Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
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Podcasting is all the rage right now, but when videoblogging becomes more popular, FireANT will be a good tool to have. With FireANT you can automatically download and watch videos as they are released.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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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 ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
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DockX is a free application that will allow you to customize your Mac’s dock and to create your own dock themes using the included dock skin creator app. DockX also comes with a number of preset skins you can use to customize the dock.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
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Every now and then, just for kicks and giggles, I fire up MegaManEffect. Every time an application is launched thereafter, that app’s icon is presented with the music and animated background from Mega Man 2’s enemy intro screen. Fellow nerds will get a real kick out of this one.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
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Transmission is a simple, no-frills BitTorrent client. It’s a beautiful Cocoa app; I think if Apple were to build a torrent app, this is what it would look like.
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
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Email Backup is an easy to use, automated email backup solution. It allows for scheduled backups of the most common email applications through the configuration of a simple interface.
This is especially nice in case your mail database ever decides to go corrupt. You may choose to back up to an ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
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Here’s one for the digital comics fans. FFView reads archive types, including .ZIP, .RAR, .CBR, and .CBZ, as well as TIFFs, GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs. Though it can be used for viewing other images (not just comics), FFView is especially designed for digital comics and has many features and preference ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Ebbinghaus is a well done application that helps you learn things. Once you input a list, the application will quiz you with the questions and answers.
Like freeware apps Genius and ProVoc, Ebbinghaus will teach you with repetition. But Ebbinghaus has a great color coding feature that will keep track of your progress. You ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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Spotlaser is a very nice app that takes the power of Spotlight to new levels. When run, it will let you input all kinds of information to make your searches much more specific.
Plus, the icon and app look really good.
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
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I’ve wanted this for a long time but didn’t find it until now. SizzlingKeys provides global keyboard shortcuts for controlling iTunes. For example, if iTunes is playing in the background, I can press Command-Option-Right Arrow to skip to the next song, even if I’m working in Safari. SizzlingKeys supports Play, ...
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