category Archives: software
CSS3Machine for iPad
Cool, but makes me excited for what could be coming in Coda 2.0 or a new CSSEdit. via WebKitBits
About Recorded Music, Albums, Rdio, and Streaming iTunes
This is how I’ve been using Rdio: I find an album I’m interested in and add songs I like to my Rdio collection. If I add enough songs to the collection, say half or more of the tracks, then I’ll … Continue reading
Lady Gaga on the Rdio
The best thing about Rdio is you can listen to a bunch of stuff you would NEVER EVER EVER EVER buy. Like this Lady Gaga person. Let’s see what she’s all about. 5 Minutes Later EWW GROSS! She wants your … Continue reading
Rdio: First impressions
I got an invite to Rdio. First impressions after playing with it for 20 minutes: Ooh, it’ll actually try to stay in sync with my iTunes library. Doesn’t upload anything, just scans iTunes to match things up. That’s nice. AHH … Continue reading
How is Instapaper still around?
I wonder why the Times et al. haven’t complained about Instapaper yet. It might not technically infringe on copyright, but magazines and newspapers can’t be too happy about an app that strips out all the advertising from their articles…as much … Continue reading
Styles in Pages and Word
Spoiler: Pages is a lot better. Fortunately (well unfortunately, really) almost nobody I know actually uses styles. They just don’t know they exist. In fact, most people I’ve met who use word processing software don’t really need it. They could … Continue reading
On second thought…
The Record interface can get intimidating very quickly.
Spotlight for the Help search box
I wish there were a Spotlight-like keyboard shortcut to get up to that help menu.
Propellerhead and their focus on workflow
Say you want a piano sound. In a typical system, what is the first decision you need to make? It is “What plug-in?” That’s not right. You wanted a piano sound. I didn’t say if it was going to be … Continue reading
Radium just further demonstrates how horrible iTunes is at radio
I’m listening to terrestrial radio at home for the first time in years. Except it’s over the internet, so I don’t know if it counts. Radium is a new Mac app that plays Internet radio. It hangs out in your … Continue reading