I prefer to share photos with friends using the Picasa Web Albums service from Google. Locally, however, I manage my photos using iPhoto. I also use the Picasa software which has gotten very good with the release of version 3.5. This newest version includes creepily good facial recognition and photo location features but I still [...]

This is the fourth in a series of posts where I discuss new (mostly) iPhone Apps that I have discovered. All iPhone apps in this series will be added to the more comprehensive “A List of Great iPhone and iPod Touch Applications” post. Click on any of the application titles to visit the iTunes store. [...]

I am a BIG fan of Google’s Gmail service. It has the best webmail interface by far and offers nearly unlimited storage. Now that Gmail allows IMAP access I am using it as my primary email service on the iPhone. I’ve configured Gmail to check all of my other email addresses via POP3. This is [...]

This is the third in a series of posts where I discuss new (mostly) iPhone Apps that I have discovered. All iPhone apps in this series will be added to the more comprehensive “A List of Great iPhone and iPod Touch Applications” post. With the recent release of iPhone 3.0 firmware I took the opportunity [...]

This is the second in a series of posts where I discuss new (mostly) iPhone Apps that I have discovered. All iPhone apps in this series will be added to the more comprehensive “A List of Great iPhone and iPod Touch Applications” post. Click on any of the application titles to visit the iTunes store. [...]

This is the first in a series of posts where I will discuss new (mostly) iPhone Apps that I have discovered. All iPhone apps in this series will be added to the more comprehensive “A List of Great iPhone and iPod Touch Applications” post. Click on any of the application titles to visit the iTunes [...]

I like to keep an eye on what is going on with my system at all times. To make this easier I’ve started using iStat menus 1.3, a program that monitors your entire system right from the menubar and features 8 separate and highly configurable menu extras. This way I always know exactly what’s going [...]

This is just a quick note to inform everyone that you can now manage your Gmail Tasks from your iPhone (or other web enabled phone). Simply go to gmail.com/tasks from Mobile Safari and log in. Pretty cool, huh? P.S. Personally I prefer the paid app Things, but I know some of you out there live [...]

Now that my Google Calendar syncs with my iCal, I actually have a reason to use iCal. Although I still mainly use it for the notifications and iPhone syncing, it is still nice to be able to see my daily agenda at a glance. Here are a few ways that I’ve found to display my [...]

Finding apps in the iTunes App Store is becoming tricky as the number of available third party applications is rapidly approaching 10,000. Fortunately, Arnold Kim (creator of MacRumors.com) has developed a new site (AppShopper.com) dedicated to tracking the apps in the App Store. The Top 100 – as its name indicates – keeps track of [...]

One of the great things about iPhone 2.0 is the ability to download from an evergrowing selection of third party applications. Here are some really good ones for you to try. I’ve listed my ten favorite applications at the top followed by others worthy of honorable mentions. Click on any of the application titles to [...]

This is just a quick note to let everyone know that you can finally sync your Google Calendar with iCal on your Mac. Google today announced that they are enabling CalDAV support for Google Calendar users. The image below shows typical setttings, but you’ll want to go to the official google support page for the [...]

Since the iPhone currently lacks Flash support, getting animated weather radar from Weather.com, Weather Underground, or other common weather sources just isn’t possible. Here are some solutions that I’ve found to this problem. Simply load one of the web applications from below in your Mobile Safari browser and then use the bookmark feature to ‘Add [...]

Foldit is a new computer game that allows individuals to contribute to protein folding research. Think of it as similar to grid processing approaches like the protein folding project (folding@home) or the search for extraterrestrial life forms (SETI@home). However, rather than using millions of computers to try every possible solution/location, this new approach takes advantage [...]

Mac OS X (currently Leopard 10.5.3) includes an implementation of the Apache HTTP server. However, it isn’t running by default nor does it have the PHP engine enabled. This guide shows you how to activate Apache with PHP support in a few easy steps.