OK, I started playing with two new things at once: Apple’s Aperture and RAW format. I gotta say that both are blowing me away. After some initial trepidation with both, I dove right in. I can see an immediate difference in my photos. Seriously. And now that I discovered the Flickr plugin for Aperture, there [...]
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iMac Lab @ MSC!
Not only did I get a dual-G5 in my office, but now there’s something more. I cannot tell you how thrilling it is to finally see a career-long wish coming true. After years of wanting a Mac classroom, Macon State College is finally installing one for the Division of Humanities. After the years of people [...]
Mac Software I Use: Applications
Web Browser. The most important computer application today is the web browser. I gotta hand it to Microsoft; they knew this years ago when they crushed Netscape. They knew something that many did not suspect: that the humble web browser would become the most important application on the home computer, perhaps even more important than [...]
Mac Software I Use
After checking out a link to some Mac software this afternoon, I decided that I needed to document the software I use. I frequently have others — especially people new to the Mac — ask me about software solutions for various needs they have. These will often be for professional uses, but many just want [...]
Writely
As if Google Notebook wasn’t cool enough. Now there’s Writely, an online word processor that seems to have been acquired by Google (of course). Who needs Word when you can do all of your word processing online? According to their web site, documents can be shared and stored online, to be edited from any web [...]
Google Your Genes; Or, Why Are Computers So Stupid?
Computers are stupid. I’ve suspected that for a while now and have been saying it out loud only recently. I think much of their stupidity stems from the fact of my communication with them, or lack thereof. First of all, there’s this stupid keyboard on which my hands — evolved for different tools — have [...]
Hello Flickr, Goodbye .Mac
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. I’ve been thinking of dropping .Mac. Well, the biggest problem with .Mac is that it costs $100 and many free, much more innovative, services are springing up everywhere to do even more than what .Mac does. For instance, the interface for Gmail is [...]