tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82634422673001775022011-11-27T23:47:06.309Z2007 was the year I finally switched to Mac. A very longing wish.Liznoreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-40193974386300668672008-07-11T13:06:00.002+01:002008-07-11T13:11:31.669+01:00

It's has become too difficult to write this blog so I will stop writing post here.I usually wrote the posts in spanish and then translate them to english, within my possibilities. You can always find some answers in the spanish version of this blog, I'm going to add a Google Translate button to make it easier for the few but loyal english readers this blog have. Of course, I know automated

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-50779210341312417942008-06-24T12:08:00.003+01:002008-06-24T12:27:19.347+01:00

I have a HP Deskjet F380 All-in-one (Scanner, Printer and Photocopier). Well, the drivers for Mac, from the disk of installation and configuration that comes with the HP, they bring a plugin for Photoshop, but I never knew that until my husband asked me why the scanner did not appear in the import menu of Photoshop (I had not had the need to use it, so, never noticed).Uploaded with plasq's

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-55530878711773899612008-05-30T15:49:00.003+01:002008-05-30T16:04:44.317+01:00

Some time ago I tried this application called Measuring Cup, from Shallow Patch. I liked it a lot, just the inconvenience (at that time) of being only versions in english and german. Although the very good impression I got, that reason (I prefer to keep my recipes in spanish) made me forget it for some time.Later, I had some free time, so I offered to help with the traslation to spanish (just the

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-53717824705849528152008-05-30T09:00:00.003+01:002008-05-30T09:37:30.616+01:00

I was so excited that I couldn't wait to tell you how it went with Team Viewer, that I wrote before in a previous post.Yesterday my mom (who uses a PC with Windows XP) told she was having problems with the Windows Internet Explorer and to help her, I decided to test the application.Here you have the Downloads page. If you're helping someone, you must download Team Viewer (complete version for

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-84566270199070748792008-05-29T11:52:00.000+01:002008-05-29T11:53:39.388+01:00

I just installed a nice little tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site, interactive excerpts of Wikipedia articles, IMDb profiles and Amazon products, display inline videos, RSS, MP3s, photos, stock charts and more. Sometimes Snap Shots bring you the information you need, without your having to leave the site, while other times it

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-33444218595758637262008-05-28T15:35:00.002+01:002008-05-28T15:41:49.765+01:00

If you like to fool around with simple games, I can recommend Quinn by Simon Härtel. I have a lot fun with it, although I haven't played much lately, too much keyboard use is hurting my wrist. But besides being a very classic game, it's visually great and if you have internet conection you can see and be in the online scores. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! Another

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-77822966876806136962008-05-27T13:28:00.006+01:002008-05-27T13:58:37.804+01:00

Usually known as GTD apps (Getting Things Done, from the book and concept by David Allen), these apps are useful once you get used to them.Using the concept developed by Allen, most of these digital managers is based on Tasks Lists. Having these list, it's unnecessary to remember them, allowing you to focus on the finishing of those tasks.There are a lot of apps with diverse functions, for all

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-87135029055589287562008-05-26T13:32:00.002+01:002008-05-26T13:42:36.337+01:00

Just an update about VoIP providers nonoh and lowratevoip both from Betamax. This company, Betamax, seems to be an octopuss of VoIP communications, as it has different web sites to provide the same service with small differences on prices and destinations. Now you can charge your nonoh account using credit cards (Visa, Visa Electron with security code, Mastercard) apart from the other options

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-33230905727000807482008-05-20T15:20:00.004+01:002008-05-20T15:32:20.016+01:00

If you're a Windows or Linux user and you're looking into something like ADIUM, some kind of instant messenger that can include all your accounts in one, you can try PIDGIN, which is also open-source with a GNU GPL license.They support these protocols: AIM,Bonjour,Gadu-Gadu,Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, MySpaceIM, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo!, and Zephyr.Let me know if this

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-49484594240738044852008-04-21T14:31:00.002+01:002008-04-21T14:42:01.703+01:00

MiniKidsGames is an "open-source" app thought for toddlers and parents who want to keep their Macs "safe" from them. It's in english but there's a link that explains the "internationalization". Works at fullscrenn, from where you can only leave using keys Command+Q. You can also view it in windowed mode (Control+W, but not recommended). It has its page in Sourceforge.net. It has 4 options:

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-18035172565049460342008-04-21T12:30:00.003+01:002008-04-21T12:44:39.740+01:00

There are so many sites with free accounts of e-mail, and at the same time they offer instant messaging, ending up in not knowing what to do with so many "messengers" that imply "x" windows in the desktop.I was a little tired of that, above all because the functionalities of the messenger of MSN for Mac very are limited. My brother kept telling me to test Adium. Before that I tested other

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-6523037347096219752008-04-21T11:03:00.004+01:002008-04-21T11:25:00.029+01:00

There are many providers of VoIP calls. Here at home, we use Freecall, a service of Betamax. It is one of the cheapest (also of Betamax exists Lowratevoip and nonoh, cheaper and with more free destinies but without the possibility to buy credit using credit card, for now). We had been using Express Talk for Mac 2.04 to configure our VoIP in Mac OS X but 2 months ago that we have problems of

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-64706833270055056382008-04-04T13:46:00.004+01:002008-04-04T14:25:00.793+01:00

Telling the truth, I am not an expert in computers, but I am quite curious and when I have had problems, (so much with my old PC Win, as now with the Mac), I have done all the possible to resolve the problems without having to contact technicians. At times the aid arrived from my brother, a lot more "geek" and always expert of the last technological advances and of the fashions in this field.

Liznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-42889442268568783702008-04-03T17:29:00.003+01:002008-04-03T18:29:31.661+01:00

If you are the kind of user that need to send VERY BIG files and your email does not let you do it, you can try this apps:SendSpace: this application is multi-platform. Works on Win, Mac and Linux. So no problem if you're sending a BIG file to a friend or partner with a Win or Linux OS. They can install their own version. Up to 300 Mb per file, but you have to register to track files and have

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-71342628649108366652008-03-17T18:18:00.002Z2008-03-17T18:23:49.152Z

The truth is that, as soon as restart working, I want to carry account of my expenses and for that I have been seeking applications that function in my Mac. For someone that to stopped working about 3 years ago, is important not to spend a lot at the beginning, to save for emergencies, and later knowing how much is left for small extravagances and small luxuries. For now I am only going to give

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-12496431706876152362008-03-14T15:16:00.003Z2008-03-14T15:29:22.437Z

Since last time I reviewed the Express Talk for Mac software for using VoIP services, I just found 3 more sites offering better deals in calls around the world. In that review I said I was using Freecall, but now you can look at Nonoh, LowRateVoip and 12Voip for great deals.Any of them can be configured into the Express Talk for Mac, even all of them as the software have configuration for 6

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-57566282105928993602008-03-14T14:52:00.004Z2008-03-14T15:13:03.691Z

For those who like podcasts or simply seeing and saving videos in their Mac, I would recommend to giva a try to Miro (called before Democracy player). Apart from being translated into various languages, it has versions for Windows, Mac, Linux and others. I like it a lot and it's easy to use.You can search videos directly from Youtube, and from another services from the web, including Miro Guide

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-25619998365384731812008-02-29T10:30:00.003Z2008-02-29T10:43:32.437Z

(The truth is that I should be doing another thing instead of writing this post, but that another thing would be easier to do if had one of the apps what I am going to write about). I have been seeing so much the screencasts of the different functionalities of Mac OS X Leopard, that I know want it so much. The integration of Mail with iCal and with Address Book is interesting, besides other nice

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-88221459811639549722008-02-13T11:11:00.004Z2008-02-13T12:56:24.020Z

Since I wrote this past entry, I was trying to get the most from all what my iMac and Google can give users. Since then, I found two useful things I wanted to share.One of them is the Spanning Sync app, that allow users to sync iCal calendars with Google calendars (one account). You can make changes in iCal and they will show in Google, and all the way round, too! I think this is one of the

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-41819144496933673102008-01-28T16:44:00.001Z2008-01-28T16:44:45.506Z

WISHLIST of Mac apps that I found very useful and good stuff but that are commercial:iComment $9,95 (€6.75)Blogo $25 (€16.95)myNotes $14.59 (€10)iShowU $20 (€13.55) (demo works fine but the green letters saying demo are distracting)Audio Hijack Pro $32 (€21.68)Giggles for mac (3) $19.99 each (€13.55)Parallels Desktop for mac €79.99Mac OS Leopard €129Adobe CS Design-premium €2420-standard €1540 (

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-37935593690870694722008-01-11T13:43:00.000Z2008-01-11T14:03:01.040Z

What can I say about this two pearls? I'm impressed.Not only because they are nicer, easier and more friendly than MS Office Suite, but all the templates are good looking and simple at the same time. And one very important thing: both Pages and Keynote open very quickl, even when opening big *.doc format documents.I didn't give a try to iWork when I bought my Mac, I had too many *.doc documents,

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-21787412091280527092007-11-29T12:36:00.001Z2007-11-29T12:36:32.824Z

This post, and also the previous one, have been published using Blogo, an application for mac that helps you to post entries to one or various blogs, easily, even with images.Its description in iusethis gave me curiosity and decided to test it. To download the demo one must register, and the demo works for 17 days.For which I go using, I have to admit that is a quite useful program, for whom

Liznoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-59184904114845367402007-11-29T12:10:00.001Z2007-11-29T12:10:17.396Z

Yesterday I was using iWeb, to bring up to date the family site. And playing around to publish the blog entries in Facebook, I found me with the surprise that the file rss.xml, also brings failures of publication. I'm referring to the same errors of linking that presented the RSS link of the blog's homepage. It appears always a "ghost folder" that refers to the folder in which the site is

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-61682443332271617632007-11-27T13:52:00.003Z2008-02-27T09:53:04.654Z

I have a Sony Ericsson W200i. It's black with the orange edges. It's one of those phones that can have it all (agenda, calendar, radio fm, mp3 reader, internet, play, camera for photo and video). But it only has synchronization software for PC with Windows. When I realized this it was a little late, but anyway. Seeking on the internet, I found some programs that say to function with telephones

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-58550506586167016512007-10-31T13:57:00.000Z2007-10-31T14:02:55.597Z

My first impressions after using the new iWeb are good. Its useful HTML widgets and integration with Google Adsense works smoothly. I used a JAXTR widget and also a Blogarithm panel for people to subscribe via email notifications. Better handling of images makes iWeb a bit faster.I didn’t used embedded video or photo from my YouTube or Picasa Web Albums, but I’m thinking there will be no problem

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-87078566354356750252007-09-28T15:42:00.000+01:002007-09-28T16:23:55.474+01:00

I must say it. I really like iLife's iWeb app. I know how to use Adobe Golive and Dreamweaver (in a very novice way) and I managed to make a professional site with both of them, but for what's worth, I like to make my family site with iWeb. It's easy to understand, everything is WYSIWYG.Ok. Maybe it's not so easy for everyone, but I caught their way pretty fast. And that applies to other apps for

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-77909797019207175972007-09-27T14:16:00.001+01:002008-02-13T11:10:04.177Z

Since I started using my mac, I decided to try most of the apps that come pre-installed, and I also decided not to pay for a .mac account. Some may say that I'm losing the capabilities of synchronization or else, but I have a backup in a external hard drive (Ok, I have to make it more frequently, but that's not the point).I decided not to use .mac just because I already have lots of services for

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-31552701265702908072007-09-20T09:15:00.000+01:002007-09-20T09:23:59.246+01:00

About a month ago, seeking those little special apps that exist for Mac, I found myself in a site with one call Skitch. They were giving invites in Mundo Mac (because still is in closed Beta) to be able to test it. They said that still they remained 9, so I wrote and after an hour I received my invite. This application, Skitch, was created by the same people of Comic Life. I haven't used

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-64404172494882316662007-09-12T12:06:00.000+01:002007-09-12T12:19:41.470+01:00

I talked here about my need to use Windows Xp before, because the Autocad and the Studio Viz applications. So I decided to give a try to some of the emulation and virtualisation apps that are out there.In order of cost, these is what I’ve found (and they run not only Windows but also Linux and other OS):- Q (open source) easy installation of any other OS- Xen (open source)- Wine (open

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-74187739049491861352007-09-12T11:06:00.000+01:002007-09-12T11:19:24.215+01:00

Since I decided to have my own personal site, where I write about my family and the developments of my little girl, I learned some things about publishing on the net, and there are a lot of protocols, but the most used is the FTP (file transfer protocol).As I use iWeb (Publish to folder) for my personal site, I tried the Easy iWeb Publisher that is donation-ware. Simple, easy and minimal. But you

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-34020586018445701812007-08-28T16:22:00.002+01:002010-10-25T08:02:18.678+01:00

For those of you that use VoIP software for calls (international or not) I must say that I’ve been using my Frecall account with Express Talk for Mac, and it’s working nicely. I was using Freecall over Windows because they only provide a Windows softphone. But now that I found the alternative, I’ll avoid the rebooting every time I needed to make a VoIP call. As I said here before, I use Frecall

Liznoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-75958664856761624922007-08-13T18:24:00.000+01:002007-08-13T18:29:19.118+01:00

Lately, I spend a lot of time at home, playing with my little “earthquake”, cooking, cleaning and of course, surfing the web.When my child and me have some computer time, I love to take pictures with PhotoBooth. As our photo camera died some months ago, and as we need to buy more important things for house now, we don’t have a device for my loved photography activity. But with the built-in iSight

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-8852956638561871952007-08-08T15:57:00.001+01:002008-02-29T11:47:00.977Z

I’m the proud mom of an pretty and intelligent little girl 19 months old. She’s used to the computer since birth, because I communicate with my family in Peru via webcam and she loves the keyboard.Well, the thing is, that sometimes I leave the mac to go anywhere in the apartment and my lovely and informatic girl takes my seat and starts hitting the keys. So I went out there to search for

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-31051192211931234952007-08-07T17:47:00.001+01:002007-08-07T17:47:55.286+01:00

Looking around to know when iWeb 2.0 will be released (because I’m pretty curious about all the capabilities they are talking about and I’m waiting for this before I finally decide between iWeb and Sandvox), when I found more information on what else you can for now use for iWeb. As for create “multi-sites” there is iWebSites.Also found another web creation application called Blog.Mac at

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-73297213225863029112007-08-06T10:16:00.000+01:002007-08-06T10:18:04.188+01:00

I’m always curious so I kept looking around for more. I found that there’s an script called iWeb Optimiz(o)r that converts all png to jpg and, in a very big site means a significant reduction of the size of image files and time to load when viewing the pages.And I found that you can have 5 more SV designs if you subscribe for the newsletter, there are two companies that sell a few SV designs, and

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-37730540591506165992007-08-02T13:31:00.000+01:002007-08-06T10:18:28.447+01:00

Yesterday I tried the Realmac software Rapidweaver (RW) and the Karelia Sandvox (SV) for website and webpages creation.I started with RW demo, only 3 pages to publish (you can publish to –mac or to FTP and more). It’s a nice application, easy –but not as easy as I thought-, has a lot of themes and they’re quite easy to customize. I found nice the side bar but after creating a blog page and a

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-22391204439117499852007-07-31T16:31:00.000+01:002007-08-06T10:18:57.182+01:00

Today I’ve been fooling around with Shutterbug (Xtralean) web design program. When I first read about it, it looked like it was going to be easy and quick, and with its featured Xtra boxes for inserting external services as counters, ads, comments....Hmmm.... For a Demo, you have nice and simple templates. But things are not always what they seem. I was trying to, somehow, re-create my actual

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-62443329916933745202007-07-30T16:58:00.000+01:002007-08-06T10:19:12.193+01:00

I’m not a web designer but I’m very curious and love the Internet. Back in the nineties, I made a very simple page with Frontpage in Windows. After that, my second experience with webpages was a bit different.First year of the PhD, each student had to make a website for their own city. We had some introduction about HTML and then started with Dreamweaver. I wasn’t difficult and the city page

Liznoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263442267300177502.post-91972481245427741442007-07-30T10:18:00.000+01:002007-08-02T13:52:00.360+01:00

I switched to Mac early this year when we needed to change the slow old computer, but thinking in the new Intel Macs as we had to stuck with Windows because we still need to use very few software (but very important to us) made only for this OS. I knew something about Apple computers, I used one in my last work; the place where I used to read emails some years ago used Mac, too, and my brother

Liznoreply@blogger.com0