Mar 5 2007
Merlin Mann of 43 Folders and MacBreak has a nifty little how-to in the latest edition of The Merlin Show. Mr. Mann shows us how to use Quicksilver and a simple tap of the comma key to collect documents into a stack and apply the same action to all of them. Handy and productive stuff.
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Feb 16 2007
I have really been enjoying the set up Merlin Mann recommended in MacBreak 33: The Distracted Mac. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please follow the link and watch the video. The set up shows you how to free your Mac from visual clutter and does it rather well… sort of.
One particular piece of the uncluttered Mac puzzle–SpiritedAway (which automatically hides background Applications)–hasn’t been updated in ages and bogs down on Intel-based Macs. For that matter, the developer’s site has been displaying a Japanese 404 message for the last little while. So what’s a guy to do?
August Trometer of FoggyNoggin Software saw our desperation and has added this same feature (which he calls “Window Cleaning”) to the latest edition of Desktopple Pro.
Desktopple quickly and easily hides all of your Desktop clutter. A quick trip to your menu bar or the touch of a hotkey is all it takes, and those icons, windows and even the Menu Bar itself vanish from view.
Desktopple not only replaces SpiritedAway with Intel-friendly speed, but it one-ups its freeware sibling as well as another of Merlin Mann’s recommended System add-ons–Backdrop. By making Desktopple Pro a Preference Pane application, it frees your Dock of an extra icon and can even do the same for your Menu Bar without losing functionality.
Although it is not a new feature, Desktopple’s Menu Dimming does away with the need for another of The Distracted Mac’s recommended add-ons–MenuShade–saving you one more running app and an icon’s worth of Dock clutter.
For USD$17, Desktopple Pro serves up a screen free of distractions for us busy MacMercs. The update is free for registered users. FoggyNoggin offers a 15-day trial of Desktopple Pro as well as a freeware version with an appropriate feature set reduction.
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Sep 11 2006
Leo Laporte, host and creator of one of the most popular podcasts in the world, this WEEK in TECH (TWiT), today announced the TWiT.tv Podcasting Network, becoming the largest independent podcast media company, featuring 10 technology podcasts. Each TWiT.tv podcast provides context and analysis of all the significant areas of technology, from the foremost authorities and personalities in the field. TWiT.tv podcasts include: this WEEK in TECH, this WEEK in MEDIA, Security Now! Inside the Net, FLOSS Weekly, The Daily Giz Wiz, MacBreak, The Tech Guy on KFI, Futures in Biotech and Radio Leo. The first advertisers on the TWiT.tv Podcast Network and the ad campaigns will run for three-months.
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