Enhance

Apr 27 2009

Enhance your OS

This week’s tools will allow you to view PDF’s in your browser, tweak colors in iCal and swap out that spinning beach ball…

PDF Browser Plugin

This broswer plugin, installed in your “Internet Plugins” folder in your Library allows Internet Explorer or any other compatible browser (Netscape, Chimera) to display PDF files. It’s simple and works.

iCalibrate

Having a hard time reading text in your iCal? This utility allows you to tweak the text colors for each calendar color. Now you can make your text more readable, or go extreme and push the limits of the Apple System Color Picker.

Beachball

Feelings of loath are quickly associated with whatever animated icon Apple’s programers put in the OS to placate users while the Mac thinks. Now you can rotate your “wait cursor” whenever you feel like it.

Beachball is a straightforward and self-proclaimed “idiot proof” method for changing cursors. It comes with 10 different cursors and even a couple new arrows. The application comes with information on creating your own cursors that you can import into Beachball.

So, if nothing else, this week’s features should break up some of the monotony in your OS. Have a colorful week.

Brian

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Apr 27 2009

Safarific Browser Add-ons

Safari may not be your default browser, but if you have Jaguar or better, you have it. Now, you can get more out of it with great add-ons and enjoy cool new features in the beta. And, for those of you stranded on Windows you can finally join the party.

Safari 3 beta

We know its fast. And its given that the beta will be buggy. But there are some other lesser-know but cool features. Tabs can be dragged between windows. Inline find and resizable text fields add Apple suave to your browsing.

While its not a 100% Mac experience, Safari on Windows is a nice change and very fast. Finally, Safari is a cross-platform experience.

SafariPlus

Safari doesn’t support extensions like Firefox, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t usefull add-ons. Take SafariPlus: with it you can take control of your cookies and block annoying animations. And don’t worry, there’s already an alpha version compatible with the 3.0 beta.

PicLens

Enhance your image browsing experience with this great add-on for Safari. PicLens transforms Flickr and other popular image sites into a slick light-box style full-screen interface with instant image loading and even Apple remote support.

Creammonkey

We’ve featured this project before. This user script add-on for Safari has matured to .9 and added support for more Greasemonkey functions – making it more compatible with user scripts hosted at userscripts.org.

SurfRabbit

Want to alter the display of webpages without user scripts? SurfRabbit supports the whole family of WebKit browsers, and allows you to reshape how pages display in your browser. Cleaning up sites littered with clutter is as easy as selecting the elements you don’t want to see.

Happy surfin’ Safari!

Brian

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