Friday Favorite Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Friday Favorite: CommandQ for Mac

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 26th, 2013)

CommandQ is a Mac utility that stops you from accidentally quitting apps when using the keyboard shortcut "⌘" (or command) and "Q". Unfortunately, we are all susceptible to moments of human error. This means, with the ⌘ + Q shortcut, we ...

Friday Favorite: Sock Puppets

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 19th, 2013)

Sock Puppets allows just about anyone to quickly and easily create short animated movies using not only sock puppet characters, but (via in-app purchases) aliens, politicians and Halloween characters. The adorable app is from a software company ...

Friday Favorite: Due

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 5th, 2013)

Yesterday around the TUAW water cooler a number of us expressed our love of Due, an app for Mac and iOS that is basically a simple timer/reminder application (my original review here). After trying dozens of timer apps, I think Due wins for a ...

Friday Favorite: Using AppleScript to work with tasks in Things 2

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 15th, 2013)

A few weeks ago I purchased Things 2 when it was on sale in the Mac App Store. I've used the demo before and have always enjoyed the simplicity of the Things interface and the power of its tagging system. One difficulty that I faced with Things ...

Friday Favorite: Timehop traces your digital footsteps through the past

by Michael Rose (Jan 18th, 2013)

Human brains are funny things when it comes to time. We spend a lot of our mental energy thinking about the future -- where to vacation, what to eat, when to quit and who to marry -- but what really fires our synapses is a little taste of the ...

Friday Favorite: Haiku Deck for iPad concocts instant presentations

by Michael Rose (Sep 7th, 2012)

If long-suffering Dunkin' Donuts franchise owner Fred the Baker had decided to get an office job, chances are his early morning grumble would have been "Time to make the PowerPoint." Doing decks is part of every organization, from the military ...

Friday Favorite: Bartender

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 31st, 2012)

There comes a time in a power user's life when the number of his menu bar applications exceeds the amount of real estate in the menu bar, a condition made worse by primary applications with a lot of menus. The cure for this? A handy little app, ...

Friday Favorite: Desktop Tidy

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 17th, 2012)

Part of my blogging workflow uses Skitch for screenshots. As a result, I wind up with images all over my desktop at the end of the day like, well, a messy desktop after a busy day. If you find yourself with files constantly cluttering your desktop ...

Friday Favorite: Satellite Eyes swaps out your OS X desktop wallpaper with satellite imagery of your location

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 22nd, 2012)

Sometimes you find an app that stands out because it's different and does something fun. One such app is Satellite Eyes from technologist and engineer Tom Taylor. It's a simple OS X app that sits in your menu tray and uses your location ...

Friday Favorite: PollEverywhere Mac Presenter grows up

by Michael Rose (Apr 20th, 2012)

When your job (or schoolwork) involves giving presentations to rooms full of more-or-less interested parties, you know how hard it can be to maintain a constructive level of audience attention. The economical cloud audience response system (ARS) ...

Friday Favorite: Audacity 2.0 delivers free audio editing for Mac

by Mel Martin (Apr 13th, 2012)

Audacity, the venerable and much loved open source audio editor, has a 2.0 release out (as of March 13) in versions for OS X, Windows and GNU/Linux. Here's a rundown of what has changed: Many effects are significantly improved, especially ...

Friday Favorite: A bushel of educational apps for learning fun

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 30th, 2012)

A friend on Twitter asked me the other day if I had a list of the educational apps I have on my iPad. With all the reviews I have done, I was ashamed to admit that I've never taken the time to list those apps that I use on a regular basis with my ...

Friday Favorite: Satechi 12-port USB Hub

by Michael Rose (Feb 24th, 2012)

It's rare to come up with a Friday Favorite for something as seemingly ho-hum as a USB hub, but this particular model caught my eye a while ago when a colleague brought it with him on a project. "What is that?" I asked, wonderingly. The blue glow of ...

Friday Favorite: Optimal Layout brings app switching and window controls to your fingertips

by TJ Luoma (Feb 3rd, 2012)

Optimal Layout is a great utility that fundamentally alters the way that I interact with my Mac. In short, it gives me the ability to use my keyboard to quickly change between windows. That might sound like what you're been doing with ⌘ + Tab, but ...

Friday Favorite: After the Deadline

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 20th, 2012)

I spend a lot of time in the web browser, so much that I use web apps more than their standalone counterparts. I use twitter.com to compose a tweet, gmail.com to check my email and so on. As a result, I use several plug-ins and extensions to ...

Friday Favorite: Lazarus Extension for Safari saves your form text

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 16th, 2011)

Don't you hate that sinking feeling you get when you spend five to ten minutes filling out a form -- and then you lose all the data because of a hiccup in your Internet connection, or because of Safari's tab reloading quirks? Before that happens ...