A Wireless Mouse for Graphic Designers!
November 1, 2009
Apple Magic Mouse
I have tried wireless mice before and they have never worked for me for design work, just too much lag or inconsistent performance when doing intricate Photoshop or other similar work. I have been waiting for Apple to design a new mouse that takes care of the Apple Mouse (previously Mighty Mouse) track ball gunking issue. I love the way the Mighty Mouse works when the track ball isn’t having issues but if it’s been a while I know the frustration is coming soon.
Well then Apple came out with the Magic Mouse and it is Magic! I bought one Friday at an Apple store after making sure I could return it if it doesn’t work for my design needs and was assured there is a 14 day return policy. As soon as I arrived home I set it up and downloaded the driver update. I then cranked up Photoshop and low and behold the Magic Mouse works great! Finally I’m completely happy with my mouse and it’s even wireless. I was beginning to wonder if anyone would ever come up with a wireless mouse that is useable for Graphic Design.
The purpose of this post is to inform others about a wireless mouse that in my opinion works for design work but I’m also liking the functionality of the touch sensitive surface and gestures.
Apple Magic Mouse gestures
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Apple Bought an Online Maps Company
October 1, 2009
Apple has quietly bought a online maps company.
http://tinyurl.com/y93kgxf
Could This Be Hint Of Things To Come On iPhone?
April 17, 2009
AT&T data detail filter options
This may be nothing but I don’t recall seeing all of these choices before on my AT&T iPhone account area? Does anyone else know if they have always been there? The view filter choices just seemed interesting to me.
Could it have to do with planned iPhone video calling, multimedia messaging, and video exchange? Maybe these are choices that have been there all along but I just don’t recall seeing them.
The Best Video Screen Capture for Mac
May 1, 2008
ScreenFlow is the best most Mac like screen capture application I have used! If you do video screen captures you HAVE to try it. It beats all others in my opinion and I have used most of them.
With ScreenFlow you can capture your desktop and your iSight camera at the same time! It also offers many really good features when editing such as the ability to have mouse clicks heard, a red growing ring from mouse clicks that they call radar effect, background windows and desktop blur automatically (it focuses on the window you are working in and blurs the rest) this can be set for whatever duration, and many others. It ROCKS! Also ScreenFlow captures don’t look washed out like some others.
For Export options it has:
- Web-High
- Web-High (Best Quality)
- Web-Low
- Web-Low (Best Quality)
- PAL DV
- NTSC DV
- Lossless
- iPhone
- Apple TV
- iPod
You can also scale the final output by % or to a custom pixel size.
You can also EASILY add chapter markers when editing and choose to include them when Exporting, this allows viewers to choose the chapter in a drop down menu in Quicktime.
You can name the chapters whatever you want I just typed Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 to test it.
(Not sure about chapter markers if converting to other formats because I haven’t done it?).
Apple Store Down for Update
April 28, 2008
What’s coming?
Apple Store Down for Updates?!
February 5, 2008
The Apple Store is down for updating? What could this be? I hope it’s not just maintenance. It is Tuesday?
Safari’s Search in Google Feature
January 24, 2008
I want at least the option to have Safari behave like Firefox when using the Search in Google feature on highlighted text. Safari searches in the tab you are currently in. Firefox opens a new tab leaving the tab and what you are currently looking at.
Is there anyone else that agrees?
Warner, Paramount, Disney, Fox, Lions Gate to Join iTunes Rentals
January 10, 2008
Warner, Paramount, Disney, Fox, Lions Gate to Join iTunes Rentals: “Bloomberg reports that Warner Brothers, Paramount, Walt Disney Co., Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, and Fox will begin renting movies through Apple’s iTunes Store in an announcement scheduled for January 15th at Macworld.
Bloomberg stat…”
Update to AT&T Rural Coverage Posting
January 7, 2008
The link for Cellular Ones MI coverage area changed. I have changed the link on that posting and here’s the link for Cellular Ones MI coverage area. It now has both the AT&T and Cellular One logos on the page and att is in the URL so maybe you can use the iPhone in all of those areas now? Here’s the coverage area link directly from AT&T’s site.
Things Free Preview Now Available
January 6, 2008
There is now a Things free Public Preview available. Things is an application to help you organize to dos and it is the best I’ve seen, very good “Mac app”. Tags and very easy Mac like it just makes sense ease of use.
