Max Beatty

Yes­ter­day, the pop­u­lar Twit­ter / Face­book / MySpace desk­top app Tweet­deck updated its iPhone app and I wasn’t impressed. In fact, I was dis­ap­pointed in the direc­tion they took with the triv­ial fea­tures they added. The big “addi­tions” included Face­book inte­gra­tion, video inte­gra­tion via 12seconds, land­scape com­pos­ing, and Bit.ly sup­port. Instead, I would have liked […]

I love find­ing new desk­top wall­pa­pers that I can hide in the back­ground behind the dozens of win­dows I typ­i­cally have open. Every so often I’ll catch a glimpse of one of the nearly 150 I’ve col­lected over the years. Know­ing that I’ll be get­ting a new work com­puter in a few weeks, I wondered […]

What do you get when you cross a Mac­book Pro with a 500 GB hard drive with a 500 GB Time Cap­sule? A slim mar­gin for back ups. I knew this day was going to come when I upgraded from my old Mac­book that just had a 60 GB hard drive. Now, I have the […]

Every night at 9pm my Mac­book fires up Photo Booth to take a snap­shot and import it into iPhoto. I’ve been doing this since Decem­ber 19th, 2007 and have accu­mu­lated 275 pho­tos (some days my com­puter was off and other days no one was around to be cap­tured so I didn’t keep the photo). I […]

I installed Safari 4 Beta ear­lier this week and it is wreak­ing havoc with Word­Press! When you try to insert a link or media via the WYSIWYG edi­tor but­tons, the pop up dia­log is hid­den behind the dark opaque screen. This doesn’t hap­pen when you click on the icons above the WYSIWYG edi­tor by “Upload/Insert”. […]