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 [...]
Easily Add Images from Picasa Web Albums Directly into iPhoto [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Oct 14, 2009 within Apple, Featured, Google, Tips | Comments
A List of iPhone Apps That I’m Enjoying This Week (July 10, 2009)
By Franklin Davis on Jul 10, 2009 within Apple, Featured, Lists | Comments
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 [...]
A List of iPhone Apps That I’m Enjoying This Week (June 19, 2009) [Review, List]
By Franklin Davis on Jun 19, 2009 within Apple, Featured, Lists | Comments
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 [...]
A List of iPhone Apps That I’m Enjoying This Week (May 8, 2009) [Review, List]
By Franklin Davis on May 8, 2009 within Apple, Featured, Lists | Comments
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. [...]
A List of iPhone Apps That I’m Enjoying This Week (May 1, 2009) [Review, List]
By Franklin Davis on Apr 30, 2009 within Apple, Featured, Lists | Comments
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 [...]
Top 10 Technologies That Will Help Change the World
By Bill Wagner on Nov 4, 2008 within Featured, Lists, Technology | Comments
Recently, MIT’s Technology Review published their list of the ten emerging technologies that they feel are most likely to change the way we live. Sadly, the ‘Hotdoll’ and the ‘USB Stripper’ were left off the list, but the list does include ‘Modeling Surprise’, ‘Probabilistic Chips’, ‘NanoRadios’, ‘Wireless Power’, ‘Atomic Magnetometers’, ‘Offline Web Applications’, ‘Graphene [...]
A List of Great Ubuntu Applications
By Franklin Davis on Sep 28, 2008 within Featured, Lists, Ubuntu | Comments
Here is a quick list of useful Ubuntu applications. Leave me a comment if you know of a good Ubuntu application that I have omitted. Enjoy!
A List of Great iPhone and iPod Touch Applications
By Franklin Davis on Aug 4, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Lists | Comments
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 [...]
How to Enable Mac Address Book to Sync with Google’s Gmail Contacts without an iPhone or .Mac [Mac Guide]
By Franklin Davis on May 29, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Google, Tips | Comments
This is just a quick tip to explain how to sync your Mac Address Book (Leopard 10.5.3 only) with Google’s Gmail without needing an iPhone or a .Mac account. If you have an iPhone then you don’t need this tip and can follow these instructions. If you don’t have a Gmail account you’ll [...]
Energy Crisis! What Energy Crisis?
By Sam Davis on May 22, 2008 within Coffee Break, Featured | Comments
With oil approaching 140 dollars per barrel, there is a lot of talk of peak oil production and the end of civilization as we know it. Well, maybe civilization will come crashing down, but I don’t find this very likely. Read on to see why.
Five Guides on How to Integrate Ubuntu into a Mac OS X Network
By Sam Davis on Apr 30, 2008 within Featured, Guides, Linux, Ubuntu | Comments
I have a machine running Mac OS X (currently Leopard 10.5.2) and another running Ubuntu (currently Hardy Heron 8.04) and have been striving to get these two machines to interact more harmoniously on my local are network (LAN). In particular, I’ve been trying to get my Ubuntu machine to act more like a Mac in [...]
Ideal Settings for Apple Mail and Gmail IMAP Syncing [Mac Guide]
By Franklin Davis on Apr 22, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Google, Guides | Comments
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 via Apple’s Mail.app. I’ve configured Gmail to check all of my other email [...]
The Top 15 Geek Movies of All Time
By Bill Wagner on Feb 19, 2008 within Entertainment, Featured, Lists, Reviews | Comments
Since the Oscars are just around the corner, I thought we’d nerd it up a little before everyone starts thanking all the writers, their parents, the writers, their spouses, the writers, etc. I’ve tried to compile a list of movies that every self-respecting Nerd should see. While there are a lot of great [...]
25 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows XP Users
By Bill Wagner on Feb 5, 2008 within Featured, Tips, Windows | Comments
If you’re like me, your experience when you sit down at the computer is more of a ‘point and click’ thing than a ‘carpal tunnel generating’ thing. However, there are times (rare maybe) that I spend a little more time at the keyboard, and I find it irritating to have to scroll through a [...]
Save Time Everyday with These 23 Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts [Mac Tip]
By Franklin Davis on Jan 22, 2008 within Apple, Featured, Tips | Comments
Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of simultaneous key strokes that perform a particular task. Using these shortcuts (which often involve modifier keys such as command, option, control and shift) typically saves time because you don’t need to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. I use the following 23 shortcuts almost everyday [...]