Spotlight on a Mac - Weatherzone

I have a slight obsession with knowing what the weather is going to do that day. Even if the weatherman lies to me, like he so often does, I feel better knowing it could have been sunny instead of raining.

Best of all, it's available for Windows and Mac at Weather Zone

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Thankful 4: Apple Mac

Windows will be the death of me. It will be written on my tombstone "Died waiting for Windows to do its 5th restart of the day"

I love my mac. Enough said

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Spotlight on a Mac - Ted

My new favourite program is Ted.

Now, if you aquire your television through your computer (of course deleting them within 24 hours) this program is for you.

ted can find episodes of any TV show. Just add your favorite shows to ted and it searches for them, and the best bit, it downloads them for you!!! So, when you leave your computer on overnight to make full advantage of the huge amount of data your ISP gives you for free, it just downloads them for you to watch in the morning.

It even comes with a list of shows you might like, but if they don't have what you want, you can make custom lists.

Beaut!

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Spotlight on a Mac - App Cleaner

App Cleaner is a small program that allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted programs.

Now, when you install a program on a mac it spreads it wings to many areas of your harddrive, which are often hard to find when you want to uninstall the program (damn you).

App cleaner finds this hiding files, and deletes them all when you drag the origional program to AppCleaner. Simple. Easy. And most importantly, quick.

You can find AppCleaner here. And it is free.

I do admit, it isn't a program I use a great deal, but when I do use it I thank my lucky stars I have it. I highly recommend it

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Spotlight on a Mac - Adium

In the last few months, I have urged 5 friends to buy a mac when they asked my opinion.

Now I know I am a little biased, I have been a mac lover for some time now, and I do admit I am a little rusty on my windows knowledge (mainly because the IT Natzi doesnt allow MSN at work). But this isnt a pro or con of eachs programs, its meerly a feature on programs I think every mac user should have.

So this week, I chose Adium.

According to Wikipedia Adium is a free instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple platforms. This means that in the one program I can use MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Twitter and a whole range of other clients. Awesome for multitasking. Even more awesome for keeping in touch with friends and family

Now, I do admit, I origionally liked this program for the cute little birdie, especially as you can make him blue, purple, green, red and yellow. I fell even more in love when I discovered that I could put 'outfits' on the birdie! (what can I say, small things amuse me).

Until recently, ok tonight, I never knew about the Twitter add in, but seeing as though TweetDeck died on me this week, it is a welcome addition.

The only downside is that you cant use webcam with msn messenger, but seeing as though we only use it with family, and they all use macs, we just use iChat. Hasnt really caused a drama in our household

All in all, Adium gets two thumbs up

PS, if you have any programs you think i would love/want to know about/should review let me know

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iPhone 3.0

being the nerd that I am, and an Apple fan-girl, I can't wait for 3.0 to be released.

So much so that I have set my alarm an hour earlier for Wednesday so that I can download it before work.

Man I am lame. LOL

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Love/Hate

Last night I tweeted (sorry, i would give you a link to my Twitter, but the work place doesnt allow Twitter, but they allow millions of coffee and smoke breaks *shakes fists*) about what I love and hate about the same item.



What I love about my mac: the duckheads - makes it so much easier to move power between the office and the lounge room.



What I hate about my mac: the USB ports being next to each other. It makes it impossible to use bigger devices, such as my card reader. I much prefer it on my Macbook Pro where they are on opposite sides.



Now, a friend asked me what a duckhead is. I couldnt explain it in 140 characters, so Gem, this is for you


The little plug with no cord is the duckhead. The thing I like most about it is that I have the little plug left in the office power point, and the cord behind the couch. When I want to move power source i just unconnect the charger (the white box) and attach it to the other device. I dont have to get behind the couch to find the cord.
Also, if I go overseas, i just buy that countries duck head. How easy. No converters for me :D What makes it even more awesome, it is the same duckhead for my iPod, iPhone and Macbook Pro. So I have these little duckheads all over the house. extra awesome! Pin It

It's Tuesday and I can't wait

To get home from my mum's house and use my own computer. I wish she had brought a mac like I told her to. Instead she asks me a million questions about her windows computer that I just don't know the answer to.

Simple yes, but man I hate her computer!

Oh, and I can't wait for the roast she is cooking me ;) Pin It

An apple a day...

It's no secret that I am an Apple lover. I love my macs.

It all started in 2003 when my ex-boyfriend brought me a pink iPod Mini. It was (and still is) very me. I love it to bits, I took it everywhere. Not only was it ever so handy at the gym (back when I used the gym), it was a fashion accessory.

Several years later, I brought a Macbook Pro. And then a Macbook. And an Apple TV. And several other iPods. And an iPhone.

I will preach to anyone who is willing to listen the benefits of a mac over a windows computer. The ease of use, the better programs, the lack of errors, no viruses, the prettiness. Everyday I go to work and curse my windows computer. It restarts at least once a day. Internet Explorer closes down at least 12 times a day on me. It has more issues than I can count. It doesnt even come close to comparing to my mac at home.

Until I updated my blog at work today. It was a dream. Pictures inserted easily. Text didnt reformat itself for the fun of it. I was suprised.

And then it crashed, and I cursed, and figured it was god's way of telling me that Macs are still better than windows ;)

EDIT: I take it all back, I cant find the post about my weekends renovating from today, so clearly windows is not better

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