The Mac vs. iPhone game experience

My Mac has a few games. My iPhone has more. Many more. Why? Price and game time.

Why a touchscreen desktop Mac won’t happen

Apple has a huge war chest of patents; ideas for processes and methods for current and future products. Nicholas Carlson thinks Apple might be working on a desktop touchscreen. This is a bad idea.

Free Weather On Your Mac

Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Weather apps for Mac users range from the free Dashboard Widget to the comprehensive weather tracking app, Wx. What’s the easy and free way to view weather conditions on a Mac?

Add and track your time using iCal

I like simple. For Mac users, iCal is simple. It tracks To-Do items, notes, and, importantly your daily schedule, and it does it on multiple calendars. What would make iCal even better? Since iCal captures my daily schedule, wouldn’t it be handy to pull up all that data and calculate the time spent on various events, projects, meetings, and tasks? That’s what TimeTable does.

The Power of Perfect Diet Tracker on a Mac

One of the problems with being an aging computer user is diet. And exercise. Alright, that’s two problems. Simple problems. Too much of the wrong kind of food. Not enough exercise. Fortunately, the solution is simple. Unfortunately, the solution is not easy. Your Mac and Perfect Diet Tracker to the rescue.

Zapping and managing apps on your Mac

How many applications, utilities, and games do you have on your Mac? How do you manage the updates? How do you delete unneeded apps? How do you track app serial numbers and registrations? So many questions. One very good answer. AppZapper.

Hello, iStat Menus and Goodbye Menubar Space

One major benefit of being a Mac user is the plethora of handy little utilities that do this or that in some elegant, unobtrusive, totally necessary way, without being a pain. iStat Menus is a worthy utility for the geekier Mac user, and works flawlessly. Except for one nagging issue.

Bad theory: Macs are for left-handed people

Dan Sung on the differences between Mac OS X and Windows, and their respective left-handed, and right-handed users. First, the desktops:

Have you ever taken a good look at something as simple their desktops? There’s the recent addition of the Dock and obvious graphic subtleties but one thing, although noticeable, that barely seems to register is the icons and where they sit on the screen. Sure you can drag and drop them wherever you like but the default auto-arrange on the Mac is to the right side of the screen and, with Windows, it’s to the left.

A few words on money, MoneyWell, and my Mac

Without question there are more than enough money management software titles for the Mac. There was a time when Intuit’s Quicken was about all we had to manage money. Years of abusing Mac users has relegated Quicken to also-ran status. Mac users found other solutions. In the past year I’ve changed my solution three times. The latest?