My iPhone and Mac have a competition going on to see which can collect the most audio recording apps. iPhone apps are less expensive, but my Mac collection is larger. Here’s the most interesting audio recording app ever. It records audio. And takes notes. The Voice And Notes Combo Thankfully, my formal student years are … Read More »

My Mac is loaded with so many tools, utilities, and apps, that if the Mac had wheels, the tires would be flat. My latest find is a simple tool that measures distances on a Mac’s screen. Photos, graphic images, objects, shapes, windows, width, height, and everything in between that needs to be measured. If you … Read More »

My love affair with typefaces probably began in high school I wasn’t much of an artist but I loved what a typeface could do to a book cover, a magazine cover, or a painted sign. For years I collected books on typefaces, used those expensive rub on letters to create advertising designs because I couldn’t … Read More »

The age old question is simple. How much is your time worth? The unsaid issue there is that we only have so much time in life, so we should try to maximize the value of our time. Maybe that’s why my Mac is loaded with half a dozen timers of various and sundry flavors. Time, … Read More »

Years ago there was this very nice Mac app that just worked. What it did was nothing short of miraculous. VisualHub made it easy to convert from one video file format to another with just a few clicks. It was easy and geeky and useful all at the same time. Then it died. Now it’s … Read More »