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Missing Sync – Sync your phone with your Mac
Most of us own a mobile phone and most of use use Apple’s Address Book, iCal and iTunes applications to store all of our contacts, events and media. With Mark/Space Inc’s The Missing Sync – you can seamlessly sync your contacts, calendars, media and more to your mobile phone, and keep it up-to-date whenever you make a change on your computer.
Posted by Dylan Brown on November 7th, 2009 in Applications, Personal, iPhone Tags: Missing,Mobile,Phone,Symbian,sync, Leave a Comment
I am always on the look for a simple, yet easy to use application that allows me to control my iTunes listening, without having to even touch iTunes. To me, it’s always a little bit of a nuisance to have to switch windows back and forth to change the album, artist or playlist that I’m listening to. Enter the world of CoverSutra, this application allows you to change the song, artist, album or playlist you’re listening to through designated shortcuts, through the application window, or it’s built in Menu Bar option.
Posted by Dylan Brown on October 21st, 2009 in Applications, Music, Personal Tags: CoverSutra,iTunes,Last.fm,Music,Playlists, Leave a Comment
Camtasia for Mac – Pro Screencasting
There’s always been a small handful of Screen Recording applications available for the Mac, but now there’s a new kid on the block! TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio for Windows has been around for the past few years, and has grown to become the standard for professional screencasting over on Windows platform. Now Camtasia recently released the Mac version of this software, which is packed with handy little features, a simple, refined user interface and built-in editing functions, allowing you to create fantastic screencasts.
Posted by Dylan Brown on September 30th, 2009 in Applications, Graphics, Video Tags: iSight,Mac,Screencast,screenflow,Video, Leave a Comment
MacTrak – Recover and Track your stolen Mac
My Mac is my life. It contains gigabytes of music, movies, photos and other precious data that I’d never want to loose, or find out that it’s in the wrong hands. MacTrak from GadgetTrak is a simple application that hopes to reunite you with Mac if it ever gets stolen, through the use of WiFi triangulation and positioning technology, email, Flickr and by the use of the built-in iSight camera.
Posted by Dylan Brown on September 21st, 2009 in Applications, Hardware, Organization, Security Tags: MacTrak,Safe,Trick, Leave a Comment
NetNewsWire Beta – with Google Reader sync
I’ve written about NewsFire before, what used to be my favorite RSS aggregator. The only problem with NewsFire, is that your feeds are locked down to one computer as it has no syncing capabilities. That’s where the new NetNewsWire Beta comes in, which seamlessly integrates with Google Reader, so you have your RSS Feeds on your Mac and online at Google.com.
Posted by Dylan Brown on August 30th, 2009 in Applications, Freeware, Internet Tags: Blog,google,Reader,RSS,Website, Leave a Comment
Fluid – Create SSB’s with ease
Are you the type of person that usually has way too many tabs open in their browser or someone who wants an easy way to access specific websites from the Dock? If yes, then you should check out SSB’s, or Site Specific Browsers. Fluid is an application that allows you to easily create and customize SSB’s, and save them as Applications in your Dock, or even your Menu bar.
Posted by Dylan Brown on August 15th, 2009 in Applications, Browsers, Freeware Tags: Cocoa,Safari,Scripts,SSB,WebKit, Leave a Comment
Nicecast – Run your own Internet Radio Station
Nicecast from Rogue Amoeba, is a simple and easy to use application that allows you to create and set-up your own Internet Radio Station and broadcast it over the internet or on your local area network – right from your Mac.
Posted by Dylan Brown on July 16th, 2009 in Audio, Internet, Music Tags: Icecast,Internet,Radio,Shoutcast,Station, 2 Comments »
Mactracker – Find information on every Apple Product
Mactracker is an application that has a permanent place in my dock. It contains extensive information on every Apple product ever made, including Desktops, Notebooks, Servers, Devices and Software.
Posted by Dylan Brown on July 8th, 2009 in Applications, Freeware, Tools Tags: Benchmarks,Database,iPod,Mac,Xserve, 2 Comments »
