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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is just a quick tip for anyone having trouble with Leopard’s Dictionary.app behaving slowly when accessing it from the contextual menu. One feature of Apple’s Dictionary I love is being able to right click on any word and select ‘Look Up in Dictionary’ from the menu. However, in Leopard this [...]

I recently gave up on Firefox 2 in lieu of Leopard because of stability and memory issues. Safari 3 was a huge leap forward from Safari 2 so I decided to give it a try. Overall, I’ve found that I’m enjoying using Safari as my main browser. The only part of Firefox that [...]

USB memory sticks are getting cheaper and cheaper while continuing to increase in capacity. This is great but also risky since now you have that much more information that can be lost or stolen. You can protect against your data falling into the wrong hands by creating an encrypted volume on the memory stick. [...]

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 [...]