Is it OK to use your Mac as an alarm clock?

We ask plenty from our Macs. They store everything and communicate with everyone and seem to work anywhere, thanks to wireless internet connections. How about a simple task? Is it too much to have our Macs become an alarm clock? If so, how many features should that alarm clock have?

The secret to keep your Mac’s software up to date

My Macs have a few hundred applications, utilities and more. How do I keep them all updated? Most of them are not from Apple or Adobe or Microsoft, so their automated software update utilities don’t work. I use a somewhat hidden, nearly secret Mac utility to stay up to date.

Add Magic To Your Mac’s Cut And Paste

What do you do most on your Mac besides type on the keyboard? Click, right? We point and click to make things work. What’s next? Copy and paste. Wouldn’t it be great to copy and paste and have your Mac always remember what you copied and pasted? Now it can.

OnyX Tinkers With Your Mac For Free

I’m a card carrying Mac tinkerholic. I tinker, I dink, I tweak, I check. One of the utilities that I use to tinker on my Mac, one of many, is OnyX. It’s free.

Today and iCal is Better Than Yesterday

SecondGear’s Today is a qualfied companion for Apple’s iCal. Manage tasks and events without lingering in iCal.

Today is a powerful, easy to use event and task management application for Mac OS X Leopard. Built on top of the same data engine as Apple’s iCal and Mail programs, Today lets you quickly see what events and tasks are on today’s agenda with the click of a button.

Handy floating window lets you see upcoming events, add events, add tasks to the to-do list. What’s Today missing?

Is Your Mac Ready For Skitch? Snap, Draw, Share. Now What?

One of the coolest looking Mac utilities to come along in awhile is fun to use, easy to use, and totally baffles me, all at the same time. Skitch for your Mac is, well, I’m not sure what it is. It’s fun, though. If I could just get paid for using Skitch.