One of the more than 200 new features in Apple’s new OS X Tiger is a screensaver that pulls content from an RSS feed. See a video clip here for an example. Read more »

So you downloaded QuickTime 7.0, but don’t see any reason to test it out or you just don’t have any material to test it out with. Well Apple now has 4 movie trailers on their site made for High Definition. Batman Begins Fantastic Four Kingdom of Heaven Serenity All in 720p and 1080p format. Batman Begins and Serenity definitely look like must-see movies. Hopefully they don’t screw up Fantastic Four and Kingdom of Heaven simply looks like Gladiator IV. Read more »

As long as we’re hemorraghing Apple-related posts, I might as well throw the epic battle of iPod vs. The Cassette into the mix. It a humorous comparison using size, cost, a drop test, and a water test to pick a “winner.” Read more »

Boy, would this article be helpful if I had a Mac, and Apple had just released a new version of their operating system. At least there is a new operating system version — as if you could have missed that piece of news in the last couple weeks. Every year it is the same: you rush to the Apple Store, grab a shiny box with a big “X” on it, zoom back home, crack it open, inhale the sweet silicon smell that seems to ooze from about any Apple product you buy (seriously, this stuff is addictive), and, blissfully, pop in that tempting DVD into your reader to install the Read more »

I have already posted about the ShortStat widget. More and more seem to be popping up as Tiger is getting installed by Mac users everywhere. Well, here are two more that may interest you. Bloglines Notifier Jeremy Koempel released this widget on his blog Small Transport a few days ago. It gives you a way to quickly glance at how many unread items you have in your Bloglines account. dashLicious I actually have an applescript that accomplishes the same thing in NetNewsWire. This widget posts items to your delicious account, populating the URL and description from either Safari or NetNewsWire. Read more »

Have you installed Tiger yet? Have you checked out Mail yet? Do you hate the new jelly-like buttons? Cage Fighter can help you get rid of them. It just removes the little button background graphics and changes the highlight color, so that it looks a little nicer and matches the rest of the OS instead of going out on its own for no apparent reason. Via Read more »

Shiira is a web browser written in Cocoa. It uses the KHTML rendering engine provided by Apple’s Web Kit. Since this is the same rendering engine used by Safari, HTML content rendered by Shiira will look the same as in Apple’s own browser. The browser is being developed by a group in Japan, and they are also creating English versions of the browser. Today, they released version 1.0 for OS X 10.4. This version only works with Tiger. To try it out on Panther, you will need to download 0.9.4. I checked this browser out a while back when it was around version 0.5 and I was impressed with where Read more »

To run a successful forum there are a couple of key ingredients that must be in place when launching. These include: Quality moderators Prelaunch content so that the forums do not resemble a ghost town and look active. Branding so that the forums match the main site A link from the main site to the forums so that your readers know that the forums exist Posting policies so that the forums don’t get out of control and people are left wondering why they are getting banned and their posts deleted I skipped all of that for the moment and decided to let the animals run wild so to speak (but Read more »

src=”http://forevergeek.com/images/celebrate-50m.png” width=”335″ height=”305″ border=”0″ /> Fifty million, that is. In just under 6 months, Firefox has been downloaded over 50 million times. That has got to be some new record for open source projects. To commemorate the event, Mozilla has released a limited edition of Firefox 50 coins. I wonder, are they counting downloads of the updates as well? How does that skew the overall statistic? Read more »