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    Run all the scripts and tasks smoothly on Mac

    Thursday, November 13th, 2008

    Don’t have time to run all the various tools and scripts to keep your Mac running smoothly?
    MainMenu makes these tasks quick and easy, right from your menu bar. Rebuilding your Spotlight library for faster searching, repairing permissions, cleaning caches to improve application performance, and even more advanced settings — such as enabling and disabling the Dashboard — are no more than two clicks away.
    MainMenu is full of powerful maintenance tools to keep your Mac running like new, within a slick, simple interface.

    Time clock in human understandable format

    Thursday, November 13th, 2008

    Often you don’t need the exact time in hours, minutes and seconds. A more human readable style like "five past ten" makes more sense. For that, you can now use FuzzyClock. FuzzyClock is a menubar clock which displays the current time in a "fuzzy" style. (Mac Only)

    Create diagrams, draw pictures on Mac with OmniGiraffe

    Monday, November 10th, 2008

    A diagram creation tool, a vector drawing tool, a presentation tool, a flow chart creating tool all rolled into one with some presentation and export options is Omnigiraffe all about.
    Need a diagram, process chart, quick page-layout, website mockup or graphic design? OmniGraffle 5 handles all of these in one award-winning application. We’re not just a pretty interface, however. There’s plenty of power under the hood to make all your diagramming and design fast and easy, with the ability to customize and tweak every aspect of your work.

    Download it here.

    Clipboard manager for Mac

    Monday, November 10th, 2008

    When you have lot of documentation to do or cut, copy, paste scenarios to undergo, the normal clipboard won’t help much. You need a complete clipboard manager. Just like you could do normal downloads on a browser and you have complete full fledged download managers, there are clipboard managers too.
    One such clipboard manager is iPaste.

    iPaste supports many different types of data so that you easily manage a slew of recently copied items or frequently used items including: plain text, rich text, TIFF, PDF, PICT, JPEG, GIF and more.
    Download iPaste …

    A better wifi application for Macs

    Monday, November 10th, 2008

    Of course, the default Airport application on Mac is great. But after using this one, I’m sure you would say it wasn’t enough.
    Coconut Wifi does more with wifi networks, like detects more than just the connection name and it’s status. It tells you if it’s an encrypted network, is generated by a computer or not, shows it’s unique BSSID number etc. You don’t have to open the Airport network to check all the time you want to check for new networks. With Coconut wifi just select from the available network …

    Latest iTunes Update iTunes 8.0.1

    Friday, October 3rd, 2008

    Apple has released an update to iTunes to version 8.0.1. The update is available in Mac OS X’s Software Update and provides the following features:
    iTunes 8.0.1 improves stability and performance of the iTunes app and provides a number of important bug fixes compared to the earlier version, including: • Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist. • Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano. • Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading. …

    Take screengrabs on Mac with resize option

    Thursday, September 25th, 2008

    Taking screengrabs on Mac is not difficult, just click Shift+Command+4 and you can select the region to screen grab. But what if you wanted to do more than just screengrab. Like resize, save image etc?
    Here is a nifty free application for Mac that does just that.
    It allows you to take screenshots from any region of your screen and resize in simple steps. Using it is so easy, and comfortable that you can use it with any application.
    Download here.

    Freeware photoshop like image editing application for Mac

    Sunday, September 14th, 2008

    Photoshop is for the guys who wouldn’t mind spending a few bucks and are into hard core designing. Eat that.
    But for bloggers and small time photo editors, all we need a slick and fast program that does the basic tricks while not taking up too much time on your system.
    And GIMP sucks big time. I haven’t seen anyone who knows how things work on GIMP fully, it’s a crazy interface.

    So is there a freeware available for Mac users that will help us in quick image editing, does pretty much everything …

    Write, draw and do more on Notepad with Voodoopad

    Saturday, September 13th, 2008

    Voodoopad can be called an advanced Notepad, advanced by several years.When Notepad only does note taking and text editing, Voodoopad takes it to another level by adding in more rich features like sketching, drawing, advanced text formatting like lists etc, flowcharts ad what not?
    And all the while, it remains as that simple low resource stand alone application for Mac.
    It has tabs, support for large documents that notepad is unlikely to open, embed images, use advanced text styles etc. For full list of features, check here.
     Download Voodoo pad here.

    Rename large number of files at once on Mac

    Saturday, September 13th, 2008

    Imagine you had just grabbed that 300 odd files from your digital camera and wanted to rename each. What will you do? Renaming them manually will only take away another huge chunk of your time.
    Is there a way to automate it and rename the files in a batch?
    Indeed yes. Renamer for Mac is an application for Mac that will help you batch rename files with ease and lot of customizations.
    Download renamer here.