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The growing list of unsupported Macs
Out with the old, in with the new. This week's hardware releases were met with new additions to Apple's vintage and obsolete hardware lists. The following have been added, and I'm sad to say that I'm still using the Dual Ethernet Airport Base ...
Mac power tools: charge up your workflow
I recently bought a new Mac, and I decided not to migrate years of cruft over to a pristine Snow Leopard install. I also decided to shed years of stale workflow and adopt a new way of doing things. Enter the power tools: software that augments the ...
Twitter and Quicksilver, two great tastes
I'll be the first to admit that Twitter, which we at TUAW totally heart, isn't for everyone. Quicksilver, another TUAW fav, is also not for everyone. However, when you cross Twitter with Quicksilver and throw in a dash of Growl and you've just made ...
Future of Spotlight
Looks like my take on Spotlight as an OS-integrated version of QuickSilver is quite possibly dead wrong. Kottke discusses some interesting comments in a Slashdot thread in his recent post, The Future of Spotlight and OS X.
The majority of the ...
Om's favorite little Mac apps
Technology pundit Om Malik, who is near the top of my personal blogroll, has posted his list of favorite little shareware and freeware Mac apps: QuickSilver application launcher, Ecto desktop blogging client, NetNewsWire RSS reader, VideoLan ...
DragThing updated to 5.7.2
The venerable (more than 11 years since v1.0!) launch utility DragThing has been revised to version 5.7.2, adding three new dock themes and clipping tools while squashing a few bugs. I've been a DragThing user since v2 and despite the siren call of ...
Another way for switchers to make new files
Regarding Mat's post on a cool QuickSilver-based approach to creating new files at high speed, a fair number of commenters -- and, it turns out, the original poster at lipidity.com -- made mention of NuFile, a combination contextual menu plugin and ...
Last post EVER about creating new files from Finder
OK, OK! We clearly have a wide range of opinions on this whole "How can I get my Mac to right-click-create new files, like Windows does?" thing. Some folks like the QuickSilver approach, some think QuickSilver is an anti-Mac-way abomination. Some ...
Sonnet Encore/ST CPU upgrades reach 1.8GHz G4
Sonnet is one of the smart companies that continues to support the Mac most near and dear to my heart: The Power Mac G4 Cube. Today they announced the addition of two new, fast single processor upgrades to their Encore™/ST family and they ...
Telekinesis puts your Mac desktop onto your iPhone
Talk about cool. Alan Quatermain read about Telekinesis over at Daring Fireball and tipped me about it. It's a new OS X program from the creator of QuickSilver that serves your computer up as webpages. Load the iPhone remote software onto your Mac ...
Mac 101: Spotlight, your application-launching pal
More Mac 101, our series of tips and tricks for new and returning Mac users. Love it or hate it, Spotlight's ubiquitous search has changed the Mac OS X experience; quick and (mostly) reliable full-text indexing is now part of the landscape. It's not ...
Track your life with Onlife
Remember that snazzy tool Active Timer? Onlife is like Active Timer on steroids. Let me tell you, it is totally freaky. Created by a former MIT Media Lab student, Onlife is currently in Beta and free as in beer. So what does it DO?It records (almost) ...
OmniFocus Sneak Preview
OmniGroup today hosted a special event at the flagship Apple store in San Francisco to give users a sneak peak into their upcoming GTD productivity software OmniFocus. TUAW was there and brings you this special bulleted report!
OmniFocus, unlike ...
My Favorite Mac Apps: Erica's Take
So Victor comes to us and says, "Quick, what are your favorite apps?" Without pausing to breathe or think, the words "OfficeCreativeSuiteQuickeys" tumble out of my mouth. That's because these are the three software packages for Mac that I cannot live ...
Ten things to do for Mom's Mac this Thanksgiving
Since you'll no doubt be freeloading on Mom's yummy Thanksgiving meal tomorrow, it's only right that you should fix her computer, right? Download Squad has posted up full instructions for the PC folks, and I thought I'd chime in with the Mac side of ...
