by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 5, 2009 | Asides, Featured, Reviews
You may have seen my review of iBird a month or so ago, it’s a slick little application that puts a birding field guide on your iPhone or iPod touch. The Mitch Waite Group, creators of iBird, have now opened up the iBird companion site, iBird.com. The iBird.com...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 1, 2009 | Featured, Reviews
My Spector Pro for Mac review is now online at Macworld.com. Like its sister application, eBlaster, Spector Pro monitors what’s going on on one computer and allows you to view that activity remotely from another computer. Spector Pro also goes a step further...
by Jeffery Battersby | May 27, 2009 | Featured, Reviews
My review of eBlaster 2009 is now online at Macworld.com eBlaster is a great piece of software that does exactly what it advertises; logs everything that happens on the computer it’s installed on and reports that activity via email to another computer. On one...
by Jeffery Battersby | May 18, 2009 | Macworld, On miPod, Reviews
My Bento for iPhone Review is now online at Macworld.com. In short, this is a fantastic application for the iPhone and iPod touch that doesn’t require the desktop version of Bento to create powerful and useful databases. Married to Bento on the desktop I think...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 8, 2009 | Writing
Just now working my way through the podcast associated with yesterday’s posted quote from John Gruber. In the podcast both Gruber and Mann talk about who their target audience is. Mann said that he imagined that, “one perfect reader,” who everything...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 7, 2009 | Commentary, Writing
Great bit by John Gruber last week about what makes good writing, in any format. There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging†industry —...
