Archive for the Utilities Category
American Heritage Dictionary – A Serious Amount of Knowledge
One of the iPhone’s greatest benefits to mankind is the ability to access knowledge from anywhere on the internet from anywhere with service to your phone. One of the iPhone’s greatest design flaws is the omission of a dictionary app. There are lots of dictionaries on the appstore, but the American Heritage Dictionary stands above the rest. Substantially.
Posted by Ariel Kaplan on September 11th, 2009 in App Store, Applications, Education, Utilities Tags: American Heritage Dictionary,Apps,Dictionary,Education,iPhone, Leave a Comment
MacPilot: Change the Hidden Settings of Your Mac
Sometimes in life there are somethings you just can’t change. For example, You cant change that nasty look your ex-girlfriend gives you when she sees you walking on the street. You also can’t change your habit of biting your nails when they grow too long or you are nervous. Well, I cant teach you how to change those things, but one thing I can show you is how to change some hidden settings of your Mac computer without even having to touch the terminal. Get ready to change your Mac with MacPilot.
Posted by Hector Bustamante on August 16th, 2009 in Applications, Mac OS X, Utilities Tags: Hidden Settings,Mac,MacPilot,Utilities, Leave a Comment
Clutter Free your Desktop with Sticky Windows
If you are like me, you know what a messy desktop looks like. I used to think this only happened to me, but as I met more Mac users I realized we all have the same problem. Everyone leaves thousands of windows on their desktop and that can be a hassle some times. Now everything is fixed thanks to an application called sticky windows.
Posted by Hector Bustamante on July 15th, 2009 in Applications, Organization, Utilities Tags: neat,Organize,Sticky,Windows, 5 Comments »
Free up hard drive space with GrandPerspective
Need to free up space on your Mac, but not sure where to start? GrandPerspective is the application you need. I use a MacBook as my primary computer, so hard drive space is at a premium. I want to be able to maximize hard drive space as much as possible and not have unnecessary files take up space. GrandPerspective allowed me to quickly identify what files where taking up the majority of space and then gave me the option to delete these files.
Posted by David Banther on May 31st, 2009 in Freeware, Organization, Tools, Utilities Tags: GrandPerspective,hard drive,memory,storage, Leave a Comment
iStat Menus: Give Your Mac a Checkup
Have you ever had to dig for information regarding your system’s performance and ultimately get frustrated when you can’t find out how much RAM you are using or how full your hard drive is? Not anymore! iStat Menus, made by iSlayer, facilitates in finding system information quickly. With eight separate and highly configurable menu items, iStat menus will let you know exactly what’s going on inside your Mac right from your menu bar.
Posted by Seth Smith on May 26th, 2009 in Applications, Tools, Utilities Tags: Aplication,Donationware,iSlayer,iStat Menus,Menu Bar,Stats, 2 Comments »
Give your Mac a spring cleaning with CleanMyMac
There’s approximately a month left until spring ends and it’s likely that you haven’t done your annual “spring cleaning” yet. Why not get a head start by cleaning your Mac? It’s probably been due for a cleaning for quite a long time, anyway. You have no reason to worry my friends, because CleanMyMac is a great application to use. It will surely clean any old software or caches that slows down your computer’s performance and memory.
Posted by Tony Iliakostas on May 16th, 2009 in Applications, Utilities Tags: Applications Uninstaller,Cleaning,CleanMyMac,Free Space, 4 Comments »
Transfer Data from your iPhone with PhoneView
iTunes is not a particularly easy tool to extract important files off of your iPhone and on to your computer. If your hard drive dies and you have all of your data on your iPhone, the only thing iTunes allows you too take is your purchased items. Pictures, Contacts, Call logs, and Notes are lost in the transition. With PhoneView by Ecamm Network, you can simply and easily recover all of you important information.
Posted by Seth Smith on May 12th, 2009 in App Store, Tools, Utilities Tags: Data,iPhone,iTunes,PhoneView, 1 Comment »
Backup your Mac with BackBlaze
What would happen right now if you lost all the data on your computer? Whether it be from theft, physical damage, or malfunction, it is very likely that at some point you will experience a significant loss of data. Imagine losing all of your pictures, movies, songs, documents and other important files, the consequences would be costly at best. BackBlaze will restore your data when the unthinkable happens.
Posted by David Banther on May 3rd, 2009 in Security, Tools, Utilities Tags: BackBlaze,backup,restore,Wireless, 4 Comments »
