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TUAW's Daily iPad App: 22 Days HD

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 21st, 2011)

22 Days HD is an event countdown app that tells you the number of years, months or days until an event. It even counts down the hours, minutes and seconds, but the app calculates that value according to the day, not the exact time of the event. The app looks nice on the iPad, even if its ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Time

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 18th, 2011)

Do you ever watch Star Trek and think, I wish my computer just had a little bit of the LCARS theme to it? You need Time. OK, it's not going to turn your Mac into a futuristic Star Trek-style computer, but Time authentically replicates the visual style and feel of the LCARS interface ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Shuttie

by Samuel Gibbs (May 11th, 2011)

Ever wanted to leave your Mac running unattended at night, but don't want it running all night long? Today's Daily Mac App will help you do just that. Shuttie allows you to bind one of six actions to a countdown timer, allowing you to shutdown, restart, sleep or logout of your Mac, or fire ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Minutes

by Samuel Gibbs (May 9th, 2011)

Timers are a dime-a-dozen these days. Whether you're using the built-in Timer app on the iPhone or one of the myriad of cloud-based timer apps or widgets, it doesn't take much to do the job. Minutes is a simple Mac App Store timer app that spawned from a Dashboard widget of the same name. The ...

Countdown for iOS gives a highly customizable view of deadlines

by TJ Luoma (Dec 15th, 2010)

I've used a countdown widget in OS X for ages, but recently, I wanted a program that could keep track of several events to count down to, and something specifically for my iPad, not just for my Mac. I found a universal app simply called Countdown, and I figured that for $1, I'd give it a try. It ...

Gawker updated with more camera support, desktop time-lapsing

by David Chartier (May 21st, 2006)

Gawker, the clever app for recording, sharing and combining time-lapse movies, has been updated to version 0.70 with some unique features. It is now compatible with non-iSight cameras, including even DV cameras, and can record from up to four cameras simultaneously (when you consider the power of ...