Are you looking to break the bonds of Microsoft Word? Are the constant crashes and slow loading times driving you crazy? Then the new Mellel version 2 may be the answer you’re looking for. Mellel 2.0…
Paul Stamatiou a 19 year old student attending the Georgia Institute of Technology has written a really nice piece talking about many of the things every new Mac owner should know. It would be great if they printed this out and included it with every new Mac sold today. Good stuff Paul, thanks for taking [...]
Continue reading about 10 Things Every New Mac Owner Should Know
No offense Mom, but I’ve seen your desktop and this tip is looking right at you! Sometimes the best tips are also the most unusual ones and this tip is certainly no exception. When it comes to keeping your desktop organized, I come from the mindset of keeping things really cleaned up with the only [...]
Continue reading about Speeding Up Your Mac – A Tip So Easy Even Your Mother Could Do It
Here’s the 31st episode of The MacReviewCast. Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to vote for us at podcastalley.com. SurfBits.com is looking for a Mac blogger to help out. Send an email to surfbits at gmail dot com. Robert Pritchett from the maccompanion.com joins us. Here [...]
So if you are under 30 years of age, this title means absolutely nothing to you, however in the 1980′s it was a clever marketing campaign for Reeses Peanut Butter Cups which took two individual components which were great by themselves and combined them together to create something totally new. But in the remix culture [...]
Continue reading about You Got Your Peanut Butter in My Chocolate – Web 2.0 Style!
For the second time this week, software from the fine folks at Unsanity makes an appearance here at Surf-Bits. In my never ending quest to stay on top of one very busy life, tonight I revisited my organizational strategy as it pertains to live on the Macintosh and I revisited an application that was a [...]
Continue reading about Bring Your Apple Menu to Life with Unsanity’s Fruit Menu
Here’s the 30th episode of The MacReviewCast. Remember to send feedback and suggestions to surbits at gmail dot com, and also remember to vote for us at podcastalley.com. SurfBits.com is looking for a Mac blogger to help out. Send an email to surfbits at gmail dot com. Robert Pritchett from the maccompanion.com joins us. Here [...]
The Washington Post has an interesting article about why your next computer should be a Macintosh which is the kind of piece that you just never used to see in such main stream media publications just a few short years ago. From the article: Pegoraro writes, “Meanwhile, Windows XP, despite a stream of patches from [...]
Continue reading about Why Your Next PC Should Be A Macintosh
I usually do not put up links on this website, that’s for Surfbits Link Blog, but this is an article to get any Mac lover’s juices flowing. Computerworld did an article on the new Power Mac G5 Quad this week. It’s a must read for any geek waiting to get their hands on a Quad. Here’s a bit from the article,
Continue reading about The Power Mac G5 Quad: Seat belt not included!
Unsanity is a fantastic indie Mac developer made up of a group of really smart and talented programmers who consistently crank out innovative applications that serve a specific niche, often times filling a need that you didn’t even know you had until you discover their solution. Their newest addition Chat Transcript Manager is no exception. [...]
Continue reading about Manage Your Instant Messaging Communications
As a reminder, today is the Friday Sale at Amazon. Save yourself the hassle of fighting the crowds in retail stores, have Amazon deliver your gifts for you. They have some great deals on Tech and Electronics along with pages of other specials. I also want you to know that if you visit Amazon via [...]
In what seems like a more and more frequent event, a largely PC centric publication or website has awarded another of Apple’s products with either Editor’s Choice or Product of the Year. This time around it’s CNet awarding Apple’s 20″ 2.1Ghz iMac with their Editor’s Choice From the article: The good: Built-in iSight camera for [...]
Continue reading about Apple’s iMac G5 Wins CNET’s Editor’s Choice!
These days you need to be on the cutting edge to get noticed in the online world. Take podcasting for example, it’s not enough to have an audio podcast anymore, you need an enhanced podcast with slides or screenshots to go with your audio. Better then that you need to be making video casts with [...]
As if running Surfbits or producing The Mac ReviewCast wasn’t enough for me to do, I fell in love with an idea that was presented to me this summer by my friend Todd Cochrane. He said, what if we made…
It’s always interesting to me when I get to talking with people outside of the developers I usually deal with, how there are so many things that we take for granted as common knowledge on our Macs yet many of these things are outside the realm of most ‘normal’ Mac users. One such topic is [...]
