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Apr 27 2009

Valentine’s Special

This week weíll work on healing the rift between PCís and Macs with a few compatibility enhancers. I can feel the love blossoming already.

OEexporter/Importer

Convert address books between Windows and Mac versions of Outlook Express and Entourage with these scripts. The author provides some extensive instructions on how best to share your list of loved ones with both platforms.

icon2ico

Convert icons to and from Mac format and Windows XP format. Although, I canít see any reason why youíd want to insult your Mac with Windows icons. I guess itís all about giving and receiving.

Popper 1.6

Now this one is fun. With Popper, you can send pop-up messages to Windows 9x users on your network (so long as they have the winpopup application running). What a way to grab your PC sweetiesí attention!

SharePoints

Of course love means nothing without sharing. Share Points lets you take control of your PC (and Mac) file sharing through the Share Points preference pane. If you like this program, consider donating to the author.

Thatís it for our PC-Mac love fest. I hope youíve found this weekís features handy, and I hope we all can strengthen our relationships with our dear ones regardless of their platform preference.

As always, Iíll be back next week with more great free stuff.

Brian

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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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Apr 27 2009

GMx’s Freeloader Favs

I’ve got a potpourri of free stuff this week. Some fun, others that will help
you with your productivity.

Adobe Exchange

The Adobe Exchange is a site where you can pick up all kinds of brushes, actions,
styles and gradients among other things, for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
and GoLive. Most of them are produced by Adobe products users and are very good.
This can save you a lot of time. Some of the Photoshop actions are incredible.
And it’s all free! If you think you’re up to the challenge, you
can submit your own work.

mu GMxs Freeloader FavsSnard

Technically not freeóSnard only costs $10. If you don’t pay, there no annoying
timers or reminders. This excellent utility can be placed in the dock, as a menu
extra, or as a pop-up menu. You can stop your dock clutter by putting your apps
in the Snard menu. You can even add your System Preferences. You can also create
work groups for files you use most often. I couldn’t live without it now.

mu GMxs Freeloader FavsjEdit

jEdit is an open source Java based text editor that you can use for coding just
about anything: HTML, XML, C+, and other codes. There are a lot of plug-ins you
can also get to customize jEdit to fit your needs.

mu GMxs Freeloader FavsInVisibles

This little app just does one thing: it turns the visibility of files on and off.
You could do that with Cocktail or other utilities, but you always have to type
in your admin password. You don’t have to with InVisibles. So make sure if you
use it that nobody has access.

JoyChat

If your afraid of using IRC because it’s too complicated, this app is for you!
Based on Open Mac, JoyChat is about as easy as they come. It has a nice aqua interface
and is automatically set up to go on the Joy of Tech IRC channel (you can add
others too).

Correction: You can not add new channels to Joychat without recompiling it.

Now for something silly:

mu GMxs Freeloader FavsHacker
Translator

Wish you were 1337? Don’t have time to turn all those characters to numbers a
symbols? It’s Hacker Translator to the rescue. This little app takes your ordinary
text and automatically turns it to 1337 5p34|<. You can also translate the other
way, so if your kids are trying to use code to send messages about their nefarious
doings, you can catch them!

Well that’s all for this Friday. Enjoy!

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