In a conversation with my father about how best to import his films to his newly purchased iPod, it occurred to me: surely ripping DVDs is a natural next step for iTunes?

I recently wrote my first Dashboard app: HTML entities (named in the top 10 widgets by engadget.com), widget using Dashcode. Since the product (Dashcode) is still in beta, there wasn't a great deal of resource available for developing widgets, so I'm sharing my experience and any tips I can offer for development.

Update: why is it you always find the solution after you post a work around? Anyway, you can patch both Intel and PPC based Dashcode apps using the information found at alex.clst.org Dashcode has expired on time, but Leopard wasn't delivered on time, and now we're left for at least 3 [...]

I've been submitting Mac user tips as they come to me via Twitter/Mac_Tips - here's the complete list of the 40 tips (all under 140 characters).

In reading my usual digest of RSS feeds, I came across Merlin Mann's "I could totally use this" and then the source lazy contact manager - I figured it wouldn't be too hard to write, albeit roughly - and I would also find it useful.

Safari 3 goes public beta today - so here's a 30 second review of the features and the downsides of the beta upgrade.

Apple has issued a statement saying that Leopard will now be delayed until October this year due to developers being "borrowed" from the OS X team for the development of the iPhone.