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Tabulator: Alarm clock showdown

Posted Feb 8th 2008 12:30PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Software, Features, iTunes, Leopard

Mac users must be extremely heavy sleepers, because there is no shortage of alarm clock software for your Mac. If you need to wake up, your Mac will get you up. But which one rules the rooster?

Aurora, a popular choice, recently updated to version 4, and went from donationware to a licensing setup (a single copy will now run you EU$15.00. And Awaken was recently included in the Macheist bundle, but could it be that a donationware app like Alarm Clock 2 will do what you want, or is Koingo Software's Alarm Clock Pro the way to go?

We decided to wrap them all up into one big table-- app vs. app vs. app vs. app for a wakeup showdown. After the jump, find our first Tabulator battle (thanks to sister site Joystiq for the slick formatting) and discover which clock and timer program deserves to press play on your wakeup playlist.

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Usable Keychain Scripting updated for Leopard

Posted Jan 8th 2008 4:00PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Software, Freeware, Security, Leopard

Daniel Jalkut put together a little app called "Usable Keychain Scripting" a little while ago that was designed (what else?) to make scripting the Keychain a little more usable -- the interface included in OS X is bad, to say the least. He was apparently hoping that it would be better in Leopard, but no dice -- we're all using the new version, and it's still a pain to access the Keychain with AppleScript.

So he's updated UKS to version 1.0b3. It's still a free download (and I'm guessing he still hasn't added the ability to set values of Keychain items, but only because he was justifiably worried that doing something wrong would have terrible consequences). If you've already been using it, you should be happy to see a new version, and if you haven't tried it yet, but do a lot of Keychain scripting, hopefully it'll make the interface a little less painful.

Remote Buddy releases version 1.7.1

Posted Oct 9th 2007 5:00PM by Mike Schramm
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Portables, Software, Cool tools, Productivity

Remote Buddy, the do-it-all remote program for OS X, has reached version 1.7.1. I haven't taken a look at this app in a long time, but they've come a long way, baby-- a few months ago they added support (via AJAX) for the iPhone, and that has added a whole new universe of functionality to controlling your computer via a remote unit. If you haven't seen it lately, check it out.

The 1.7.1 update fixes a few bugs in the AJAX module, adds a warning if you don't have an Airport Express setting correct, and adds a newly rewritten driver for Front Row control. And this is all in addition to last week's big release (1.7), which added a ton of new stuff-- almost a complete rewrite of the AJAX remote, and compatibility with a ton of new programs, everything from ComicBookLover to VoodooPad.

Very impressive. Applications like this are what make it so great to be a Mac user. Remote Buddy is available for 19.99 € or as a free 30 day trial version over on their website.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Shiira 2.2 updated for Safari 3 beta's WebKit

Posted Jul 23rd 2007 8:00AM by David Chartier
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

When Apple makes changes to WebKit - the open source rendering engine that powers Safari - like they just did with the Safari 3 beta, many, many other Mac OS X apps that have anything to do with websites need to do a little catchup so things continue to run smoothly. Shiira, the feature-packed alternative browser, is just such an app that fortunately just made the leap to Safari 3 beta compatibility. Aside from the twelve new localizations introduced in this new v2.2 update, I can't tell what else has changed. Still, if you installed the Safari 3 beta and noticed that Shiira has been misbehaving one way or another, this new version should calm the waters.

On the Firefox 2.0 beta, extensions and compatibility

Posted Sep 1st 2006 8:00PM by David Chartier
Filed under: Software, Tips and tricks, Internet Tools, Mods

If you want to play with the Firefox betas, but don't want to break your existing extensions, there is an add-on available that can bring your existing extensions along for the 2.0 beta ride. Nightly Tester Tools is an add-on (extensions are being rebranded as 'add-ons' in the new Firefox) that brings a number of developer-related features to Firefox, but it does two fantastic things for regular end users like you and I: it can make *most* extensions/add-ons work with versions of Firefox they weren't necessarily meant to, even new ones you want to install.

Long story short: the way I understand it, Firefox add-ons need to specify which version of Firefox they're compatible with, in case there is version-specific code they require to function. Most add-ons, however, don't have that version-specific code, so Nightly Tester Tools (basically speaking) futzes with add-on version lists so (ideally) more recent versions of Firefox - i.e. this shiny new 2.0 release - can use these add-ons just fine. The one catch I've personally run into is that it seems Nightly Tester Tools needs to be installed on a v1.5.x of Firefox in order to be able to work with v2.0 (ironic, isn't it?). I stumbled across this because I recently wiped my MacBook Pro and reinstalled Mac OS X (I needed to start from scratch to get that new version of Vista running on my MBP). Along with this fresh system, I tried installing Nightly Tester Tools into a Firefox 2.0 beta, and it wouldn't budge. Turns out I had to degrade to 1.5.x, install Nightly Tester Tools, then bump up to 2.0, but YMMV.

I need to give a shout out to Download Squad, as it is they who first found this add-on which makes playing with Firefox betas so much sweeter.

Another Rosetta Compatibility List

Posted Feb 1st 2006 2:00PM by C.K. Sample, III
Filed under: Software

Following up on yesterday's post about a Macintouch Rosetta compatibility list, I found that MacFixIt has a much more comprehensive list.

This hopefully will help assuage the lamentations of readers such as EatingPie, who found the Macintouch list much too tiny.

Actually, let us know if you spot any other Rosetta compatibility lists out there. Perhaps, if we find enough of these lists spattered around the Internets, we can gather them together into a TUAW uber-list.

Rosetta compatibility list

Posted Jan 31st 2006 12:30PM by C.K. Sample, III
Filed under: Software, Universal Binary

To supplement creativebits' list of what you cannot run on a Mactel, the Mac Internets now has a Rosetta Compatibility list courtesy of Macintouch.

Does anyone else find it completely laughable that the company with the most incompatible programs under its name is Apple?

Of course, at this point, the list isn't too exhaustive, so some other company could edge Apple out of that spot, but still... why the delay? Are they waiting for the pro machines before they release the pro apps in Universal Binary?

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Tabulator: Alarm clock showdown

Usable Keychain Scripting updated for Leopard

Remote Buddy releases version 1.7.1

Shiira 2.2 updated for Safari 3 beta's WebKit

On the Firefox 2.0 beta, extensions and compatibility

Another Rosetta Compatibility List

Rosetta compatibility list

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