Posts Tagged ‘software’
Flight Control – revisited
I recently tried out Flight Control, a game for the iPhone which puts you in charge as an air traffic controller. It is your job to route the different planes to their respective runway. With iPhone OS 3.0 came a feature for Bluetooth PAN (Personal Area Network), which means that the iPhone is now capable [...]
iPhone App: Flight Control
I recently bought Flight Control from the App Store, hoping to find an easy, yet challenging game. I found it.
Flight Control puts you in the air traffic controller spot, and it is your duty to route the various planes and helicopters on a safe landing route. You have to watch out for crossing trajectories, different [...]
Things vs The Hit List vs Omnifocus
I have been using Things for a long time, both on my Mac and iPhone. While being very good at what it does and being visually beautiful, I have lately been having lots of trouble finding a good solution for a “Waiting For” focus, planner, setting a starting date, subtasks and other minor things. Their [...]
4 Essential Mac Applications, and 1 bonus
My brother was recently in the market for a new laptop, and I helped him with the reasearch as usual. He ended up with a Macbook in the end, and being a first-time Mac user I of course helped him get started.
What I didn’t realize is that there are some essential applications I have collected [...]
Enable 1Password in Safari 4 beta
Apple just released a beta version of Safari 4 with lots of new features. Users of 1Password might notice that it doesn’t work in the new version. To fix this, close Safari and 1Password and edit the following file:
/Applications/1Password.app/Contents/Resources/SupportedBrowsers.plist
Find the Key named Safari and look for MaxBundleVersion underneath. You will see 5528.1 as the maximum version. Change [...]
Postbox public beta available
I recently wrote about Postbox, a new email client. It was then a private beta, but a public beta has now been released. Grab it now at postbox-inc.com.
Postbox brings innovative new features to easily find pictures and other files, but also how to get things done.
I still use Apple Mail and Gmail for daily email handling, [...]
Instapaper, or how to read stuff later
I recently came across a service on the great web called Instapaper. It solves the ancient internet problem of wanting to read long articles when one just haven’t got the time. Everyone has probably thought:
I’ll just save it and read it later…
It’s not easy to manage all these links and texts without any kind of [...]
“Lips” playlist in Spotify
To rival the Singstar empire, Lips was recently released for Xbox 360. It’s a great game and it has lots of songs. More songs can be downloaded from the Xbox Market Place.
I added all default songs to a Spotify playlist so you can listen them all. This is for the Swedish release of the game, [...]
Mac OS X 10.5.6 released
OS X 10.5.6 has now been released! Lots of things has been updated, and some highlights follow:
Address Book
Airport
iChat
Graphics
Mail
MobileMe
Time Machine
Safari
… and more!
Macrumors has the details on their forum.
Some people have been reporting problems with the update as usual. If in trouble, just get the Combo Update directly from Apple.