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. … Read More »
Archives for February 2012
Yet Another Free And Easy Way To Get Album Art For iTunes On A Mac
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 … Read More »
The Nitty Gritty Dirty Of Mac Preference Files And How To Clean Or Delete Them
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 Sometimes those files become corrupted, misplaced, or outdated.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, … Read More »
The Perfect Mac Utility For The Paranoid Geek Wannabe Newbie
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 … Read More »
The Mac Web Browser People Want To Use But Don’t
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 … Read More »