Disk Inventory X

Came across a very cool Tree Map generator for your disk space for OS X, called “Disk Inventory X“.  Distributed free with GPL.  A very fast way to figure out where all your disk space went (and then to see the obvious collection of MP3 files at the end).  Downloaded, installed, and ran in about […]

Mac Swap

My work computer was switched yesterday. The Mac Book Pro 17 inch was replaced with a Mac Book Pro 15 inch. The new one is current MBP specs; 4 G RAM, Intel i5 chip running at 2.4 GHz, 500 G hard drive, “matte” LCD/PED display. The old one was backlit LCD, Intel 1.8 GHz Duo […]

Mac Journal Purchased

The experience with Mac Journal was very positive, and ended up purchasing a license. It greatly centralizes personal journaling/writing, and is a lightweight word processor which saves resource cycles waiting for programs to launch and do their thing. Also found out there is an escape function to allow HTML to be inserted into documents, which […]

More on MacJournal

I’ve been using Mac Journal for a little more than a week now. The basic editing and management features are very good. I’m very happy with this as a basic journalling tool. I’ve also figured out all the server configuration issues, successfully posting articles to both WordPress as well as Blogger/BlogSpot. The editor is weak […]

Testing MacJournal

With dozens of journals spread all over the place I’m looking for a way to simplify management of them. I’ve considered writing a database myself for this purpose, but would want to avoid this if possible. I came across “MacJournal” (from http://www.marinersoftware.com/products/macjournal/, and maybe http://homepage.mac.com/dschimpf/), which has very positive marks from MacWorld and CNET. Simple […]

Review: IE 9

Nice concise review from Information Week on this new browser.  I’ll be sure to check it out when they release their OS X or Linux version. Review: IE 9 Is Microsoft’s Best Browser Yet — InformationWeek.

Lifehacker on Mac OS 10.7 Lion

Nice review of upcoming OS X features.  Since new hardware seems to be on the horizon (the home computer past the 6 year mark, and the work one is pushing 4) it’s nice to see some of the features.  Mission Control is the one that caught my eye most – the Expose and Dashboard are […]

Meraki WiFi Stumbler

Very nice browser based WiFi stumbler.  Uses a graph to show you overload on a particular channel, although doesn’t consider multiple points as part of the same LAN.  Maybe this is bad architecture anyway, the points are colliding with each other. http://www.tools.meraki.com/stumbler