Want to try out your skis on the slop this December?  Why pay for skis, poles, or even a lift ticket when you can now ski on the mac for free.  That’s right this game is free, and it doesn’t look anything like SkiFree for Windows.  For this price and the system, this is an [...]

If you haven’t checked out Google’s web browser yet, Google Chrome, chances are you are missing out.  Google Chrome is a great web browser mainly because it’s fast.  It’s faster at processing JavaScripts and unlike Internet Explorer it’s standards compliant.  This means that sites you look at everyday will be rendered like the designer/developer wanted [...]

This is just a quick and dirty guide to setting a development environment for PHP on Mac OS X 10.6.2, but will also work for Leopard (10.5.x) as well.  There are a few things that are essential to setting up a dev environment for PHP.  Mainly, installing PHP & MySQL and having a great IDE [...]

In case you have missed the “Wave”, Google Wave is a new model for communication and collaboration on the web. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. [...]

Looking for a fun voice recorder for your mac?  Today MacHeist announced that it’s giving away Voice Candy to people just for tweeting about it.  This is to assist in the promotion of their new iphone app, which seems to have 2x as many features as their desktop counterpart.  Normally this app would set you [...]

There are plenty of reasons to love Apple’s bundled mail application.  For one, I prefer os bundled applications instead of installing something that does roughly the same thing.  A replacement application must be far superior or provide some other functionality to the bundled app for me to switch.  A good example is Adium instead of [...]

Tweetwally lets you display only the tweets you’re interested in tracked by #hashtags, @usernames, and keywords. You can save and share your tweetwall and then customize the look and feel. It’s like building a custom twitter feed. I don’t know if it’s worth the hassel of dealing with another site, but [...]

If you are looking to make your web development just a little bit easier, you should try Pixus.  Pixus, is a free Adobe Air application for Mac OsX, Windows and Linux.  It provides an on-screen resizable window that shows you the dimensions of the area you select.  It’s a very simplistic application but it can [...]

Gaming on the Mac is usually something that is laughed at. This changed slightly when EA started their games on Mac push a few years back. However, there still aren’t developers jumping at creating games for the Mac platform. The iPhone platform might change this, especially if Apple creates an AppStore for [...]

For me staying up to date on my applications is important. I know if it works now that should be good enough, but I love playing with new features and not dealing with miscellaneous bugs. It’s somewhat of a burden to keep all your applications up to date, because that usally requires launching [...]