Co-Founder of The IconFactory, Ged Maheux has laid-out his idea of a ‘match made in heaven’ and would love for your support in helping achieve it. With Frenzic‘s recent release as the first game to come from The IconFactory, many a Mac-user … Read More »
Bio:Like many, I started on Apple computers back in the mid 80′s. But since you must experience pain and sorrow to truly know joy, I did my requisite years on the Windows platform before finding myself and my happiness again with Apple’s OS X. I had one of the very first 17″ PowerBooks out of our local Apple store and have never looked back.
Not long after submerging myself back into the world of Apple, I began writing here at TheAppleBlog. I love to write and talk about Apple, so it was a perfect fit. I relish the chance to educate others and geek-out, so please feel free to ask questions. I thoroughly enjoy lively comment threads on my posts, so please sound off!
When I’m not writing here, I’m serving as the world’s greatest dad to 3 kids, making my lovely wife fall in love with me each day, playing with Legos, checking someone at the hockey rink, traveling Colorado to make great photographs, or paying the bills as a Cisco Network Engineering consultant. And other stuff.
Check out my personal home on the web at http://nicksantilli.com or follow my random stream of consciousness on Twitter @nucof.
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These things happen all the time, but every now and then there are the software update news items that really excite me. This week I went from being out of town, to being out of town… But finally this morning I caught up on … Read More »
How great would it be if Apple were to offer a Tiered Referral program on sales of their computers? We’ve all probably helped show a friend or two (or several…) the light by bringing them to the Apple platform. Now wouldn’t it be cool … Read More »
Alumnus of The Apple Blog, Chris Holland, is back to ranting about his tech-mistress, SIP. And although the concept may sound far-fetched at the onset, the idea at the core is pure genius, and in this writer’s opinion, has Apple written all over it.
Ars reports that AT&T stores will be closing early on June 29th in order to setup and prepare for the 6pm launch of the iSecondComing, er, iPhone. There will be nice velvet ropes to que the eager techies into the stores and handle sales … Read More »
Anyone who’s been using a Mac for a few months has probably noticed that there is a glut of text editors available for the OS X platform. If you’re in the web/design category, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the similar situation of too many FTP client … Read More »
A huge thanks goes to Dan Moren at MacUser for posting this tip. I was literally looking for this method over the weekend when I right clicked on an image file and Finder took FOOOREEEVER to show my [crapton of] ‘Open With…’ options. Most … Read More »
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At some Apple stores, like the new one at Park Meadows in Lone Tree Colorado, it’s pretty much the rule that your AT&T – and probably most other carriers – phone will get no usable service coverage. That’s the case when I wander in with … Read More »
Apple has already upgraded its yet-unreleased iPhone. They announced this morning a battery capable of 8 hours of talk time, and over 10 days of standby time. Additionally, the previously plastic touch-screen is now optical-quality glass for better clarity and durability. Straight from the … Read More »
The folks at Missing Sync sent out an email over the weekend to announce some updates to their line of PDA and Smartphone syncing software. While users of Palm devices may be glad to hear that Missing Sync for Palm version 6 has been released, … Read More »
Services are a part of OS X that many users either don’t even know about, or forget to use. They are a powerful bunch of actions that you can apply to your workflow – mostly in cases where you’re working with text. In this Screencast, I’ll … Read More »
UPDATE: Alright, NOW you can sign up on plasq.com for an opportunity to get into the Skitch Beta program. UPDATE: I guess in my excitement, I jumped the gun a tad:My apologies! The update and goodness I wrote below is – at the moment – … Read More »
Wow those guys work fast! No sooner did Steve announce the availability of Safari 3 beta, and there’s an update for 1Passwd to work with it! Awesome response guys! 1Passwd is a fantastic utility that saves all your passwords and unifies them across your … Read More »
Derik at MacUser points out that VMware is driving hard to the net in regards to the virtualization battle with Parallels. If you pre-order the 1.0 version now (which is expected by end of August) you get the normally $79 license for just … Read More »
Glenn Wolsey points out that the Design Awards have been named for WWDC 2007. You can see them by category, here. A quick rundown: Delicious Library 2 goes home with the Best Leopard Application award – can’t wait to get a look at … Read More »
Apple shed a little light today, on the lack of ZFS appearing on the Leopard information pages. It seems that ZFS will not be the default file system in Leopard – this much we’ve already deduced. But how exactly will Apple be supporting … Read More »
So the argument goes that we saw a lot of eye candy from the Keynote yesterday, but there was a lack of useful features – of substance. In order from disagreement with this position, to moderate agreement, I present you the list of features. First off, … Read More »
The past few Apple events have resulted in many people griping openly about the Keynote Speeches. I’m not sure at what point everyone put their cranky pants on and decided that the Keynote had to hit an imaginary bar in order to give them happiness, … Read More »
So obviously Leopard is on everyone’s mind with The Keynote just hours away. I know I’ve been waiting to see more of this cat for much longer than I like to admit. But as we’ve gotten closer and closer to WWDC, I’ve found more … Read More »
Before my eyes could completely focus this morning, I was checking my email and preparing for the day ahead. Waiting for me in my Inbox was the notice that Microsoft (who bought iView Media Pro) had released their update to the much-loved media cataloging application. Expression … Read More »
By Nick Santilli
May. 31, 2007, 8:58pm PT
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On my daily quest to look for Apple gear that I need but will ultimately end up not buying, I found this evening that Apple had redesigned the graphic leading to the Special Deals section of their online store – which was my tip off … Read More »
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 … Read More »
This is by no means a new bit of software, but I’ve finally had a reason to use it, and I couldn’t be more blown away. Synergy (not to be confused with the iTunes control app by Wincent) is more or less a … Read More »
When I first read through this marketing program from Microsoft, I didn’t quite get it. The fact that Microsoft has a Mac Business Unit threw me there for a moment – why would they be touting Geniuses…? Then it dawned on me that … Read More »
If you haven’t checked the new Microsoft webpage for Surface, you’re missing out. Yeah, it looks seriously cool – and curiously like some haptics-style interfaces we’ve seen bits and pieces of before… But riddle me this: Did Microsoft rush to release this incredible new way … Read More »
So you know the warm and fuzzy feeling you get all over when you’re in the Apple Store to actually make that Mac purchase? It’s as if nothing could bring you down from that geek-high. Then you get the Best Buy style protection plan … Read More »
Scott Stevenson of the venerable Theocacao, CocoaBlogs and CocoaDevCentral was given the go ahead from Wil Shipley to devulge some teasers of the upcoming (in October, along with Leopard) Delicious Library 2. Delicious Library seems to be one of the elite applications for … Read More »
About 6 months ago I covered the impending release of 10.4.9. I made the assumption that it would be the last update to 10.4 and that Leopard would be soon to follow… (As long as no one tells my wife, I’ll admit to … Read More »
Whether you’re mourning the news of Adobe EOL’ing FreeHand (in favor of Illustrator), or just in the market for a great vector graphics application, Freeverse is throwing you a nice, juicy bone. Until June 1st, you can use the coupon code, “freehand” to knock $30 … Read More »
Derik at MacUser has a very nicely written piece about the ability of MacBooks to handle 3GB or RAM. Apparently the Core 2 Duo based MacBooks (not to be confused with the first gen Core Duo MacBooks) are able to max out at 3 … Read More »
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 … Read More »
Yup, it is indeed Tuesday friends. And being Tuesday, we’re lucky to see the release of updated MacBooks from Apple. Now the base, $1099 MacBook comes in 2Ghz speed, while the Superdrive and Black versions both come in 2.16Ghz versions. All models come standard … Read More »
We knew it was coming, and now there’s evidence in the form of a patent that seems to confirm things. Future iPods – hopefully meaning the next generation to be released – will be rocking the full screen display with touch controls. Although … Read More »
Apple has a new program available through their brick & mortar stores, called ‘one to one‘. For $99 a year, you can schedule sessions with an Apple Store employee – my guess is it’ll be a Creative, who teaches the general store classes – … Read More »
CrunchGear pointed to this the other day and I’ve been daydreaming about it since. The fact that it’s a tablet mock-up does not necessarily get me excited. The part I dig is the short description of how the design would function: It [the … Read More »
I consider myself pretty savvy on the Mac. But as the saying goes, you learn something new every day, right? Enter OS X Hacker. A Trackpad setting in the System Preferences that I never paid any attention to before. Hold down your control … Read More »
With screencasts seeming to be all the rage – and having done a handful myself – I thought it might be useful to run down some of the high points of putting together a screencast that conveys a point in a clean and concise manner. … Read More »
TUAW posted a neat link about combining Quicksilver and YubNub for extremely customizable searches. I briefly played with this and found it to be pretty cool actually. Having not previously heard of YubNub, this was a learning experience for me. The highlight … Read More »
Sign me up for 2 of these…Just wish my MacBook could handle them. Maybe my wallet too. So by stacking ram modules on top of one another, Samsung has developed faster, more reliable RAM chips. Really all I have to say – being a … Read More »
Ars points out that if you’ve been rocking the CS3 beta of Photoshop, a simple Drag/Drop uninstall or copy of the Full version over top may not do the trick. Adobe offers a script that you should run before installing the official (not-free) … Read More »
Short of being a network geek, you probably haven’t ever considered toying with the DNS settings in yout Network Preference Pane. But OpenDNS has given everyone a reason to take another look. DNS stands for Domain Name System, and it’s employed all over our beloved Internets. … Read More »
I got there at little after 7:15am and was greeted by this line. Then the Apple Laptops came out – great wireless signal from the store apparently. Then the Apple Team came out Whooping and Cheering. And then the party began. This was my first Apple Store opening, and it … Read More »
So almost a year ago to the day (ok, off by a week), I posted an early screencast which showed the setup I use for Quicksilver. The intent then – as it is now – was to show all of you exactly which items … Read More »
It seems my screencasts garner much interest in the rest of my system’s bling, if you will. So a quick rundown to answer some of the questions left in the comments of the Pimp Your Quicksilver screencast from last week. WALLPAPER I find my Desktop wallpaper in … Read More »
In case your Software Update hasn’t notified you already, there’s a Security Update waiting for your attention. It addresses a pretty long list of security concerns within OS X. If you’d like to go and install it now – not a bad idea – then go … Read More »
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