Archive for April, 2009

A billion apps! that’s a lot, right?

Posted: 29th April 2009 by admin in Apple, technology
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When I saw this on the Apple homepage tuesday morning i had to do the math.  if you assume there are 30 days in each of those months, and do the math, that amounts to approximately 43 applications downloaded every second! I never had doubts that the iTunes Appstore would be a hit, after all [...]

I have been looking for a good twitter app for use on my Mac for a little while now, since mostly i just use the web interface, and need a better way to manage the tweets.  So when Atebits came out with Tweetie for Mac i was pretty excited to try it out , and [...]

My thoughts on Devonthink

Posted: 13th April 2009 by admin in organization, software
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I was always taught if you didn’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.  So when i had the opportunity to get a free copy of Devonthink through MacHeist i grabbed it and because my initial use of the program left me unimpressed i toyed with the idea of just not commenting [...]

Time Capsule, again

Posted: 12th April 2009 by tcg in Apple, backup, Mac OSX
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Just a quick update about the replacement Time Capsule (TC) i got that seems to be working as per spec, and even seems to be providing me with a very quick Guest Network.  I downloaded the iPhone SpeedTest app and was checking my stats earlier with it and receiving nearly 2 mb/s download speed on [...]

Time Capsule: I may have spoken too soon…

Posted: 8th April 2009 by admin in Apple, backup
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In a previous post i was extolling the virtues of my wonderful new Apple dual-band Time Capsule, and prattling on about the speed and the ease of use and how it was such a wise investment and a good decision, etc, etc.  Well…  Me.  Foot.  Mouth. I noticed strange behavious on Sunday and when i [...]