Freeloader Friday Download of the Week

Apr 27 2009

Feelin’ Blue(tooth)

The Mac is the best place to be, if you’ve got a Bluetooth phone. Not only can you bypass expensive download fees by installing themes, pictures, ringtones and games directly from your Mac (Bluetooth File Exchange), but you can also interact with your Mac using some of my freeware picks.

mu Feelin Blue(tooth)Romeo

Find your phone’s lost love in this great app. Romeo allows you to pilot your Mac from your Bluetooth phone. Use your phone as a mouse, control a slew of applications including iTunes from across the room and add addition applications with Romeo plug-ins.

mu Feelin Blue(tooth)BluePhoneMenu

Keep track of your signal strength, get and make calls from your Mac with this handy menu extra. Oh yeah, get and send SMS messages from your Mac too. The newest version requires Panther.

mu Feelin Blue(tooth)BlueNotes

Send quick notes to your SonyEricsson phone with this little app. Simple and straightforward.

What’s better than free? Getting a SonyEricsson T610 for -$150 after rebates* with T-Mobile. Buy it now at Amazon.

Or if AT&T is more your flavor, you can land a similar deal with the T616, here at Amazon.

There’s all you need to cut your first Bluetooth. Have fun.

Brian

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*Offered by Amazon and T-Mobile/AT&T. Subject to their terms and conditions, blah, blah, blah.

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Apr 27 2009

Firefox Updates

Just when you thought all things Firefox had settled down, new extensions and updates get things fired up again. This week I’ll point you to the first public alphas of Firefox and Thunderbird 1.1as well as two cool new add-ons.

For those of you who like doing it all in Firefox, you have two less reasons to leave your browser with these free applications…

FoxiPod

This free Mac application works with the Greasemonkey extension (required) to allow you to send podcasts from a link in your browser directly to iTunes.

FoxiPod Firefox Updates

FoxiPod’s user script marks all mp3′s with a special button, and with one click FoxiPod downloads podcasts and sends them to a specified playlist or iPod.

AIMfire

There are a lot of great, full-featured chat applications out there. But, if all you need to do is jump on AIM to drop someone a note, you’ll be interested in AIMfire.

AIMfire Firefox Updates

With the AIMfire extension, a quick visit to Firefox’s Tools menu will fire up your buddy list and let you chat (with rich text support) from within Firefox.

Of course, progress is always being made in the quest to make Firefox the perfect browser. Since the 1.0 release, the Open Source team has been busy. If you’re the daring type, you can grab the bleeding-edge Alphas of the 1.1 versions of Firefox and Thunderbird.

I don’t need to remind you of the dangers of pre-release software, so beware.

Deer Park AKA Firefox 1.1 Alpha

New in this release we’ve got improved display options in OS X, image thumbnails on tabs and full keyboard access.

Thunderbird 1.1 Alpha

Naturally, the ‘Fox’s little brother is improved as well. the 1.1 Alpha includes default inline spell checking, Podcast support and improved feed reading and POP/IMAP access.

Have fun with the Alphas and extensions. And remember, there’s never a dull moment with Mozilla.

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

New Year’s Calendars

Happy New Year! Get your first resolution resolved with a new calendar solution. Below we’ve got all kinds of solutions – all of which are free.

mu New Years CalendarsChandler

This ambitious Open Source project is fresh and innovative. Chandler can quickly turn mail into tasks and tasks into calendar items. Chandler can sync with a WebDAV server and process your IMAP or POP email.

chandler New Years Calendars

The interface and organizational ideas in this solution are some of the best I’ve seen, but this application is new and not fast or feature-complete.
It may not be ready for prime-time, but the ideas behind it are exciting, and good things are in store for the project.

mu New Years CalendarsRevolver

Not unlike Chandler, this is an all-in-one mail, task, calendar solution. The unified interface makes it easy to manage your info in one place. The application is slick and easy to use, but does not sync with iCal.

revolver New Years Calendars

There are some German interface glitches, and the import/export functions are crude (delimited data files) but it is fast and easy to use.

HipCal

This web-based calendar/todo solution has a great interface and flexible features. It promises iCal sync in the future. HipCal imports contacts and also includes email alerts and repeating events/tasks.

Mozilla Sunbird

This stand-alone project spun off from Mozilla Calendar has hatched a new version, 0.3 alpha. The daring will find it full of extra features like file attachment and advanced scheduling.

mu New Years CalendarsPreminder

This Mac-only app has a very interesting interface, with unique display options.

preminder New Years Calendars

It’s more attractive and accessible than most alternatives, and imports/exports iCal calendars.

mu New Years CalendarsMail2iCal and Mail2iCalToDo

These two AppleScripts allow you to easily create calendar and task items from mail messages in Mail.app. Many of us use our inboxes as todo lists, now we can actually turn mail into events and tasks.

That’s it for our free calendar round-up. Stay organized this year, and make free software a resolution fo 2006.

Brian

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