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Tweetie 2: The Complete iPhone Preview

Written on September 30, 2009 by Olly Farshi and 41 people have commented

The sequel to Tweetie, the Twitter client that earned itself the much-coveted Apple Design Award earlier this year, is on its way to the App Store as you read this.
For the past few weeks I’ve been part of Loren Brichter’s Tweetie 2 beta program, testing out new features as the former Apple engineer constructed his [...]

Tweetie for Mac Due Monday

Written on April 17, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 9 people have commented

It quickly became one of the most popular Twitter clients for the iPhone, owing to its impressive feature set and fast, efficient performance, and now it’s coming natively to the Mac, too. I’m talking about Tweetie, by atebits. Tweetie impressed with the ability to follow and unfollow, integrated search, retweeting, and more when it was [...]

Using Preview’s Enhanced Photo Editing Tools

Written on November 24, 2008 by Charles Moore and 4 people have commented

For basic photo editing, if you’re running OS X 10.5 Leopard you don’t need Photoshop Elements or Pixelmator. Leopard’s Preview graphics viewer application is much more than a viewer; it now incorporates some very handy image correction tools that are not only user-friendly and intuitive to use, but also work really well.
Consequently, if you take [...]

LittleSnapper Preview Screencast

Written on October 21, 2008 by Nick Santilli and 5 people have commented

After loving Plasq’s Skitch for a while now, I didn’t think I could have feelings for another screen capture utility. At an early glance, it appears I may need to re-evaluate my former stance. Now a days, I’m really looking forward to LittleSnapper from Real Mac Software.
Today the Real Mac folks have released a [...]

Weekly App Store Roundup: Oct. 11, 2008

Written on October 11, 2008 by Olly Farshi and No one has commented

With the iTunes App Store growing at an astonishing rate, it’s getting tough to sort the innovative wheat from the iPhone-clogging chaff.  Our Weekly App Store Roundup highlights the most essential store additions, from entertaining freebies to time-saving tools and invaluable apps.
This time we’re looking at Free RSS Reader, Menstrual Calendar and three freebies from Japanese game [...]

Mac 101: Open Mutiple Files in Preview Simultaneously

Written on September 10, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 8 people have commented

When I have a large photo set I would like to look at in OS X the quickest and easiest way is to open them with Preview. Unfortunately, when you click on one picture that is in the same folder as the rest of the pictures, Preview doesn’t automatically recognize the photo is a part [...]

Leopard Lots of Show, Little Go?

Written on June 12, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 24 people have commented

So the argument goes that we saw a lot of eye candy from the Keynote yesterday, but there was a lack of useful features – of substance. In order from disagreement with this position, to moderate agreement, I present you the list of features.
First off, Stacks. We’ve been hearing about patents along these [...]