Cheap Mac: Surplus Meter

Posted on August 7, 2008 by Mike F.

It seems to me that bandwidth metering and/or limiting is going to be a thing of the future for most ISPs.  The older model of unlimited usage made sense when we all were connecting at 28k and couldn’t download anything above 1MB, but doesn’t seem sustainable in this day and age.  With downloadable HD videos, [...]

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BibleXpress: the iPhone Bible

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Mike F.

A while ago I wrote about the possibility of Bible apps on the iPhone/iPod Touch, and now they’re becoming a reality.  While I haven’t had a chance to check them all out (plus, I don’t think I have that much money), the one right now that seems to rise to the top is BibleXpress.
While the [...]

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Cheap Mac: iStat Menu

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Mike F.

While OS X offers you plenty of good tools to get into the geekier side of your computer, monitoring your system can be a bit difficult.  Enter iStat Menus, which gives the user the ability to monitor everything from temperature to RAM usage to network bandwidth from the menu bar.  Available for free at iSlayer.com [...]

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Cheap Mac: Qumana Blog Editor

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Mike F.

Overview
There are plenty of good blog editors for the Mac.  ecto and Mars Edit are both extremely powerful and, on the whole, pretty cheap.  But what if you want a free blog editor that rivals those two?  (Something along the line of Windows Live Writer.)  Qumana Blog Editor is a good choice, one that offers [...]

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Cheap Mac: MacSword

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Mike F.

Cheap Mac will be an ongoing series of posts on free/cheap Mac software that I find useful.  These are not reviews, but just first and/or general impressions.
Overview
While there are hundreds of cheap/free Bible programs for Windows, there are very few for the Mac.  Sure, if you’re a serious student, you could get something like Accordance [...]

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iPhone SDK and Bible Software

Posted on March 7, 2008 by Mike F.

After Apple announced the iPhone SDK, the wheels in my head started whirling. While there are some pretty good Bible web apps for the iPhone (like the ESV, NAB and NET Bibles), a dedicated app that you could take with you anywhere would be pretty cool. As it is, anyone with a Touch [...]

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MacBook Paper

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Mike F.

You know, my MacBook is just a little too big, but I can’t afford the new MacBook Air.  What should I do?

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Technolust: the underlying issue

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Mike F.

Technolust is a word I have appropriated to describe my insatiable need to buy gadgets.  As I said in the previous post, I love technology; all of it.  Anything and everything with a chip, wires or LEDs, I have to buy.  Of course, this presents a serious problem because very few people can afford everything [...]

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Safari

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Mike F.

Apple just released the Safari browser for Windows (in beta) and I’ve been using it all day. I really like this browser, although I’ve been using Firefox for so long that it’s hard to use anything different.
The font engine is great and actually reminds me of IE7; it looks a lot better than Firefox. [...]

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