Versions for Mac now in public beta

Written on June 05, 2008 by Jason Terhorst and 3 people have commented

The long-discussed “Versions” for the Mac is now open for anyone to download, for free (for now). It’s pretty slick. It’s not as awesome as the hype built it up to be, but it’s definitely worth checking out.
Versions is an app that provides a strong GUI front-end for the “svn” (Subversion) command-line application. I, [...]

Firefox 3RC1 Released

Written on May 23, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 10 people have commented

After all the months of waiting, it’s finally here!
No, I don’t mean the rumored Apple tablet, sorry. Nor, more realistically, am I talking about the spec bump to the Macbook line. The first release candidate for Firefox 3 dropped yesterday, and a shiny new thing it is. (I can hear you now: [...]

Adobe Posts Pre-release of “Astro” – A.K.A. Flash Player 10

Written on May 15, 2008 by Bob Rudis and No one has commented

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 [...]

Microsoft’s RDC beta expires; no new release available

Written on March 31, 2008 by Eddie Hargreaves and 11 people have commented

Apple promised to transition all of its Macs to using Intel microprocessors by the end of 2007 and Microsoft released a Universal Binary version of Office in January 2008, but a Remote Desktop Connection Client that runs natively on Intel Macs is still in beta. Except now that beta has expired… sort of.
Microsoft released RDC 2.0 Beta [...]

Unsanity APE & Leopard

Written on February 27, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 2 people have commented

It came to my attention recently - read: I’ve been checking - that Unsanity has, finally bumped at least some of their haxies to Leopard compatible versions. Many people, myself included, have been bemoaning the loss of such tools as WindowShade X, FruitMenu, and most especially ShapeShifter since their upgrades to the latest big [...]

An FTP Application to Break The Mold?

Written on June 28, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 12 people have commented

Last week I wrote about my failure to understand why everyone and their dog seems to be churning out FTP and Text Editor applications. The discussion that was generated in the comments was a good one, and many good points were brought to my attention that I hadn’t considered previously. The point that [...]

Missing Sync For Windows Mobile 6 in Beta

Written on June 17, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 3 people have commented

The folks at Missing Sync sent out an email over the weekend to announce some updates to their line of PDA and Smartphone syncing software. While users of Palm devices may be glad to hear that Missing Sync for Palm version 6 has been released, that wasn’t the exciting news to yours truly.
It seemed [...]

Skitch Updated, Now in Semi-Public Beta

Written on June 14, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 8 people have commented

UPDATE: Alright, NOW you can sign up on plasq.com for an opportunity to get into the Skitch Beta program.
UPDATE: I guess in my excitement, I jumped the gun a tad:My apologies! The update and goodness I wrote below is - at the moment - intended for the private beta users only. But hang [...]

1Passwd Update for Safari 3 Beta

Written on June 13, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 4 people have commented

Wow those guys work fast! No sooner did Steve announce the availability of Safari 3 beta, and there’s an update for 1Passwd to work with it! Awesome response guys!
1Passwd is a fantastic utility that saves all your passwords and unifies them across your many OS X browsers. It even manages your identities [...]

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