Entries from January 2008

Flash Video Downloader

Date January 28, 2008

Flash Video Downloader 2 allows you to easily batch download and save streaming flash videos from just about any website with streaming flash videos as long as the videos are set to autoplay (that is, they start playing when the page loads). Examples of sites are youtube.com, video.google.com, and dailymotion.com, but will work with [...]

Correo - mail client for OS X

Date January 27, 2008

If, for some reason, you are not happy with Apple’s own Mail.app, and have a bone to pick with Mozilla because of their ugly Thunderbird interface, here is something you can do - try Correo.
Correo is a new open-source mail client for Mac OS X that blends technology from two popular Mozilla projects, [...]

Volume control - fine tune mode

Date January 23, 2008

When you press the volume-up or volume-down key on your keyboard you will see a volume control indicator on your screen. There are only 16 steps and if you want to ‘fine-tune’ you will have to go to the system preferences and move the volume control slider pixel by pixel.

Well, not really. You can still [...]

Rotten Apples

Date January 19, 2008

I just got off the phone after having a chat with a friend of mine who works for Microsoft, who told me some rather disturbing news. The Windows XP service pack 3 is coming out soon, but surprise, surprise - it will cost me $49. Even worse, the Vista service pack 1 will cost [...]

Macworld Expo - get Steve ready

Date January 12, 2008

Imagine being Steve Jobs. Imagine getting ready for this years Macworld Expo keynote presentation. Imagine having to collect all the insanely great stuff you are going to present at Macworld Expo without revealing it to industrial spies and journalists.

A bunch of Mac fans just made this flash-game. You control Steve Jobs [...]

Macworld 2008 predictions

Date January 6, 2008

With only about a week left until Steve’s keynote, here are some predictions, or wishful thinking if you like to call it that way.

Steve comes to the stage, tries to beat Obama’s 11 ‘Thank Yous” but manages only four, before applause stops (bummer!). What follows is Mac, iPod and iPhone sales report, the [...]