Ask TUAW: Carputers, Apple Remote, iChat, iCal, Safari, and more

by Mat Lu (Feb 3rd 2008 10:00AM)

In this Super Bowl round of Ask TUAW I'm still trying to get out from under the backlog, so we're tackling a bunch of questions about the Finder, iChat, Safari, building a Mac carputer, expanding the Apple Remote, getting iCal alerts in multiple Spac...

Warp: change Spaces with your mouse

by Mat Lu (Dec 22nd 2007 10:00AM)

Kent Sutherland, the developer of the well-known Chax, a utility for making iChat easier to use, has a nice new utility for improving Leopard's Spaces virtual desktops as well. Warp is a preference pane allows you to switch between Spaces just by hov...

Chax 2.1 Beta brings unified contact lists

by Nik Fletcher (Dec 7th 2007 9:15AM)

On-the-ball readers will know that whilst Leopard brought us tabbed iChats, it was Chax - Kent Sutherland's excellent & free iChat enhancer - that initially brought us the feature in earlier versions of Apple's IM client. Avid Chax fans wondering...

Chax returns to Leopard, brings back Growl

by Mat Lu (Nov 14th 2007 9:00AM)

Long ago, way back in the days before Leopard, the Chax plugin was a necessity for any serious iChatter. But then lo came the new cat, and iChat 4.0 brought with it many of Chax's headline features already built-in: chief among them the tabbed chat i...

Leopard Axing Input Managers?

by Mat Lu (Mar 24th 2007 6:00PM)

There's a disturbing rumor floating around the Mac web today. According to this article at Infinite Loop, Leopard will no longer support Input Manager hacks. Input Managers allow programmers to insert code into cocoa applications, thus allowing the a...

The Cocoa Conundrum

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 31st 2006 2:00PM)

When it comes to software on the Mac platform it's a mixed bag. I don't mean like on Windows, where the bag is full of snakes, scorpions, rusty blades, and the occasional bit of peach. Software on the Mac has been in flux for a decade. When Apple bou...

Chax updated to version 1.4.6, source code now available

by Laurie A. Duncan (Oct 17th 2006 10:00PM)

We're fans of Chax 'round these parts. It's one of those free iChat enhancement apps that makes iChat infinitely more usable. I am so accustomed to it that I can't remember life before iChat tabs anymore... As promised last month, Chax 1.4.6 brings u...

New Chax beta with tear-off tabs, will be open sourced soon

by David Chartier (Sep 12th 2006 11:00AM)

Chax, the handy iChat plugin that offers tabbed chats and much more, has a new beta available that offers tear-off tabs for those times when you don't want to put all your eggs chats in one basket. Announced on the author's blog, this new version als...

7 apps that Leopard kills

by Dan Lurie (Aug 8th 2006 7:00PM)

Phill Ryu, a man who must have some sort of direct neural interface with the Mac shareware community, has posted a list of applications which could very likely be killed off by features of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard which were announced yesterday. Seasone...

TUAW Chatcast Coverage of the WWDC keynote

by Scott McNulty (Aug 7th 2006 12:38PM)

Due to popular demand (seriously, check it out) we will be doing a chat cast as well as normal coverage of the Keynote. Check back to this post for the Chatcast, as soon as we start it. And so it begins, click on through for the details. Another Chat...

Chax 1.4.1 released

by David Chartier (May 4th 2006 8:00AM)

One thing I love about Chax, the vital iChat plug-in, is that its developer has been reliably rolling out a good handful of new features and fixes, even with a .0.x update like this one. New features in 1.4.1 include: Growl notifications for when...

Chax 1.4 - iChat now has tabs

by David Chartier (Mar 26th 2006 4:40PM)

No, that headline is not a typo: at long last, after hoards of OS X users have cried out to Apple in vain for a feature to be added to iChat that other clients have had for what seems like a millennia (I'm Irish. I exaggerate. Sue me) - iChat now has...

Weekend Review: This week's software

by Dave Caolo (Feb 26th 2006 3:00PM)

Each weekend we review the software we've looked at over the past seven days. Here is this week's edition. Commercial Doom 3: Now universal Macjournal: The popular organizational tool goes universal Shareware Podner: The video processing...

Chax updated, adds Growl support

by David Chartier (Feb 25th 2006 9:30PM)

Remember Chax, the free, feature-packed iChat plugin we found a couple weeks ago? It's received a couple of minor updates and tweaks since then, and one I thought worth mentioning was Growl support. Previously, the only way I knew of getting iChat to...

10 'obscure' programs for your Mac

by Scott McNulty (Feb 24th 2006 12:30PM)

Raul has posted a list of 10 semi-obscure mac programs you shouldn't be without, and there are a few on that list that even I, mighty industry Pundit Scott McNulty, was not aware of. No Mac should be without Growl or Saft, but have you heard of Sbook...