The EyeTV One is as simple as a product gets. It does one thing—converting an over-the-air DTV signal to USB—and it does that one thing very well. However, just that would be a boring review, and the questions surrounding this product aren’t so much about whether it works, but what it actually does, and where it would fit into a home entertainment setup. I can see the One fitting perfectly into my Mac mini-entertainment-center dream.

Twitter desktop clients: the field is overwhelmingly filled with Adobe AIR applications. These applications don’t usually look all too graceful, and worse (and far less subjective), have huge memory leaks. There are a few other apps that don’t rely on AIR; Twitterrific (my personal favorite) comes to mind. However, there are no Twitter apps on the Market that fit in with the Mac OS X look and feel, and more importantly run natively. Enter “Lounge.”

As I am writing this, the MacHeist 3 Bundle is about to be revealed. Last year, many were disappointed with the MacHeist bundle, as it had many apps that had been seen in the previous year, and no really spectacular app. This year, that was acknowledged, and a much better bundle has been promised. We’ll see…

One of the many reasons I’m not a Windows fan is the fact that applications can all look very different and behave in very different ways. On the Mac, most applications behave in much the same way when it comes to standard functions. Apps that don’t follow these rules are ones I don’t use. Well, that is, until I tried Twitterrific. When I first downloaded it, I felt it stuck out like a sore thumb; an odd, translucent black window in a sea of chrome. I resolved to stay with it for a couple of days, though, and fell in love with the application regardless of what it looked like.

It happened last year, and it happened again this year. The tech sector of the internet is seeing a fair share of headlines to the tune of “Safari hacked in 10 Seconds!” At the Pwn2Own conference this year, Charlie Miller, who hacked Safari last year to much the same media explosion, used Safari to gain control of a MacBook in under ten seconds. Sounds like we should be worried, right?

Sure there are the big, huge features in iPhone 3.0—like Copy and Paste—but what about the little stuff that was too trivial for Scott Forstall to do any more than mention? This is usually the stuff that really makes a release. Here are my favorite little things about iPhone 3.0 so far. I’m sure there will be many additions as more information leaks out.

The hot topic in the Apple portion of the internet this weekend has been the discovery of a chip in the iPod shuffle headphones. It seemed the intent was to lock in users even more by only allowing playback with this chip. The concern was that headphone manufacturers would need to pay Apple for use of the chip, thus passing the cost down to consumers. On top of that, consumers would have a smaller selection of headphones to choose from, as not just any headphone set would have the appropriate chip.

Apple is not letting up on the surprises this March, bringing the new shuffles out of nowhere after a desktop refresh, and now announcing a sneak peek of iPhone 3.0. But what will iPhone 3.0 be? I’m sure there will be a couple new features, but I think most 3.0 enhancements will be under the hood, and the addition of features that have been notably missing for quite a while.

The iPod shuffle update surprised everyone yesterday. It was completely unexpected—probably because it was unneeded. What has Apple done in this “update”? Let’s take a look…

One really powerful feature in Mac OS X that many users don’t know about or know how to use is Automator and its easy integration with the Finder. In the Automator, you can create custom workflows that you can then add to the Finder’s contextual menu. The flaw with this integration is that these commands are hidden within a submenu of a submenu in the contextual menu.