Entries Tagged as 'Software'

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Add TeamViewer to your iPhone app “best of” list immediately.

Mac desktop controlled on iPhone with TeamViewer app

TeamViewer is a new iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows a remote connection to, and complete control of, your Mac or PC over the internet (UDP) or with a local WiFi connection. This application is $99 for professional / corporate use, however it is free for [...]

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

IBM’s Lotus Symphony proves it has what it takes to compete in the dog-eat-dog world of productivity application software.

This is a re-posting of a past article, with updates…
While most folks want to have a debate between Microsoft’s Office and Apple’s iWork, I have fallen in love with the new kid on the block in the Mac-world, IBM’s Lotus Symphony. Unlike Office and iWork, Symphony is free, which is a [...]

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Bing Mobile App is Especially Useful for iPod Touch Users.

There are many reviews that can give you the basic run-down of Bing’s feature set, so I am going to spare you the boring rudiments and just point out a few nuggets of information that most reviews of Bing for the iPhone have missed.

Bing App for the iPhone and iPod Touch

The Bing app for [...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Does your Apple notebook hard drive (HDD) ever sound like little mice are playing table tennis inside of it? Or, why your HDD might be pre-programmed for quick failure.

This past article is being re-posted and continuously updated on this Wordpress-powered blog so people can post comments and questions. This article was originally published in December of 2008.

My most recent and fresh complaint with Apple has to do with an annoying clicking sound coming from the hard drive (HDD) of my early 2008 Macbook. [...]

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Time Change sets off SystemUIServer Bug, and maxes CPU

Fall Back to a wild Halloween-night Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 Bug! Max your CPU for a full hour in the middle of the night.

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

New Apple Magic Mouse software fixes issues with older Bluetooth devices?

If you are having issues with your Bluetooth mouse, keyboard or BT in general on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, I recommend downloading and installing the just-released software for the new Apple Magic Mouse.
Yesterday, when I saw that piece of software posted on the internet, its size perked my interest—checking in at 64mb compressed [...]

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Get a Taste of Google’s Chrome on Mac OS X.

You can try out the latest update to the “Alpha” version of Google’s Chrome web browser for Mac OS X.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

There are thousands of free iPhone/iPod Touch apps, these are the 9 (non-game) Best.

There are thousands of free iPhone/iPod Touch apps, these are the 9 (non-game) Best.
Also included in this “top 10” list is one app so good it is worth the near $10 price and the inclusion in this listing. Also included in this article, ten other free apps worth an honorable mention, for a total of [...]

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Safari Web Browser on Windows and Font Rendering.

Using Apple’s latest version of its web browser, Safari 4.0 beta in Microsoft Windows, one cannot help but notice the differences in font rendering philosophies (and algorithms) between Apple’s OS X and Windows. With the latest version of Safari for Windows one can switch font rendering methods on the fly–from the Mac OS X style to Window’s font rendering style

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

He hand-codes postscript files, but he is not better than you or me.

As I continue to hack my way through an attempt to blend my website with a new WordPress-Powered “True” Blog (as opposed to my current non-Blog, or false-Blog,  which is really an Articles section only calling itself a blog because ‘blog’ is currently more trendy of a term than ‘articles’), I find it necessary to [...]

Monday, September 14th, 2009

This is Basically a Test-Drive. First WordPress Post!

Coming soon—the Wordpress-powered Dougit Design Blog!
First, I have to make it look acceptable. Then, I’ll add some words…More words for testing purposes. I have written some past articles that are not in a dynamic, Wordpress-driven blog—they are simply html/css.