Welcome all viewers, new and old! As you may have guessed, this is now my new blog and part of the project to free-up resources for the mothership. I would like to thank you all for continuing to be the kind, generous, and helpful viewers that you have always been. Stick around, this place is sure to get more updates than the old one. I’m enjoying just the sheer fun of tinkering with all of this.
Yes, we now have a new, user-friendly permalink structure. Rather than the articles being located at macmanx.com/id=102485, they are now at macmanx.com/archives/year/month/day/title/. And of course, the feed URLs had to change as well. But that’s no problem. The new feed at /feed/ is actually the same thing as wp-rss2.php, so you don’t have to worry about changing your subscription info. Thank you for going through this journey of customization with me. Your comments, blog-based and email-based, have been more than welcome and very helpful. You’ll be glad to know that I think I’m finally done.
FreeSnap is a powerful, easy to use and free screen capture utility. Needless to say, if Grab or Shift-Cmd-3 or 4 works fine for you, you don’t need FreeSnap. For those who do, FreeSnap features unique, advanced and powerful tools for taking screen captures–or automating them. Featuring AppleScriptability, scaling, 10 different formats, global key combos, a completely invisible version and more, FreeSnap is the most powerful free screen capture tool for Mac OS X today.
Pros: Simple GUI, several screen capture options, several file format options, timer feature, resource-friendly.
Cons: Development has fallen behind and shows no sign of continuation.
You may have noticed that my first Favored Freeware post, which features freeware from the alphabetically organized column on the right, started with FireFox. That’s because I had all ready begun this tradition on another blog. Now, I bring you those freeware spotlights you may have missed. Continue reading to learn about Adium X (multiple IM app), Audacity (powerful audio editor), BootCD (Mac OS X boot CD creator), Camino (cocoa browser with a gecko engine), Celestia (astounding space simulator), Conversation (powerful and simple IRC app), and SubEthaEdit (powerful and free text editor).
Yes, there is life after 18! My good friend, Jon Gales, has been featured (subscription required) in this month’s Business 2.0 magazine! And yes, he’s only 19! Why was he featured? Because he pulls, on average, $55k/year for working three hours a day (roughly) on a niche website. Jon’s site, MobileTracker, makes him about $70/hour. It’s amazing what finding a niche will get you. I guess you don’t have to be of drinking age to be successful after all. If you don’t have a Business 2.0 subscription, you can view the article as a large (1.2MB) JPEG here.
Halo, I’m sure you will all agree that it’s one heck of a game. However, even great games have their faults. And these faults can be highly entertaining. Don’t believe me? Michael Heilemann has found proof. Ok, so you could say that their space-age fuels really are that volatile, but it’s still funny.
Just in case you were wondering, I think I’m done changing the header now. I’ve added a drop shadow to give it a more professional look. I plan to keep it like this for a very long time.
