Congratulations to Mike (a colleague) and the entire team at Impara for the success of Plopp. Read the MacUser review on their innovated kids painting program: [Read](http://www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/reviews/110002/plopp.html)
Tag: Reviews
Finally found a new shredder
My 7 year old Royal AG-X10 finally died after I whacked the top to loosen some paper. A component on the circuit board blew out, so I went on a hunt. I didn’t like anything I found online and all reviews were bad. While at Fred Meyer, I found a [Fellowes DS-2](http://www.fellowes.com/Fellowes/site/products/ProductDetails.aspx?Id=3205001) on sale for… Continue reading Finally found a new shredder
Harmony 890 RF remote review
My [Harmony 890 Universal Remote](http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FLogitech-Harmony-Advanced-Universal-Control%2Fdp%2FB000CS1TLE&tag=httpwwwgeeksr-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325″) arrived today! The included paper documentation is useless. I already had the software installed, so I ran it and told it to change the remote. It found the 890 and had me update the firmware. Then it had me plug in the remote extender to update that. That worked fine,… Continue reading Harmony 890 RF remote review
Tivo and Amazon Unboxed
Matt Riggins writes: >Why I’ll never use the Amazon Unbox / Tivo Service again. (after only using it once) > >Tonight I got an automatically generated email from Tivo regarding the Amazon Unboxed / Tivo deal and how I can rent or download movies from Amazon directly to the Tivo. This seemed like a nice… Continue reading Tivo and Amazon Unboxed
Good software and word of mouth
This is how it should work! I am subscribed to the Red Sweater Blog because the author is an Apple Developer, just as I am. Recently he acquired the wonderful MarsEdit RSS publishing software, which I used until I switched to the geekier TextMate. Lo and Behold, MarsEdit has an update, life is good and… Continue reading Good software and word of mouth
MailTags 2.0b8
[MailTags](http://www.indev.ca/) was updated to 2.0b8 today and **wow** it is fast! What is MailTags? MailTags is a bundle extension for Mail.app that lets you: * Add any number of keywords to mail * Add a project tag to mail * Add todo events to mail, complete with alarms. This integrates with iCal * Add notes… Continue reading MailTags 2.0b8
DiskWarrior 4 arrives!
And yes, yours truly, your beloved geek, the one on the bleeding edge, just had to run it on his a) encrypted disk image and b) his mac book pro! In both cases, DiskWarrior 4 found errors – Improperly named .journal files on the disk image and various icon and text encoding issues on the… Continue reading DiskWarrior 4 arrives!
This guy likes his mac
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Aperture trial
I downloaded the 30 day Aperture trial to give it a go. I like the app! I imported my 7500 some odd photos from iPhoto. Took about 8 hours to import, generate thumbnails and previews. Resulting Aperture library is about 1gb larger than the iPhoto library. If you’re into photography and especially if you shoot… Continue reading Aperture trial
The Princess Bride – 2006 Edition
yes my favorite movie, The Princess Bride, has been re-re-released. This marks the fourth time I have purchased it. Laserdisc, DVD, not-as-crappy Special Edition DVD, very nice DVD. This new edition comes in two box covers, The Dread Pirate edition and The Princess Buttercup edition. I bought the latter because the art depicts them face… Continue reading The Princess Bride – 2006 Edition
Great game for the kids in all of us
Cute, colorful, intelligent and easy to play but tough to solve. Check out the demo of: Professor Fizzwizzle
Jem / Redwalls
I have to say that since the iTunes Music Store happened, I’ve gotten more up to speed with music. With the advent of the Radio Shark, I can listen to the radio, jump back to see who sung a song, or what the title was and get into the loop quicker. With that, I’ve gotten… Continue reading Jem / Redwalls