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Introducing TapNTempo – a customizable metronome for Macintosh

By • Oct 26th, 2011 • Category: Software

New: Featured on Mac Informer!  1. Requirements: Intel Macintosh running OS X 10.5 or later (note: download from App Store requires OS X 10.6.6 or later) 2. Entering data without keyboard shortcuts: Each number box has three ways of entering data without using the keyboard shortcuts below. They are: 1) Clicking in the number box [...]



Using the new Max for Live interface objects without using Max for Live. How to harness the cool new objects in Max 5 with none of the fuss.

By • Dec 8th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

Users who upgrade to Max 5.1 may have heard of Max for Live and seen the new objects in the objects menu. However, you don’t need to purchase or run Max for Live in order to take advantage of some neat new objects. That’s not to say Max for Live isn’t worth buying, but more [...]



Top 20 coolest words approved by Safari’s spellchecker

By • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized

This is a post inspired by a status update in Facebook. I think it’s nice that Safari lets us get away with so many great new words – most of them reflections of the digital age. Kudos to Apple for the coolest spellchecker around! (if it could just learn not to turn itself off for [...]



Speed up Safari – or Firefox, or any browser with this simple tip.

By • Nov 13th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

Here it is: Set “New Windows open with” to blank page. Set “New Tabs open with” to blank page. This preference should be somewhere fairly obvious in your browser preferences. Safari’s preference window is shown below. Maybe I’m an idiot, but it took me a few months to lament about how Safari was stuck whenever [...]



This tip will save brain cells.

By • Nov 5th, 2009 • Category: Tutorials

If you’re a Mac user and you’ve ever used the keyboard shortcut to Force Quit applications (if you’ve never used it, upgrading to Snow Leopard will most definitely make it a necessity), you know that it’s alt-Apple-Escape. You’ve probably also noticed that from time to time, you bring up the dreaded “Front Row” menu when [...]



Tilt2Joystick updated to version 1.1 – now you can exchange X and Y Axis

By • Oct 9th, 2009 • Category: Software

The world’s first user-programmable tilt interface for Macintosh has just been update to version 1.1.  A drastic addition has been made in the form of a new cability to exchange the X and Y Axes (see below).  This is particularly useful for the new Macbook Pro 15″ Unibody model, which according to one source has [...]