The cleverly-named OCDock is an iPhone dock that is designed to reduce clutter and cables. It works by sitting against the foot of your Apple display or iMac, held with a piece of ultra-thin, re-usable tape. The dock's integrated Lightning cable is paper-thin, and runs underneath the foot of the display for a clean look. The dock is available in an anodized…
The Griffin PowerMate is a USB-powered multimedia controller for your computer. The spinning knob is far more than a simple volume control. Using the built-in driver software, it can be programmed to execute all sorts of commands. When couple with the fact that the entire knob can click down, it's a powerful tool to interact with your Mac or PC.
If you use a MacBook Pro with Apple's Thunderbolt Display, you know how quickly your desk can become quite messy. The Just Mobile AluRack is designed to keep things neat. Designed in Denmark by the award-winning Jakob Wagner, the AluRack screws together through the hole in the stand of your iMac or Thunderbolt Display, creating a shelf for your notebook to rest…
The 20th Anniversary Macintosh was released in 1997 in celebration of the company's 20th birthday. Apple manufactured 12,000 TAMs, with a release run of 11,601. The remaining 399 were kept by Apple for use as spare parts. The company was quite proud of the machine. Well, there's one on eBay at the moment. If you want to add a rare, unique Mac…
Though I prefer my small Timbuk2 bag, the TOM BIHN Ristretto has long been hailed as one of the finest iPad bags around. It is a small and sturdy vertical messenger bag that holds just a minimum of items. Some folks like small bags because they only cary around so many items and so why have a large bag with empty space…
Keyboard-centric application launchers are becoming more and more popular. There are three big ones: Quicksilver, Alfred, and LaunchBar. What many people may not know is that LaunchBar is the original application launcher — it dates all the way back to NeXT. Like many, however, my introduction to application launchers began with Quicksilver many years ago. But in 2009 I began using LaunchBar…
When you work on a 23-inch monitor a good full-screen writing app can be hard to find. Apps that look good in full-screen mode on a 13- or 15-inch screen don’t necessarily scale well to 23 inches. Byword, however, scales quite well. It looks great regardless of if I’m writing on my laptop display or my cinema displays. And the dark color…