Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
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BatChmod — short for “Batch Change Mode” — lets you change the permissions on your files and folders. Finder’s “Get Info” also lets you do this, but BatChmod gives you more fine-grained control. (By the way, don’t change permissions on files if you don’t know what you’re doing.)
BatChmod’s most universally ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
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OmniGraffle is a useful tool that helps you draw beautiful diagrams, family trees, flow charts, org charts, layouts, and (mathematically speaking) any other directed or non-directed graphs. We’ve had people use Graffle to plan plotlines for a story, make an overview of an operating system, show the evolution of computers, ...
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
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Azureus is a very powerful java-based BitTorrent client. It has several options to personalize it and it gives you very good statistics on current downloads.
I have been able to reach very good speeds with Azureus. It also offers an embedded tracker that can be used to share large home videos ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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Clutter is an alternate way of deciding what song to play next, displaying your music collection as CD covers spread across your desktop. As you listen to music, just drag the covers from the Now Playing window onto your desktop to fill your screen with them. You can drag the ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
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Here is a nice collection of country themed mail stamps. You can change your default mail.app icon to match your country. There are 31 countries included and they look great.
These images are delivered in .png files, so if you want to use them as an icon, you will have to ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
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Simple Wellness is an icon set that gives you a wide variety of icons to replace your home and computer icons. Simple Wellness is user friendly and perfect for anybody looking for a different look for their home or computer icon.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
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WordPod is a nice application that will convert an e-book into a set of files that can be read on your iPod. You can navigate the e-book on your iPod by chapter and page number. Quite amazing really.
If you don’t have any e-books, drop by the Project Gutenberg, as WordPod ...
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
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Hey Folders! offers something Mac OS X probably should have right from the start. Hey Folders! gives all your folders with color labels a colored folder icon to match. As you change folders’ color labels, the colored icons update automatically. Cool.
Note: Finder must be restarted for the changes to take ...
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
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iShowU may not always be free, but while it is, here is a free app for creating screencasts. Screencasts are recordings of the computer screen, often with an audio track narrating what’s going on. With a screencast, you can teach your students how to perform certain tasks on the computer, ...
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
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“Soundflower is a virtual audio device that provides aneasy and simple way for Max/MSP and other applications to send and receive audio to and from any other application. Running with very low latency and cpu usage, Soundflower allows each client application to use its usual buffer size.
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