Christopher Craig

I was getting tired of my old theme, so I’m experimenting with some things. This isn’t the final look of the sight, but it won’t be too far off.

I you use Digg.com, you know that for the past few months it’s been pretty frustrating. It seems that every second post has been a video from YouTube.com. I like watching these videos as much as the next guy, but that’s not really the reason I visit the site. I want news.
Well, [...]

I love iTunes. No secret there. I tell every random person I meet that I love iTunes. I rave about rating my songs, adding album art, and about smart playlists and how they work so well with my iPod. It really is great software.
However, this doesn’t mean there aren’t things about [...]

I’ve been hearing quite a bit about this plug-in for iTunes lately. It’s called iLike, and it’s a social music site. It analyzes your music collection and recommends similar tunes to the one you’re currently listening to.
This isn’t too big a deal by itself, but beside each of these song suggestions, there’s [...]

For a few months now, I’ve been making better use of my USB flash drive. Instead of just keeping files on it, I’ve started using portable apps from portableapps.com.
Portable apps are apps that you store and run directly from your usb drive. They don’t require any installation, and they don’t leave any trace [...]

RSS readers have always seemed a bit clunky to me. That’s why I’ve just kept a group of bookmarks for my favourite sites, and just opened them all at once in Firefox to get my fix of tech news. It’s a bit cumbersome, but I’ve put up with it for a couple of [...]

Well, I decieded to try Google hosted services today. I really like the way Gmail looks and works, so by doing this, Google will host my mail from chriscraig.net. This means I use Gmail with my own email address. The Google Calendar also works the same way.
It was a breeze to set [...]

Being a recent Mac convert, one of the more frustrating things to deal with is not knowing which software to use. Apple ships all new Macs with some great bundled software, but not all of these applications are the best out there.

Well, it’s always a long night when I’m working so I thought I’d spend some time making a banner for my site. I’ve never really spent much time on things like this before because I’m not much with Photoshop.
In any case, it took me a couple of hours, but I think I managed to [...]