What I Learned Today…

Download Squad warns that VLC for Mac has no more developers!! Quick! Are you a Mac programmer? An open source advocate? Well, VLC has a job for you! You’ve always wanted to lead up an entire development branch of the world-famous VideoLAN Client, right? It seems, through gradual atrophy and a steep learning curve that prevents developers from just ‘jumping right in’, VLC for Mac now has zero developers; none,  [ Read More ]

I wanted to embed a YouTube video into my presentation in Keynote for tomorrow, so I did a search for a tutorial and found a YouTube video telling me what to do – but it seemed so convoluted. I then remembered reading about a new site that could convert YouTube videos to a format that would work in your media player. I found the announcement about Farkie on DownloadSquad and  [ Read More ]

I’m a poet and didn’t even know it Seriously though, Adium has released version 1.3 and if you’re a Mac user you need this IM Client!! I’ve been using the beta for a while, but if you weren’t brave like me you may not know that Adium now supports Facebook chat and so much more! This from Read Write Web: Highlights include the addition of Facebook chat to the list  [ Read More ]

This is filed under just for fun in my book – but might be useful to some of you. Delish is a freeware app for Mac OS X 10.5 that lets you see thumbnails of your del.icio.us bookmarks. This tool was pointed out to me by Lifehacker. Features of Delish: Del.icio.us Integration.Delish organizes all of your links, tags, and bundles. Why look at URL’s as text?Delish generates a high-resolution thumbnail  [ Read More ]

Oooo – this looks neat: I haven’t played with it yet, but Google has a Mac search now. If you run into a problem on a Windows computer, all you have to do is type a little description of the problem and Google takes care of the rest; Mac users, on the other hand, often need to include a little context in their search—instead of typing a query like text  [ Read More ]

I’m looking for some utilities to help me make it so that I don’t miss my PC so much – I’m up for suggestions: FTP Client with SFTP ability HTML editor (i love HTML Kit) Note keeper (there is no Evernote for Mac yet) I’m also up for any other suggestions you may have to make my life easier

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