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Productivity Tip: Focus time

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 16th, 2013)

In order to stay productive, you must accomplish tasks. Unfortunately, as communications have sped up and become omnipresent, our focus has been sliced and diced to the paper-thin setting. How many times a day does a calendar invite, Facebook update, email or Tweet send you off your task and ...

Firefox 14 adds fullscreen support for OS X Lion

by Michael Rose (Jul 17th, 2012)

Stop me if you've heard this one: How is Mozilla Firefox like Pittsburgh's weather? Answer: If you don't like it, wait a little while and it's gonna change. The open-source desktop browser continues its drumbeat of frequent releases with Firefox 14.0.1 for Mac, Windows and Linux in over 70 ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me watch and work at the same time

by Erica Sadun (Jun 15th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Ever since I upgraded to OS X Lion, I've been unable to use dual monitors if I have an application running in full screen on my iMac's display. I would love to be able to fire a movie up on the second display, make it full screen and still make use of my iMac, rather than ...

Reveal the Dock in Lion's fullscreen apps

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 28th, 2011)

MacWorld has published a nice little tip that allows Lion users to reveal the Dock while in fullscreen apps. To do so, while in any fullscreen app, simply move the pointer all the way to the edge where the Dock is pinned. Once your cursor is resting on that edge of the screen, swipe or move the ...

Hackinations: Making any OS X app full-screenable in Lion

by Erica Sadun (Jul 25th, 2011)

Today, Steve Sande begged me to add a full-screen button to Colloquy. He offered me chocolate and kittens, neither of which is particularly good for me. But he's a good guy and I like him and his wife so I went ahead and figured this out. [Editor's note: Actually, she was offered chocolate-covered ...

Lion's full-screen apps: Some hits, a lot of misses

by Steven Sande (Jul 20th, 2011)

One new feature of OS X Lion that is sure to win both fans and foes is the ability for apps to go full-screen. Apple teased us with this last year when updates to several of the iLife apps -- iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand -- brought the ability to take over the entire screen of a Mac with a ...

Byword 1.2, now with Markdown support

by Brett Terpstra (May 23rd, 2011)

Byword is a full-screen, "distraction-free" word processor that has an interesting twist: it focuses on just the text around your cursor (or even just the current line), dimming the rest of your composition so that even that can't distract you. Byword (and its predecessors) are based on the idea ...

XBMC on OS X releases version .1

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2008)

Those following the XBMC (a.k.a. Xbox Media Center, although they'll probably need a name change soon, considering all the platforms they've jumped off to) development for the Mac have some good news coming to them: the release has reached version .1. It's still as shaky as these things come, but ...

24 Hours of Leopard: Improved DVD player

by Mike Schramm (Oct 26th, 2007)

Feature: The DVD Player is almost all new, with video improvements, an Autozoom feature, and a new interface. How it works: Strangely, this big update has gone relatively unnoticed. But it will be noticed as soon as you put a DVD in-- the app has a whole new fullscreen interface, including a time ...

Swap full-screen Cover Flow and video in iTunes

by David Chartier (Apr 4th, 2007)

Here comes the community at Mac OS X Hints with yet another cool trick which, in this case, should help us waste just a little more time in iTunes 7.1.1. I specify that latest version because this hint concerns Cover Flow's new found ability to run in full-screen mode: as it turns out, you can ...

Think 1.0

by Scott McNulty (Feb 5th, 2007)

Applications that offer 'full screen' modes are all the rage now a days. The idea is that if you run one application in full screen mode you won't be distracted by all those other things that fight for your attention on your Mac. The good people at Freeverse are savvy to this, but they figured why ...

Scrivener - the word processor with a cork board

by David Chartier (Feb 4th, 2007)

Scrivener is a new word processor made for the messy, non-linear and notecard-slinging writers out there. Merlin Mann has been raving about it, and I can understand why: Scrivener's entire UI and workflow is designed around managing the pieces of whatever you're working on, allowing you to ...

QTAmateur does full-screen playback, batch exporting, more

by David Chartier (Oct 30th, 2006)

QTAmateur brings a lot of the handy QuickTime Pro features to the table without having to pay the $30 upgrade. Full screen video playback (with a more streamlined, iTunes 7-like video window) and batch exporting of any format QuickTime can read and write make for a handy little app. QTAmateur is ...

Shiira v2 beta released

by David Chartier (Aug 6th, 2006)

Remember that Shiira v2 beta preview that delusions of grandeur had at the end of July? Well instead of simply reading about it, now you can take your own copy for a spin, as a public, localized beta has been released. Shiira, if you haven't been following the coverage as of late, is an open source ...

Trans Lucy 2 is Universal and freakin' sweet

by Dan Pourhadi (May 30th, 2006)

My friend Clark, who seems to be my only resource for anything, pointed me in the direction of an incredible little app called Trans Lucy 2. It's a video/DVD-player that actually lets you modify the transparency of the video window and then overlay it on your screen, so you can watch whatever's ...