Tag Archives: mac

Shut Your Lid and then Open It Back Up

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Dan Studnicky

After years of a PC/Mac gaming dry-spell a bunch of games have hit me all at once: namely Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Lone Survivor, and Diablo III. If you don’t want your games to look like garbage on … Continue reading →

Disabling Locked Documents on Lion

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dan Studnicky

The oddest thing about this tip is that it wouldn’t need to exist if Lion’s autosave function wasn’t fundamentally broken. It’s a feature that’s supposed to add convenience, but all I think it’s done for me is help me accidentally … Continue reading →

Window Mode

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Dan Studnicky

I have a pretty decent computer, a Macbook Pro from 2008. But it isn’t powerful enough to drive many modern games at the native resolution of my external display (1900×1200). I could reduce the resolution, but the problem with reducing … Continue reading →

“That’s a Linux Thing”

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Dan Studnicky

Just had this conversation with my brother about helping him learn OS X. Me: So I’m going to help you learn how to torrent? My brother: Torrent? That’s a Linux thing.

Engadget’s Preview of Mountain Lion

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dan Studnicky

Still gotta read this, but you can see that the thing I wrote this morning about how iChat’s potential incorporation of iMessages, and how it feels off, looks like it could get resolved in their new Messages app. The concept … Continue reading →

Mountain Lion

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Dan Studnicky

This bit about Apple’s new version of OS X. Emphasis mine. Apps have been renamed for cross-OS consistency. iChat is now Messages; iCal is now Calendar; Address Book is now Contacts. Missing apps have been added: Reminders and Notes look … Continue reading →

Versions and Autosave

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Dan Studnicky

Gus Mueller writes about how these Lion features complicate workflows in his image editor Acorn.1 I had a similar problem when using Byword this month. After meetings I write meeting minutes. These follow roughly the same format: a Multimarkdown document … Continue reading →

“The Sad State of Desktop Notifications” by Thomas Houston

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dan Studnicky

I like some of the ideas here. The Sad State of Desktop Notifications

DigitalColor Meter got worse in Lion

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Dan Studnicky

Wasn’t there an option here for freezing the display of the RGB values?

Three Things I Like About Sparrow

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dan Studnicky

I bought Sparrow and have come to prefer it over Mail.app. Here are three reasons why. 1. Quick Replies I hit R on a message and I can instantly reply without opening a new window. It makes Sparrow feel really … Continue reading →