Comic Life

This is a really neat program that came with my Mac as part of iLife ‘06. I put together a little comic for my sister to try it out and I am extremely impressed! This is how an app should be. The whole interface was so intuitive that I could just drag and drop and [...]

iMovie and iDVD

I had a need to produce a short movie for my sister. Ordinarily I would have used Roxio Videowave 7 on the PC which is an excellent piece of software that I have used many times for vacation videos. But this time it is time to try the Mac!
As a quick aside… I wanted to [...]

Thunderbird – it’s a wrap

I finally gave up on trying to import from Mac Mail. It turned out easier just to go into Mac Mail, turn off checking for mail and then spend 30 minutes forwarding every piece of email to myself. Then I simply fired up Thunderbird and received all the forwarded mail.
I’ve also confirmed that I am [...]

Thunderbird Take #2

I still haven’t figured out how to convert my mail from Mac Mail 2.0, but I did replace iCal by the excellent Lightning Extension for Thunderbird. Lightning is basically Sunbird, a full-featured Mozilla calendering app. I also replaced Vienna by importing my RSS feeds into Thunderbird. I’m not entirely convinced that all of my feeds [...]

Thunderbird = 4 apps into one

In the search for simplicity, I decided to migrate to Thunderbird by Mozilla. It’s touted to be a faster and more feature-rich mail client. Mac Mail 2.0 is fine, but very basic. I reasoned that Thunderbird would replace the following 4 apps:

Mac Mail
Address Book
iCal
Vienna

So basically I get Mail, Address Book, Calendar and RSS reader in [...]