Freelance consultant for digital heritage

Category: Mac

  • MacJournal

    I have just bought the latest MacHeist nanoBundle2 (after I found that there’s a $2 discount to existing MacHeist members) and MacJournal came as part of the bundle. I do use DevonThink for most of my information organisation, but MacJournal’s, well, journal feel could be quite interesting. And it, hopefully, can publish to my blog,…

  • Backing up your data to the internet

    The latest Dreamhost newsletter popped into my inbox yesterday, and amongst all the dry humour was a notice that they are giving all customers a 50GB of free space to use for personal backups. Although technically I have access to over 350GB of storage, their storage terms and conditions forbid its use for anything other…

  • WordPress Dashboard Widgets

    Does anyone know of a decent OSX dashboard widget for posting to a WordPress blog? I’ve been using WordPressDash on and off for over two years now, and in Leopard some strange things have happened to its appearance. One that supports WP2.3’s tags would be nice. Ideas, anyone?

  • 17″ Apple PowerBook screen problems

    [Update] The line is back, despite after disappearing temporarily after a reboot. See the photo below. [Update 2: 2nd May] A second line has appeared 6 pixels to the left of the first one 🙁 [Update 3: 10th May]A third line, this time magenta, is now flickering on and off 495px in from the left.…

  • On NewsFire an other feed readers

    My feedreader of choice is, and has been for some 2 years, the excellent NetNewsWire Lite on a Mac. It handles my 244 feeds very well, and they’re all nicely categorised into groups. But I’ve had a bit of trouble recently in that NetNewsWire Lite has begun to randomly jumble up individual posts. Rather than…

  • MacHeist

    Having just moved house, and having just packed all my books and CDs, I decided that I really ought to catalogue them. I’ve been tempted by Delicious Library for a while now and thought it an excellent time to buy it. Luckily, I heard about MacHeist, who, at the time of writing, are offering Delicious…