Archive for the ‘Mac Apps’ Category
5 Essential Mac apps for shortcut fans
Although Apple designed Leopard such that it makes you more productive than ever, eg. quicklook, spotlight, there are still more room for getting more out of your Mac. With the help of third party apps like the following, working on your Mac on a day to day basis becomes faster, you get more done and ...
Qumana Blog Editor – for ease of blogging
I have been looking for a desktop app for blogging recently as I thought my blogging experience can still be improved by using another medium other than the Wordpress web interface itself. Although Wordpress itself is already a great blogging tool by itself, the thoughts put into designing the interface for blogging has been thoughtful. But ...
Pixus – Measure anything on your screen
Pixus, a very simple app based on Adobe AIR which is installable on both Mac or PC, is an on-screen ruler that lets you measure anything on your screen. Yes you may find other screen ruler apps like Omnidea Rulers for example but that will set you back 13 euros. What I like about Pixus is ...
2 ways to create your own Application Launcher
Application launcher apps has been around for while and is apparently the most sought after tools for Mac users. There is a huge bunch of useful ones you can find eg. QuickSilver, OverFlow, Sapiens, Valet, LaunchBar to name a few. Before you get yourself an application launcher app, let’s evaluate the number one reason why we need ...
SuperDocker
Just when you think it’s all there is to customize your Mac, SuperDocker proves otherwise. If you ever wanted to change the look of your dock, change the screenshots image format to JPEG, GIF, PDF and more, force your new window to open in a tab in Safari, change the minimize animation to “suck” other than ...
Skitch
This is an app that I use quite a bit. Skitch is very useful if you would like to quickly annotate on a screenshot, telling the other party what exactly is on your screen. As a web designer, more often than not I need to explain certain parts of a design to a client for example, ...
Poladroid Project
Polaroid went from extinction to your mac desktop! Artsy photography enthusiasts will love this, it turns any picture into a polaroid picture, landscape or portrait and processes the picture. Just drag and drop. Processing might take a while, but hey we’re talking about a Polaroid camera! Picture quality is awesome and by comparison to a real polaroid ...
4 useful RSS apps
Real Simple Syndication, or RSS for short, is a part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. RSS has been around for quite some time and my bet is you see them 90% of the time when reading blogs especially. I am very surprised at how a handful of people are still not acquainted with it. As time ...
4 useful day-to-day productivity tools
As a sucker for productivity tools, I am always looking around, reading reviews and trying out new native and web applications to manage my day to day life – personal or work wise. You might already be using some that you love or deem useful, but I would like to share 4 tools I use ...



