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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

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

Mac Only Freeware

We all love to see our machine of choice get more powerful, so why not be glad that Intel Macs can run native Windows? But lets not get too carried away. After all, we all know half of what we love about our Macs is the operating system. And while you’re in Aqua or Brushed Metal Nirvana, you can enjoy the following free applications knowing they’re only for the Mac.

applesm Mac Only FreewareAdium

Adium is the Appled version of Gaim, the Open Source mutli-protocol chat application. Adium sports Aqua polish and Mac only features over the top of Gaim’s evolving chat engine. Adium is also backed by a strong community and a slew of add-ons. Last week we covered Adium’s VoIP prowess via the Gizmo Project plugin. There’s even a portable version that runs on removable memory.

applesm Mac Only FreewareCamino

Recently hitting its 1.0 milestone, this Mozilla browser has OS X finesse. The Gecko rendering engine gives you a well supported alternative to WebKit and integrates with OS features like Bonjour, Key Chain, Address Book and Spotlight. Camino is fast and stable and includes powerful ad-blocking features built in.

camino Mac Only Freeware

Camino is also supported by an active community and includes cutting-edge features like Instant Back and Forward, bookmark search and pausing downloads.

applesm Mac Only FreewareCreammonkey

Still Safari-faithful? Then we have something for you to add one of Firefox’s most powerful features to OS X’s built in browser. Creammonkey introduces user script support to Safari. With this plugin, you can install and browse with user scripts – tiny JavaScript webpage enhancers. Because Safari’s Javascript and rendering are different than Firefox, not all scripts will work.

applesm Mac Only FreewareGrowl

We’ve referenced this system utility before, and its time it got a proper introduction. The Growl project introduces a system-level notification engine. Applications like Adium, Skype and many others support Growl for notification windows.

growl Mac Only Freeware

The appearance settings are highly configurable. Notifications can be read or emailed to you. Plugins add to the functionality (including notification of hot-swapped hardware) and window styles. Growl is also supported by a user community.

applesm Mac Only FreewareImageWell

This tiny app is a powerful graphics tool. There’s no point in launching Photoshop and Fetch when all you want to do is crop, scale and upload an image. This can all be done in this tiny graphics utility.

imagewell2 Mac Only Freeware

Whats more, ImageWell supports annotation (think dialog bubbles) borders, watermark and drop shadow effects. And, when you are done ImageWell will upload the image with the touch of a button.

Happy 30th to Apple. Three decades and still the coolest in tech.

Brian

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