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TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best Mac utility app

by Steven Sande (Dec 13th, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Make your pre-Lion keyboard work with Launchpad (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 22nd, 2011)

It's not surprising that along with OS X Lion's release that Apple would also update its keyboards that highlight the software's new features. iSpazio posted a couple of images showing the new F3 and F4 buttons that toggle Mission Control and Launchpad respectively along with tweaked icons. ...

Quicksilver appears to be coming back from the dead

by Dana Franklin (Apr 18th, 2011)

Let's take a moment to appreciate the mouse, the marvel of engineering that made computing accessible to the general public. But, if you've ever watched an expert systems administrator rocket through tasks using nothing but the command line and a keyboard, you know the mouse isn't the world's most ...

TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: 10 must-have apps for a new Mac

by Dave Caolo (Nov 12th, 2010)

Welcome to the TUAW Holiday Gift Guide! We've sorted the treasure from the junk and are serving up suggestions to make your holiday gift-giving a little easier. Once the gift-giving holidays arrive, the lucky among us will find new Macs among our haul. Part of the fun of owning a Mac is acquiring ...

Quicksilver releases new beta 57

by Mike Schramm (Dec 2nd, 2009)

Macworld notes that my absolute favorite application, and one of the reasons I became a Mac user in the first place, is not quite as dead and gone as many people suspected. Quicksilver has released their first new stable version in two years, besides the developer leaving for greener pastures and ...

Mac power tools: charge up your workflow

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 8th, 2009)

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 power and performance of OS X to do things faster ...

TUAW Tip: Fixing syncing between iPhone and iPhoto '08

by Mike Schramm (Mar 11th, 2009)

This is a pretty selfish tip, because this issue has happened to me personally a few different times, and despite my many searches around the 'net, I've never found a quick, simple solution. So here you go: my suffering can be your gain. Basically, iPhoto '08 and the iPhone don't always play nice ...

LaunchBar 5 beta available now

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 7th, 2008)

File launchers -- programs that make it easy to launch applications or utilities from a few clicks on the keyboard -- are increasingly common Mac utilities. Although I don't personally use a separate launch utility (I use OS X's Spotlight), others here at TUAW have expressed their devotion to ...

Beta beat: Silverflow Quicksilver interface

by Brett Terpstra (May 7th, 2008)

Julius Eckert has made splashes at TUAW before, namely for his Bezel HUD and Showcase interfaces for Quicksilver. Now he's released a beta of his much-anticipated Silverflow interface (inspired by designer Jono). The Cover Flow thing may be played out for some, but I'm finding this interface to be ...

GTD with the Mac and a cool custom setup

by Dave Caolo (Mar 7th, 2008)

Leo Babauta at Zen Habits has posted a nice overview of Getting Things Done on the Mac, including many of the applications you'd expect, like iGTD Kinkless GTD OmniFocus Things Midnight Inbox We've written about all of these applications before. What's interesting is the custom solution ...

Bezel HUD Quicksilver interface for Leopard

by Mat Lu (Feb 11th, 2008)

I've been looking for something like this since Leopard was released. As you can see from the video above, Juius Eckert (whose Showcase Quicksilver interface we covered previously) has now released a Bezel HUD interface for Quicksilver that perfectly integrates with Leopard. It basically has the ...

Showcase Quicksilver interface

by Mat Lu (Jan 11th, 2008)

A reader tipped us off to this very cool new interface for Quicksilver called Showcase from Julius Eckert. It's basically pure eye-candy, but what eye-candy it is! Taking its cue from Cover Flow it leverages Leopards Core Animation technologies to, er, showcase Leopard's graphical goodness. While ...

DTerm: give your Mac a little shell love

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 10th, 2008)

DTerm is a utility just released by Decimus Software Inc. It's a Leopard-only app that provides a hotkey-triggered HUD which allows shell commands to be run from anywhere in OS X. In case you're wondering why, just imagine what less window switching and screen clutter could mean for productivity on ...

Leopard killed these freeware apps?

by Mike Schramm (Dec 13th, 2007)

Here's an interesting list of applications supposedly killed by Leopard. There's no question that there's a huge amount of functionality in Leopard that was taken care of in Tiger by third-party apps (and this is just a list of freeware-- commenters pointed out last week that Jisho was made almost ...

Lifehacker interview on the future of Quicksilver

by Michael Rose (Dec 6th, 2007)

Today's Lifehacker interview with Quicksilver developer Nicholas Jitkoff (a.k.a. Alcor) has struck a note of gloom into the holiday spirits around TUAW's home office (currently located in an unoccupied storefront of the West Edmonton Mall). While Nicholas is still planning to do what he can to ...