Browse tag: utilities

Browse tag: 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.
CookieThief syncs cookies between Safari and Camino
CookieThief is a simple utility that lets you sync Website cookies between the Safari and Camino browsers.
Review: Mindjet for iPhone
Mindjet has managed to squeeze the power, ease, and versatility of its desktop mindmapping application into an iPhone app. It's an effective tool, though it comes with some limitations.
Review: MacScan 2.7 spyware protection software
Although most iPhone users seem satisfied with the smorgasbord of applications delivered by Apple's iPhone App Store, power users yearn for more. Copy and paste...
Copy music off your iPod
There's nothing worse than losing your iTunes library to a hard drive crash. If you have music on your iPod, you can at least get it back with the right tools.
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.
Review: WritePad Pro for iPhone
Apart from some quibbles and a few trade-offs, the feature-rich WritePad Pro is a very fine personal organizational tool.
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.
Bugs & Fixes: LaunchBar causes an unexpected surprise
LaunchBar is an application (plus much more) par excellence. But a new feature in LaunchBar 5 has caused a headache for bug-finder Ted Landau.
SimplyDisk simplifies custom disk-image creation
SimplyDisk is an easy-to-use utility for creating custom disk images and discs for distributing software and other content.
MacUpdate Desktop 5 adds smart scanning, drops price
A major update to MacUpdate Desktop brings a refined user interface and features such as smart scanning and one-click updating, in addition to a lower price.
Review: FlickTunes for iPhone
This app, which makes use of your handheld's full screen for control music playback, is the ideal music manager for for drivers, joggers and multi-taskers.
More Mac bundles for the masses
TheMacSale 2 and TheMacBundles offer their own respective bundles of Mac software for $50, but at what cost to developers?
Indev Software releases MiniMail 2.0
The latest version of MiniMail adds a small message notification view to Mail, multiple viewers, and Snow Leopard compatibility.
Review: CardPro for iPhone
This organization app lets you keep track of your contacts by snapping a picture of their business cards with the iPhone's built-in camera and entering the name and company. CardPro has the potential to save you time in organizing the business cards you collect, though there are some caveats.
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.
MacHeist offers six Mac apps for free
MacHeist offers six Mac applications for free, in exchange for your email address. And no Twitter spamming this time, either.
Shifting large media libraries
It happens to lots of us: Large media files choke our startup drive. Here are solutions for sharing the wealth between an internal and external hard drive.
RemoteSight turns an iSight into CCTV
Ben Software's new RemoteSight can turns an iSight—or other video input source—into a video-monitoring system for your home.
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.
Review: Battery Go for iPhone
This app won't tell you exactly how much battery life you have left on your iPhone or iPod touch, but then it doesn't claim to do that. Rather, Battery Go gives you a pretty good estimate for how much juice you'll need to perform tasks on your mobile device. Large icons and a slider make this simple app easy to use.
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.
Review: AppBox Pro for iPhone
This collection of 21 utilities isn't slick, but that doesn't detract from its usefulness. Bundling nearly two dozen apps into one package means you'll get good value out of AppBox Pro, even if you wind up using just a few of its utilities.
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.
Two more Snow Leopard Expose tips
Learn how to change the Expose All Windows sort order, and how to control whether or not Expose searches across Spaces in Application Windows mode.
1Password 3 beta now open to all
1Password 3, the latest version of Agile Web Solutions's password storage utility for Safari, is now available in beta mode for all interested parties.
First Look: VMware Fusion 3
VMware Fusion3 brings better overall performance and a number of major new features to the virtualization app. Fusion now supports "Aero" 3D effects in Windows 7 and Vista, improves 3D graphics performance, and includes full Snow Leopard support.
ScreenFlow 2.0 adds powerful new editing features
Telestream's already-powerful screencasting studio, ScreenFlow, gets more powerful with version 2.0.