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TechTool Pro has always been known as a big player in the community of Mac utilities, but has maintained its unique approach to combining an extremely powerful program with a very user-friendly interface.
Unfortunately for utility developers, OS X is a fairly robust system and doesn’t need a lot of monitoring or performance tweaks (in my [...]

So I’m a fairly hardcore Backpack (aff) user. I use it heavily for both business and personal things and I’d bit a disorganized mess without it.
Unfortunately, as with most web applications, when you’re disconnected from the internet (whether traveling or just having trouble finding a connection), it becomes unusable for obvious reasons.
Enter PackRat.
PackRat is [...]

I have been on a search for the perfect podcatcher for some time now. I watch video podcasts as an alternative to traditional television programming since I have a Mac mini connected to my television. I choose the larger versions of video files because they look better on a television.
I first tried out [...]

There has been recent discussion around here about how folks keep track of the plethora of serial numbers and licenses for all their dandy applications.
Everything from homegrown PHP/MySQL solutions to old fashioned email to actual applications was mentioned. Needless to say there are some creative people who read TAB.
This post aims to roundup all of [...]

Back in January I started using Calorie King’s Nutrition & Exercise Manager (NEM, from here on out) on a daily basis. I’ve never dieted before, let alone watched what I was actually putting in my body, so I wasn’t sure how I’d fair with this project. My immediate reaction was that Calorie King’s [...]

After almost every screencast that I post here on The Apple Blog, someone asks about the software that I’m using. (Also about the wallpaper on my desktop…) Without hesitation I reply, Snapz Pro X. It’s screen capturing software on steroids, and makes the process of recording your screen movements absolutely a breeze.
Though [...]

Disco is a brand new disc burning application.
The coolest thing about Disco is that, when you’re burning a disc, it smokes.
Literally:
Many people see Disco as simply a run-of-the-mill disc burning app that has a fun little effect. I, however, dissagree. I think that, in addition to the smoke, Disco has a lot of [...]

Comparatively speaking, OS X users don’t cutomize the interface of OS X as much as their Windows counterparts. I personally love the OS X interface and have no desire to significantly change it, but there are certainly quite a large number of people who do.
Below a listing of some websites that offer resources to pimp [...]

If you’re the type who has trouble keeping your Desktop organized, then my friend, I may have the solution for you. Hazel comes in the form of a preference pane for your System Preferences, and helps you to easily setup fairly powerful workflows to perform on any folder on your system. Essentially it’s [...]

When I started Tackle Technology, Daylite was the first killer application I bought for the company. Organization is productivity, and Marketcircle did a fantastic job with Daylite 3 in helping me keep people productive when the situation could have been chaotic.
Shortly after that purchase, I received an email from Marketcircle sales letting me know about [...]

Yesterday, Adium, a popular multi-protocol instant message client, finally hit version 1.0, and I’m very happy to say that the result of six years of hard work came out great. Wow, do I love Adium.
It’s got tons of new features, and, according to this press release, it’s got hundreds of bug fixes.

Whether you’re writing a simple article for a blog, piecing together the next blockbuster hit, or penning a 500 page romance novel, there are quite a few options for helping you get all of that information organized and drafted. There really are enough to chose from with a wide enough range of options that you’re [...]

So Just a week ago my company started a “Biggest Loser” competition. Not realizing it was a weight thing, I entered figuring I was a shoe-in for first prize…But when I they pulled out the scale for a weigh in, it all came sharply into focus. A day later I jumped (jumping rope, [...]

There are many different word processing programs available for a Mac, ranging from fully fledged offerings such as Pages and Microsoft Word through to more basic apps, such as TextEdit and Text-Wrangler. All of these follow a similar theme and, whilst they all focus on a slightly different target market, they are all very similar.
I’m [...]

For years, the realm of personal finance on the Mac has been ripe for a small, independent kick-butt developer to come in and win everyone over. Anyone who is a mac fan and has ever launched Quicken can attest to that fact. And so, in 2003, IGG Software, a small software company out of Vermont, [...]

Soulver is a unique calculator application for the Mac. Instead of the standard Keypad/Pseudo LCD that most programs use, Soulver takes quite a different approach to number crunching.
Using Soulver is pretty much a matter of typing out what you want to know. It accepts phrases that are more or less plain english [...]

It’s no wonder that Headdress comes complete with a feature set that will appear to most avid graphic designers out there, at least those who dabble in the web. After all, it was designed by Twinsparc, your prototypical two-man design firm.
At first glance, Headdress may not seem like an exciting application. Those who have [...]

Ambience chasers rejoice! Softskies, a new iTunes visualizer, is a new, powerful and highly customizable program that can generate an enormous variety of preset and user-specified atmospheric and cloud effects. While far from perfect, it does what it was designed to do pretty well, and should be on the short list of anyone seriously interested [...]

The Mac web has covered Parallels ad nauseum. I think we’re agreed on that. Yet I’m here today to give my thoughts on how this program functions in a business setting.
The back story is that I’m a Cisco Network guy. I do a lot of stuff that requires the IE 6 browser [...]

Living as a Mac island in a sea of Windows machines at the office can sometimes be a challenge. Though Apple has made advances through simply enabling Mac OS X clients to attach to Windows networks, and mount shared file servers, third party devices are often the part of the ecosystem that goes forgotten – [...]