Fifteen months and 120 blog entries ago I started writing this blog. One of the reasons I did it was to experiment with the blogging concept, in particular how a single person's writings-- a voice in the wilderness-- would be discovered out on the web. How long would it take? Who would the readers be?... Continue Reading →
Make Web Pages More Readable
"Readibility" created clean, easy-to-read, distraction-free versions of web pages. Safari on Mac and iOS now incorporates a similar feature.
NFL Prime Time iCal calendar
The NFL Prime Time Calendar for iPhone and Mac is now available via this link.
FREE job-hunting AppleScript
You might not have heard but there’s a recession on. People are looking for work. For myself, I had the brilliant idea of searching the job postings on www.craigslist.org every day for Mac-related stuff, but quickly found that craigslist is sort of picky about search terms, and if you aren’t careful, you’ll miss stuff. For... Continue Reading →
Make mine Mint (dot com)
Wow, what a cool website: www.mint.com.They call it “the best way to manage your money.” And it’s free.Anyone can sign up for a mint.com account. You then enter information about your financial accounts-- savings, checking, investments, credit cards. Do that, and at a glance you can see ALL of your financial information in one place.... Continue Reading →
iFixit.com
What a cool website, and gee don’t I wish I’d found it before I took apart that iBook and couldn’t put it back together again. Click the picture and have a look.How-to manuals. Parts. Friendly tips. cboyce says “Check it out.”(Here’s the manual I should have read before taking apart the iBook):
AppShopper website
Here’s a handy website for you iPhone users. It’s called “AppShopper.” With more than 10,000 iPhone applications available it’s getting harder and harder to find just the one you want via the iTunes Store. AppShopper makes it easy. Here’s a screen shot.
Free AT&T WiFi for iPhones
AT&T is now providing free WiFi connections (many times faster than the Edge and 3G networks) in "thousands of hotspots nationwide."
ESPN’s College Football Scoreboard
Get all of the college football scores, in real time, plus statistics, betting odds, videos, team info, and more on ESPN's site.
Living in a Modern World
In the olden days, you watched the Olympics on TV and you only got to see what they wanted you to see, when they wanted you to see it. If you were away from the TV you didn’t get to see it. Life was hard.But NOW, you can watch the Olympics on your computer, and... Continue Reading →