Archived posts for the 'review' Category

Apple Mac software and hardware reviews

Coverflow - the iTunes albumartifier!

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Is this the best Mac app ever? Well, if you keep all your music on iTunes then it will may well be!

CoverFlow is a visual album browser, in other words it lets you flick through your albums, just like you used to do. If you’ve always hated the clinical lists in iTunes, then [...]

Paparazzi for web pages!

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Ever wanted to grab a ‘screenshot’ of an entire webpage, you know, one that is too big to fit on the screen?

Paparazzi is just a great little (Mac) app which does this no matter how big the page is. Plenty of handy of options including setting the width and the ability to save the [...]

Quick Review: skEdit

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

As a web developer, one tool that is essential for me is a code editor. I write everything by hand so my editor must fit like a glove. When I moved from Windows to Macs back in the late 90’s I was very sad to leave two applications behind. One was Xara [...]

Quick review: Vuescan

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

This is the first in a series of quick ‘reviews’ of software that I regularly use for my in my work as a designer. I’m a self employed designer/photographer/web developer and find that often I can spend a lot of time trying to find the best tool for the job, or just keeping up [...]