Posts tagged ‘software’
iBooks Author
January 22nd, 2012 at 12:44 am by Dr. Drang
Between Kieran Healy, Glenn Fleishman, Andy Ihnatko, and John Siracusa, almost everything I might have said about iBooks Author at this early date has already been said. Kieran and Glenn made the point that we’ve been hearing about computer technology revolutionizing education for decades—Kieran even got off a joke comparing iBooks Author to Encarta, something…
Software everywhere
January 9th, 2012 at 10:23 pm by Dr. Drang
I’d been thinking about writing this post for a long time, but I gave up because I couldn’t figure out a hook for it. Last night’s responses to my question at the end of this post about the seemingly bogus procedure for recalibrating your iPhone home button1 brought it back to mind and gave me…
Paper calendars with pcal
January 1st, 2012 at 9:35 am by Dr. Drang
I’m sure almost everyone reading this uses some form of electronic calendar, and for good reason. A calendar on your computer can be changed at will, never getting cluttered with scratched-out appointments that got rescheduled. And when it’s synced with your phone, you always have an up-to-date version in your pocket or purse. But sometimes…
Type2Phone
December 16th, 2011 at 10:00 pm by Dr. Drang
I’d seen mentions of Type2Phone by Clark Goble and Stephen Hackett, but I didn’t get around to looking at it until Justin Blanton linked to it earlier this week. Well, now I have it installed on both of my computers, and even though it was hard to get working and has a weird display, it…
OmniGraphSketcher - not yet
December 11th, 2011 at 8:50 pm by Dr. Drang
The other day I was listening to the latest Mac Power Users podcast, the one with Horace Dediu as guest,1 and I heard David ask Horace if he used OmniGraphSketcher. I tried out OmniGraphSketcher back in 2009 and decided it wasn’t for me, but I got curious as to whether the things I didn’t like…
Wgetting the Octave documentation
September 30th, 2011 at 11:52 pm by Dr. Drang
I realized today that I didn’t have a local copy of the Octave manual on either of my computers. This probably isn’t a big deal on the desktop machine at work, where an internet connection is pretty much assured, but it is on my MB Air, which I often use away from WiFi. Because there’s…
NerdTool over GeekTool
September 6th, 2011 at 10:18 pm by Dr. Drang
GeekTool went up on the Mac App Store on August 21, which explains why my various GeekTool posts have seen a jump in traffic. I’ve been using NerdTool since I saw this Brett Terpstra post several months ago. I had to abandon it for a while on my MacBook Air when I upgraded to OS…
PCalc 2.4.1
August 5th, 2011 at 11:50 pm by Dr. Drang
A new version of PCalc hit the App Store today. The new feature is support for hardware keyboards, which I’m sure is a big improvement for a certain class of user. I don’t happen to be in that class—no iPad, no hardware keyboard—but because it’s been a year since my last PCalc post and there’ve…
My Finder toolbar
June 17th, 2011 at 10:42 pm by Dr. Drang
When I set up my new MacBook Air late last fall, I wanted it to have a better Finder toolbar than the iBook G4 it replaced. The iBook’s Finder toolbar had accreted some utilities that I never used anymore and some that didn’t work too well—they just sat in the toolbar as a testament to…
A couple of TextExpander thingies
June 16th, 2011 at 11:19 pm by Dr. Drang
I sent out a bill to a client the other day and decided I wanted to start putting the due date for my invoices in the body text of the emails they’re attached to. The due date is on the invoice itself, of course, but I figured an extra reminder wouldn’t hurt. And being me,…
