Why would a Mac user need a PDF application when Preview.app does a great job of displaying and printing PDF files? Preview.app is a good basic application, but for those who need advanced PDF features, such as creating a PDF form or reordering pages, there’s PDFpenPro from SmileOnMyMac.
My inital opinion of PDFpenPro was that I [...]
Overflow, from Stunt Software, is another addition to the expanding line up of file and application launcher options on the mac. Everyone has their own preference as to how they like to access their most used items as quickly as possible, whether that be folders and apps in the dock, Quicksilver, Butler or ToDos, so [...]
The guys that created AppZapper haven’t been resting on their laurels. Creating one simple, clear, concise app wasn’t enough for them. After delivering us the “Uninstaller that Apple forgot”, they have been busy redefining how we burn CDs, and create disk images. The fruits of their labour? Disco.
So, what does it do? Well, as I [...]
Flickr (owned by yahoo!) is one of the most widely used “web 2.0” online applications. If you have never heard of flickr, it’s a photo sharing/social networking application and was one of the first applications to use “tags” (or folksonomy as it’s technically called). Flickr is free to use and upload 20mb of photos [...]
Griffin Technology’s iTrip Auto ($69.99, ~£35) is a fairly recent addition to the ever expanding line of iTrip radio transmitters, originally for the iPod and now branching into other devices such as the PSP too. Griffin, from memory, were fairly early to the market with fairly revolutionary (at the time) iTrip for the 1st and [...]
A while back I had the opportunity to try the LapWorks Mac Feet. The stick-on little feet for my PowerBook were excellent. But alas, as durable as they were, they didn’t stand up to the destructive power of my 2 and 4 year old boys…plus, I’ve moved on to newer notebooks since then [...]
I’m working at a company, and we are currently in the works of developing our own custom CRM (Contact Resource Management) system. All the programs we’ve used have some serious setbacks, are slow, look horrible, and just suck. I’ve been touring through DayLite 3, and there is no question we would be using this if [...]
SOHO Organizer is actually SOHO Organizer + SOHO Notes + SOHO Print Essentials. Why would you name the suite the same name as one of the apps in a bundle, especially when the most important app in the bundle isn’t even that one? I also wonder how confusing that must be around the [...]
When I first switched to the Mac world a couple of years ago, I was mesmerized by the incredible number of admirable and good looking applications focusing doing one or two things, but doing them well. As a developer I am used to über powerful applications full of features and options and updates, but as [...]
There are some kinds of applications that just really strike me as admirable. These are the ones that really find a couple things to focus on and do those things really well. The “Microsoft Words” of the world today are so bloated and so feature-rich that they lose focus on what really matters. They have [...]
No, not that iHome.
Ain’t No Other Man…
The iHome iH5 clock radio is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a full-featured clock radio that lets you hook in your iPod as a source for sound. So instead of accidentally having the radio wake you up blaring Ain’t No Other Man, you can wake up to something much [...]
In what is probably my favorite gauge of a great application, TextExpander fades into the background and just works. Smile On My Mac purchased the previously-known Textpander (which we’ve covered here and here) from developer Peter Maurer this past year. If you’re hearing about TextExpander for the first time, or have tried it [...]
Interarchy 8.2 is a remarkably feature-packed update to an already wonderful piece of software. I haven’t used Interarchy since version 8.0.1, and in the interim the folks at Stairways Software have clearly been hard at work.
For those of you who have never seen RapidWeaver version 3.5.0 in action, it can best be described as the forgotten middle child. Sure, it’s not as revered as the first-born Dreamweaver, and it’s not talked about nearly as much as the baby iWeb, but RapidWeaver is the one you would actually want to [...]
Lately, I’ve been giving up my deepest darkest tricks to the readership here at TAB. Many of you are fantastic web designers, and you probably already know about Color Schemer Studio. What’s that? You don’t know about it? You say you’ve been using color swatches to do your color schemes? Well toss those aside, because [...]
Pierre Chatel (who brought us Sidenote) is at it again with an app that’s sure to spice up your desktop.
His newest app is titled Desktopia.
Desktopia is a freeware application that lets you set your desktop to change pictures at a specific time as opposed to OS X’s current option of setting it to rotate [...]
Yesterday I received a call that Apple Store UTC had demo units on the floor and I should come check them out. As any deserving person does to test the power of a system, I rebooted the thing. The system was up and running in under 10 seconds from a dark screen. Yeah.
Then I proceeded [...]
Tha’ts right, folks. I’m not talking about Civ 4, the most anticipated version of the Sid Myer’s command and control civilization simulator. This is all about it’s older brother, bundled with both expansion packs and a few other niceties.
I’m just going to get the the point on this game, and save everyone a heck of [...]
While I am not sure how many there are, one thing is for certain - there are far more FTP clients than one person needs. This is a classic problem when looking for a piece of software. There are dozens of offerings, but which one is the best for what I need. Hopefully [...]
skEdit is the web developers text editor. While not nearly as feature packed as some other text editors in the Mac software market, I’ve been using it for two weeks and in that time it has easily saved me three months worth of work.
