Quicksilver - act without doing - Part 1

Anyone who been using a Mac for some time now would be aware of Spotlight, the search built into the Mac OS. Spotlight allows you to search for a document, software, pretty much anything on your computer and open it. All this without having to open Finder and navigate through the directories to find what you are looking for. Spotlight is pretty cool. And although it’s not fair to say that Spotlight has some limitations, Quicksilver does something similar with a lot more options, and is way cooler. Read more

Growl notifications for your Mac

Growl is a neat little application that handles all the notifications for your Mac. It takes all the messages being sent by the applications running on your computer and displays it in an unobtrusive manner. For example, when integrated with the Mail application it can show you a blurb of incoming mail which pops up and disappears as configured. It can inform you that the download that was going on is complete. Read more

Monitor your Mac with iStat Pro

When your computer starts getting a little slow it could be due to a number of reasons. One of them is that most of the resources on your computer are being used up. It’s usually the RAM or CPU that are being consumed. So it’s nice to be able to keep an eye on things whenever something goes wrong, or even to prevent something from going wrong. The folks at iSlayer have created the iStat Pro widget for just this purpose. Read more

Download the additional Mac Giving Tree (free) software

As we previously mentioned, Mac Giving Tree, the folks behind MacHeist, are/were offering two free software packages, Synergy and Enigmo 2. They’ve now released the additional free software as promised, and here are the details. Read more

Transmission Updated to v1.42

Popular OS X bittorrent client Transmission has been updated to 1.42, fixing a bug that caused a lockup issue (that I personally experienced a number of times). Read more

How to export photos from iPhoto to your Facebook account

Facebook.com is one of the more popular social networking services on the Internet. Other than allowing you to make contact with friends, write to them and “poke” them every once in a while, Facebook is also a great platform to host and share your photographs. It has useful features like tagging people in your photos. I use Apple’s iPhoto application on my Mac to manage my photographs. I recently came across a neat little iPhoto plugin that allows you to export photographs straight into Facebook. Let’s take a closer look at it by installing and using it. Read more

VLC media player for the Mac

There are a hundred different formats that media lives in these days. For music as well and movies we end up with various formats. In such cases you want your computer to have a media player that supports all or most of these formats out of the box. VLC player does just that. VLC, which stands for VideoLAN, is an open source media player for Windows, Linux, and the Mac, among other platforms. Read more

NetNewsWire - an RSS feed reader for your Mac

NetNewsWire is a free RSS feed reader for the Mac. It is arguably one of the best feed readers around. I find to be one of the more useful applications on my Mac, and it’s one of the applications that I use first thing in the morning. It has a simple, clean, and well-designed user interface. Let’s check it out. Read more

Get started with the Adium instant messaging client

I use several IM services, gTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, and the Facebook chat. Adium is a free instant messenger application for the Mac. It supports all the above services and more. I’ll guide you through its installation as well as setting up a gTalk and a Yahoo! Messenger account. I’m assuming that you already have a Gmail and a Yahoo! username and password. Read more

Free Mac Software from MacHeist

Mac Giving Tree, the folks behind MacHeist, are offering two free software packages, Synergy and Enigmo 2.

About Synergy:

You love music, right? Well, with Synergy you’ll love your music collection even more. Display your album covers on your desktop, have more control through hot keys, and much more. Get the original iTunes extender for free and start experiencing your tunes on a whole new level!

About Enigmo 2:

You’ve probably played and loved Enigmo on your iPhone. Now you can get the sequel to this best selling puzzle game on your Mac for free! Get ready to twist your brain with 50 fun-filled, challenging levels…

And if you sign up (straight forward and simple) you’ll be able to “unwrap” even more free software on Christmas Day!

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