Saturday, December 29th, 2007
at 9:21pm
Skitch is an amazingly fun and super useful duo. Everyday we all share images, ideas and have fun with friends online — this should be easy… right!?
Your friends are global… you can send them links… but what if the action is on your screen? … Point out a quick suggestion to a colleague or pass on that funny moment from an IM chat, post images to MySpace, eBay, forums or via email.. Skitch is the Internet age’s Camera and it Rocks!
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
at 5:01pm
Apples for the Army? Wow, the old guard has finally moved on.
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
at 11:46pm
Everyone from Halliburton to Burger King and everything in between.
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
at 8:55pm
As much love as Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard has received in the press and from users, there are still plenty of bugs that need ironing out. Lucky for those users and those not-easily-embarrassed members of the press, Apple seems to be addressing most of those remaining bugs with its 10.5.2 update, which it just seeded to developers. There are apparently 76 fixes listed in the release notes, ranging from fan-faves like MacBook AirPort funkiness to obscure gems like Rosetta PowerPC compatibility memory leaks. This is just the first distribution of the update, and a release to users is rumored to hit mid-January, coinciding with new hardware at Macworld.
(Via Engadget.)
Monday, December 17th, 2007
at 10:50pm
Application Launchers
Backup Utilities
BitTorrent
Bookmarks
Calendar
Desktop Search
Disk Space Visualizers
DVD Rippers
File Syncing
Image Editing
Image Viewers/Managers
Instant Messenger
Macro Makers
Media Players
- VLC (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux, open source)
Previous coverage: Download of the Day: VLC Free Media Player, Rip DVDs with VLC
- MediaMonkey (Windows, freeware with paid upgrade)
Previous coverage: Download of the Day: MediaMonkey (Windows), Whip Your MP3 Library into Shape, Part I - Level the volume, Whip Your MP3 Library into Shape, Part II - Album art, Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part III: Metadata
- foobar2000 (Windows, freeware)
Previous coverage: Download of the Day: foobar2000, Roll Your Own Killer Audio Player with foobar2000, The Beautiful and Varied World of foobar2000 (Screenshot Tour)
Password Managers/Helpers
PDF Readers/Writers/Editors
Personal Finance/Money Managers
Start Pages
Telephony Managers/Helpers
Text Editors
To-do List Managers
Virus Killers and Malware Cleaners
Web Clippings
Wikis
Zip File Extractors
(Via Lifehacker.)
Monday, December 17th, 2007
at 9:01pm
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Save embedded media like audio, video, or even Flash games to your desktop with the UnPlug Firefox extension. Just browse to a page you want to grab media from, click the little smiling fish (or go to Tools -> UnPlug), and find and download the media on that page you want. UnPlug is similar to previously mentioned Video Downloader extension, which means it should work just as well to download videos from YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, and all the rest of your favorite video sites. UnPlug is free, works wherever Firefox does.
(Via Lifehacker.)
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
at 8:14pm
Mac OS X Leopard only: You already know how to view zip archive contents and even preview files in the Trash using Leopard’s handy Quick Look feature, and now you can look inside folders, too. Using a Folder Quick Look plug-in, instead of just looking at a big old folder icon when you Quick Look a directory, you can get a file listing of what’s inside. Here’s how to get it working.
-
"http://homepage.mac.com/xdd/software/folder/download/Folder.qlgenerator02.zip">
Download the Folder Quick Look plug-in.
- Extract its contents into
/Users/YOU/Library/QuickLook/. Replace YOU with your
username. You may have to create the final QuickLook folder. Make
sure that the contents of the zip file go here (it’s four files
total; two are readme’s.)
- Relaunch Finder by holding down the Option key and click and
holding on the Dock’s Finder icon. Choose ‘Relaunch’ from the
context menu.
Then, just select any folder in Finder and hit the Space key to
Quick Look what’s inside. Here’s the result when I Quick Look my
Applications folder, you can
also see hidden files and show the file timestamp using the
checkboxes at the bottom, too. Handy! The plug-in is a free
download for Mac OS X Leopard only. (Don’t forget you can also
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quick look multiple files at once as well, no plug-in
required.)
(Via Lifehacker.)
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
at 10:02pm
The benefits of combining USB storage with a business card are obvious. For one thing, it will get you noticed and make your card less dispensable. Second, it is a convenient and logical means to deliver important information to prospective employers and clients. Unfortunately, no one has truly succeeded in this endeavor (and simply printing your information on a thumb drive doesn’t count). At the very least, this concept piece from designer Abhinav Dapke offers something approaching a solution.
Basically a flap on the rear of the card can be used to attach different memory sizes, and a pair of slits can be used for the USB adapter. To be honest, it doesn’t amount to much more than taping a USB drive to an existing card. Still, it is a fairly elegant approach to the problem —but it might make more sense to develop a thin all-in-one usb drive that is specifically designed to hold business cards. So, my guess is that this concept will have to go back to the drawing board a few times before a viable product can be developed. [Coroflot via Core77 via DVICE]
(Via Gizmodo.)
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
at 6:46pm
Apple is rumored to be close to announcing movie rentals and Apple TV is perfect platform. Add a 1TB HDD and BitTorrent downloading technology and you have the beginnings of a great living room experience. Enable the iPhone and iPod touch as a remote control for Apple TV 2.0 to replace the bogus “gum stick” remote and and they’ll surely have a hit
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