This is a minor update to SiteSucker, but it is a program that I depend on, so I am posting it.
For the uninitiated, SiteSucker is a program that sucks everything (pages, images, etc.) out of a website and downloads it to your hard drive. I use it because I update my school web page at [...]
Eternal Storms has released a public beta of flickery, an OS X (Leopard only) client for flickr. It bring a great deal of iPhoto-like functionality to your flickr.com account in the way it displays photos and enables you to tag & group your collection. You can also browse, view and comment on pictures of your [...]
Somehow, I missed this despite subscribing to Adam’s blog, but Bee Docs’ released Timeline 3D this month.
The main new feature is the ability to display/present timelines in (no surprise) 3D mode. The best way to see what this looks like is by viewing the demo video Adam has put together.
While I’ve touted Bee Docs’ Timeline [...]
Apologies to all as I’m a bit late with what I was hoping to be a regular Sunday post. Again, here are my pics for the best program updates and new releases from the past week (and, remember, these are programs I either use regularly, tried due to interesting features or have been convinced to [...]
Part of Google’s reward for the perpetual servitude of their employees is the ability for them to use up to 20% of their time to make cool stuff. John Skidgel, John Grabowski and Brett Slatkin did just that by creating Google App Engine Launcher for OS X.
Google App Engine is a service created by Google [...]
Some server administrators set share drives to auto disconnect users after a set time of inactivity (ie fifteen minutes). As a user it’s super frustrating to connect to a server every time you need access. I’ve written an AppleScript that first checks to see if the share is mounted, if it is mounted [...]
Adobe Systems released Flash Player 10 beta today with a modest set of enhancements, including:
New 3D Effects that make it much easier to position, rotate and animate 2D objects while retaining full interactivity. Plus, new variable bitrate streaming for video between Adobe Flash Player 10 beta and future releases of Adobe Flash Media Server will [...]
Wil Shipley, head of Delicious Monster, posted this Twitter message early this morning:
I have deployed the new store (also the basis of Golden % Braeburn) and it’s taking DL1 orders right now. Will watch it, then ship DL2.
Could this mean he was up late last night, getting the code smoothed over, ready for a [...]
freeridecoding announced the release of version 1.0 of BurnAgain FS, a CD/DVD multisession burning utility for Mac OS X. Their software can re-mount CDs or DVDs as writeable volumes just like a hard disk. This means you can use the Finder to perform all operations on the volume and then burn changes (in ISO 9660 [...]
I’ve used TextMate before, mostly for heavy development with PHP or Ruby on Rails, but it began to fall out of focus for me when I started using Panic’s Coda instead. I loved Coda’s interface more than any other text editor/web development application. But I lamented the ability to easily sync up my web [...]
The two newest kids on the block, Pixelmator and Acorn, have both been updated to version 1.2, each carrying increased stability and new features. Ars Technica’s Infinite Loop blog has a post covering some new features - including Curves, Rulers, and more - clearly planned to keep pushing at the market currently dominated by Adobe [...]
Apple updated their PGP product security key as part of their two-year cycle. The new key is valid up through May 15, 2010 and will eventually be posted to their Protecting Security Information page. The announcement was made on their mailing list which you can subscribe to via mail or RSS.
How To Use The Key
Unlike the [...]
Microsoft has been busy today, releasing security updates, announcing a new service pack and committing to restoring functionality to their Mac office suite.
Yep, It’s Patch Tuesday Again
Microsoft released security bulletin MS08-014 today that contains a patch to a remote code execution vulnerability effecting Microsoft Office 2004 & 2008 for Macintosh. Office 2004 is bumped up to [...]
VMware was not the only pre-release surprise this past week as OpenOffice.org launched a beta of their new 3.0 office productivity suite complete with native OS X GUI support (no need to run X11 anymore!) along with a sizable list of other enhancements and bug fixes. TAB put the suite through a series [...]
My picks for the best program updates and new releases from this past week:
VMware Fusion 2 Beta – this popular virtualization tool adds enhanced graphics & printing capabilities plus more diverse import options
OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta – one of the most comprehensive (only?) open source office suites adds native OS X Aqua support plus many enhancements [...]
Speaking of raising the bar on virtualization, the new upgrade for Parallels 3 includes support for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3 along with a few needed performance improvements.
Yes I know, as hard as it is to stomach the fact that people use Windows on their stylish Macs, we can’t judge their circumstances. My experience [...]
You’d think by now we’d have see everything when it comes to screen image capture software for OS X. While Apple provides basic functionality out-of-the-box there are a plethora of add-ons that vie for your ⌘-Shift attention. One of the more recent contenders is grabUp, a simple enhancement to ⌘+Shift+4 that takes the selected [...]
Today, Times, the newspaper-like RSS feed reader, has been released.
A few days ago we gave you an in-depth preview of this application from Acrylic Apps and are excited to see it finally released.
Be sure to take a read through our review of the app and then go download the free trial.
Times is $30 for a [...]
As someone who both works in a high-theft environment (university campus, anyone?) and who owns a piece of portable Apply goodness that contains my entire life, I’m rather concerned about security and theft prevention. I had considered a laptop lock, but considerations of how much I really do move my laptop about and [...]
I - along with much of the rest of the Mac-using world - have been waiting for Delicious Library 2 for quite a while. Seems like we’ve been hearing about how awesomer the second incarnation of the media tracking application will be, for years. I know it’s not that extreme, but anticipation makes [...]
