Let There Be Mojave!

While the hipsters are rocking their Apple Silicon, and plunging into Big Sur with both feet, I’m taking the slow and easy route by upgrading to Mojave. Yes, Mojave. After holding out hope that Apple and Nvidia would kiss, make up, and release some updated drivers for the Titan X card inside my Mac Pro 2010, I’ve realized the love is gone. That lead me to install the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 because it has Metal support and Apple’s blessing. It’s not a flashed card, but it works out of the box and supports 4 monitors, two in HDMI, two in DisplayPort. While I was in there, I spritzed up the joint with a few blasts from the air can, which sent some dust bunnies flying, and installed a 4 port USB 3.0 card because USB 4/Thunderbolt is the bleeding edge. No one said I was ahead of the technology curve. The Mac Pro should now give me a […]

Black Friday Sales

Right, Black Friday is in full swing. Here are some great apps you really need to add to your collection. I have all of these in my bag of tricks, and they are fantastic. There might be more coming, but I know these are on sale now. Escape Motions – Rebelle 3, Flame Painter, Amberlight, Inspirit Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher – Mac and iOS JixiPix – Mac and iOS Curio DevonThink, DevonAgent Wondershare – Uniconverter, Filmora AdGuard on StackSocial – BFSAVE40 Mellel – Mac and iOS Paprika Recipe Manager – Mac and iOS Project Office – Mac an iOS 2Do Scrivener – nanowrimo And let's not forget all the games on sale during the Steam Autumn Sale – Nov 25-Dec 1

Let the Black Friday Sales Begin!

We're off to a good start too. JixiPix just sent out a 40% discount code for their entire product catalog. Because of that, I now own their entire product catalog. Spektral Art really caught my attention and I've used to dozens of times for login buttons, Slack images and the like. That lead me to Portrait Painter, which turns images into very nice oil paintings. These are awesome as backgrounds and digital cards. For a bit of whimsy and background paper effects, Pop Dot Comics is also a fun one. I really hoped there would be a Black Friday sale, and here it is. With their entire collection at hand, the possibilities are quite literally endless. These very nicely hook into Affinity Photo and Designer, which makes editing very convenient. JixiPix