Browse tag: system utilities

Browse tag: system utilities

Gems I’m thankful for
Sometimes we take for granted the little things that make our Mac-using lives easier. On this Thanksgiving holiday (here in the U.S., at least), Dan Frakes gives props to the Mac Gems he uses every day.
Open minimized windows in current space in Snow Leopard
Learn a simple keyboard shortcut to release minimized windows into the active Space, instead of back into their original Space.
Enable global text replacements in Snow Leopard
In Snow Leopard, text replacement must be enabled on a program by program basis. Use this hint to enable text replacements globally, at least in all programs that support them.
xGestures updated for Snow Leopard
xGestures is a program that allows mouse movements to trigger menu items, keystrokes, and AppleScripts; it's recently been updated to work with Snow Leopard.
Mac developers band together for One Finger Discount
Over two dozen Mac developers are participating in a "One Finger Discount" sale to celebrate great Mac software and offer a 20 percent discount to customers.
Secrets pref pane updated for Snow Leopard
The Mac preference pane with hundreds of hidden user interface tweaks is updated for Snow Leopard.
New DiskTool Pro update includes CPU meter, improved Snow Leopard support
Macware on Tuesday announced an update to DiskTools Pro, the company’s software utility for hard drive management.
Bugs & Fixes: Snow Leopard's Spelling Ignore button is ignored
After upgrading to Snow Leopard, have you noticed that words continue to be flagged as potentially incorrect even after you've clicked the Ignore button in the Spelling Checker? Ted Landau gets to the root of the problem.
SMART Utility monitors your hard drives' health
SMART Utility monitors the SMART status of your internal hard drives, warning you if any of them is showing signs of drive failure.
Multiple-Clipboard utilities (and why you should use one)
In this week’s Macworld video, Dan Frakes takes a look at three of his favorite utilities for gaining multiple Clipboards, in the process showing you how they can improve your productivity.
Find recently-used apps and documents in Snow Leopard
In Snow Leopard, you can use the Recent Items menu to help you quickly find where you saved a recently-used document (or application).
Two ways to download software updates in Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard removed a useful 'download only' option from Software Update. Learn two ways to replace that lost functionality.
Dictionary Cleaner lets you edit your spell-check dictionaries
Dictionary Cleaner is a System Preferences pane that lets you edit Mac OS X's custom spell-checking dictionaries.
Switch between app windows in different Spaces
Learn another method of switching between application windows for one program, when those windows are open in multiple Spaces
Mac News Briefs: Acrobat, Reader updates tackle security vulnerability
The 9.2 updates for Acrobat and Adobe Reader address vulnerabilities that could cause the applications to crash and potentially allow an attack to take control of the affected system. Also, SuperDuper and Cocktail both saw maintenance updates released on Tuesday.
Mac News Briefs: Logic Pro update enhances features, addresses stability
The minor update to Apple's professional music recording, editing, and mixing software allows Flex Markers to align and snap to MIDI notes, makes performing a punch-in recording with Replace Mode behave correctly, adds an option for latency measurement to he I/O plug-in, and causes TDM plug-ins to behave as expected.
Bevy brings a unique view to application launching
Bevy offers an interesting—and, at times, fun—way to access your applications: via a wall of icons that pops up on your command.
Force Dictionary to use one window in Snow Leopard
In Snow Leopard, the Dictionary app opens a new window every time you look up a word in Spotlight or via the Services menu. This hint explains how to force Dictionary to use one window.
Solutions for synchronizing folders
Student Ross Wehner would like to synchronize his school and home homework folder. Here are some suggestions.
Snow Leopard can once again Growl
The Growl notification framework has been updated for Snow Leopard with the release of Growl 1.2.
Latest version of StuffIt Deluxe incorporates cloud computing
Among its other new features, StuffIt Deluxe 2010 supports the new "cloud-based" StuffIt Connect service, which lets you share large files with other users more easily.
Associate files to applications using Services in Snow Leopard
If you don't like Snow Leopard's inability to automatically open certain documents in the program that create that document, you're not alone. While there's no permanent solution in sight, this hint provides a relatively easy way to associate a document with an application.
Mac News Briefs: Major update for Workgroups suite
Workgroups 2010, the productivity management software suite for marketing, creating design, packaging, and prepress workgroups, features a new Document Organizer and browser-based proofing tool. Also, IntelliScanner released a sub-$100 version of its scanner-based organizational tool, and a Carbon Copy Cloner update now works with Snow Leopard’s HFS+ filesystem compression.
Mac News Briefs: Tidy Up updated for Snow Leopard, iTunes 9
In announcing the 2.1 update to Tidy Up, Hyperbolic Software also said it was selling the software at a lower price for a limited time. Also, Zengobi released Curio 6, while Skype issued an update to stamp out some bugs.
USB Overdrive 3.0 adds 64-bit Snow Leopard support
Version 3.0 of Alessandro Levi Montalcini's venerable USB Overdrive utility for interfacing with USB input devices adds support for 64-bit Snow Leopard and more.
Review: Camtasia for Mac
The newest entrant in the screen recording market introduces some new features, but also comes with a few bugs and limitations.
Mac News Briefs: Western Digital revamps Mac drives
Western Digital unveiled redesigns for its My Passport and My Book hard drives for the Mac. Also, a number of companies rolled out software updates that added compatibility with Snow Leopard on Thursday. iWebTemplate has seven new templates for use with iWeb. And EditShare's product line is now compatible with the recently updated Final Cut Studio suite.
Use new Exposé features in Snow Leopard
Learn about how to use Quick Look with Exposé, and how to use Exposé with the Command-Tab application switcher
Snow Leopard's (partial) Gem substitutes
With every new version of Mac OS X, Apple adds features that replicate, fully or partially, the functionality of some third-party software. Dan Frakes takes a look at past Gems you may no longer need after upgrading, as well as areas where Snow Leopard still falls short.
How to create a Service in Snow Leopard
Want to learn how to create a simple Service in OS X 10.6? Rob Griffiths provides a step-by-step tutorial. The example service will extract text from PDF files, and save it in new text files. As a bonus, there's an included video version of the tutorial.