March 2011
27 posts
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How to Use Windows 7 Speech Recognition →
If you must.
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Gallery: 10 of the Best WWDC Moments →
Take a walk with us down memory lane for a peek at some of the best WWDC moments of all time.
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Chrome Web App of the Week: Write Space →
Now you can pretend to focus on your workflow like a pro…anywhere you go. Sorry. I didn’t mean for that to rhyme. Just kinda happened.
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50% of our Book? Yeah, We Submitted That.
Let it be known that Lynn and I reached another landmark today: We managed to submit well over 50% of our first draft of Drupal for Dummies: 2nd Edition to Wiley. Amazingly, we did it on time.
Well, it’s amazing for me, anyway.
With all of the woes I had working on Joomla for Dummies, I’m not used to things going smoothly where writing tech books is concerned. Anyway, with no...
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Earnest Hemingway.
Chrome Web App of the Week: AceProject →
Now you can torment your minions no matter where you happen to be!
Cool Site of the Week: TED →
While it might have the same name as a creepy uncle, TED will touch you in ways that actually agree with you.
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Spring Cleaning: Five Awesome Disk Cleaners →
Personally, I use CleanMyMac. That said, every application I talk about here will get the job done.
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everyAir Review →
For all of you who have ever dreamed of playing WoW whilst pooping, your app has arrived.
Anonymous asked: You are the most incredible writer in geekdom. How can you possibly find humour in technobabble? Ace man!
Browser Extension of the Week: LastPass →
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This Month in Print
Between working on the new book, and scrambling for a number of websites, I’ve still been fortunate enough to see some of my work make its way into the pages of MacLife Magazine where I reviewed a pair of iOS GPS4CAM and Friends. If you’ve got a camera that doesn’t come equipped with built-in geo tagging functionality, you’re going to love GPS4CAM. Just install it to your...
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Chrome Web App of the Week: Phoenix Image Editor →
Photoshop? What’s that?
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Colour Me Impressed
I’m a feeling a little bit thankful and a little bit irritated this morning. Those of you who know me will know that only the part about being thankful is really news, but that’s beside the point. Here’s the thing: I received an email from my agent’s office yesterday. It seems that my advance for Drupal for Dummies: 2nd Edition was by them the other morning. This means that...
Cool Site of the Week →
Well lookie here, my first Cool site of the week post for Maximum PC.
How to Get the Most out of Airplay →
If you’ve got an AirPlay enabled iOS device, you’re gonna want to take a quick boo at this.
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Browser Extension of the Week: Yoono →
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Chrome Web App of the Week: Tempest →
Pew! Pew! Pew!
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New Regular Gig!
I’m happy to announce that I’ve been hired on by Maximum PC to wrangle three regular mini-features: Chrome Web App of the Week, Browser Extension of the Week and Sweet Site of the Week, which will appear on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays respectively.
I’m really excited about these new projects, for a number of reasons. First and foremost would have to be that just...
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How To Split Your iTunes Library Across Multiple... →
Because you can never have enough data… or ways to store it.
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Toiling in the Vineyard
I’m expected to hand in my 25% submission for the revision of Drupal for Dummies this Monday, and I have to say that I’m feeling pretty good about it. Perhaps my lack of stress over the work comes from having survived the monkey-knife fight that was Joomla! for Dummies. It could also be that the author of the original work (and my writing partner on this project), Lynn Beighley put...
“Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done,...”
– Brendan Behan
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Is iPad 2 the Future of Apple TV? →
A wee bit of op-ed on where the introduction of iPad 2 might be taking us
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iPad 2 Report Card: What We Got and What We Didn't →
iPad 2 is here. That is all.
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30 Great Fake Apple Products →
Putting this gallery together reminded me of how weak my HTML skills really are. I will be picking up a book in a poor attempt to correct this issue as soon as possible.
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What We Know About iOS 4.3 →
I continue to hope that someday, my iOS devices will be able to supply an unending fountain of chocolate pudding. It won’t happen with iOS 4.3, but the dream lives on…
