JewelToy (aka Bejeweled) is a nice game to get addicted to. I’ve played this game many times online, but I was glad to find a nice freeware version to play offline on a Mac.
JewelToy is a puzzle game where you line up three gems in a row to make them disappear and then try again, gaining points along the way. Simple and fun.
VoxOx is an entirely new way to take complete control of your interconnected lifestyle. Never miss a call. Never miss a text, IM, e-mail or fax.
Make a conference call or video chat with the click of a mouse. Call anywhere in the world for pennies… or even better, for free!
Now you can compulsively check your list of “At Home” movies, complete with estimated delivery dates, from your desktop. IF you are both obsessive and a Netflix customer, you will certainly enjoy Dashflix.
Tiffany Screens is a presentation tool, able to capture the content of the presenter’s screen and send it to multiple other computer screens at the same time. Any computer can seamlessly become the presenting computer, no matter if connected wirelessly or through an Ethernet cable.
The self-contained solution does neither require nor use a server. It automatically detects all computers on a local network, running the software and those computers can watch the presentation projected onto their screens. Best of all, with a single button click, any computer can switch from watching into presenting mode.
SMSwiss (formerly SMSunrise Widget) is a great widget that works with a free MySunrise account and allows you to send SMSs from your Dashboard! Address Book + SMSunrise = Love - With its seamless Address Book integration, SMSunrise lets you instantly find the receiver’s phone number.
Why do we like Macs? “We just do.” Also, they rarely breakdown. But if you experience disk trouble, AppleJack can help. It’s the Mac freeware we hope you never have to use.
Once installed, AppleJack is accessible from the Single-User Mode command prompt. (Hold down Apple-S while booting.) AppleJack can repair your startup volume, repair permissions, cleanup cache files, and validate preference files. It has a simple text menu so you don’t have to remember commands.
Also see the Macfixit article on AppleJack and read the cautions.
This could be a life saver in case of trouble.
I’d love to try this one out, but my Mac ain’t a laptop. MacSaber takes advantage of the motion sensor in newer Mac laptops (it’s not yet compatible with older ones). It senses the speed and acceleration of motion as you swing your laptop around, producing varying lightsaber sounds (of both movement and striking). The site also mentions keyboard backlight effects, and invites you to try it out in a dark room, so apparently the app not only sounds cool, but looks sweet, too.
f you take a few different photos of a landscape and you want to stitch them together to make a panorama, hugin is the way to do it. Just line up the photos and save them as one. It’s pretty straight-forward and has good results.
The new panorama features in Photoshop CS3 work really well. I used it recently on some photos I took of the Golden Gate Bridge. But, Photoshop is expensive and not everyone can afford a copy. hugin can be a nice replacement.
MacFusion brings all sorts of information to your Mac in the form of files and folders displayed as just another Volume on your Mac desktop. Right now you can use this software to show a Secure Shell or Secure FTP share from another computer on your macs desktop, letting you manipulate the files on it as if they were on your own computer.
