Each and every Friday I post a desktop wallpaper which I have taken personally on travels and outings with my Canon 350D. The wallpaper is sized at a resoultion of 2560×1600 pixels, big enough to be used on a 30 inch Apple Cinema Display, so no-one will miss out.
Picturesque is a new application by Acqualia Software. Created by the developers of other incredible applications as Soulver, and World of Where. Their latest application which was launched yesterday, Picturesque, is designed to make images look gorgeous for the web.
Picturesque has an animated “drag and drop” style interface. To start beautifying an image, simply drag it onto the main window, where you will be presented with a nice HUD (heads up display) which allows you to make many different changes to make the image look amazing. Continue Reading »
Adam Betts is a 23 year old freelance graphic designer well known for his work on MacHeist, his own person blog Art Of Adam Betts where he keeps his personal portfolio, a blog full of useful graphic tips, and more. A popular icon designer who has designed icons for such applications as Overflow, The Unarchiver, and Yojimbo, Adam Betts is envied by many for his killer Photoshop & Cinema 4D skills.
Here we take a look at where he gets his work done. The Mac setup of Adam Betts.
View a zoomed in photo with increased resolution of Adam’s setup. Continue Reading »
Each and every Friday I post a desktop wallpaper which I have taken personally on travels and outings with my Canon 350D. The wallpaper is sized at a resoultion of 2560×1600 pixels, big enough to be used on a 30 inch Apple Cinema Display, so no-one will miss out.
Sorry I’m late once again with this week’s desktop picture. Some may find this desktop a little too cluttered to use. Hopefully someone will enjoy it.
Will Friedwald proclaims he has the world largest iTunes collection. An avid listener to Jazz music, and a writer for the New York Sun, Will spends his days in front of his Power Mac G5 running “The Maxtix�, his mammoth 200,000 track iTunes library.
Will took some time out of his rigirous daily schedule and took some time to talk with me about iTunes, his music collection, and how he manages it.
I just re-compiled the main library (something that takes about six hours – I only do it a few times a year!). Here are the new stats:
849 GB | 172,150 tracks | 809.2 days
2,935 artists | 11,561 albums
iTunes library database file - 282 MB
iTunes library XML file - 259 MB
For reasons I will get into later, I also have several sub-libraries; theoretically, all my music will eventually go into the main library. I also have a separate “annexâ€? of about 200-300 GB of stuff that I am gradually adding in to the main library. If I were to put everything together, which I am slowly doing, it will be around 1200 GB. Continue Reading »
I would estimate at least half of people who read blogs aren’t experiencing the blogosphere to its fullest. These people sit behind their feed reader which is stocked with hundreds of feeds, and let the news come to them 24/7.
Letting the news arrive to your desktop is the point of a feed-reader, but it breaks the experience of blogging in a form. You don’t get the content in the way the author intended you to - meaning you miss out on the blog design, experience, and the opportunity to get involved in the community aspect of the site within the comments.
I currently have 80 feeds in NewsFire. When I stumble across an article of interest I follow the link through to the blog and read it within my browser. The only exception is sites such as Engadget, TUAW, and Gizmodo. For any other blog I click straight through to the article, reading the content in the way the author intended.
This is something I’d like to see more do, as convenient as it is having content coming straight into your feed reader, there’s something about clicking through and experiencing the content in its original form.
How about you, do you often venture out from behind your feed reader?
“Famous Mac User Setup” is a new weekly feature I plan to run. Each week one famous Mac user in their respective right will be featured in a direct 4 question interview about their Mac setup.
Scott Bourne is widely recognized as a pioneer in the digital audio field. He is known for his work on Netradio, the world’s first internet radio network - O’Reilly Media, writing for their blog Inside Aperture - and Macbreak Weekly, a podcast he logs into on a weekly basis with other big Mac names such as Leo Laporte.
Scott also runs a few other blogs such as Podcasting Tricks, along with running Podango Productions in the commercial district of San Francisco, just off Mission Bay.
Here we take a look at where he gets his work done. The Mac setup of Scott Bourne.
Each and every Friday I post a desktop wallpaper which I have taken personally on travels and outings with my Canon 350D. The wallpaper is sized at a resoultion of 2560×1600 pixels, big enough to be used on a 30 inch Apple Cinema Display, so no-one will miss out.
Everyone is different, and has a different set of unique tools they enjoy using over the internet. I try and keep the web services I use to a minimal amount, so anything which makes it into my bag of tools has to be truly impressive.
Digg. I love Digg, it’s a great place to keep up with all the latest news from dozens of different topics. Digg is set as my browser homepage in Safari and it’s the first site I visit each morning. I like to start the day up to the minute with the latest in tech news.
Flickr. I’m an avid amateur photographer, I love heading out with my Canon 350D and creating images. Flickr allows me to upload my images and get comments and critic on them. I use Flickr to keep up to scratch on the latest gadgets my friends have purchased, and enjoy using the search feature when I’m considering purchasing a new product or item.
GoPlan. If you are like me and are working on many different projects, you need one place to keep them all together and organized. I currently use the Personal GoPlan service, and keep all my projects online complete with task lists, calendars, notes, and more. It helps me keep organized and on top
Twitter. Twitter is perfect for me as I rather dislike staying logged in on instant messaging services. If people need to get hold of my urgently, they know to send me an email. With Twitter, I can now have people send me non-urgent messages over the service, and I can send back quick answers. Twitter also helps me avoid the dreaded IM question, “What’s up?” If I want to tell people, I will over Twitter.
What web services do you use on a daily basis?
Mark Howson, the man behind the extremely popular MacAppADay is about to launch a new project, this time selling a software bundle full of ten great Mac applications at an amazing price.
TheMacPak is scheduled to start on the 1st of May, and will retail at $30 for ten great Mac applications. As each day passes and new applications are announced, the price will slightly increase, meaning early buyers will get the best deal.
Mark has given me some exclusive details to reveal to you. 1/2 (half of the bundle, 5 apps) have an estimated retail value of $169.38, none of the 5 apps has a score lower than 4.5/5 at MacUpdate, and the one with the highest iUseThis ranking is 95.
I have secured a discount for GlennWolsey.com readers, keep your eyes pealed for a post announcing the start of TheMacPak with discount details very soon.
Listen to the audio promo, courtesy of TheMacPak.
Each and every Friday I post a desktop wallpaper which I have taken personally on travels and outings with my Canon 350D. The wallpaper is sized at a resoultion of 2560×1600 pixels, big enough to be used on a 30 inch Apple Cinema Display, so no-one will miss out.
Update: I’ve decided to change my plan of attack, and lighten the load a little. Blog comments & Flickr activity now get directed into my RSS reader.
A few weeks ago I changed all my social web accounts to send emails to me when activity happened on my profiles/accounts. My volume of email has increased, but it makes a handy collection ground so I don’t need to trace around the web checking for updates as frequently. When something happens, I hear about it straight away.
What gets delivered to my inbox? Continue Reading »
Red Snapper and Yep, two very different applications, which when put together serve an ace function of capturing, logging, tagging, and viewing screenshots of web pages in OSX.
Firstly, it’s important you become familiar with the functions of these two applications. Red Snapper is a light-weight Safari plugin that lets you capture web pages - exactly as they appear on screen. Screenshots can be saved as many different file styes, including PDFs. Though the best feature is its ability to capture a web page with one click, or one keyboard shortcut.
Yep is an application which locates and stores your PDF files, allowing you to access and view them from one central location. It’s just like iTunes or iPhoto, but specifically for PDF documents.
How do these two application interlink to create an environment where you can collect web screenshots in OSX. Simple. Red Snapper allows you to take a screenshot of a page by hitting Shift+Apple+R - and saves the screenshot to a predefined location. Yep includes a “Pending Documents” folder in your Document s folder. simply set the Red Snapper save destination to this folder, and your web captures will automatically be added to Yep when it’s launched. Continue Reading »
Each and every Friday I post a desktop wallpaper which I have taken personally on travels and outings with my Canon 350D. The wallpaper is sized at a resoultion of 2560×1600 pixels, big enough to be used on a 30 inch Apple Cinema Display, so no-one will miss out.
This weeks wallpaper was taken a few minutes walking distance from my house. Camera settings were “AV” mode with the Aperture set to 3.5, and manual focus was used.
