Edward Craddock

I know everyone is in the middle of finishing this term of classes, so I hate to remind you Christmas is in another 17 days. Sorry, don't kill the messenger.

Many of us own laptop Macs or know of someone who does. Mat Lu at tuaw.com has a nice and short list of gift ideas for the mobile Mac user. Looking at this reminds me I could use an extra battery and Power Adapter -both are in Mat's list. Hope my wife looks at this blog...

Nothing sounds better to a student who is a photography enthusiast -like myself- than the words Free Photoshop Plugins. I'm sure everyone knows how the money drain doesn't stop after buying the program. Have a look at this great list at techn target You can also find other list of useful tools for photography and other subjects as well.

It funny how little things can be all the rage or not. Probably most of you remember during the beta period of Mac OX 10.5 Leopard many where complaining about the transparent menu bar. Refusing to have anything to do with it and wanted to create apps to put back the Tiger menu bar.

Well that's last weeks news! The big rage with the die hard faithful it the dock bar. Users have created hundreds of replacements for the new Leopard "shelf" dock. Now we are starting to see apps to do nothing but modify the dock. You would think people have forgotten that Apple released an entire OS and not just a new dock... Have a look at LeopardDocks.com or type Leopard and dock into Google and see what happens.

According to a recent report Apple is the one who will lose not the NBC has removed their video content from iTMS. According to the report by Forrester Research, Apple relies on NBC for 30% of their video download sales. Also pointed out in the report is that 19% of of users buy video content at an average of $30USD spent on videos. For more on this check out the article at tuaw.com

We have all see lots of these quiz type Widgets on blogs and websites everywhere. I think this page has a collection of the best I have ever seen. Quizes such as: How many HTML Elements can you name in 5 minutes -there is one for CSS too, The Death Report -Who died on your birthday, What are your chances of surviving a Zombie Apocalypse. No I didn't makes any of these up. Find them and more at justsayhi.com.

I'm sure by now everyone has come across one or more of these sites. You manipulate data in a displace and then the appropriate code is generated for you.

One particular site CSS Text Wrapper I thought was interesting. It includes how to videos, shape examples along with a few other features.

I'm not sure about these sites. How good is the code and why does it feel like cheating to me.

Admit it, you are addicted to Twitter and just can't get enough of the service. Ok so you aren't, but if you are like me you wonder how some people get anything done with all the post they make. One thing that amazes me are all the interfaces and applications that exist for Twitter. Don' believe me? Take a look at this article by Marshall Kirkpatrick at Read/WriteWeb and see for yourself.

Found this interesting blog about SEO for blogs the other day. SEOBook claims to add a new chapter every day and so far it looks really interesing as a get your feet wet guide for bloggers. I have no doubt as one digs deeper and time progresses the content will too.

Now that Macs are using Intel chips and running Windows new life is being given to those trying to run OS X on PCs. From what I have read many people are having fairly good success at it too. If you feel up to a challenge and don't mind violating the OS X EULA, have a look at The Ultimate OSX on PC installation guide

Came across this video at kirainet while doing regular rounds of my favorite blogs. Check it out for a good laugh. Why you ask? Simply because nothing is funnier than the truth. Who knows maybe you too will blog about this song...