➠ March 8, 2010
Valve Brings Hit Games, Steam Service to Mac
This is a big shift: “We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac and the Xbox 360.” I will never need Boot Camp again.
➠ December 7, 2009
MagicPrefs
I love my new Magic Mouse, but was missing my middle click. This app adds it back. Hooray!
➠ 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!
➠ August 21, 2009
Date & Time
Opened up the laptop in Cambridge, and noticed my laptop's timezone had already been set.
Witchcraft!
➠ 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.
➠ June 25, 2009
The four most important buttons on my Dashboard
The single-serving-site loveliness of Instant Crickets, Bom Bom Bom Bom Wooo, Instant Rimshot and Sad Trombone, clipped to my OS X dashboard for those times they're urgently needed.
➠ April 20, 2009
atebits - Tweetie for Mac
Tweetie has been my iPhone Twitter app of choice for some time. The new OS X version seems equally lovely. Not going to tear away folks with seven-column Tweetdeck setups, but it seems to be a good step-up from Twitterrific.
➠ March 18, 2009
Mac Lounge
Alpha version of a new OS X Twitter client. Still a bit rough around the edges, but has a bit more oomph than Twitterrific (and isn’t as complex and desktop-real-estate-consuming as TweetDeck), so I’m giving it a shot.
➠ February 20, 2009
Flux
“F.lux makes your computer’s lighting adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.”
➠ February 2, 2009
“You must allow Google Software Update to run in the background on your computer.”
The latest version of Google Earth requires you install a mysterious new background process to your Mac before you can use it.
The words "fuck that shit" spring to mind. This is a dick move in the style of all those fucking annoying updates that keep getting installed in Windows system trays by douchebag invasive packages (Java, Adobe Acrobat, et al), wasting cycles.
I hit "Quit", and am waiting for someone to post a workaround before I'll consider playing with the new version of Google Earth.
(Updated to add: Apparently, I should be grateful they chose to prompt me before installing the process.)
A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone
Things has completely changed my life. My moleskine has laid dormant for months, no longer the recipient of a gajillion TODO lists. And, as Shaun Blanc points out, the interface is a near total delight. Dragging a TODO into the project section to split it up into subtasks is the kind of intuitive action that makes it ace. If only it had MobileMe syncing, instead of custom-over-wifi and Dropboxery.
➠ January 27, 2009
Iconfactory : Somatic Rebirth Apps
Gorgeous replacement application icons for OS X. (See also the Somatic system set) Replacing my “Litho” icons now!
➠ January 4, 2009
➠ December 20, 2008
SmartSleep
Hurrah! Sleep your MacBook instead of hibernating it when you have sufficient battery life left. It was very annoying that I had to wait for OS X to persist 3GB to disk before I could pick up my laptop.
➠ November 24, 2008
AddressBookSync | Facebook Picture Synchronization with OS X Address Book
Update your OS X Address Book with photos and birthdays from your friends’ Facebook pages (sadly, Facebook bars it from doing anything useful, like updating email addresses and phone numbers)
➠ October 23, 2008
Poladroid
Gorgeously playful app which takes your digital photos and makes them look like old Polaroid snaps. Features loving touches like having to wait for the photo to “develop”.
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