iWow

If you do much listening to music via iTunes, SRS makes a really cool and relatively inexpensive plug-in called iWow Premium that radically improves the sound. There’s a free 14-day trial, and trust me, you will be amazed at the sonic difference.

Sweet Rosetta

To paraphrase John Lennon: Sweet Rosetta fat she thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. When Apple made the switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips several years ago they had the solve a daunting problem: PowerPC code doesn’t run on Intel chips....

Big Iron

I bought a 2.26 8-core Xeon Mac Pro recently. I intend to use it for music and video production, two tasks for which it is well-suited. I call it “Big Iron” since that’s what it is: A huge chunk of metal that takes over the whole side of my desk....

WordPress 2.6

I’ve updated Davison Online’s blog software to WordPress 2.6. It’s a spiffy upgrade that includes the ability to use a WordPress iPhone/iPod Touch application for blogging. Should you expect more frequent updates as a result? Yes. This post, for...

Macworld SF 2008

A good one albeit thoroughly exhausting. I had training sessions and meetings every day, leaving only today to really get around on the Expo floor in anything approaching a casual manner. Still, I’d have to call the whole experience a wild success personally....