Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Coda - Web develment
Coda is an all in one web development tool from Panic. It is a very complete tool that features a built in FTP client, reference book, editor, and terminal. This application has a real Mac feel to it. It is not free but definitely worth the investment.
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Mac application,
web development
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Stanza - eReader
Stanza is an application that you may already know from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch. This is the eReader for your Mac that lets you open various different formats including Epub. Happy ereading!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Blogo - Blogging
Blogo is another application to easily publish text, images, videos, slideshows and more. The app has a simple, intuitive interface and support for Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla, and Expression Engine. It will allow you to maintain your blog and spread the word with Twitter, Ping.fm and other supported services.
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blogging,
Mac application
MarsEdit - Blogging
MarsEdit is on of the best best blog editor applications for the Mac. Compatible with many different blogging systems, WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, for example. Amongst many other functions it allows you to have custom markups, perfect for custom CSS styles. It also has a great tool for adding Technorati tags.
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blogging,
Mac application
X-lite - Softphone VOIP
X-lite is a VoIP soft phone that uses the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). In order to use the client you need set up an account with providers such as Voipbuster.
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Mac application,
softphone
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Winebottler - Windows on Mac
Winebottler is an application that allows you to run windows applications on your Mac. The first question is why would you want to do that? But then again there are instances when this is handy. The installation of programs may take some time, so be patient. For programs to work I recommend you to follow the "how to" steps.
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Mac application,
Windows on Mac
Speeddownload - Download manager
Speeddownload is a turbo-charged download manager with auto-resuming downloads, a fully featured secure FTP client, a file sharing utility with full encryption, and complete .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity — all this put into one small and easy to use application.
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downloading,
Mac application
Thursday, July 22, 2010
CloudApp - Storage
CloudApp is a completely free, extremely easy to use, and very useful application for anyone looking for a better way to share files.
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Mac application,
storage
Watts - System maintenance
Watts is a great application that functions as a calibration tool for your Mac battery. Use this tool to extend the battery life of your Mac.
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Mac application,
System maintenance
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Caffeine - System
Caffeine is a tiny application that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
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Mac application,
system
Anxiety - Productivity
Anxiety is an application that provides a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.
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Mac application,
Productivity
Liquid Mac - Fun
LiquidMac - Fun little app to mimic the behavior of liquid by creating a particle system that reacts to the computer's orientation. This app uses the motion sensor in your mac. Have fun playing around.
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Fun,
Mac application
Dropbox - Storage
Dropbox is an excellent application that lets you easily share files on multiple computers or with friends. You get 2 gigas of free space and can earn op to 8 more by inviting others. Paid accounts available up to 100 GB.
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Mac application,
storage
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
AppFresh - Utility
AppFreshis a great application that keeps all of your Mac applications up-to-date and most important of all automatically. Still in beta, but so necessary.
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Mac application,
Utility
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Tofu - Reader
Tofu makes reading on your computer a whole new experience and much more like reading a book. Drag or paste text into Tofu and it arranges everything in classy columns that scroll side to side (not up and down). This is ergonomic reading on your Mac.
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Mac application,
reader
xPad - Word processing
xPad is an excellent application that serves great as a word processorFor most writing a word processor. Your notes sit in a sidebar and save automatically when you quit. Way better than stickies or TextEdit.
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Mac application,
Word processing
SpamSieve - Email
SpamSieve is an application for anybody who uses Mail for Mac. After a few days of training, SpamSieve will obliterate junk mail and leave good emails untouched. The app is free for the first 30 days, then worth every penny.
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Email,
Mac application
Thursday, December 3, 2009
CandyBar - Icon customization
CandyBar - Is a great application that allows you to customize all icos. In addition it can be used to manage icons.
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CandyBar,
icon customization,
Mac application
DeskLickr - Desktop
DeskLickr is a simple application that uses the large photo resource of Flickr to change your wallpaper every so often. Makes a cool change.
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DeskLickr,
Mac application
GraphicConverter - Conversion
GraphicConverter is a great image-manipulation applicatoin that used to come free with the Mac.
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conversion,
Graphic Converter,
Mac application
ApGrapher - Wifi detection
ApGrapher is a great little program that offers the ability to find information about the wireless networks whizzing around your head.
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Mac application,
Wifi
UnRarX - File compression
UnRarX is an applications that gives you the abilty to easily uncompress .rar files. Very good, although stuffit can now handle .rar files.
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file compression
Disk Inventory X - System maintenance
Disk Inventory X is a simple program that scans your disk and visually shows what files takes up how much space, good to visualize if you are running out of space and you have some size hogs.
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Disk management,
System maintenance
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Skim - PDF Reader
Skim is a great application for PDF reading. The new version is almost perfect certainly in the field of full screen reading and presentation. Easier to use as a viewer than Adobe Reader. The ability to attach notes is an added plus.
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Mac application,
PDF
iWillQuit - Maintenance
iWillQuit is a a very usefull little application that is sure to save your laptops hard drive. If you have a network in your house, schedule it to download files at night so as to not slow down others using the network or to keep your VOIP working without delay. Apple’s scheduler will not shut down/sleep while there is an internet radio stream, but iWillQuit does. iWillQuit works just as it said it does, shuts down, sleeps, etc.
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Mac application,
System maintenance
ImageWell - Picture editing
ImageWell is the easy way to edit, rotate, crop, and resize your image and upload it to your iDisk (.mac account), FTP server, or WebDAV server. No need to launch multiple applications to add text, labels, thought clouds, talking balloons, drop shadows, watermarks, and shapes.
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Mac application,
Picture editing
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
iCompt - Personal finance
iCompta is an application that lets you manage your personal accounts with ease and it also lets you reconcile transactions which are on your bank reports and therefore check that you are up to date with your accounts
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Mac application,
Personal Finance
Quinn - Games
Quinn is an arcade-style tetromino puzzle game written and designed specifically for Mac OS X. It features a clean, elegant user interface, beautiful graphics, and smooth, subtle animations for fluid gameplay. One of the most simple yet addictive games ever.
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games,
Mac application
iAlertU - Alarm system
iAlertU is the first of its kind alarm system for your Apple MacBook computer. Basically iAlertU is a car alarm for your Apple Mac. iAlertU uses the built in sudden motion sensor (SMS) device to detect movement of your Apple MacBook and triggers an audible and visual alarm. The alarm can also be triggered by keyboard and mouse/trackpad movement.
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alarm system,
Mac application
iShowU - Recording
iShowU is an application that takes a direct recording of your screen. Great if you want to make recordings of specific applications. A good CPU is important for this application
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Mac application,
Screen video
Friday, September 11, 2009
Name Mangler - Editing
Name Mangler is a usefull application if you need to rename several files at once every now and then. It supports all common tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.
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Editing,
Mac application,
Name Mangler
Drive Genius 2 - Maintenance
Drive Genius is an excellent application that allows you to manage your harddrive. Although not free it is an excellent tool to speed up your Mac after having used it for some time. Defragmentation is something for Windows, but Mac drives also get cluttered. This application allows you clean up your Mac.
Desktop curtain - tool
Desktop curtain is a small application that allows you to throw a curtain up in front of your existing desktop. If you have a messy desktop and often give presentations this may the solution. Just "close" the curtain and you have a clean desktop.
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Desktop Curtain,
Mac application
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Tidy Up - Organization
Tidy Up is a nice application that allows you to search through a list of files finds duplicates. Great if you have many files and you need to organise them.
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Mac application,
Organization
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Free Icon - Icon Picture
Icon Drawer is not an application but is a web site that offers a wide variety of free icons for your Mac. Ready to change the colours of your standard icons such as iPhoto etc to classy black and blue? Or simply want to change them competely? Here you can find the options.
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Icon Drawer,
Icons
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
SiteSucker - Web
SiteSucker is an application that automatically downloads web sitesfrom the Internet. It does this by copying the site’s HTML documents, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL and click a button an SiteSucker can download an entire web site.
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Mac application,
sitesucker
Compress - File compression
Compress is an applicaton that lets you compress your files or folders (for sending them over the internet or whatever other reason) in a variety of formats — tar, bzip, gzip, p7zip, and zip — by simply dragging and dropping.
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Compress,
file compression,
Mac application
AppFresh - System Maintenance
AppFresh is very useful free tool that keeps all applications on your Mac up to date by checking the internet for new releases and makes downloading and installing them a breeze.
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AppFresh,
Mac application,
System maintenance
MorphX - Fun
MorphX is an application that you can really have some fun using. With MorphX, you take two pictures and transition between the two of them smoothly make it a funny ensemble.
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Fun,
Mac application,
MorphiX
Spark - Utility
Spark is a powerful and easy to use shortcuts manager that allows you to create and organize accessible shortcuts any time. With Spark you can create Hot Keys to launch applications and documents, execute AppleScript, command iTunes, and more…
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Mac application,
Spark,
System maintenance
Assignment Tracker X - Organization
Assignment Tracker X is a great application for the students amongst you looking to keep good record of their assignments and classes for school. It has great features like time management tools and assignment lists.
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Assignment Tracker X,
Mac application,
Organization
Hidden settings - System Maintenance
Hidden Settings is an easy to use and free OS X preference pane that installs into the System Preferences application on your Mac. The purpose of the Hidden Settings preference pane is to provide users an easy way to access some hidden features in the operating system and some applications that ship with it.
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Hidden settings,
Mac application,
System maintenance
Slife - Productivity
Slife is an application that allows you to monitor what your time on your Mac is spent on. It is even possible to reward yourself for spending time on certain tasks.
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Mac application,
Productivity,
Slife
Monday, August 3, 2009
MacTheRipper - Ripping
MackTheRipper is an application that as the name may reveal allows you to copy DVD's to your Mac. Start ripping now.
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DVD ripping,
Mac application
LittleSnapper - Screenshot
LittleSnapper is an application that allows you to take screen shots of your entire screen or specific parts of a web page.
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LittleSnapper,
Mac application,
Screenshot Plus
Growl - Audio Converter
Growl is a simple yet essential application that allows you to convert audio files to almost all different types of existing extentions.
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Audio converter,
Growl,
Mac application
Flip4Mac - Converter
Flip4Mac is an application that allows you to play Windows Media Files on your Mac. After installation Quick Time can handle all Windows Media files be it on your computer or on the internet.
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conversion,
Flip4Mac,
Mac application
iSquint - Converter
iSquint is a very useful application to convert video in order to import all your video material to iTunes allowing you to play it on your iPod and iPhone. This application no longer exists but can still be found in certain places.
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iSquint,
Mac application,
Video converter
Friday, July 31, 2009
iStat Pro - Utility
iStat Pro is a highly configurable widget that lets you monitor every aspect of your Mac, including CPU, memory, disks, network, battery, temperatures, fans, load & uptime and processes.
Labels:
Mac application
Set Icon - Tool
Set Icon is a small application that lets you quickly and easily set a custom icon for one your drives either from an ICNS file or any old image file that Mac OS supports.
Labels:
Mac application,
Set Ico
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