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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Use this tool and say goodbye to spam

There are two kinds of plagues that haunt email users. Spam and phishing. If you’re smart, you can avoid phishing scams. If you have multiple email accounts then how do you avoid spam? Both are a blight on humanity, but spam can be avoided, managed, and almost eliminated. Here’s how…

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Monday, May 19, 2008

TopXNotes: Where simple can be better (almost)

Deep into the information age, Mac users have gathered an array of complex tools to help us deal with keeping track of everything. From Stickies to Yojimbo, we have access to everything we can think of and much we can’t remember-- all just a click away. The only problem is the complexity of the tools to help us. Rather, the lack of simplicity. TopXNotes is simple. And it works.

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Use your keyboard to open apps, utilities, files, folders

Your Mac is a time saver, right? Except for all the time spent mousing and windowing around to get things done. One way to save time and reduce aggravation is with hotkeys that do nearly everything. AliasKeys may be the simplest, most elegant hotkey utility you can find for your Mac.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Simon says, “monitor web sites and servers!”

As the number of PixoBebo readers increases daily, I need some way to make sure the web server is up and running, and some kind of notification when it’s not. The name of the Mac utility that kept popping up was Simon. What does Simon do?

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

If you do graphics on a Mac then you need GraphicConverter

For the most part, Apple stays out of the graphics application and utility business. iPhoto has a few photo tricks, but the graphics world is ruled by Adobe and Photoshop and a few copy cats. With all of Adobe’s power and might, one Mac graphic application thrives. GraphicConverter. One of the worst named, but most capable utilities for anyone who does graphics on a Mac.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Add effects and manage photos on your Mac

You have a few thousand photos on your Mac but you want to do a few things that are not easy in iPhoto. Not easy? Try cropping a bunch of photos. Try resizing a bunch of photos. Try adding attractive frames to your photos. What you need is something easy. Easy? Yes, EasyFrame, EasyCrop, EasyBatch. 

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