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Benny Jones Jr. says...

Nov 07, 2009

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ShoveBox

Catch all the little scraps of information that you can't immediately
act on, but don’t want to forget. ShoveBox sits up in your menu bar,
waiting for you to drag in text, images, URLs, and more. With the
QuickJot feature, entering new items is a breeze... and the new rules
feature will automatically sort them for you!

WriteRoom

WriteRoom is a simple, but powerful app that provides you with a
distraction-free writing environment. When you're ready to write,
launch WriteRoom and let all the virtual distractions cluttering your
screen melt away. Focus purely on your writing.

Twitterrific

Follow your friends' chatter on Twitter with Twitterrific, the popular
Twitter client for your Mac. Designed to sit along the side of your
screen, Twitterrific lets you participate in Twitter's real time
conversations and status updates through a sleek, minimal interface.

TinyGrab

TinyGrab is a simple, powerful app that enables you to quickly share
screenshots of everything on your Mac. Grab a screenshot, and TinyGrab
will instantly upload it and copy the URL to your Clipboard so you can
easily share it via email, IM, Twitter, Facebook, and more!

Hordes of Orcs

Defend your human village from hordes of murderous orcs! Freeverse's
take on "tower defense" lets players strategically place and upgrade
different types of towers to rain arrows, fire and more down on
incoming waves of enemies. Just make sure you don't let any orcs pass
by your defenses!

Mariner Write

Mariner Write is a powerful, yet streamlined word processor for Mac OS
X. Boasting an elegant interface, as well as hundreds of intuitive
features such as the ability to read Microsoft Word documents, Mariner
Write has everything you need to turn out great-looking documents.
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Tom says...

Nov 07, 2009

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If You Have Multiple Macs, iPhones, Then Apple's MobileMe Is a Bargain.

Good article on Apple's MobileMe service.

Apple has finally assembled a set of features for its hosted MobileMe service that makes it worth its subscription fee for the right user. As a critic of the service in the past, I find myself with naught but praise these days.

I agree with the author. I, too, was a critic of MobileMe when it first transitioned from MobileMe. In fact, I was critical of it before the bigger guns joined in. Over the course of many months, and now nearly a year and a half, it has become an indispensable tool I rely on daily.

Take a look at the chart below. Spanning three Macs, three iPhones, an iPod touch, and three PCs, look at all the information MobileMe is holding together for me:

The purple Ws denote using the web interface, the red Xs denotes using Webdav disk or other method to access documents on iDisk.

Notice there's one component I choose to keep consistent across every item: calendars. It's amazing that any change made on any of the 10 items will show up on the others in just a minute or two. Yes, it "just works".

Tying this all together was little more than visiting a system preference on the Macs, logging into MobileMe, and checking a few boxes. On the iPhone it's pretty much the same, and on the PC there's a MobileMe control panel to install and use. You set, then forget, it just keeps in sync after that; I never have to think about it.

I'm not even using every sync feature. If I wanted, I could sync Dashboard widgets and Preferences across the Macs. I don't do so only because the varying screen sizes means I use different widgets and prefs on these machines.

Further, there are other features I use not listed on the chart, like the excellent "Find my iPhone", and the ability to wipe data off a device. I have these features enabled on all four mobile devices. It's great.

People balk at MobileMe because they claim Google or Yahoo or Microsoft provide email, contacts and calendars for free. True, but MobileMe does so using powerful native apps on Macs and the iPhone, and is so much more than just email anyway.

Bottom line is I'd have to collect numerous third-party apps (e.g., mail, drop box, Google sync, etc.) to try to get all the above items in sync, and they still wouldn't cover all the bases, nor be anywhere near as easy to administer. I consider MobileMe a bargain, and can't imagine my computing/mobile life without it.

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Paul says...

Nov 07, 2009

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Axure iPhone UI elements library download

The bulk of the work on this library was done one night while I was up late from the pure pain and agony from eating a Taco Tico taco - it was just one taco, and I wanted bragging rights. Taco Tico is a Louisville fast food Mexican joint, equivalent to the White Castle circa 1980. The important thing I learned, don't eat things you think are dangerous simply to bond with other people, but I don't know if I'll be able to do it in the future. I'm a risk taker. Maybe a good fall-back is only eat part of it.

Anyway, I've been prototyping iPhone applications, and I really want to be able to do it in Axure RD; this will let me turn over the prototype to the stakeholder in a web browser. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any existing iPhone widgets that did do a good job of covering the common iPhone UI elements. Bingo, add Taco Tico, Axure, an iPhone and the result, a iPhone UI element library.

First, I want to point to teehan+lax, the creators of the 'iPhone_GUI_3_0.psd' that I used for a large part of this widget. I also used Yahoo! UI elements and then created a few of them myself.

The aim is to create a library of common iPhone User Interface patterns.

You can reach me, Paul, at Paul.Sizemore /at/ Gmail.com, but I would stay away from Taco Tico.

Click here to download:

iPhone-Axure-Widgets.zip (1972 KB)

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Josh says...

Nov 07, 2009

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This fix made my Snow Leopard stable. Now it is snow lovely!

After two weeks of applying the fix below, Snow Leopard and CS4 apps, Firefox, and Microsoft are all stable. Not a single crash!

Anyone that’s getting crashes whenever the system tries to save or open docs should try this:
1. Start by opening System Preferences
2. Select ‘Sharing’ from the Internet & Wireless section
3. From the list on the left choose ‘File Sharing’ and turn it off.
4. Delete anything listed in the Shared Folders section
5. Turn File Sharing back on
6. Log out, then Log back in
7. Done!!

Source: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/backstage/comments/two-proposed-solutions-to-snow-leopard-crash-problems-on-macs/

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namakusabil says...

Nov 06, 2009

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Rainmeter 1.1 Makes the Enigma Desktop Even Easier to Use

Windows only: The latest version of the popular Rainmeter desktop adds an excellent new tool that makes it easy to manage your library of skins, with previews, detailed setup instructions, and more.

Once you've run through the simple installation process and launched Rainmeter, you'll be presented with the latest Enigma 2.6 desktop, and a quick-start panel that gives you access to all of the option panels easily.

The great new addition is the RainBrowser interface, which makes it easy to preview all of your installed skins, read the installation instructions, access skin settings, and even restart Rainmeter right from the interface.

The full list of changes, as explained by the Rainmeter team:

A new utility called RainBrowser helps users manage their library of skins through a GUI interface. RainBrowser lets you preview skins, read detailed setup instructions, and even search by tag. Thanks to the addition of skin metadata, this is something other apps can take advantage of, as well.

Taking a cue from HTML5, skins may now use local fonts. This means you can design and download skins with gorgeous fonts without having to fully install them in Windows.

Instead of a lot of tedious and repetitive coding, new stylesheets let you customize appearance and settings for many skins at once.

Enigma now supports Google Calendar, Yahoo! Weather, Winamp and Foobar right out of the box. New skins also let you monitor your WiFi signal, world clocks, and even the current moon phase (which has been requested surprisingly often).

Rainmeter's improved interface lets you middle-click to cycle through a family of skins and launch useful addons from the context menu.

Last time, many readers were frustrated by having to add skins to their desktops one-by-one. With the new pre-made Preview Theme, you can make your desktop match the arrangement in the preview screenshot with one click.

The instructions have been expanded into a full-sized PDF manual.

The latest changes make Rainmeter not just a powerful desktop customization tool for system themers, but something useful for just about anybody that wants to customize their desktop without a lot of tweaking. Rainmeter is a free download for Windows only.

Send an email to How-To Geek, the author of this post, at lowell@lifehacker.com.

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unugurn says...

Nov 06, 2009

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Jitbit HelpDesk 3.6.3: Jitbit HelpDesk web based help desk software (ASP.NET) http://bit.ly/3yzdfd

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Mike says...

Nov 06, 2009

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#Webtip | 15 Free Guides That Really Teach USEFUL Stuff | #Ratgeber #guide #usefull #nützlich #Tipp #kostenlos

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15 absolut nützliche und kostenlose Ratgeber und Tippsammlungen. Vom "Internet Guide for the Movie Addict" über MacOS X bis hin zu "How to build a MediaCenter". Alles im PDF Format...

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dcfemella says...

Nov 06, 2009

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Amaya: A Simple, Yet Useful Alternative to Dreamweaver – Make Tech Easier

While on a project, where money was scarce, we were scrambling around looking for a free or open source HTML editor that can provide us the same functionality as Adobe Dreamweaver. During my analysis of the different HTML editor out there, I came across Amaya. What intrigued me about it was that it was created by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). As someone who loves Dreamweaver, I thought that I would never find something comparable to it that was free (open source), but I was wrong.

Amaya is an open-source HTML editor created by the W3C. If you don’t already know, W3C is an international community that develops Web standards. It was founded by Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited as inventing the World Wide Web. In 1998, Amaya was invented. Since then, there have been various releases that have given more functionality to Amaya.

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Rest of article: http://maketecheasier.com/html-editor-created-by-w3c/2009/11/06

Filed under: amaya, editor, html, open source, software, technology

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Applebits says...

Nov 05, 2009

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Stencils voor Omnigraffle

Voor iedereen, die Omnigraffle gebruikt is er nu Graffletopia. Een
website, waar je stencils kunt downloaden voor gebruik in Omnigraffle.
Ik vond vooral de Strobist stencil origineel.

http://graffletopia.com/

Filed under: Mac, Omnigraffle, Software, stencils

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xstex says...

Nov 05, 2009

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Out-Of-The-Box Windows 7 Install Is Vulnerable To 8 out of 10 Viruses Tested [Windows 7]

SophosLabs didn't believe claims that Windows 7 and its User Account Controls were any more secure than previous versions of the OS, so they tested (albeit somewhat oddly) a clean install. Result? A reminder that you should always use protection.

The way the test was conducted is that ten viruses were introduced into a clean install of Windows 7 with the UAC settings on system defaults. While only one virus was blocked, two technically did not function properly for whatever reason. Still, this doesn't leave much hope for those who decide to skip automatic patching, firewalls and anti-virus applications. Let's do the whole "Safer Computing" thing, shall we? [Sophos]

Send an email to Rosa Golijan, the author of this post, at rgolijan@gizmodo.com.