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News & Commentary
- Leopard 10.5.3
- Times: The RSS newspaper for your Mac
- Apple ignores Safari carpet bomb flaw (for now)
- Mac market share up to 66-percent (PCs over $1,000)
- Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate available
- Microsoft: We’ll have 40% of smart phone market by 2012
- Can Dell rebound from the brink like Apple?
- The new rules for buying a Mac
- How Microsoft could kill Google on the Web
- AOL Desktop for Mac
- The iMac is a 10
- A Tale of Two Steves
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…
Read more »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.
Read more »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.
Read more »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?
Read more »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.
Read more »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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