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Aug 2 2010

Pod à porter – neckband for iPod shuffle

In a time when it’s all about multi-touch technology and the ability to download apps, the iPod without a screen is oft forgot.

While surfing my usual haunts on these, our interwebs, I came across the Pod à Porter. It’s a neckband that attaches to the top of your iPod shuffle and channels the earbud cable around a rigid loop that you can hook around your neck.

Pod à porter is the easiest way to wear your music – even if you’re not wearing much. No more headphones dangling by your knees; no more ripping the buds from your ears when you take off your jacket.

The Pod à Porter sells for US$ 27.00¹ and is simple, but awesome.

€ 20.72 [↩]

By RickMacMerc • Featured, gadgets, iPod • Comments Off • Tags: buds, cable, download, earbud, ears, headphones, interwebs, ipod shuffle, Jacket, knees, Music, neck, neckband, pod, rigid loop, Screen, technology, touch technology, way

Jul 29 2010

TotalFinder brings tabs to Snow Leopard

I wanted to throw out a tip that has made my Mac-using experience much more productive: you are probably familiar with tabs in your web browser. They let you open a bunch of webpages without actually having a bunch of windows cluttering up your screen—they’re all nicely gathered in one window and are each accessible via their own tab. Get ready to have that same tabbed awesomeness in the Finder with TotalFinder from BinaryAge.

Just like in your web browser, you can switch between tabs, drag tabs to and from windows and reorder them within windows. There are tons of other customization options available under the Finder Preferences once the software is installed.

If you worry about installing Finder plugins, and well you should, TotalFinder does not overwrite your Finder.app files. It modifies the running Finder application image in-memory. If you install the software and still feel guilty about it later, BinaryAge supplies an uninstaller to set things right back the way they were—no one has to know. You can even disable TotalFinder without uninstalling it via the Terminal, just check out the FAQs

Version 0.9.6, which came out earlier this week, is available for free. Once version 1.0 arrives, TotalFinder will cost $15. So, I recommend you give Finder productivity a try and see if you’ll be on board when this freeware goes payware. I know I will.

What cool productivity gems are you using to make the most of you Mac experience? Let me know in the comments. If you teach me something new, I’ll link you up when I post about it!

By RickMacMerc • News, productivity, tips • 2 • Tags: awesomeness, BinaryAge, board, browser, bunch, customization, customization options, experience, Finder, freeware, gems, leopard, link, mac experience, Mac-using, memory, productivity, reorder, Screen, Snow, software, tab, tabs, tip, TotalFinder, uninstaller, way, web, Window

Apr 27 2009

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