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Apr 27 2009

At Your Fingertips

Great freeware utilities make the important features of your Mac more accessible. This week we’ll look at several applications that do just that.

Tiger Launch

Tiger Launch is a menu extra that brings up a menu of all of your applications. If you have a lot of apps, you will be scrolling a lot, but it is one-click access.

QuikImageCM

This contextual menu item allows you to view images with a right-click in the finder. It doesn’t stop there either. On the same menu you can remove or add thumbnail icons.

Services Manager

This Preference Pane allows you to manage which system services are available to which programs. This one is still in beta, so you’ll want to be careful…

MediaDock

This utility gives you a second “dock” of sorts, which shows your mounted media. MediaDock lets you easily access your media in hierarchical menus, and is full of display and position options.

I hope this week’s picks have made your Mac more accessible. If not, at least it didn’t cost you anything.

Join me next week for more great free stuff.

Brian

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May 23 2008

Status Screen Saver 1.0 keeps you up on Mail and Twitter in screen saver mode

Picture 3 20080522 225956 Status Screen Saver 1.0 keeps you up on Mail and Twitter in screen saver modeStatus Screen Saver lets you notifies you of your unread emails in Mail, new tweets in Twitterrific and new news items in NetNewsWire all while leaving your Mac’s screen display any other screen saver of you choice.

The developer, Logan Rockmore, has also made it easy for you to add support for other applications as long as they allow Applescript to check on their status.

Status Screen Saver is freeware with strong encouragement to treat it as donationware.

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Jan 9 2007

iPhone… it’s for you!

352375636 99f2f56631 m iPhone... its for you!Apple today put the rumors to rest and introduced the iPhone, combining three products–a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, searching and maps–into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display ( <--- watch this video and see if this technology doesn't play out in future Apple products) and pioneering new software, letting users control iPhone with just their fingers. iPhone also ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, which completely redefines what users can do on their mobile phones.

iPhone will be available in the US in June 2007, Europe in late 2007, and Asia in 2008, in a 4GB model for USD$499 and an 8GB model for USD$599, and will work with either a PC or Mac. iPhone will be sold in the US through Apple’s retail and online stores, and through Cingular’s retail and online stores. Several iPhone accessories will also be available in June, including Apple’s new remarkably compact Bluetooth headset.

iPhone includes support for quad-band GSM, EDGE, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 EDR wireless technologies. iPhone requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X v10.4.8 or later and iTunes 7; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4), Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 2). Internet access is required and a broadband connection is recommended. Apple and Cingular will announce service plans for iPhone before it begins shipping in June.

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