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"Should I Sleep?" keeps your Mac awake while in use

by TJ Luoma (Nov 29th, 2012)

We've all been there: sitting in front of your Mac when the screen suddenly dims, or goes to sleep right when you were reading something. If you have the screensaver set to require your password to unlock it, this can be a bit of an annoyance. But until recently the only other option was to set a ...

Mac Game of the Week: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

by Mike Schramm (Nov 8th, 2012)

Most of the games I've covered for this feature so far have come down on the casual side of things, mostly iOS titles that have made their way over to the Mac App Store. But not so with this pick -- The Witcher 2 is a great game, but it is definitely not for the faint of heart (or GPU power). ...

Daily Mac App: Lost Photos retrieves your forgotten photographs

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 8th, 2012)

Lost Photos (US$2.99 in the Mac App Store) is a handy Mac utility (OS X 10.6 or later) for finding and rescuing photos that are attached to email messages. In my experience, it works well and works fast. Despite the growth of Facebook and, more recently, cloud sharing, the most popular way to ...

Daily Mac app: Battery Health monitors your Mac's battery

by Mel Martin (Apr 2nd, 2012)

With all the talk of battery life of iPhones and iPads it's easy to forget that your laptop battery needs some attention every so often. My laptop battery is pretty old, and it doesn't last as long as it used to. No surprise there, but I'd like to easily quantify its condition. That's where a ...

Daily Mac App: DragonDrop provides a Finder caddy for your drag-and-drop files

by Erica Sadun (Mar 28th, 2012)

Sometimes there are problems you didn't even know you had -- and solutions that make your life so much better. DragonDrop is one of those solutions. You know when you have to drag items between folders and you end up juggling multiple Finder windows? It's such a pain getting both windows ...

Daily Mac App: Screeny 2 let you capture video of your desktop with ease

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 6th, 2012)

Inevitably, there's going to be a time when you need to capture video of your screen. Someone might ask you to demo an app or document a bug, and you'll need have a reliable application to grab a quick video of your desktop. Instead of scrambling, you should be prepared and have Screeny installed ...

Snagit 2.0 arrives with expanded feature set (updated)

by Steven Sande (Feb 28th, 2012)

TechSmith's powerful Snagit app for capturing and annotating screenshots or websites has been around for a little over a year, having first been reviewed on TUAW in November 2010. Today Snagit (US$49.95) has been updated to version 2.0, expanding the capabilities of the app to a higher level. ...

Day One: A beautiful and functional cross-platform journaling app

by Steven Sande (Feb 27th, 2012)

Have you ever kept a journal or diary? For writers, it's almost a given that you're going to keep a personal log of what you do during each day, how you feel, or interesting things that might create that prize-winning book some day. For others, it's a way to keep track of health issues, emotions, ...

Daily Mac App: Osfoora is a sleek, no-frills Twitter client for OS X

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 20th, 2012)

If you're looking for a no-frills Twitter client with a pleasant UI, look no further than Osfoora for Twitter. The popular iOS Twitter client is now in the Mac App Store and is an excellent companion to the mobile title. Osfoora has a straight-forward UI that puts the necessary tweeting tools at ...

Daily iPhone App: Dine-O-Matic chooses a restaurant for you

by Dave Caolo (Feb 16th, 2012)

Eating at a restaurant is fun but getting a consensus from a group of diners can be a hassle. Offload the responsibly to your iPhone with Dine-O-Matic from the Iconfactory (currently on sale for US$0.99), which is more than happy to choose a restaurant for the whole gang. The app combines retro ...

Daily Mac App: Gemini finds and removes duplicate files

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 15th, 2012)

After years of buying hard drives and moving files around, digital hoarders like myself eventually wind up with duplicate files all over the place. A few gigabytes here and there can add up, so Gemini aims to help you find and delete duplicate files across devices. It's a beautifully designed app, ...

Daily Mac App: Dropzone circles your life with shortcuts

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 14th, 2012)

We first looked at Dropzone a few years ago when it launched for OS X and the little utility app is growing up. Now at version 2.0, Dropzone has a fresh, new circular look that's inspired by Path. It also includes a bunch of small improvements that'll help you manage your apps and files. For ...

Daily Mac App: Simple Skip Tunes feels like it should be part of OS X

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 13th, 2012)

We've tested a few menubar music remotes in the past, and there's not that much difference among them. What makes Skip Tunes different is its simplicity. It operates on the minimalist principle. It controls iTunes, Spotify or Rdio. Instead of getting a lengthy menu like with some apps, Skip Tunes ...

Daily Mac App: Text2Speech lets hear what you write in record time

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 10th, 2012)

OS X has a neat text-to-speech engine that'll read back what you write. You can start and stop TTS from the contextual menu or launch it using a keystroke that you set up in the Speech section of the System Preferences. Most of the settings for TTS are buried in the System Preferences which is ...

Daily Mac App: PopClip brings iOS-style copy and paste to your Mac

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 8th, 2012)

PopClip is a lightweight Mac utility that improves your ability to work with text. It sits in the menu bar and gives you an iOS-style popup that lets you cut, copy and paste text. You can also search for the selected text, open text links, correct spelling, and more. It's a real time saver once ...