The actual title of this post is: “30+ Awesome Utilities to Boost Your Mac’s Functionality” it was written by Joshua Johnson on August 9th 2011 for the
appstorm.net web site. Yes, it is yet another list. But I love lists that give me new applications or apps for short. There are several here that are new to me, especially if you count the ones in the comment section.
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Log Leech allows you to view your system logs in a beautiful and easy to understand format. Using an innovative UI, Log Leech makes it easy to find and view the information that each application is reporting. The new chronological view allows you to see all log entries in the order which they occurred. Log Leech allows you to search, sort, and filter log entries to make system administration and troubleshooting easier than ever.
We’ve used CDFinder for years … since OS/09! It’s sure saved a lot of time and trouble! Now, Norbert M. Doerner has released CDFinder 5.7.2, an update to the popular disk library cataloger. Continue reading »
MacPhun’s highly anticipated release of FX Photo Studio for Mac has hit the streets. This is the supercharged and more adept version of the wildly successful FX Photo Studio mobile franchise. Continue reading »
GoodReader, named as 2010′s #2 best-selling iPad app in the U.S., is now available with an amazingly simple-to-use Auto Sync feature which enables users to download documents or entire folders from remote servers and mark them to automatically synchronize.
This web site has links to old versions of Mac applications. On the home page, there are lists of the most popular old apps and categories of others.
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Hope you have a new iPad under the tree this year? So, here are some headlines you may want to chase :
* Nokia sues Apple for breach of patent
* Apple Pushes Color E-Books for iPad with iBooks 1.2
* iPad Leads Tablet March Into Businesses
* Skyfire brings Adobe Flash to iPad
* Technology of the Year: Apple’s iPad
* Apple ‘iPad app of the year’ adds Google Reader, Flickr content
* Corporate Espionage & Insider Trading: Apple iPad & iPhone Secrets Leak
* Surprise, surprise: Apple’s iPad expected to dominate tablets into 2012
* Meet TweetMag – A Whole New Twitter Experience for Your iPad
* and more
David Pierce posted this article on March 17, 2010 when he had been using a Mac about 8 months.
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You receive a text message or an automated phone call on your cell phone saying there’s a problem with your bank account. You’re given a phone number to call or a website to log into and asked to provide personal identifiable information—like a bank account number, PIN, or credit card number—to fix the problem.
The Igloo Blog has posted this list of applications for customizing a Mac.
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SuperSync can help you access, merge, and manage multiple iTunes libraries. The demo (trialware) will let you view your entire library. You’ll be able to connect to a second library, You can use a single copy of SuperSync to get music from many sources, including your iPod, iPhone, your iTunes library, a networked SuperSync, or any type of disk storage.
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This article first posted last April on MacYourself talks about what you should do first on your new Mac.
It starts out: “A lot of new Mac users are so excited & overwhelmed by their purchases that they don’t even know where to start. While Macs do come out of the box ready to go, a little configuration here and a few applications there goes a long way.”
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The Mac has long been thought of as not needing a program to uninstall. Well, the longer we have Mac OS X, the more it becomes clear that more and more artifacts are left behind when we just drag an application to the trash. Last week, Reggie Ashworth announced AppDelete 3.1.2. With a simple Drag & Drop, AppDelete will uninstall anything along with all of the associated items. Mac users will no longer have to hunt through their system to find and delete these items manually. AppDelete is a must-have utility for beta testers and the perfect companion to any Mac fanatic’s toolbox. Continue reading »
Leopard, MacOSX 10.5 introduced us to Spaces which gave us the ability to have “sets” of applications in a virtual desktop. But frequently I need to have two window open side by side. This is what Divvy does. It is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. You can give each window the space you want by hitting a command key when that window is active.
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April 1st is not a great day to make any announcements, but Ambrosia Software has long been a favorite of mine. Today on April 1st, they announced the release of WireTap Anywhere 1.0.7, the professional audio routing and mixing tool for Mac OS X. This updated version, which is free to all registered users of WireTap Anywhere 1.0.x, provides fixes and enhancements.
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