Filed under 'osx'
➠ 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
➠ March 7, 2011
Rdio for Mac
Rdio have launched their (mostly-)native Mac client, and it’s grand. Not as nice as Spotify (playlist building is still clunky), but it does 99% of everything you want. I’ve been using it for a few weeks, and it was the sole reason I resubscribed.
➠ January 25, 2011
Cathode
OS X terminal application that emulates old & busted phosphor displays. Pointless and gorgeous.
➠ July 22, 2010
Flurry
➠ June 1, 2010
Kaleidoscope — File comparison for Mac
New diff viewer for OS X. Finally, a diff tool that can deal gracefully with changesets across multiple files!
➠ 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.
➠ 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.
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