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 [...]

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 [...]

Many users (myself included) have noticed to their dismay, that the Recent Items menu of the native Mac applications such as Preview and Text Edit are empty no matter how many times they are opened.  I had to choose the wording of this posts’s title carefully because the current theory seems to indicate that the [...]

If you just upgraded to Snow Leopard, but you haven’t re-installed your printer yet, you may be having trouble printing PDF files from Finale 2009. This will normally result in blank pages.  If your business is sharing sheet music, then this is a big problem. Finale has a workaround listed here:
[go to workaround]
This should re-enable [...]

The Golden Ratio (or Golden Mean) is an area indicated by a proportion based on the Fibonacci series [more info]. Since the Renaissance (and likely before), artists, architects, and composers have been aware of the importance of the Golden Mean and have used it in numerous works. Therefore, it’s only natural that we should be curious as [...]

Tilt2Joystick is a revolutionary application that allows users to tip and tilt their laptops to play games, draw, scroll, and press any number of configurable keys for use in any application.  With Tilt2Joystick, you can use your entire laptop like a joystick controller. Who says iPhone owners should have all the fun?  Tilt2Joystick is lightweight [...]