Maculous - Apple + Mac + Delicious

As a computer nerd who has been born again in the spirit of high technology it is natural and normal that I would wish to geek out at every opportunity. I also love digital photography. Recently I bought a GPS trip navigator for our pickup truck. It did not take very long before I put [...]

Roxio. What are they all about? Toast 9 is a very good program, it does succeed at burning discs. I hardly ever use it anymore since USB thumb drives are so fast, huge, and universally supported these days. But every year when I do my taxes I always print the returns to a PDF file [...]

I recently bought the HDHomeRun network HDTV tuner made by Silicon Dust. This product has two HDTV tuners onboard, each is capable of receiving QAM unencrypted cable TV high definition channels or ATSC broadcast high definition channels. I have one tuner connected to our local CATV and the other to an indoor HDTV antenna. The [...]

To get started with our new blog we have imported a few posts from our sister site Macs Are Great. We want to let people know how great it is using a Mac, how much less hassle is involved, and how great the things you can do really are. Enjoy Maculous, we will! Mac Fan [...]

For the last ten years of my career in corporate America I used Adobe nee Macromedia Dreamweaver for a living. It sucked. There is not a webserver with enough storage capacity for me to list all of the things I hate about Dreamweaver, but I knew how to use it, and the support it offered [...]

Last year we expanded our web operations and invested in a 3.0GHz 8-core Mac Pro. The machine has performed flawlessly and met all of my expectations up until it was upgraded to Leopard. Apparently Leopard places higher demands on the video card, and as a result the fan on the original ATI X1900 graphics card [...]

Macs Are Great! has tested the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card, a truly unique concept that brings 2012 technology to the 2007 holiday shopping season. This ordinary sized SD memory card contains a wi-fi chipset. After using your Mac or PC to configure it with the details of your open, WEP, or WPA protected wireless network, [...]

Recently we created a new website for people with celiac disease, All About Celiac, using a content management system, and designed to act as a news aggregator for information about celiac disease, gluten-free recipes, and gluten free food shopping information. Today Apple has posted our latest widget designed to pull any of 6 RSS feeds [...]

Recently I received one of the new aluminum Apple keyboards. It is the full size version with the cluster and it connects via USB. I’ve never used a keyboard in my entire life that I liked more than I like this one. It is fantastic. I find that I’m able to type faster and with [...]

One of the most successful of my various websites is one for people with celiac disease, the Sensible Celiac. In case you did not know, celiac disease is an inherited autoimmune disorder that causes the immune system to attack the small intestine when a person eats wheat, rye or barley. I’ve got it. Celiac disease [...]

For years we have been using SuperDuper to create bootable clone backups of all of our Macs. Each Mac has its own external hard drive reserved for backups, and in the event of a massive failure we can be back up and running quickly. The author of SuperDuper is hard at work on a Leopard [...]

I’ve been anxiously awaiting Leopard, and over the weekend I upgraded 3 of my computers, a 20″ CoreDuo iMac, a 2.2GHz Macbook Pro, and my super mega 8-core Mac Pro. Each upgrade went very smoothly, and so far I have not found any installed applications that no longer work. I was looking forward to using [...]

In response to user feedback received in email, we have designed and programmed a pair of simple Automator scripts into a package we call JPEG Consolidator. There are two versions, one will copy all of the files it finds, and the other will move files. By default these scripts will search a specified path recursively [...]

Having felt recently that my Dual 2GHz G5 Power Mac was getting a bit outmoded, I decided to invest in a machine that would be so fast it might outlast any other I could buy, so my attention turned naturally to the 3.0GHz 8-core Mac Pro, possibly the fastest desktop computer made today. Looking at [...]