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BBEdit 10 Custom Menu Shortcuts
Previously, I mentioned that BBEdit 10 was missing a “Set Key” button to map menu items to a custom hotkey. Well, I heard back from support, and here’s the undocumented trick. Clicking on the empty space to the right where the other hotkeys are listed brings up a field for entering your new custom shortcut.…
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Safari 5.1 Headers
Safari 5.1 is the latest version of Apple’s web browser. People who work on websites should notice a change in the Web Inspector, when compared to Safari 5.0. Previously, clicking on the Resources icon brought up the file size and loading time data, which is useful for diagnosing why a particular web page may be…
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Mac OS X Lion Launchpad
I don’t get Launchpad. It may be a cool feature if I didn’t have the most often used applications already in the Dock. As it is, the feature set seems a bit duplicative. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should already be familiar with the UI–drag related applications on top of each other…
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Mac OS X Lion Kills Rosetta
Mac OS X Lion marks the end of Rosetta, the transition technology that allowed Intel Macs to run PowerPC applications. After installing Mac OS X, I took a peek at the Applications folder. If you have been migrating all your applications from computer to computer over the years, you may have some Power PC applications,…
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Mac OS X Lion
On one hand, I don’t have to drive to the Apple Store, find parking, pick-up a tiny box with a disk in it, wait in line, check out, and then drive back home. However, waiting 1 hour and 55 minutes to download Mac OS X Lion, which weighs in at 3.74 GB, is far from…
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BBEdit 10 Text Factories
Yesterday, I updated to BBEdit 10. Outside of the different UI for open documents, I didn’t notice anything truly different until I tried to access my collection of Text Factories. In BBEdit 10, the Text Factories still may be accessed under the Text menu, but the Text Factories have been renamed to Text Filter, and…
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Quicken, Lion and iBank
Last week, I received an ominous note from Intuit regarding Quicken, a personal finance product that I have been using for long, long time. I can still remember when I first installed Quicken on the Powerbook 100. (The Powerbook is long gone, but for some reason I have kept the Quicken install disks in storage).…
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Apple TV Slow No More
I’ve been using an Apple TV for two months now, and I think I’ve finally bid farewell to the spinner. At first, I was plagued by an absolutely maddening product. If you think the spinning beach ball on a Mac is bad, the black-and-white one spinner is 10x worse on a TV because television is…
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Apple TV
I’m perfectly happy viewing videos on a MacBook Pro, iPad or iPhone (and probably in that order). However, sometimes, the TV really is the best device. In this instance, I wanted the kids to be able to watch video from their dance class so that they could follow along and practice daily. Obviously, this situation…
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Omron Pedometer v. Fitbit Tracker
Last year, I picked up an Omron Pedometer to track my daily exercise. I really liked the Omron HJ-112 pedometer. The pedometer is still functioning after one year; however, I did have to change the battery once and the end clip did break. But, I ended up switching to a Fitbit. At first, I was…