Evernote — a Virtual Shoebox for Your Mac
Take a look at your desk or work space. Do you see little yellow sticky notes everywhere? Do you have "while you were out" slips on your desk? Do you have a bunch of receipts and notes that you need to file way? If you're like most people, you probably have at least some of these things on your desk at work. If you need to get organized, the free, cross-platform note-taking application Evernote could be your first step on the road toward sanity recovery.
Read more...AppFresh — Automatic Updates for Your Software
As a Mac user, do you ever have trouble keeping all of the applications on your Mac updated? I know I do. I'm always opening this program or that program and finding a dialog box prompting me to download the latest version. I want to use the program right away and not worry about updating to a new version. I wish I didn't have to worry about updating software. Appfresh, a new utility still in beta from German developer metaquark, aims to solve that problem. So, does it work?
Read more...iVolume
Recently I cleaned up our household's iTunes library. I merged two, more or less, similar libraries, cleaned out duplicates, assigned cover art, checked the tags and I used a little tool called iVolume to level out the volume of my entire library. Now I am able to listen to random tracks without constantly adjusting the volume just because the individual levels of the tracks are way off.
Read more...MacJournal
Mariner Software's MacJournal is designed for writers, bloggers and diarists. It's a program with a simple focus: to make writing easy. Designer Dan Schimpf has released five versions of MacJournal since 2001 and won the coveted Apple Design Award for Best Student Product in 2002.
MacJournal is regularly touted as world's most popular journaling software for the Macintosh and it seems to be the most used. What gives?
Read more...Formulate Pro — Filling Things Out
Today I wanted to talk about a little program that you might not need to use very often, but when you need it it is worth its weight in gold. Did you ever have to fill out forms? Most of the time they come as PDF, but sometimes it is just a plain image. There are a few tools out there that allow you to fill out forms. Some of them cost a bit like PDFpen, PDFClerk or PDF Studio. Other really are costly, like Adobe's Acrobat. But for people like you and me, that occasionally need to fill out a form these are not really reasonable. Formulate Pro to the rescue! It does a lot of what the pricier tools do, but for free. In fact, it is even open source.
Read more...AppCleaner — Un-Installer for the Masses
Sorry for being a bit behind schedule. Unfortunately, I have been caught by a cold and it won't let me go. Anyways… todays review will be a short one as well, simply because the application is pretty simple to use. I am talking about AppCleaner by FreeMacSoft a small very effective tool to un-install Mac OS X applications. "Un-install applications?", you ask? But isn't the way to un-install on a Mac to simply delete the program? Unfortunately, that is not true.
Read more...MacCleanse — Ajax for Your System
If you are like me, you like your system to be lean and mean. Empty the Trash right after throwing something in. Keeping folders in order, cleaning out unnecessary baggage when you get the chance. Well, I do that all the time. Deleting applications with AppZapper, slimming my software with xSlimmer. You could say, that I have a very clean system. Still, when I tried out MacCleanse from Koingo Software, I managed to get nearly 1GB of my precious drive space back. Not too shabby.
Read more...1Password — Password Management Made Easy
Today I am going to talk about a little application that is very dear to me. In fact I use it several dozen times a day. So please excuse me, if I sound less objective, because I have a little man crush on 1Password by Agile Web Solutions.
So… 1Password. As the name already tells you, it is a password manager. You know, it manages your dozens of passwords. You do have different passwords for all your accounts, right? If not, it is time you start now. In this day and age it is vital, that your accounts are reasonably well protected of hackers and phishers.
Read more...Update: OS X 10.5.6 Hits the Streets
Apple has release the software update to OS X 10.5.6 into the wild. Get it by running Software Update or via the download link.
Read more...MacPilot
As I have written in a previous post, several developers agreed to help me out when I launched the blog. They provided me with giveaway licenses for several of their popular products. One of these developers is Koingo Software. They have a whole array of different products, which we will be looking at in the coming weeks. The first application I want to talk about today is called MacPilot.
Read more...LittleSnapper — a New Toy on the Block
Are you the sort of guy who likes to keep images in order? Maybe it would be good to have a nice way to organize websites and screenshots? Despair not! LittleSnapper by Realmac Software has been created for exactly this purpose.
Maybe you have used Skitch
before or just did plain old screenshots
via Grab.app, Preview.app or shortcuts. LittleSnapper does the
same and more. It offers a convenient way to organize your precious
screenshots. With an interface quite similar to iPhoto, you can
create plain folders, Smart Folders and Collections. Of course,
LittleSnitch LittleSnapper also offers tags and conveniently
saves the URL when creating snapshots from a web page. In fact,
LittleSnitch LittleSnapper works quite well when creating
web snaps (as they are called by Realmac Software) and even comes
with its own web service that let's you easily share your images
with the world.