Ask TUAW: Migration questions, saving disk space, making audiobooks and more

by Mat Lu (Mar 21st 2008 7:00AM)

In this edition of Ask TUAW we'll be looking at questions about migrating to a new Mac, full screen video, saving disk space on a notebook, coping data from an iPhone back to a Mac, viewing facing pages in Pages, making audiobooks and more. As always...

TimeDrawer: document versioning before Leopard

by Mat Lu (Jul 27th 2007 11:00PM)

TimeDrawer looks like a very interesting document versioning utility that gives you a preview of Leopard's forthcoming Time Machine functionality. It installs as a system preference and "stores your files everytime you update them." It allows you to...

TUAW Tip: Speed up Sheet animation

by Mat Lu (Jul 27th 2007 6:30PM)

I was reading this article from MacDevCenter on how productivity maven Mark Hurst sets up a new "Good Easy Mac" for his own maximally productive use. He's got a number of interesting choices (check them out for yourself), but one of the coolest tips...

A Kinkless Desktop

by Mat Lu (Jun 26th 2007 11:00AM)

Ethan Schoonover is the creator of Kinkless GTD, the series of AppleScripts for OmniOutliner that was one of the first serious GTD implementations on the Mac. He has since contributed to the development of the forthcoming OmniFocus. Ethan's productiv...

"One Thumb to Rule them All"

by Mat Lu (May 30th 2007 11:00AM)

This video is just flat out amazing. Mike Phillips is a Mac gamer and writer, who just happens to have been born with spinal muscular atrophy. He's apparently only able to move his thumb, and yet that doesn't stop him from playing Unreal Tournament...

Mac Development in the UK

by Mat Lu (May 26th 2007 6:30PM)

Giles Turnbull over at MacDevCenter has an interesting look at independent Mac developers working in the UK. In many ways, their experience is similar to that of indie US devs, but they do face a few special challenges, like pricing their products in...

Plain text wiki bundle for TextMate

by Mat Lu (May 23rd 2007 9:00AM)

Matt Webb likes VoodooPad, the desktop wiki application from Gus Mueller, but he does not like his data to be bound up in a proprietary format. So he's cooked up a bundle for the powerful TextMate text editor that allows him to create a plain text wi...

Customizing TextMate

by Mat Lu (Apr 21st 2007 12:30PM)

A while back we posted on the recently released book, TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac. Now the author of that tome, James Edward Gray II, offers a preview of the kind of stuff you'll find in his book in an article over at MacDevCenter. Gray show...

Apple TV Perl plugin

by Mat Lu (Apr 9th 2007 7:00PM)

Earlier we posted about a couple of cool drop-in plugins for the Apple TV. However, somebody we know around here was busy over the weekend and has hacked up a more user extensible plugin for the Apple TV that lets you run a perl script from the Appl...

Skip the AppleScript with Ruby

by Mat Lu (Mar 1st 2007 7:00AM)

For a long time now I have been working on learning AppleScript, where "working on" means I bought an AppleScript book that sits on my table accusingly, but I've never actually picked it up and read through it. AppleScript is clearly a powerful and r...

Stream Live HDTV with VLC

by Mat Lu (Feb 20th 2007 8:30PM)

Somebody we know around these parts has posted a nice tutorial over at MacDevCenter on how to use VLC to stream live HDTV from an EyeTV compatible tuner to other Macs around your house. This way if you set up a Mac media center computer to record HDT...

Lightroom vs. Aperture - What's Best?

by Mat Lu (Feb 19th 2007 8:30PM)

Now that Adobe has officially shipped Lightroom (as we recently mentioned), the natural question is: which one is better, Lightroom or Aperture? Of course folks have been playing with the Lightroom beta for quite some time, so this is not new questio...

Monday man page: dig, host & nslookup

by Michael Rose (Jan 29th 2007 10:00AM)

For this week's Monday man page, it's a triple threat: dig, host, and nslookup. All three utilities are included with the BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) version 9 package, part of every Mac OS X 10.4 installation, and all three do pretty much t...

Screenshots of AirPort Admin Utility 5.0

by Scott McNulty (Jan 26th 2007 4:30PM)

Apple has posted the Setup Guide and the Designing AirPort Extreme 802.11n Networks manual for the new Airport Extremes. The documents also contain the first publicly available screenshots of the new version of the Airport Admin Utility (if you want...

TUAW Video: A Mac Moment with Adam Goldstein

by Dan Pourhadi (Jan 22nd 2007 2:00PM)

We're on a roll: In this edition of TUAW's Mac Moment series, I sit down with Adam Goldstein, the young author of AppleScript the Missing Manual. "But Dan," you ask, puzzled, "what's so special about this particular author?" Just watch the video to ...