Posts Tagged ‘mac’

Control iTunes With Quicksilver

Use iTunes on a Mac? Quicksilver junkie? Still aren’t controlling iTunes with iTunes? Silly, let’s use keyboard shortcuts to skip tracks:

Play / Pause Option-Command-Up Arrow ⌥⌘↑
Next Song Option-Command-Right Arrow ⌥⌘→
Previous Song Option-Command-Left Arrow ⌥⌘←
Search Artists Option-Command-Down Arrow ⌥⌘↓

It’s a great tutorial from MacApper for Quicksilver users to get started controlling iTunes without having to open iTunes.

Have some requests for app control through Quicksilver? Let us know.

How-To: Control

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June 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: apple, itunes, mac, quicksilver | no comments»

DoIt on your Mac

This piece of Mac software instantly catches my interest with a simple idea I’ve yet to see in other ToDo list managers.

Not only does DoIt [formerly ToDo] categorize your tasks, set with priorities and deadlines; it also associates each todo with a URL, address book contact or file on your computer.

Compatible with Applescripts, Quicksilver and iCal, DoIt also adds a sync function across multiple computers using .Mac - got… » Continue

May 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: apple, mac, software, todo | 3 comments»

Six Spam Filters for your Mac

Joe Kissell at EarthWeb.com has put together a good list of 6 programs Mac users can get to know if spam is becoming a problem.
1) Em@ilCRX

Price: $30

Pros: Blacklist, whitelist, regular expression matching; image spam filtering; several other filtering options.
Cons: No Bayesian filter; no IMAP support; no direct integration with email clients; cluttered interface; poor documentation.

2) JunkMatcher

Price: Free (donations accepted)

Pros: Bayesian filter; regular expressions; wide variety… » Continue

April 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: mac, macintosh, spam | 2 comments»

Tabbed Browsing on your Mac Desktop

Here’s an interesting Apple app for your Mac. Sticky Windows 2.0 allows you to drag any window, like iTunes or your browser window, to the edge of the screen where it will turn into a small tab.

When you hit a tab, the window will restore to it’s original position. Sticky Windows is a shareware program by Donelleschi Software that runs on Mac OS X Tiger.

Sticky Windows 2.0

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April 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: apple, mac, macintosh, software | 6 comments»

Turn Windows XP into Mac OS X with FlyakiteOSX

This is not exactly new news, but you can change the look and feel of your Windows XP computer to be extremely similar to that of Mac OS X by installing the free FlyakiteOSX transformation pack. I am quite impressed with the transformation pack. If you’d like to give the pack a test drive, head over to the FlyakiteOSX homepage and you can try a slimmed… » Continue

March 21 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: freeware, mac, Technology, windows | 13 comments»

Sync Google Calendar with Apple iCal

If you find yourself enjoying Google Calendar and iCal, but are having a hard time syncing the two, give Spanning Sync a try. Download Squad has a nice write up that introduces Spanning Sync and shows how to get Google Calendar and iCal to play nice. I know you Mac users have other ways of doing this. Please tell us how you use Google Calendar and/or iCal… » Continue

March 14 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: gcal, ical, mac, Technology | 3 comments»

How-to: Read and Write NTFS Windows Partition on Mac OS X

Updated: from MacFuse 0.1.0 Beta 6 to 0.1.7

Users running Mac OS X with Bootcamp Windows may struggle to modify or update your documents and files in the Windows partition - usually it is in NTFS File System format which you can read the drive natively in Mac OS X but not write onto it.

Recently Amit Singh, a Google employee, releases a implementation called MacFUSE which… » Continue

January 17 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: mac, ntfs, software | 148 comments»

PagePacker makes pocket-sized books

Aaron Hillegass at Big Nerd Ranch Weblog does some magic by using his program PagePacker (a Mac OS X app) to create a pocket-sized books with our beloved DIY Planner template.

I often wander around without a computer, so I needed a nice easy way to print important bits into little books of information that I could carry around in my pocket. Chad Adams figured out a brilliant technique… » Continue

January 9 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: mac, software, template | 1 comment»

Poor boy Apple Dot Mac alternatives

Love .Mac but too expensive? Here is a great tip if couldn’t find .Mac alternatives and are stuck to it. Derek Punsalan at 5thirtyone shows you services that have similar convenience as .mac services but costs less (or even free). Solutions include: Staying code-free without iWeb; Sharing photos without “Photocasting”; Free file storage (WebDav) without an iDisk; Offline file backups without Apple’s Backup 3; Sync multiple machines at your… » Continue

December 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: mac, online, software | no comments»

Screen Sieve: Text Find and Highlight tool

A Mac Software.

This is a great utility to search your contents of current active window. When the text matches, it will highlight the texts on the screen. The difference between normal Find command is that this software enable you to search entire window, including buttons and files, not just area contains text. There are couple other differences:

Screen Sieve highlights all the matches that are visible in a window, while

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December 22 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: highlight, mac, software | 1 comment»

MacBook Pro - Use iSight to log invalid login attempts

For people who have iSight, or MacBook Pro with built-in iSight camera - you could use the camera to take snapshot for any invalid login attempts in your system:

With the new MacBook Pro’s including built-in iSight cameras, I thought it would be useful to take an iSight snapshot of anyone trying to break into my laptop. This is done by tailing /var/log/asl.log for invalid login attempts (both at the login… » Continue

December 13 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: mac, software | 5 comments»

Essential List of Tutorials, How-to, and Screencast for Quicksilver

For Mac OS X users, Quicksilver is probably one of the best god-send productivity applications. What’s it? It’s a launcher and indexer which you can do actions and interfaces with software and applications with just keystrokes away.

Getting started on Quicksilver basic is easy. There are some hidden powers and advanced features that you may want to understand and use to get maximum productivity though. This post is a collection… » Continue

November 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: list, mac, Productivity, software, tutorial | 2 comments»

20 Quick OS X Tips for Beginners

For everyone who is switching to Mac OS X, Chris Howard introduces 20 quick Mac OS X that can speed up your operation through shortcuts.

Because we are all different, operating system developers always put more than one way of doing things in their systems. One example is there’s often keyboard shortcuts, menus and toolbars in applications for doing the same thing. Consequently, it’s very easy to get into the habit… » Continue

November 7 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: mac, software | 3 comments»

Making a Smooth Move from .Mac to Google

If you are using .Mac, Matthew Russell at MacDevCenter shows you how to transit from .Mac to Google seamlessly and save $100 per year for you.

The article contains ways to move your existing mails and address book to Gmail, getting your iCal information into Google Calendar, using GDisk for Gmail for your online storage needs, and use Google Groups and Blogger for your discussion and blogging needs:

Apple’s .Mac product is… » Continue

November 6 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: google, mac, software | no comments»

Getting Things Done with Your Macintosh

Jeff Porten has a great writeup on Getting Things Done and Macintosh.

Part 1 of his article Getting Things Done with Your Macintosh introduces David Allen’s Getting Things Done. He summarizes what is GTD method: collect, process, organize, review, and do. He also emphasizes the importance of list in GTD system and introduces number of list systems.

Part 2 talks about specifically on how to integrate the GTD system onto your Macintosh… » Continue

October 11 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, mac | 1 comment»

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