Kissphrase

There are a number of text expanding utilities available in OSX such as TextExpander that let you define keywords that are automatically expanded after you type them so that repetitive phrases can be rapidly entered.  While TextExpander has lots of options it costs $29.95.
I really don’t like to pay that much for a utility and [...]

Bookpedia

As someone who loves to read I have long been looking for a decent book catalog program that can keep track of the information I want to keep track of.  I have downloaded dozens of programs and they have all fallen short in my criteria.  There are also several web sites that do are [...]

Alex

I have long been a fan of text-to-speech capabilities.  The Commodore 64 had SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) which was amazing for the time, but not that useful.  Later on Windows had SAPI which could be used to listen to text, but it had a tinny robot feel to it.
A couple of years ago I bought [...]

Introductory post

There seems to be two terms of art for those people coming from the world of PCs to Mac.
Switcher – Those who are moving totally to the Mac platform.
Slider – Those who are moving back and forth between the two platforms.
I am definitely in the “slider” camp since I make my living writing code for [...]