We’ve been very lucky to have Jeff Powell added to our staff at Surfbits and even helping at our MacReviewCast podcast. But I am still in need of another Mac blogger. We are running 3 weeks behind on reviews and I want to make certain that we can review software that comes into Surfbits as [...]
Here’s the 27th episode of the Mac ReviewCast! Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to check out the photo gallery of the items we review at my surfbits.smugmug.com account.
Surf-Bits.com is looking for a Mac blogger to help out. Send an email to surfbits at gmail dot com.
Here’s a few tech shopping tips from you’re friends at Surfbits! First, if you have never been to this website, you need to go there and bookmark it. It’s called Black Friday. The website announces all the items that major stores will have on sale the Friday after Thanksgiving. You can go there and find [...]
When you think of the software that Apple produces, the first thing that comes to many people’s minds are things like iLife, QuickTime, and perhaps Mac OS X. If you are a professional content producer, your list might include applications like Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Logic and Shake while Developers would have an [...]
Continue reading about Putting Apple’s Software to Work in the Business World
With the release of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Spotlight was certainly a substantial part of the upgrade that received a lot of attention, and with good reason. Once you have incorporated Spotlight into your daily Mac life, going back to locating things on your computer the ‘old way’ is next to impossible. As great [...]
Sometimes you can find the most amazing things on flickr. Here is the latest mod I found, this one from Arkku’s photostream . He did not have any pictures of the process itself, which is a bummer. (No…
The Mac developer community has given us Mac users a ton of great software for your iPod. I’ve talked about many of my favorite programs in the past. Most of these, like Pod2Go and Podlock are sharewa…
Continue reading about The Ultimate Freeware Package for your iPod.
A CO2 laser is used to laser etch an image or text onto your product of choice. The process is done at low power and can not damage your iPod or Powerbook. The process is quick, clean, and permanent. From family pictures to corporate logos, line art, or your favorite team. You give us the [...]
Who doesn’t love a great screen-saver, especially one tailored to the Halloween season. The folks over at Killer Robots have introduced the very well done Jack-O-Lantern Screen Saver for Mac OS X just in time for Halloween. In addition, here are a few additional Mac related goodies for the kids care of Kids Domain including: [...]
If you are into the weather, then Gaucho Software has just the application for you. Seasonality is touted as Weather taken to the next level which accurately describes what this program does. Some of the weather specific features include: 7 day forecast with high/low temperatures and probability of precipitation. Local Radar image showing current precipitation. [...]
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One of the most controversial features of Mac OS X when it first emerged was the Dock but love it or hate it, it’s a fundamental part of the operating system that is here for the foreseeable future and learning how to make the Dock work for you is a key to Mac OS X [...]
Here’s the 26th episode of the Mac ReviewCast! Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to check out the photo gallery of the items we review at my surfbits.smugmug.com account
BusinessWeek has an interesting article entitled Why Worms Shun Apple’s OSX. This is obviously a hot topic among Mac users and this article in particular goes beyond the typical “Macs only make up 5% of the market so no one bothers writing viruses for them” mentality that permeates so many PC users. From the article: [...]
The folks at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino are certainly no slouches as of late with the rash of new announcements introducing Apple’s latest batch of goodies. In watching Apple for over two decades, I can’t remember a time in history quite like this. Just 10 years ago, Apple couldn’t get positive press to save [...]
Browsers are an ever changing software program, or at least the good ones like Firefox are ever changing, the stale, dead ones like IE are stagnent. What is the browser world going to look like in 200…
