If you, like me, have thousands of email messages in Apple Mail (on Tiger) and have found over the years it gets a little sluggish, then this handy tool may well fix it.

Vacuum Mail by Leland Scott just plain works. I won’t bore you with the gory technical detail other than it rewrites the [...]

This might be handy for anyone who experiences what I’ve just been through.

My iTunes library is stored on a shared disk (networked via an Airport Extreme base station) which works nicely.

However, after trying to import a troublesome CD my machine refused to play any music purchased through iTunes Music Store and then, to cap it [...]

... where have you been all my life

Rita is quite an amazingly innovative (really!) illustration/drawing application for Mac OS X. It’s also the work of one guy, Niklas Frykholm, who appears to be sickeningly talented!

It’s incredibly easy to use, has loads of funky drawing tools (hatching, highlights, freehand shapes and ovals), several mad drawing tools [...]

So tomorrow is MacExpo, and here I am writing up predictions for what’s going to be announced. I really need to get out more, but hell, I like this stuff!

Generally, despite Apple trying to get away from aligning product launches with the event, MacExpo has heavy expections of new kit announcements.

With 2006 being a [...]

So, Bill Gates met with a select bunch of ‘influential’ bloggers to chat about stuff yesterday.

As reported on the BBC, and several of the select bloggers sites, Bill dissed DRM.

Quotes from techcrunch:

Gates said that no one is satisfied with the current state of DRM, which “causes too much pain for legitmate buyers” while trying to [...]

Fancy an early christmas present?

Hop over to MacHeist and grab a bundle of top quality Mac apps worth around $300 for $49 (given the exchange rate that’s about the price of a pint and a pie to us Brits)!

Yep, you get Delicious Library, Fotomagico, Shapeshifter, DEVONthink Personal, Disco, RapidWeaver, iClip4 and a choice of Pangea [...]