So my MacBook Air’s color was really driving me nuts.  I’d gotten to the point of sad acceptance that the bright, grainy resolution was something I’d be forced into staring at the rest of its existence, in fact.  I really had no idea just how easy it was to update the color profiles with one that more appropriately reflected what I was seeing.

If you look around the web you’ll find a lot just by searching “Mac color profile”.  There are several programs you can pay a hundo or two to build your own color profile far easier and more effectively than the color calibration tool found on the Mac in Display System Preferences, in fact.

Here’s a great start: a discussion on Macrumors about MacBook color calibration that includes some profiles you can use and some hints on locating your panel type and how to identify if your display is showing colors optimally.

Enjoy!

These Mac utilities rock our world, too, JK.

It seems illogical to me that the built-in screenshot capabilities in Mac OS X aren’t more than enough.  The reality, however, is that several developers have seemingly found them lacking enough to make money building apps that do more than the core Apple functionality provides.

Here’s a solid review of the OS X screenshot tool options.  See for yourself.

Before anyone else we talked about our expectation that Mac OS X and iPhone OS should (and quite possibly would) integrate what currently exists as Dashboard widgets in Mac OS X into a design allowing iPhone screen sized apps essentially supplant them.

Despite this article’s discussion regartding Gruber’s claim that there’s to be no ‘widget mode’ for minor applications on the iPad, we’ve got zero reason in the world to believe it won’t happen.

Frankly, it just makes sense.  What better way to further monetize and extend the Apple App Store paradigm than to make these bite sized apps available on all Apple operating systems and devices?

If you ask me, Apple would look a little dumb not doing it.  And just think of how easy it would make the life of every Apple user who’s become addicted to solid, life changing apps like Grocery IQ and iFitness which allow you to sync and go?

Despite the ‘browser first’ proponents, these apps – with their ability to make unwieldy tasks easy – are what the consumer Internet is all about.  And please don’t say the inconsistent user interface design and unstructured sizing of a browser window is a better solution for the average user.

A Multi-Touch iPhone OS Layer On Top of Mac OS X? – Mac Rumors.

Wow!  That only took four years.

Patently Apple picked up a very recent patent application for DVR technology likely to be employed by Apple any day now.  This promises to (if we’re lucky) finally blur the lines of distinction between local content sources.  In other words, perhaps when combined with the Home Sharing feature recently added to iTunes, we’ll no longer have to figure out whether the latest episode of Big Bang Theory is on the Mac, the AppleTV, the iPod, the iPhone, or still somewhere out in the cloud (perhaps at the giant MobileMe datacenter being built in the Carolinas?).

Expect to either see the role or layout of iTunes to completely change.  This is probably why Apple’s invested so little in Front Row of late, instead choosing to allow it to continue looking like AppleTV 1.0.

More here: Apple’s Media Players will One Day be Both Portable TV & DVR – Patently Apple.

Just wanted to add this tip to encourage my Mac friends to try using it and other great Mac OS X tricks.

The Smart Mac: Smart Folders in OS X.

Also, here’s a great place to go for Apple’s tips.  Easy, concise, and they help you get the most out of your computer.

Ars Technica’s John Siracusa looks back with a decade’s hindsight at his early reviews of Mac OS X. He talks about what went right, what went wrong, and what he’s still waiting on.

via Here’s to the crazy ones: a decade of Mac OS X reviews.