http://www.yukonmac.com commentary and thoughts on the mac Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:44:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Apple announced that Snow Leopard will be available on the 28th of this month. While not a massive overhaul in terms of features – Snow Leopard will deliver more speed. How refreshing, seriously, that a technology took a full revision cycle to clean things up and work on making things ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2009/08/26/snow-leopard/ About four years ago I had a pressing amount of work to get done in late fall. Coincidentally, thats the time of year that I take a week off to go on my annual elk hunting trip with brothers, dad, cousins and uncles. We journey to the remotest of woods ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/03/05/working-with-screen-brightness-set-to-zero/ A while back I told you I was overhauling my application lineup. In the spreadsheet department Excel was getting tired. I had long had my eye's on Apple's iWork "productivity suite" but had not taken the plunge. For a long time this was because iWork had no spreadsheet application. When ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/02/28/apple-iwork-numbers/ Apple released updated MacBook and MacBook Pro's today. As I and many others had postulated they do indeed come with a new trackpad that accepts gesturing like the MacBook Air. Speed bumps are moderate up to 2.6Ghz on the MBP. I really have no reason to upgrade but the wife ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/02/26/macbook-macbook-pro-updates/ I have a bad habit of downloading at least 10 freeeware apps every day - well maybe not every day. Yesterday I stumbled upon RapidoResizer from App4Mac. Having to crank up Photoshop just to crop and resize an image for a blog post is too consuming. RapidoResizer looked like the ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/02/21/rapidoresizer/ A quick recommendation to Mac bloggers. This post was created using MarsEdit by Red Sweater Software and I like it! I have used others in the past but never felt fully compatible. MarsEdit, which used to be owned by Ranchero Software, was recently taken over by Red Sweater and I am ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/02/20/marsedit-os-x-blogging-software-review/ Now and then, when helping other Mac users, I am surprised to see the waisted time spent navigating their Mac. In my mind the dock is for quick application launching and organizing frequently used items - not constant application switching. Even worse is when I see a Mac user dragging ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/02/19/quick-tip-application-window-navigation/ So with MacWorld San Francisco well behind us. Mac users are wondering what to expect from Apple in the near future. I would say you can bet that the next 10 months will see mostly incremental hardware and software updates. With OS X 10.5 Leopard, MacBook Air and iPod Touch ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/02/18/mac-buying-advice-for-2008-a-good-time-to-upgrade/ You might not know it from the title of this post but I do like to-do lists. Often referred to as "todos", "to does" or my favorite "2do." But, I have searched high and low over the years and have yet to find a program for OS X that works ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/01/28/disenchanted-with-to-do-programs/ I'm busy trying to reorganize the site to include weekly video episodes for your enjoyment. I'm almost there with the site/WordPress redo, but couldn't let the MacWorld SF 2008 go bye without some thoughts about the newest goodies from Apple. So here's the first episode, enjoy! ... http://www.yukonmac.com/2008/01/16/yukonmac-tv-episode-1/