Archive for June, 2007
Which Feed Reader or Aggregator to Use?
I use Feedburner to manage Mac Law Students feeds. It’s a handy free service that was recently bought by Google. One of the things it shows me is which feed readers and feed aggregators people are using to obtain feeds from MLS. If you haven’t found a way to get feeds that matches your needs, [...]
New MacBook Pros Have Arrived
The speculation is over. Check ‘em out, in 15″ and 17″ flavors. To entice you further, Apple just fired up its “Major in Mac” promotion, in which Apple gives you a free iPod nano or iPod (via a rebate) with a new Mac purchase. It lasts until mid-September.
DEVONThink, KIT, SOHO Notes, Yojimbo
I have been using Yojimbo to store stray URLs, snippets of text, software registration numbers, and the like for some time. Recently I decided to test some more full-featured alternatives, to see if I should switch to another application for my information-gathering needs.
I worked with full-featured demo versions of DevonTHINK Pro 1.3.1, KIT (Keep It Together) 1.3.6, and SOHO Notes 6.0, comparing them against Yojimbo 1.4. All of these applications import text, bookmarks, PDFs, and web archives. The interface to all four is roughly similar, but there are big differences in the approach each application uses to gather, manage, retrieve, and export information.
Defragment Your Mac?
Most of us aren’t in classes, so here is a little gem for Mac newbies about keeping your system healthy and speedy by defragging the Mac way (when necessary). This is a tip that I learned from a good friend of mine who is an Apple hardware engineer in Taiwan.
A lot of law students are [...]MacBook Pro Announcement at WWDC?
New rumors at AppleInsider indicate that there may be an annoucement of a new MacBook Pro in “early June.” The Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), which will be held in San Francisco June 11-15, would be the natural place for Apple to announce the update.
A summer update to the MPB has been in the [...]