Browse Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

FileBrowse - a media browser companion for Finder

by David Chartier (Oct 6th, 2006)

Romain Guy at The Apple Blog has penned a nice walkthrough of an interesting new app called FileBrowse, which acts as more of a streamlined tool for media file browsing and manipulating tasks, as opposed to a full-fledged Finder replacement (cuz we all know how well that's going). FileBrowse makes ...

Directly access digicam images in iPhoto

by David Chartier (Aug 16th, 2006)

The fact that iPhoto, even the latest and shiniest '06 version, doesn't allow access to a camera's storage card to pick and chose which images get imported has irked users across this great planet of ours for years - until now. macosxhints has discovered that striking the return key twice when the ...

PicturePopPro - powerful picture viewer Finder plugin

by David Chartier (Aug 9th, 2006)

If you need a quick way to browse a few folders of images without starting iPhoto or some other serious photo management software, PicturePopPro just might be the Finder plugin for you. It offers right-click access to a surprisingly powerful yet slim and zippy photo browser and mini-manager. Images ...

Enable a slick Constellation menu in Quicksilver ?49

by David Chartier (Jul 26th, 2006)

Macintalk has posted a how-to on enabling a really slick Constellation menu plugin for Quicksilver β49. Granted, this menu is quite a bit of eye candy, but if you follow Macintalk's post all the way through and assign this menu to a hotkey, it then becomes a bit of really handy eye candy. Keep ...

iTunes: all about the small touches

by Scott McNulty (Jul 19th, 2006)

The MacDevCenter has a nice post up about some of the often over looked UI niceties of iTunes. I didn't know that you could convert video to an iPod friendly format right in iTunes. Genius! Additional columns, pop out windows, and that little triangle in the main status window are also covered. One ...

Get organized: a survey of digital junk drawer apps

by David Chartier (Jul 11th, 2006)

A while ago I decided to bring some sanity to the way I do things and organize all my stuff. I'm working on a design thesis in my multimedia undergrad degree, I'm constantly doing research for my blogging work, and I have countless other projects and ideas that were growing in both size and ...

Disk Order - an advanced Finder replacement

by David Chartier (Jun 1st, 2006)

Disk Order is another app that takes a stab at replacing the Finder, but doesn't seem to take things quite as overboard as PathFinder. With tabbed file browser windows, built-in FTP client, command line tools and more, Disk Order should have a few things to offer anyone who feels like the Finder is ...

iTMS does storefront customization for radio websites

by David Chartier (May 24th, 2006)

Two hip-hop radio stations, Power 106 in LA and HOT 97 in NYC, have signed on the dotted line with the iTMS to offer an integrated, customized version of the store right in their own websites. The radio stations can design the store any way they see fit, and feature any artists, recent releases and ...