Just a little heads up for you guys. Safari’s new update has been released. Mac OS 10.5.x and 10.6.x can update right now. Check your software update if you have not been notified yet. Screenshot on the other side.
It improves on three major points and one of them is better stability for third-party plug-ins. Good [...]

Tags: 4.0.4, apple, safari, software update
Categories: Apple, Browsing, Mac, The Web, Tools, software

The folks at Mac are at it again. They are offering to give you 6 great Mac apps completely for free. if you were to buy them individually, you would have to pay $154 for them. But in the MacHeist’s NanoBundle, they will be yours for free. Do not lose any time and get over [...]

Tags: free mac apps, giveaways, Macheist, nanobundle, twitterific
Categories: Compilations, Cool, Games, Mac, Tools, software

The Ubuntu desktop distribution is full of nifty tricks. One of those tricks is the ability to create a bootable USB Ubuntu drive quickly and easily. Used to be this trick wasn’t so easy. Not only did you have to format the USB drive, you had to manually create the file systems, copy the files, [...]

Tags: thumb drive linux, ubuntu desktop, usb drive, usb startup disk
Categories: Desktop Manager, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tools, Tutorials Basic, software

When I switched to a Mac, I did not purchase an iPod for a few months. I previously had a Creative Zen Vision M media player. Unfortunately, this device was not mass storage, but utilised ‘Media Transfer Protocol’. Whilst several pieces of software on Windows provide the facility to move music to the device, OS [...]

Tags: apple, creative, iPod, libmtp, libnjb, libraries, mac, media transfer protocol, mp3-player, mtp, njb, os x, portable devices, xnjb
Categories: Gadgets, Hardware, Mac, Music and Video, Open Source, Tools, software

Google Reader is the website I open more than any other. Except maybe Gmail, but that’s always open. Totally doesn’t count. Point is, I use Google Reader a lot. I use it to follow blogs and websites, to keep track of all my favorite people, and much, much more.
Reader’s the center of all my information [...]

Tags: bookmarking, feeds, Google, google reader, rss, sharing, social
Categories: Google, Tools

On top of being a technical writer I am also a writer of novels. Writing novels is a much different beast than writing tutorials, reviews, and documentation. Writing novels requires some serious organizational skills. You have to keep track of characters, storylines, plot devices, etc. Keeping those pieces in their proper place demands more brain [...]

Tags: novel writing aids, writer's cafe, writing software
Categories: Advice, Linux, Mac, Tools, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

To many Thunar is just a file manager. But if you’ve played around with it you know it is much, much more. You may remember my previous article “Create custom actions with the Thunar file manager” which shows you one method of extending the application. There is one extra tool that comes with Thunar which [...]

Tags: batch actions, batch renaming, file managment, file renaming
Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic, software