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| Featured Mac Download: Caffeine keeps your Mac awake |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:30 am |
| Tags: Downloads, Energy Savers, Featured Mac Download, Mac Os X, Sleep |
| Caffeine disables your Mac's screensaver, sleep and screen auto-dimming with one click from the menu bar. Great for presentations, watching videos or extended discussions over something on your screen, Caffeine's much like the previously-posted Jiggler, but with fewer configuration options - just a single-click setting. Caffeine is a free |
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| Featured Mac Download: Add file versioning to your Mac with TimeDrawer |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Clips, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, File Management, File Storage, Mac, Top, Version Control |
| Mac OS X only: A lot of us are excited about Time Machine, the new feature set to launch with Leopard that adds built-in file versioning to OS X. However, until Leopard is released (or until you decide it's worth the money to upgrade), freeware application TimeDrawer provides an attractive, intuitive file versioning system for your Mac. Every |
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| Featured Mac Download: Simplistic application launcher with Namely |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Application Launcher, Featured Mac Download, Keyword Launchers, Mac, Mac Os X |
| Mac only: Freeware utility Namely is a stripped down application launcher. Unlike Lifehacker favorite, Quicksilver, which can be daunting for a newcomer, Namely is very simple and only indexes applications. With customizable hotkeys and positioning, Namely is more similar to a Mac equivalent of Launchy. If you're a recent switcher or never found |
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| Featured Mac Download: Create new documents on-the-fly with Document Palette |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 9:00 am |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Mac Download, File Management, Mac, Time Savers, Top |
| Mac OS X only: Freeware application Document Palette generates new documents in your current active folder in Finder via a slick keyboard shortcut. Hit Ctrl-Opt-Cmd-N (basically smash all three modifiers and hit 'n') and an overlay of document templates will appear on your monitor. Choose the template you want with your mouse or that template's |
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| Featured Mac Download: Access terminal from anywhere with Visor |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Command Line, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Terminal, Top |
| Mac OS X only: Blacktree software—the people who reached into the heavens and pulled down Quicksilver—want to make getting to Terminal no matter where you are as easy as the press of a hotkey with Visor. With Visor running, hit the user-defined hotkey (Ctrl-F1 by default) and a slick terminal window will slide down at the top of your |
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| Featured Mac Download: Download and convert YouTube videos for your iPod/iPhone with TubeTV |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 8:30 am |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Iphone, Ipod, Mac, Top, Video, Video Ipod, Video To Go, Youtube |
| Mac OS X only: Freeware application TubeTV downloads YouTube videos and converts the video for consumption on Apple TVs, iPods, and iPhones. Just search for a video on YouTube using TubeTV's search box (or grab a link from a video currently playing in Firefox), then click the Save button. TubeTV will proceed to download and convert the video, but |
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| Featured Mac Download: Rip full DVDs (with menus) to your hard drive with Drive-in |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Digital Video, Downloads, Dvds, Featured Mac Download, Mac, Top |
| Mac OS X only: Rip full DVD images, including the DVD menu structure, directly to your hard drive with Drive-in. It works like so: Insert your disc, open it with Drive-in, enter the barcode on the back of your DVD case, and watch as it retrieves your DVD info from Amazon. Then just click the "Create Image" button. Once it's created the disc image |
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| Featured Mac Download: Add shutdown, restart, and other simple tools to your dock |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 8:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Mac, Mac Os X, Top |
| Mac OS X only: Freeware application bundle Dockables includes a number of simple, one-use applications that perform system events like shut down, restart, sleep, sleep display, screen capture, mute sound, log out, and several more that you can add to and execute from your dock—or at least that's the idea behind Dockables (hence the name). |
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| Featured Mac Download: Wrangle PAR files with MacPAR deLuxe |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 10:45 am |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Mac Os X, Top |
| Mac OS X only: Join and split giant files into PAR's with free utility, MacPAR deLuxe. If you post or download files to Usenet (Giganews, anyone?) MacPAR's for you. It will: Verify the completeness of downloaded data, and repair missing parts, by means of so called "par" and "par2" files; Unpack data from a RAR archive (most of the files in |
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| Featured Mac Download: Wallpaper your desktop with Flickr |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Flickr, Friday Fun, Mac, Mac Os X, Top, Wallpaper |
| Mac OS X only: Freeware application DeskLickr grabs new images from Flickr and automatically sets them as your desktop wallpaper. Similar to Windows-only Flickr Wallpaper Rotator and the Linux-only Webilder, you can specify photos you want to download by username, tags, groups (I'd recommend the wallpapers group), and more to ensure you're |
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| Featured Mac Download: Free Mac icon set, OSX-flat |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Desktop, Featured Mac Download, Friday Fun, Gui, Icons, Mac, Mac Os X |
| Mac OS X only: Spruce up your Mac's look with the OSX-flat icon set, which is split into black-and-white and colored icon sets. Coupled with previously mentioned LiteIcon, replacing the default icon set and theming your Mac has never been easier. Remember that if you use LiteIcon to replace your icon theme, you will need to relaunch Finder for |
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| Featured Mac Download: Check Weather from the Dock or Menubar with WeatherDock |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Featured Mac Download, Mac, Weather |
| Mac only: Freeware app WeatherDock is a lightweight application that provides one-click access to your local weather through the menubar or dock, updating the weather every 30 minutes. With an extremely light memory footprint and an unobtrusive interface, I'll take WeatherDock over a Dashboard weather widget any day. WeatherDock is a free |
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| Featured Mac Download: Enable Hidden Settings in OS X with Deeper |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Customization, Featured Mac Download, Mac Os X, Utilities |
| settings for portions of the Mac desktop. Deeper has a ton of great customization options like creating animated backgrounds, changing the save location of screenshots, showing hidden files and much more. In all, your dock, Finder, Dashboard, Expos and the login screen can all be modified with this application. Deeper is a free download for Mac |
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| Featured Mac Download: Integrate Subversion with Finder with SCPlugin |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Backup Utilities, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Mac, Mac Os X, Subversion, Version Control |
| Mac OS X only: Access and write to version control Subversion repositories using SCPlugin, a Mac version of Windows only TortoiseSVN that integrates with Finder. SCPlugin has been around as a Subversion tool for a while, but the newly released 0.7 version promises that it's "now ready to be your one-and-only Subversion interface." SCPlugin works |
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| Featured Mac Download: Control Multiple Macs with One Keyboard and Mouse with Teleport |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Keyboard, Kvm, Mac, Mac Os X, Sharing |
| Mac only: Control multiple Macs with one keyboard and mouse with freeware app Teleport. You've long had this functionality with previously mentioned Synergy, however, Teleport aims to be more Mac-centric by supporting clipboard synchronization and drag-and-drop copying of files between Macs. Teleport is still a beta and at this point I can't |
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