Obdev releases LaunchBar 5 Beta

Obdev has released its LaunchBar 5 beta and it is fantastic! I’ve used LaunchBar since the day Mac OS X was released. The application is one of those I just can’t live without on my Mac. What does it do?

Aperture trial

I downloaded the 30 day Aperture trial to give it a go. I like the app! I imported my 7500 some odd photos from iPhoto. Took about 8 hours to import, generate thumbnails and previews. Resulting Aperture library is about 1gb larger than the iPhoto library. If you’re into photography and especially if you shoot… Continue reading Aperture trial

Path Finder 4.5 released

Cocoatech released Path Finder 4.5, their wonderful replacement for the Finder. It is truly a great application. Check out their 30 day demo. Tabs, navigation bars and a much better searching/filtering system make this one of my favorite apps.

Easy Envelopes widget rocks!

Ambrosia is one of my favorite software companies. Get your free, awesome, no longer needing MS Word envelope printing widget for Tiger! it is gorgeous, prints well, uses address book and is just neat! Easy Envelopes

NetNewsWire 2.0 Released!

I have been a beta site for NetNewsWire 2 for quite awhile now and it is a wonderful product. I use it daily to read my news/RSS feeds, download podcasts and all sorts of other wonderful things it does. Check it out!

iTunes Tip

Have you ever wanted to delete a song from a playlist and also have it be removed from your library? I have many times since downloading podcasts, so I googled it and, funny enough, found this iTunes shortcut list at Apple. The answer: option-delete!

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TextWrangler 2.0 is FREE

Run, don’t walkt, to download TextWrangler from BareBones. Very nice, especially for the price.

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Myst IV

The Myst IV demo is out. They suggest a G5. What the hell? What happened to the old myst? You know, where the content was appealing, not the technology? Myst should run on a color classic, make the puzzles fun, challenging, interesting. Don’t make it required a G5 to play. Sheesh.

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NetNewsWire 2.0b3

The first public beta of NetNewsWire 2 is out. Get it now! Have been a tester for some time and it is still my RSS news reader of choice! Much goodness in this new version, check out the read me.

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Big Cat

Brent Simmons (NetNewsWire fame) did it again with Big Cat. While not new, this little plugin lets you write contextual menu items in AppleScript and Unix shell scripts. One plugin to filter text/files and then it dispatches to the chosen script. Much faster than having 100 individual plugins!

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AdiumX

AdiumX is my new favorite chat client for the Mac. Open source, free, actively worked on, can theme the contacts list, message window and dock icons. So speaking of themes, they are all simple bundles. Inside the bundle (control click, Show Contents) is a set of images and a plist (text file of XML goodness)… Continue reading AdiumX

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Omniweb 5.0 rc1

Suddenly I am a avid fan of Omniweb I bought a version 3 license but never used it, because well OmniWeb sucked. I skipped 4 and 4.5 for the same reasons. Now with 5, they are here. 5 is behind on it’s webkit integration, which has caused a few errors, but the features are so… Continue reading Omniweb 5.0 rc1

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LaunchBar 4 beta 1 is out

Check out LaunchBar 4! What a great improvement to a killer app. With LaunchBar 4 you can, after pressing command-space: Launch Applications Open Documents Send emails to people in your Address Book Search the internet Open iPhoto albums Play itunes by typing in part of the song name Execute Applescripts The list goes on and… Continue reading LaunchBar 4 beta 1 is out

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LaunchBar – you need this

I have used LaunchBar for Mac OS X since day one of Mac OS X. This little application will save you so much time, you’ll not know how you lived without it! LaunchBar is a program that scans selected directories and indexs the files found. You can refine this search to just applications, or documents,… Continue reading LaunchBar – you need this

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Transmit 2.5

Nice job, Panic. Transmit was getting some “stalled” errors to some sites last week, so I paid for Interarchy 6.2 and it was even slower. Now Panic has released Transmit 2.5 and they fixed things like dragging a large list of files (which used to stall the Finder for 20 seconds). I ran my upload… Continue reading Transmit 2.5

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Cocoa eFax

Cocoa eFax, from Ben Mackin, is a simple, elegant user interface on top of the UNIX eFax program. eFax sends PDF files, which thankfully is supported so well by OS X that any application can save to a PDF via the Print dialog. Simply launch Cocoa eFax, enter your phone number, add your PDF files… Continue reading Cocoa eFax

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