Before I get too far along in these screencasts, I thought I would introduce you a little to my working environment and explain the tools that I use. F...

Last year, Apple released MacRuby, an open source Ruby implementation written on top of the Objective-C runtime. Writing native MacOSX applications in ...

Everyone wants to develop Cocoa in Ruby. It can create awesome Mac apps. But you need to develop in Objective-C. Which is not so pretty. However, they ...

Here is a quick little screencast that shows how the just released Parallels Desktop RC2 coherence mode just got way better. In a nutshell, a couple of small tweaks gets rid of that nasty old Windows Taskbar. Clicking on the Parallels dock icon opens up the Start Menu

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A screencast showing how to edit your photos from iPhoto with your Windows version of Photoshop and CrossOver Mac

A video showing how to use Parallels on your Mac to edit photos from iPhoto in the Windows version of Photoshop.

The latest version of Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn, has been getting a lot of press recently. With news that Dell will soon be pre-installing Ubuntu on some of ...

I am still working on the overview video of Quicksilver, but in the meantime you can see how I use it to open folders and even move documents from folder to folder. It is much easier to see than to explain, so I would watch the video first. Now, why would I want to do it this way as opposed to draggi...

Quicksilver works great with the Address Book. With Quicksilver you can look up a contacts phone number really quickly, copy their address to paste in another document, add notes to any contacts and more. This is integration with Address Book is one of my most popular uses for this program.

Quicksilver does an awful lot of things from the keyboard, but accessing windows that have been minimized isn’t typically in the cards. While some of you may choose to hide your application windows when not using them, I’m still of the camp that minimizes them - call it a Windows hold-over practi...

I’ve written at great length about using Metadata to keep track of your files, even going so far as an alternative to folder hierarchies. But amongst the barriers to entry is the difficulty in actually tagging those files and subsequently keeping track of those tags that are being used.
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