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Well, whaddya know? My MacBook’s dead for the second time, and I’m pissed off with Apple. Looking on the bright side, I get to use the Wordpress iPhone client. It’s crashed twice so far. Shut (autocorrected from shit, ducking phone). My story:
I have (had) a MacBook and an iPhone which I use and rely on [...]

Take an Airport Express connected by the headphone jack to some decent speakers downstairs, and leave your computer on upstairs.
Use the Remote application on the iPhone or iPod touch from downstairs – it can browse and play the iTunes library on the computer, but it can also change the output speakers so that you’re streaming [...]

I keep on getting surprised by the corners of this operating system. The corners that a tiny proportion of the customer base use, but that have obviously had lots of thought go into them. Voilà: changing time zones for events in iCal.
iCal Time Zones from Alex Muller on Vimeo.

I’ve started playing with an app called Screenflow. As always, I’m totally late to the reviewing-brand-new-Mac-software game, but I’ll throw a couple of compliments in their direction anyway.
Wow, this thing is incredible. Really amazing. On first launch, having read absolutely no documentation, I recorded a minute and a half of me on the new Last.fm [...]

I’m sure friends of mine will be absolutely shocked to hear this, but I’ve fallen in love with Apple all over again. After taking my flickering MacBook to the Regent Street Genius Bar for the third time, they caved and completely replaced it for me. The only catch (so far as I can tell now) [...]

Designer/developer Jon Hicks blogs about a new $22 OS X application, Color Decoder. Put simply, it converts on-screen colour (RGB, CMYK values) into easy to understand colour names.
It watches the color underneath the mouse pointer, displays the color’s name near the mouse pointer, optionally speaks its name using speech synthesis, and flashes areas where the [...]