[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.] It’s time to start going through my apps and seeing which are ready for OS X 10.5 Leopard and which aren’t. I’ll start with my most used and favorite apps. I’ll start with the assumption that the Apple apps in iLife ’08 and iWork ’08 along with Aperture 1.5 will work with Leopard either in their current form or with updates [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #11: WordPress Upgrade & Website Redesign
This weeks quest was almost all WordPress and website updates. It was a pretty complete makeover, from the foundation to the window dressing. As I previously mentioned, I wanted to explore WordPress and web theme design. I really liked my previous theme, Redoable by Dean Robinson, but it needed to be changed to handle WordPress 2.3, mainly due to the changes to categories and tagging. My choices were to either stay at WordPress 2.2, modify Redoable myself, or go in another direction. My experience with Redoable taught me a couple [...] Read the rest »
Quicksilver – [Another] Must Have Mac App
Quicksilver is is even more a “must have app” than Pathfinder, because it’s FREE and just as great. There is a bit of a learning bump to get into it but it’s well worth it. Look at it this way, you’re not spending any money for it so the time to learn it is the only cost, and it’s still a great bargain. The simple description of Quicksilver is that it’s an application launcher (simple, but also too simplistic). It also understands data files and the data in them and [...] Read the rest »
