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Jul 18 2011

Rick Yaeger is The App Man on Urban Rush


0 Rick Yaeger is The App Man on Urban Rush

In my first of hopefully many appearances on Urban Rush, I am dubbed “The App Man” and demonstrate a few cool apps for your iPad. As with any live tech demo, not everything goes according to plan. But I must admit, not everything that went wrong was entirely unplanned.

Apps demo’d:

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 $4.99

Flipboard FREE

Star Walk $2.99

Discovr Music $1.99

Magic Fiddle $2.99

You actually can play beautiful music with Magic Fiddle:

0 Rick Yaeger is The App Man on Urban Rush

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Rick Yaeger is The App Man on Urban Rush

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Aug 2 2010

Awesome Mac-based video guestbook for your wedding

This is how fast I’d like to be able to bring you the awesomeness on my constant quest for it: I literally just saw this tweet by @LelaNewYork and I had to share this very cool idea with you.

LOVE: Awesome Wedding Video Guest book! Works on a MAC... http://bit.ly/bMqfwi”” On 9:42 PM Aug 2nd 2010 from Twitter for iPhone

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For $99 US, Thrilled For You sells software for a customized themed video guestbook. You install the application and run an iMac or similarly iSight equipped Mac in kiosk mode at your wedding or reception. Then, as the emotion moves them, your guests, your family, your friends, your former lovers will take turns standing in front of the camera and expressing just how happy they are for you… or how drunk they are.

It’s a brilliant idea and you can download a demo for free. [Via Lela New York Wedding Blog]

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Apr 27 2009

Down & Dirty FTP in the Finder

By Jon Gales

James is on vacation from his column dutues this week so he asked me to pitch hit for Power User Monday–a position I once filled. It’s my pleasure.

Since I’m a web developer, I’m always using FTP, the most popular way to get files from here to there on the web. Panther introduced a rebuffed system for loading FTP servers in the Finder, and it’s actually quite handy for those times you’re on another machine and just need quick access to FTP. No need to rush to Panic.com to download a demo of Transmit while you’re at a client’s office! It should be noted that although this is a great feature in Panther, I still use Transmit as my FTP client. It offers a lot more–this is just a quick hack. And no, I’m not being paid by Panic. I really do just use their product. Really.

connect to server Down & Dirty FTP in the FinderWhen you’re in the Finder, just hit Command-K. You’ll be prompted to type a server address. For the example, I’m going to type mobiletracker.net (the mobile phone news site that I run). Depending on the server, you may have to tell it to use FTP by putting ftp:// before the address. After OS X has made contact with the server of your choice and has decided that a compatible protocal is available (it doesn’t technically have to be FTP), you’ll be asked for a username/password. I’m not going to tell you what I’m using for obvious reasons.

If your login was correct, you’ll be asked to select the volume you want to mount. In my case, there’s only one choice. I’m not sure why it asks when there is only one choice, but it’s probably because there are cases where you are expecting more than one and would like to know if something is missing. Still seems odd though. Press OK and look in a Finder window. Mounted just like any regular disk is your FTP server! You can navigate around just like it was any other folder, except it will probably be a little slower because it’s not a local drive.

Enjoy!

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