December 2008
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The Year of our Lord Two Thousand Ought Eight
2008 was good to me. I graduated college. I entered my fourth year of podcasting. TSCC launched much to my enjoyment. I met some great people, and I lost some great people. This year was much better than 2007, so I don’t think I can ask for more.
Not everything went as I would have liked, but it isn’t as if I expected everything to work out perfectly. I now have something to look...
Apple A Day: Amazon Mobile →
Amazon Mobile is a reformatted interface for Amazon.com available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This app makes searching and purchasing from the Amazon store quicker and easier than ever.
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Apple A Day: TapDefense →
TapDefense is a tower defense game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Similar to popular flash games, TapDefense has the player build towers to thwart an ever-increasing number of beasts from moving…
“Homer’s Odyssey was swell. A bunch of guys that went through hell. You...”
– Joss Whedon on Commentary! The Musical
Apple A Day: Fluid →
Fluid is an application for OS X that allows for dedicated application windows for web applications. For sites like Meebo and Gmail, a badge will appear in your dock notifying you of new messages…
Apple A Day: Senuti →
Senuti is an iPod and iPhone manager for OS X. If you need to grab a song off of your iPod, use Senuti to grab it and put it in iTunes.
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Work Magic on your Tags with MetaX →
Metadata is a useful way of categorizing your media. MetaX is a metadata editor for Quicktime and MPEG-4 based files. By using MetaX to label our media properly, we will always have the applicable…
Apple A Day: Shiira →
Shiira is a Webkit-based browser for OS X. Experience the great browsing experience of Safari within a completely different browser interface.
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Apple A Day: Carbon Copy Cloner
“I saw you walking up some popular streets. A modern poet for the ghouls and the...”
– Ain’t We Famous by BrEndAn’s Band on the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Soundtrack
Apple A Day: Carbon Copy Cloner →
Carbon Copy Cloner is a backup application for OS X. A free alternative to SuperDuper, this is may fit your backup needs in a different way.
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Apple A Day: SuperDuper!
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Apple A Day: SuperDuper! →
SuperDuper! is a backup application for OS X. Bootable backups, smart syncing, and automatic backups are just a few of the features in this application that every Mac user should try.
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Holidays, Merriment, Etc.
It’s obvious that I love Christmastime. The music, the decorations, and the well wishing that takes place in December all come together to make the rest of the year more than worth the hassle. Regardless of one’s religion, it is easy to see how fantastic Christmas is. Once a year, we all stop whatever we are doing so that we can enjoy ourselves.
I love it, and I hope you love it...
Apple A Day: SuperTux →
SuperTux is an open source video game for OS X and other desktop operating systems. Like many video games of yore, this game focuses on a 2D character running and jumping in order to make his way…
Apple A Day: Vuze →
Vuze is a torrent client with a heavy layer of gloss for OS X and other desktop operating systems. This is a great way for the novice to jump feet first into the world of file sharing.
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Apple A Day: Molecules →
Molecules is an app that renders three demential representations of molecules. Different molecules can be download from a central database.
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Apple A Day: AOL Radio
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Apple A Day: AOL Radio →
AOL Radio is an audio streaming app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Through this app, a large number of CBS online streams are available whenever there is an internet connection.
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iTunes Store Support: A Story With a Happy Ending →
I have purchased many completed television seasons on iTunes. I had never experienced a problem with any of them, so I didn’t anticipate any issue with buying a pass for a season that hasn’t…
Happy birthday to me.
It’s that time of year once again. Yours truly is another year older. I’ll be eating Chinese food until I puke, and watching a couple dozen episodes of Scrubs.
Happy birthday to me.
Apple A Day: Enigmo →
Enigmo is a physics-based game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The best part is user generated content allows for endless re-playability.
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Apple A Day: Rooms
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Apple A Day: Rooms →
Rooms is an IRC client the iPhone and iPod Touch. We now have ability to chat with the world no matter where we are at any one moment.
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Apple A Day: Palringo
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Buy "Earthlings Welcome Here" on iTunes →
Apple A Day: Palringo →
Palringo is an instant messenger for the iPhone and iPod Touch. AIM, Yahoo IM, Windows Live, and Jabber are just a few of the supported protocols.
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Apple A Day: Google Mobile
Apple A Day: Google Mobile →
Google Mobile is a search application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Wikipedia search, location aware search, and access to contacts are all bundled into this Google-branded app.
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WatchTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season Two, Episode Thirteen — “Earthlings Welcome Here”
Apple A Day: EasyWriter →
EasyWriter is a writing application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This app allows use of the horizontal keyboard while writing e-mail.
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Apple A Day: Skitch
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Christmas Mix 2008 Vol. III
Apple A Day: Skitch →
Skitch is an annotation application for OS X. Integrated into the application is a web service for sharing your annotated images.
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Apple A Day: VLC
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Christmas Mix 2008 Vol. II
Apple A Day: VLC →
VLC is a media player available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. This offers a consolidated interface for DVDs, VCDs, and a host of video and audio codecs.
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Christmas Mix 2008 Vol. I
Apple A Day: FontExplorer X →
FontExplorer X is a font manager for OS X. An alternate to Apple’s Font Book, FontExplorer X offers an integrated storefront in the font management interface.
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Preview of The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season Two,... →
“Sarah’s obsession with the three dots intensifies when she tracks down a blogger with a intimate knowledge of the symbol, and she ends up finding something she never expected. Meanwhile: Riley gets closer to John and faces off with Cameron.”
Automatically Resize Images →
Often times, I need to resize a large number of photos. Resizing makes uploading images to the web much less of a hassle. Most of the time, I don’t need to have five megapixel images taking up space…
Apple A Day: Safari AdBlock →
Safari AdBlock is a plug-in for Safari that prevents advertisements from rendering on screen. Along with custom filters, one can also subscribe to ever-updating lists of known advertisements.
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Apple A Day: AIM →
AIM is an instant messenger application that has, at long last, made its way back to OS X. All of the bells and whistles that the Windows users have always had are now available for everyone.
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Dickerdoodle Contest 2008 →
Hilarious.
Apple A Day: Bean →
Bean is a free and lightweight word processor for OS X. The “Distraction free interface” ideal is truly showcased in this wonderful app.
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Apple A Day: Wikipanion
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Terminator Salvation Trailer #2 →
The devil’s hands have been busy.
My performance of “A Very Axis...
WatchTerminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Season 2, Episode 12 — “Alpine Fields”
Buy "Alpine Fields" on iTunes →
Apple A Day: Wikipanion →
Wikipanion is a Wikipedia interface for the iPhone and iPod Touch. All of the content is reformatted to fit the screen without having to zoom in on the text.
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Apple A Day: MiniPiano →
MiniPiano is a piano emulation app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. While fairly limited, it does offer an entire octave.
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Apple A Day: Cro-Mag Rally
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Apple A Day: Cro-Mag Rally →
Cro-Mag Rally is a caveman-themed racing game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Interestingly, the steering in Cro-Mag Rally is completely controlled by the accelerometer.
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Macgasm's Holiday Give Away →
Josh and Trish of Macgasm fame have done a bang-up job putting together a fantastic giveaway. Do you want to win an iPod Nano? How about a copy of Bento? You can win those and so much more just by entering this contest.
Show my Macgasm compadres some love, and check it out.
Apple A Day: Exposure →
Exposure is a Flickr client for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The vast majority of Flickr’s features are available and rejiggered for your mobile amusement.
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