Filed under 'free'
➠ October 13, 2011
Private Eye | Free Network Monitor for Mac
Dead handy. Lightweight tool to track which apps are accessing the internet, and which hosts they’re hitting.
➠ May 17, 2011
➠ November 15, 2010
GIRL TALK - ALL DAY
New Girl Talk album, free to download. Similar to his previous work, which is both a good thing, and mildly disappointing.
➠ September 25, 2010
Glympse - Share Your Where
My new favourite iPhone app — When you’re running late, send an updating map of your whereabouts by text message so friends have some idea of when you’ll arrive! People should expect to receive these from me a lot!
➠ July 21, 2010
Flipboard for iPad
Beautiful social news gathering tool for iPad. Feeds are “curated” using Twitter lists, giving buttloads of flexibility. (Sadly the social part is buggered at the moment, as they didn’t account for all the iPad users out there)
Unrelated: New goal in life: Create a product that is cool, then get Adam Lisagor to make the promo video.
➠ May 12, 2010
Portal is FREE!
The free game is not a lie! To encourage download of Steam, Valve is giving Portal away for free for the next two weeks. If you haven’t already played it, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO.
➠ December 31, 2009
➠ December 20, 2009
Annabel Scheme
Robin’s novella is now available as a CC-licensed PDF file. I’m about halfway through reading my copy, and proud to have been part of the Kickstarter project that funded it.
Perfect for copying onto your Kindle before you board a flight this festive season!
➠ December 7, 2009
MagicPrefs
I love my new Magic Mouse, but was missing my middle click. This app adds it back. Hooray!
➠ November 30, 2009
Flickit - Fun and easy Flickr uploading for your iPhone and iPod Touch
This is now my go-to Flickr photo uploader for the iPhone. Great UI, lets you queue up photos and upload in batches, free. Everything you could want, and nothing more. Ace!
➠ November 29, 2009
Waze
Free car routing app for iPhone, which is using game mechanics (points & leaderboards) to crowd-source maps and traffic info. Initial prodding suggests it’s not ready for prime-time — you’re better off waiting for protonerds to fill up their data banks — but it might be worth watching in the future.
➠ November 25, 2009
Ommwriter
Oh my, this is rather lovely. A distraction-removing full-screen text editor (similar to WriteRoom), with a lovely background and jangly music!
➠ October 6, 2009
Glims for Safari
Safari “plug-in” which fixes a bunch of my frustrations since switching from Firefox. This plus ClickToFlash rock my world!
➠ September 29, 2009
Dropbox iPhone app
Dropbox release a (free!) iPhone app the lets you access all your saved files. I almost feel guilty that I’m still on their free plan — They rock my world massively.
➠ September 27, 2009
Plants vs Zombies
Plants vs Zombies is now playable online for free. If you haven’t already had a shot, you’re a fool.
➠ August 2, 2009
Tig: text-mode interface for git
Dead handy ncurses-based browser for git. It makes git diffs and blames much more manageable.
➠ July 28, 2009
BootXChanger
Replace the Apple graphic on OS X boot. Being a traditionalist, I’ve got with an old school Happy Mac.
➠ July 23, 2009
ClickToFlash
OS X Safari users: Install this! Blocks Flash until you click on the object in Safari (and other WebKit-based applications). A way to mitigate the risk of the Flash exploit without completely nuking Flash Player from your machine.
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