Tera Thomas O'Brien Talks Apple and Apps
There are times when my Mac life becomes rather mundane. I blame it on no viruses, no crashes, and a combination of productivity, efficiency, and ease-of-use. There was a time when I’d become a melancholy Mac user and, for a brief period, not appreciate what Apple gave me. Then I’d use a friend’s Windows PC … Read More »
Alright, dear Mac user. When it comes to playing music on your Mac, what’s your poison? iTunes, right? After all, iTunes is free. iTunes may be a behemoth but it does everything. In fact, it does so much, sometimes iTunes forgets that it started life as a music player. Yes, it has become that complicated. … Read More »
My family is old. And large. They came to Chicago about 100 years ago, and, I swear, almost everyone from back then is still living. These relatives have a few things in common (besides living for a long time). They love family. They love to drink. They put together jigsaw puzzles. Every member of the … Read More »
My multi-step method to avoid Flash videos and ads on Safari (by using Google’s Chrome instead) works most of the time. H.264 videos play just fine in Safari. By using the Switch Menubar app to bounce between Safari and Chrome my video watching life improved. Except for one thing. Amazingly, many videos that float around … Read More »
Here’s my deal. I. Hate. Flash. There will come a day when the world is rid of Flash and it’s innate ability to drain a MacBook Air’s battery faster than Wall Street hands out bonuses. Safari is more crash happy when using the Flash plugin. Without it, my MacBook Air runs cooler and the battery … Read More »
My Mac usage dates back well over a decade and I’ve been something of an appoholic since. There are few apps I’m not willing to try (affordability being the big killer of incentive), even those normally reserved for my geekier Mac friends. Sometimes I need to be challenged to dip into a more complex, complicated … Read More »
Love or hate the Mac’s Finder, it’s what we’ve got, and Apple hasn’t deemed anything better. Yet. Remember, it didn’t take us long to figure out how to use the icon and touch interface on the iPhone, so just how ripe are we to ditch the Mac’s aging Finder and replace it with something better? … Read More »
Multitasking is all the rage these days. Everyone is doing it. I’m not sure we’re doing more, but we think we are. Personally, I can’t do much more than one thing at a time, so I concentrate on finding Mac apps that help me do that one thing more efficiently. MoveAlong is a cheap Mac … Read More »
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