Every Mac user I know has thousands of photos stuffed into iPhoto. It’s usually a collection of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Instead of deleting bad photos, we Mac users tend to keep everything. How can you improve ugly to bad, or bad to good? PhotoStyler is a Mac photo enhancement app. Think … Read More »

How many songs do you have in iTunes on your Mac? Hundreds? Thousands? Many thousands? Alright, how many of those songs and albums also have album art? Chances are very good that you have more songs and albums than you have album artwork to match. iTunes does a decent job of enhancing your album art … Read More »

Nearly every Mac app creates and stores preference files on your Mac. Most of what gets stored is basic settings information. Sometimes those files become corrupted, misplaced, or outdated. Occasionally, that results in an unstable app or broken preferences. Can you fix preference files? There are two easy ways, both different, both useful. First, Preference … Read More »

If you were to look at the apps and tools on my Mac you would come to the conclusion that I’m a collector. I have a few hundred non-Apple, non-Adobe, non-Microsoft, 3rd party apps and utilities. Some I love but don’t use. Other utilities have hundreds of features but seldom get double-clicked. Cocktail is one … Read More »

Among my laundry list of complaints about the internet is how many different audio and video file formats are required. MP3 is nearly universal for audio, but not the best for quality. Even Flash video player, once the de facto video standard, doesn’t work on iPad, iPhone, or Android devices. That means moving audio and … Read More »

Are there any really bad browsers left on the Mac these days? Microsoft’s Internet Explorer died years ago. Since then, we’ve seen dramatic improvements in browser speed and stability, and a boatload of features that would make Microsoft proud. Safari remains the most popular Mac browser by far, followed closely by Mozilla’s Firefox, Google’s Chrome, … Read More »