Improve your Mail.app productivity with MailWidget

MailWidget is a great widget for the MacOS Dashboard. It resides in you Dashboard and checks for incoming emails. It notifies you when you receive a new email message, and the great thing is that it works even if Mail.app is not running. Read more

iPhone App Review: Lose It!

Lose It! is a great iPhone application that assists with and monitors your weight loss program. The application is a free download from the iPhone/iPod Touch App Store. Lose It! has an excellent user interface design in addition to useful features like the setting of goals, tracking your total food intake and the exercise that you do. Read more

How to play most audio and video files in OS X using Quicktime

Perian is a great plugin for Apple’s Quicktime player. It’s an open source utility that enables Quicktime to play many popular video formats that it does not support out of the box. Read more

Lounge - Yet another Twitter client for the Mac

Lounge is yet another Twitter client for the Mac. It’s from the folks at Goose Apps. Although it’s still in beta version it looks like a very promising Twitter application. The user interface is quite different from any other Twitter application I’ve used before and it take a bit to get used to. However, once I got comfortable with the application the user interface started feeling good too. Read more

How to batch rename files in OS X

NameChanger is a very useful application from MRR Software that helps you rename a list of files quickly and easily. The main purpose of this application is to help rename photographs, although it works well for other kinds of files as well. When you have a large number of photographs it is quite useful to have a software like this one that can perform a batch renaming of the image files quickly and effectively. Read more

Digital Color Meter - a built-in color picker for the Mac

If you are a designer and your Mac is the tool you use for your design work the Digital Color Meter is something that could be of great assistance to you. Digital Color Meter is a tiny little tool that allows you to get the exact RGB values for any pixel on your screen. This is particularly useful for web designer for times when they find a photo or another web page that has just the right shade of a color they have been trying to hone in on. Read more

How to get detailed information on every Mac ever made

Mactracker is a handy program that has a complete database of every Apple Macintosh ever made (Note: the last update was in Dec of 2008, so the 2009 models for MacBooks, MacBook Pro’s and iMacs are not included, yet). Read more

How to improve Safari with Glims

I’ve been a big fan of Inquisitor over the past few years. It’s a really neat plugin for Safari (and in the more recent months for other web browsers too) which allows you to run smart searches on the web directly using the search box built into your web browser and see the results right there. Glims is another plugin that does a similar task along with a lot of other things. As the Glims website aptly explains, “Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari” (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead) Read more

How to free up some had drive space on your Mac with Monolingual

Monolingual is a free program that does a great job of freeing up disk space on your Mac. Using Monolingual you can remove all the support files of all the extra languages that your Mac supports when shipped. This can total up to hundreds of megabytes of data. Chances are that you will never use Klingon or Esperanto on your computer. Why not get rid of it and use it to store some more music or videos? Read more

iPhone App Review: Eliss

Eliss is an iPhone game where your goal is to prevent a microcosm of planets from colliding using the iPhone’s multitouch screen. Read more

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