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Prowl: Get Any Growl Notifications Via Push On Your iPhone

Written on July 06, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 38 people have commented

Remember when you had to click on an application to make it active, and hit refresh in order to find out if anything new had happened? It’s been a long while now, since most desktop programs can run in the background and notify you when something requires your attention. The iPhone approximates that same functionality [...]

µTorrent Comes to Mac in Beta Form

Written on November 29, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 26 people have commented

If I’m using stuck using Windows for whatever reason, I’m probably using µTorrent. It’s fast, lightweight, and far superior in almost every way to any of the other, more bloated Windows clients. That said, I still prefer Transmission overall, and that’s what I use on my Mac machines. I love them both, for similar reasons, [...]