convert video for your iPod easily

16/Feb/2008

Excellent Video conversion utility for anyone who needs to watch video content on their iPod. get it here. Read More...

Miro video player

20/Aug/2007

Miro can play any video format (much more than quicktime), download torrents, permanently save videos from YouTube, and watch video podcasts. Beautiful interface, 100% free and open source. Read More...

Shiira - The Next Browser For Mac

05/Aug/2007

Shiira is probably one of the best designed web browsers I have probably seen for the Macintosh operating system. Shiira is webkit based browser and is written in Cocoa. One thing is for sure, its killer features make Shiira a much better browser than the native Safari on a Mac. Also Shiira is better than Firefox on a Mac too.

Here are some of its uber cool features :

* RSS support
* Page holder
* An Awesome sidebar design
* Sound effects and font smoothing enabling/disabling for better accessibility for anyone
* Tab Exposé
* Page transition effect (Tiger only)
* Switching browse mode in the toolbar
* Private browsing support
* Firefox bookmarks handling
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Reference for EVERY Character Key on a Mac

05/Aug/2007

Ever wanted to type the copyright icon, or do an accent over an A without having to resort to some character palette? We have, and it takes time and is an effort. So we put together a series of help sheets that reference all of the characters that aren’t listed on your keyboard, along with their shortcut keys to make your life easier. Click the pic to go download the guides from GoSquared.com

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AppleJack

17/Jul/2007

AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can’t load the GUI, or don’t have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.

Mac Terminal Commands

30/May/2007

A practical A-Z guide to the OS X command line. Click the pic to nerd out! Read More...

CornerClick - a Mac Preference Pane extender

07/Jan/2007

This preference panel expands on Apple’s screen corner activation. This will let you do a myriad of tasks using the screen corners as activations. It also expands on whether a screen corner simply needs to be hovered over, clicked or pressed with a key command. This app also contains a polished UI. Check it out. Read More...

Tangerine - iTunes Playlist Magic

25/Dec/2006

from the nice people at potion factory... Tangerine is a utility that looks at your iTunes Library and lets you easily create playlists of upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. It works by analyzing the BPM and the beat intensity of your music. Spend your time listening to music, not making playlists. Read More...

MacThe Ripper - The best free Mac DVD Ripping Utility

10/Dec/2006

MacTheRipper is a free DVD ripper (extractor) for Mac OS X. It can extract commercial DVD movies to your hard drive, minus all the copy protections and region controls put in place by DVD publishers. You can then use various tools to burn the movie back to DVD-R for use in DVD players, or convert the movie to different formats for playback with a variety of devices. MacTheRipper is intended to backup DVDs you have legally purchased for personal use. Any copyright-infringing activity you choose to perpetrate using this application is illegal, immoral, and beyond our control. Read More...

Mac OS X Tip - Two Seconds to Sleep:

03/Dec/2006

Want the fastest way to put your Mac right into a deep, hibernation-like sleep (no whirling fan, no dialogs, no sound — nuthin’ — just fast, glorious sleep). Just press Command-Option and then hold the Eject button for about 2 seconds and Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. It doesn’t get much faster than that. Read More...

Nice Future iMac Concept

27/Nov/2006

Designed by Adam Benton, this futuristic iMac concept features a transparent 30-inch display and a wireless keyboard with light-sensitive illuminated keys. Click the pic for a little more at Renderosity. Read More...

Stacks - a way to store photos that are similar

17/Nov/2006

Stacks are mandatory from here on out. It’s about the most logical way to arrange photos on a computer display.

Aperture was first. Lightroom needs them. And now Photoshop CS3 has them. Click the pic to take a look at this quick demo from Murphymac to see stacking in action. Read More...

Disco - recordable media burning software for OS X

11/Nov/2006

For a paltry $14.95, Disco leaves Roxio Toast in the dust. It not only burns cds and DVDs, it also catalogs them and keeps track of everything you burned and when. It has seamless multi-session support, many different file systems, and tons of disc image burning options. Disco can also handle creating a disc image from a set group of files, erasing rewritable media, VIDEO_TS burning, and it can even detect physical motion on laptops to prevent coasters. Read More...

DashboardWidgets.com great resource for free Mac OS X widgets

02/Oct/2006

Apple does a pretty good job with their top 50 widget list, but this site has a few I haven't seen before including a cool one called übertragen, which does FTP transfers AND P2P file transfers via Bonjour!

click the pi to visit the site. highly recommended. Read More...

Filebrowse: A 3D environment

01/Oct/2006

One of the publics major gripes about OSX 1.4 Tiger is the Finder, it’s clearly outgrown it’s life, and it’s showing. Many cant wait for Leopard (including myself) to see what Apple does to the Finder. In the meantime, there is another app in town…

FileBrowse is a new, easy-to-use file/media browser for Mac OS X with many unique features, such as 3D icons/thumbnails, large in-context previews, and powerful grouping and sorting.

It lets you view files and media content on your Mac using features lacking in the Finder, such as thumbnails for most common file types, including images, movies, songs, PDF, RTF, Word documents, and Web pages.

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How to make a simple DVD slideshow with iPhoto and iDVD

01/Oct/2006

There are many ways to go about making an iPhoto slideshow in iDVD, but you don’t get the same results with each different way. I discovered the best way to get a slideshow with the Ken Burns (photo panning) effect and background audio is to make a “Slideshow” in iPhoto and export to QuickTime. From there, you can import into iDVD and burn your slideshow.

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Blue Coconut

28/Sep/2006

Blue Coconut has the ability to copy any songs over the network from other people's shared iTunes Library on to your computer, instead of being forced to stream them. What’s really nice, is you can select which songs you want in iTunes, and then from the scripts menu choose “Copy Selected Shared Tracks”. Or, you can download all songs in a particular playlist, or the entire Library if you feel so inclined. The only catch to this program is that, if the songs you’re downloading were purchased from the iTunes Music Store, you’ll have to have the proper authentication to be able to listen to them. Read More...

Perian, The swiss army knife for Quicktime

27/Sep/2006

Why have I never heard of this until today? It's going to ship bundled with the next Democracy player for Internet TV.

With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:

* Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
* MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
* These formats when they are inside an AVI:
h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.

click the pic to go to the site and download

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Step by step switching from .mac to google services

11/Sep/2006

Why pay Apple $99/year when you can get more from Google for free? Oh sure, Google will read your email and advertise to you based on the text in those emails... but it's free! Read More...