Archive for the ‘mac software’ Category

Tracking my globe-trotting Apple computer

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Relief

It is coming from Shanghai!
Born in China, this little laptop has already traveled to Alaska and Indiana. Very soon, it will arrive in Oregon.

China
It left Shanghai on the 23rd in the evening.

Anchorage
Arrived in Anchorage, USA around noon, two days later.

Indiana
Passed through Indianapolis very early this morning.

Oregon
Expected at my door tomorrow!

Thanks to worldmaps.com for these splendid maps.

Widget is entertaining and potentially useful

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Corporate Ipsum
Widgets - those handy mini-apps accessible at the touch of a key (F12 on an Mac OS 10.4+). Some of them provide useful data, like the weather widget or the stock ticker widget. Others are purely entertaining, like the Sudoku widget.
Well how about one that is a little of both? That is, silly and useful. Check out Corporate Ipsum widget. It generates filler copy using either corporate style meaningless jargon or the classic lorem ipsum text. You can set the number of paragraphs, the number of sentences per paragraph, and whether or not to include HTML tags.

Cooliris Previews update released

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Cooliris logoCooliris Previews is a great browser add-on that pops up a link preview without clicking on the link and leaving the page. It is available for Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Flock browsers.