OpenOffice.org 3 Release Candidate 3 is available. So, I revisited OOo to see how it looks today (I commented on its Beta release back in May).

When in France, do as Orange does. For the past few weeks, iPhone 3G users in France have suffered intermittent voicemail glitches, often in the form of erroneous outgoing messages. As time goes on, it appears the light at the end of the tunnel is, as my computer would have said a few years ago, the headlamp of a fast...

AApple's handheld devices are an example for miniaturization at work: with every new release, iPods have gotten a little smaller, and "incredibly thin" is the new "insanely great." Unfortunately, Apple has also miniaturized some of their software user guides

Honolulu's third Apple Store opened in Waikiki in the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center this morning. Here's a couple of photos and a short video of my walk and the new store.

LightZone 3.6 is a simple to use photo processing tool that complements the photo editors I use on a day to day basis (Pixelmator and The GIMP). Its powerful Relighting tool and Style presets let me make large dramatic photo changes that might take a dozen steps in a more general purpose bitmap editor.

Firefox 3.0.2 is out and had three Mac-specific fixes.

Two weeks ago, I was still searching for the "perfect" Twitter client for the Macintosh. In the meantime, I've been testing yet another client called Syrinx, and I am so impressed with it that it is now the only remaining Twitter client on my Mac's hard drive.

One of the things I love about writing a book is it forces me to poke around into corners that I would otherwise just gloss over. My latest book on Cocoa Programming is no different -- I'm having a blast.

After months of thinking about it, I finally tried using MacJournal 5.1 over the weekend. And, I like what I see so far. Its ability to post individual journal entries to a blog is a big plus for me. I think it may become a part of my of application toolset.

No matter how much I fantasize myself a man of the world, the embodiment of culture, the essence of charm and knowledge, my friends and family remind me on a daily basis that I am, also and above all, the group's resident technical guy. That means that between my moments of memorable brilliance and subtlety I answer questions about email...