Thomas Hawk Buys a Mac

Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: Thomas Hawk Buys a Mac

And all along the way it was my 18 year old tech mentor Kristopher Tate, who kept saying, dude, just get a Mac. Just get a Mac. They just work.

And so I did. And I have to say that he’s right. It just works. It […]

Mindjet Blog – Typical Mac User Podcast Interview

The Mindjet Blog » Typical Mac User Podcast Interview with Scott Thompson

Check out this Typical Mac User Podcast interview with Scott Thompon, Mindjet’s Senior Software Engineer. Scott talks about the development of MindManager 6 Mac and its best features and capabilities.http://typicalmacuser.com/wordpress/?p=156

Enjoy! Gaelen O’Connell

Podcast on Apple-Adobe relations

John Nack on Adobe: My podcast on Apple-Adobe relations

Last week a group of Mac developers–Rich Siegel of Bare Bones, Jayson Adams of Circus Ponies, and Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba, and I–sat down (virtually) with Chuck Joiner of MacVoices. We discussed the state of software development on the Mac, as well as the future […]

FAQ: Adobe Support for Intel-based Mac computers

FAQ: Adobe Support for Intel-based Mac computers (PDF)

Answers to the following questions can be found in this document:

Q. What is Adobe doing to support Intel-based Mac computers?

Q. Should I run current Adobe applications, such as Adobe Creative Suite 2 or Studio 8, on Intel-based Mac Computers?

Additional questions are also answered in […]

Apple OS X – Super-Fast Way to Email a URL

Apple – Pro – Tips – Super-Fast Way to Email a URL

This tip applies to Safari on Apple OS X and the application you select as your default mail application:

If you run across a cool website and want to email that site to a friend, probably the fastest way is to press Command-Shift-I. […]

Macworld 4 Mice Review for MindManager 6 Mac

Macworld 4 Mice Review for MindManager 6 Mac

Mindjet’s MindManager 6.0.4 offers an elegant user interface and excellent tools for brainstorming, webbing, and mapping everything from major projects to simple school reports. The program provides myriad ways to graphically organize your ideas and share them with colleagues and collaborators. While this initial Mac release lacks […]

Acrobat 8 for Mac is a Universal Binary

Acrobat in Education: Acrobat 8 for Mac is a Universal Binary

I have had a few Intel Mac users in academia ask me this week if Acrobat 8.0 for Mac OS X is a Universal Binary application. The answer is “YES!”That is, it will run natively on Macs with Intel chips and those that have […]

Mac Pro – Upgrading CPUs, Memory & Running XP

AnandTech: Apple’s Mac Pro – Upgrading CPUs, Memory & Running XP

Weeks have passed since Apple’s announcement of the Mac Pro, and while we wanted to conclude our look at the Mac Pro much earlier, like many Mac Pro users we ran into some serious performance issues under Windows XP. With the Mac Pro […]

Microsoft Office Automator Actions for OS X

Microsoft Office Automator Actions for OS X

About Microsoft Office Automator Actions A collection of over 70 Automator actions for automating Microsoft Office. The collection include the following actions:

– Word actions: New Word Document; Save Word Document – Saves front document to specified file; Many more – Excel actions: New Excel Workbook; Save Excel […]

The Best of Both Worlds

The Best of Both Worlds

And it’s worth the effort. Boot Camp and Parallels have turned the Intel-based Macintosh into the only computer that can run nearly every popular software program, whether it was written for Windows or the Mac. On the same computer you can edit photos in Apple’s iPhoto program and check […]