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Apple-of-my-i.com

msandler — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:09:18 CDT

Marshal Sandler, executive producer

RevenFlo, web strategy & development

eContent Cafe, content scoping and generation

Scott Nurkin, artist at large

Joe Orr, master of screenbooks & Joomla consultant

Joomla, the wonderful wonderful Joomla!

Mariner Software

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:45:15 CDT

MacJournal 4.1 by Mariner SoftwareOver the past three decades, Apple has made it easy to integrate computers into our daily routines. Whether you started on an Apple II in college or high school, or you just got your very first iMac or MacBook, you’re probably finding lots of ways to replace the paper in your life with simple applications.Keeping a journal, meanwhile, has traditionally been an ink-and-paper affair. While some people will always crave the experience of curling up on a sofa with an elegant diary page, most of us find that sending quick notes throughout the day is the most realistic way to record what’s going on in our lives and in our heads. Unfortunately, keeping those notes in word processor files can be clunky, while e-mailing yourself can be risky.Dan Schimpf’s MacJournal solves both of those problems by offering Mac users an effortless way to capture and organize their thoughts and ideas. And, in an era where often share our musings with other people, MacJournal offers a robust variety of publishing and privacy options.

Compose Your Journal Your Way

Working in MacJournal feels like sending yourself an e-mail. Its simple design makes you feel as comfortable jotting down thoughts as drafting a message to a close friend. Users of Apple’s Mail application will quickly understand how to customize fonts and add color to their journal entries. For diary keepers that want to block out the rest of the world, a convenient full-screen option offers a focused, green-on-black environment that’s easy on the eyes. It even reminded a few of us of our old Apple II’s.

Getting Intimate With Sound

What makes MacJournal so special is that the designers understand that it’s sometimes easier to express your thoughts in your own voice. Each journal entry contains a “recording bar” that can be activated from the “view” menu. By using simple controls and your Mac’s built-in microphone, you can record audio to accompany each journal entry. You can even choose to let your journal speak for itself, literally.

Taking Your Thoughts Public

Of course, blogging has brought the process of journal keeping right out in the open. While not everyone feels comfortable sharing their innermost thoughts with an online audience, MacJournal gives bloggers a set of powerful tools to organize and publish weblogs without using a web browser.For beginner bloggers, you can use your .Mac account to publish new journal entries to the web. If you’ve been blogging for a while, or if you want to take advantage of advanced features like comments and trackbacks, MacJournal will work with many popular free blogging sites, like Blogger.com, WordPress.com, and TypePad.com. Expert users can even configure MacJournal to work with blogging software on their own servers. If you’ve been blogging for a while, you can even import your previous blog entries right into MacJournal, making it a great tool to back up your blog in the event of a service crash.Better still, MacJournal has been optimized for podcasting. Using the recording bar and the built-in web publishing tools, you can use MacJournal to easily record and distribute simple podcasts. While there are plenty of Mac blogging and podcasting tools on the market, we can’t find any that include so many hassle-free features for such a low price.

Locking Up Your Deepest Thoughts

Not everyone wants to share every idea or emotion with the entire World Wide Web. That’s where MacJournal’s heritage as a diary tool really shines. Users can choose which posts to make public and which to keep private. You can even keep multiple journals, each with varying privacy settings.Most importantly, you can lock and even encrypt your journals to prevent them from being read by anyone but you. Clicking a padlock icon on a journal entry assigns a secure password to that journal. And a powerful set of advanced security settings allows users to enable deep encryption, making it tough for anyone to crack your personal secrets. Other settings allow you to automatically lock and secure your journal upon stepping away from your computer, to prevent family members or co-workers from spying on your entries.

Running MacJournal on Your Mac

Instead of waiting for a heavy application like Word or Pages to launch, users can open a new MacJournal entry very quickly. Even on the older iBook we tested it on, MacJournal was ready to go in under five seconds. On our faster MacBooks, it launched almost instantly. Expert journal keepers will tell you that this is critical, since you want to capture brainstorms the instant they form.Having made the transition from a freeware project to a fully supported commercial product, MacJournal reflects the tremendous amount of care that has gone into its development. With a list price under $40, MacJournal is an essential tool for any Mac lover that wants to document their life, both online and off.

Ma.gnolia

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:42:08 CDT

Ma.gnolia: Apple-Friendly Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking tools evolved from a way to better organize your favorite URLs into an entire ecosystem based on sharing and discussing the rapidly evolving content on the World Wide Web. The unusually named website Del.icio.us is widely credited with starting the trend, earning it a spot in Yahoo!’s portfolio of web services. In late 2005, Larry Halff hired the respected design team from Happy Cog to take some of the core ideas from Del.icio.us even further.The result was Ma.gnolia, a site that many of its users describe as a broader social experiment than other social bookmarking websites. In addition to tracking common links, Ma.gnolia allows users to organize themselves into groups, where members can easily monitor collective activity and offer commentary on the latest bookmarks added to the service.Because of its clean design and the abundance of Apple-specific tools available for the service, Ma.gnolia has attracted a strong following among Mac users. Here are just a few of the ways you can use your Mac to participate in the Ma.gnolia community.Using Ma.gnolia Ma.rker on your Mac OS X DashboardAdding links to your Ma.gnolia feed is easy when you download the free Ma.gnolia Ma.rker plugin provided on the site’s official tools page. Although there are a few bookmarklets and browser plugins available, the Dashboard plugin is a really simple way to plug more links into Ma.gnolia using your Mac’s built-in tools. Hitting F12 or clicking your Dashboard icon brings up the Ma.gnolia Ma.rker widget, pre-populated with the title and URL of the page you’re browsing. Clicking “save” marks your page without ever taking you away from the site.Ma.gnolia Ma.rker is just one of a growing number of Dashboard widgets that allow Apple users to optimize their experience with the social bookmarking site. Another widget allows Mac owners to view a virtual river of thumbnails as the collective bookmarks of the community roll by. As Ma.gnolia develops more external APIs and Apple makes Dashboard development easier in the forthcoming Leopard OS, expect to see even more tools and features for the Mac.Getting to the Roots of the DiscussionWhile many bloggers enjoy the simplicity of using a social networking tool like Ma.gnolia to preserve their bookmarks, a growing number of the site’s users are interacting with each other in live discussions that happen in relation to bookmarks. This discussion is especially vital on pages that don’t offer live commenting, trackbacks, or forums for audience members.Ma.gnolia calls these discussions “roots,” and they’re easily accessible from both the website and from a JavaScript bookmarklet that you can add to your web browser’s toolbar. By clicking on the “Roots” bookmarklet, Ma.gnolia uses a lightbox effect to fade your current web page to the background and bring up a highlighted discussion about that page. Users can add their comments or mark the page for inclusion as a Ma.gnolia bookmark, while keeping the page itself in the background.Swapping and Sharing BookmarksLike similar sites, Ma.gnolia makes it easy to share bookmarks with other users. Ma.gnolia also allows users to export their bookmarks and comments as a feed that can be integrated into a variety of websites and desktop applications. Bloggers who use popular website publishing tools like Wordpress or Moveable Type can use Ma.gnolia to maintain a “sideblog” or an “external links” list that appears in the sidebar of their web pages.Mac users can download Tasty, a free software package that was initially designed for use with Del.icio.us, but has been converted to work with Ma.gnolia bookmarks, as well. Tasty lets users convert old bookmarks from Safari or from the Dock into Ma.gnolia bookmarks using a simple, drag-and-drop interface.The Future of Ma.gnoliaWhile Ma.gnolia is currently supported by a variety of text and banner ads that appear throughout the site, company representatives have suggested that they may soon offer “pro level” services in exchange for subscription fees. While the company expects to keep the core bookmarking and discussion services available for free, some of the fee-based services could include advanced publishing tools for professional bloggers and custom statistics for publishers about their included URLs.In the meantime, while Del.icio.us has captured the lead in the social bookmarking space, Ma.gnolia has won the hearts and minds of discerning users who prefer discussion and insight to a simple list of links.

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Anonymous — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:39:26 CDT

Bio for Marshal SandlerMarshal Sandler was born in 1936 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit Country Day School (high school), and he left Michigan to attend the University of Miami, Florida.
Marshal joined the Us Army and served from 1959 to 1961. He traveled extensively in the 1950s to France, Cuba, Spain and throughout the US.
Marshal’s working career was in the Industrial Laundry and Textile Sales industry. He currently lives in Michigan where he is semi-retired and working on this site and related publications.
Interesting Tidbits about Marshal
* Hobbies, canoing (became expert while working many summers in Algonquin Park, Ontario), art, music, target shooting and sailing. * Favorite Artist, Modigliani (http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/modigliani.html) * Favorite Canoe, Chestnut (http://www.eagle.ca/~chestnut/cat.htm) * Favorite Sailboat, (http://www.catboats.org/FAQ.htm) * Favorite Park, Algonquin Park (http://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/) * Favorite Classical Musician, Yo Yo Ma * Favorite Jazz Musician, Lennie Tristano * Favorite Book, Adventures of Augie March * Favorite Cuban Musicians, Celia Cruz and Tito Puente * States lived in, Michigan / Oregon / Missouri / Florida / Arizona * Favorite Off-Beat Writer, Blaize Cendrars

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