Tag: apps

  • Essential Travel Tools for iPhone and iPad

    Essential Travel Tools for iPhone and iPad

    A close friend recently asked me if I liked TripIt after he noticed the automated posts of my travel plans. This came on the heals of almost a year of constant business travel, so I figured I would give back my tips for the Road Warriors out there trying to remember what city and time…

  • IRC Client for OS X

    IRC Client for OS X

    I’m looking for an IRC client for OS X. I’ve run acros several but I’m not sure which will fit my needs. Here are the current candidates: Colloquy Irssix Ircle (gotta love that name) X-Chat Aqua (A port of the popular Linux IRC client) I’m leaning toward X-Chat Aqua, but would like to hear other…

  • Why I don’t typically use any browser other than Firefox

    Why I don’t typically use any browser other than Firefox

    I’ve talked about Internet Browser security briefly before, but I thought it might be best to follow up with a commonsense commentary on why I favor Firefox over other browsers. On March 18, 2009, TippingPoint‘s Charlie Miller, for the second year in a row, hacked an Apple OS-X based laptop in mere seconds. The source…