Category: Tech News

My heart dropped into my stomach this morning when I read the news that Michael Bartosh, an excellent Mac OS X Server technologist, writer, consultant, and trainer passed away this weekend in a tragic accident. His books and trainings have helped me and many of my fellow IT staff employees (past and present) at Small…

For those of you who like to customize your working environment then Mac Pilot is something you really want to have a look at. This application customizes everything you can think of and then some. There are even things in there you can change and work with that I didn’t know could be changed and…

While reading through this mornings RSS feeds, I came across this quite hilarious post on TUAW. A MacBook Pro user was having trouble getting OS X Tiger to install and noticed the units temperature was getting up there. He came up with the plan to stick the MacBook Pro into his refrigerator. According to the…

Searchlight is a program for people who have enjoyed the power of Spotlight (included in OS X Tiger) but want to take it to a network server level. Searchlight is probably something a OS X Tiger server administrator could implement into their server and it’ll allow them and their clients to quickly search through all…

IOSPIRIT GmbH announced the availability of a preview of version Remote Buddy 1.0 for Apple’s Remote. Remote Buddy provides you with a one-stop interface that allows you to control almost anything on your Mac just with the remote control. Besides tools that allow you to emulate keyboard and mouse, eject CDs, terminate applications and much…

Here’s a new feature that appears to have just been added to Google. When you search for a city name such as New York City, Venice or Boston, you’ll be given the choice of refining your results. For example, you can choose from Dining Guides or Attractions. This appears to work when you only enter…

A director or a dog grooming school in Thailand launched an Internet radio station specifically for dogs. Anupan Boonchuen said he launched Dog Radio Thailand because he has seen music improve the mood of dogs he grooms. DJ’s will talk to the dogs in Thai and encourage doggie listeners to respond. Currently the music mix…

I found this really neat program while surfing one of my favorite Apple blogs. It’s called Mugshot and it allows you to browse through your Flickr photostream and any photosets you’ve created. You can also see your contacts photos and photos in any groups you belong to. I myself have about 1000 photos in my…

I’ve long been a fan of @Last’s SketchUp 3D modeling software. It’s very intuitive and allows you to create 3D models quickly and more easily than other modeling applications. They compare it to bringing your napkin sketches up into the third-dimension and I’d have to agree. Unfortunately, it’s a little too expensive to buy just…

The Official Google Blog wrote last night that they’ve added Google Page Creator as a experimental Google Labs project. Google Labs is the “sandbox” for new projects. Google labs showcases a few of our favorite ideas that aren’t quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help us improve them. Please play with these prototypes…