Category Archives: Software

Creating outlines for Keynote in Pages and TextEdit

Like many Mac users who produce presentations I fell in love with Keynote from day one (well almost; I have to admit to being a born cynic). It allows you to create sleek, highly polished presentations that have a filmic quality and the program’s interface is elegant and simple to use. Waiting for me to [...]

Install subversion on OS X Leopard as a revision control server for a Website

When we start to get a reasonable size team together working on a large web project we can run into problems like; one team member has the latest copy of the production code on their computer and they’ve gone on leave for a week or they, with the best of intentions, clean up the test [...]

Favorite OS X Utilities: SoundSource

I’ve been meaning to post about my favorite software and utilities, particularly the really good free (open source) ones for some time. Well here’s a start. I have to blog this one because; one, its good and two, I keep looking for it on the web and forgetting its name “SoundSource”, SoowndSorrse … what’s so [...]

I'm all alone – At the drive-in movie – It's a feelin' that ain't too groovy

My latest software toy is Drive-in from the Flip4Mac guys. The same guys who brought you, well, Flip4Mac and ScreenFlow. While ScreenFlow gets the big thumbs up from me and I could not do without Flip, Drive-in is a bit disappointing. I love the concept and the execution. The idea is you create copies of [...]

An eligable application cannot be found in /applications

When Apple recently released updates to the iWork ’08 suite (Keynote, Pages & Numbers) I diligently downloaded and attempted to install the updates only to be faced with the above error message. Several Googles and the usual annoying number of “me toos” later I found the “please shoot me now”, oh so simple, solution. iWork [...]

Writely or Wrongly an Online Word Processor

Just got my writely account today. A fully featured web based word processor on the web with collaboration tools, spell cheaker and everything. As you can see you can use it to update a blog too. Cool!