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Friday Favorite: MainMenu 2 keeps your Mac running smoothly

by Steven Sande (Jul 17th, 2009)

I'm a sucker for Mac maintenance utilities. That's not to say that I run them on a regular basis like I should do, but whenever I find a new one I like to give it a try and see how it's going to work for me. Dare To Be Creative Ltd. recently released version 2.0 of MainMenu, a collection of Mac ...

Friday Favorite: SpreadTweet

by Dave Caolo (Jul 10th, 2009)

Not since the Cola Wars or the Cold War have we seen a battle as fierce as The Twitter App Wars. Like salmon swimming upstream, each little app is fighting to gain your affection. I believe that there's no one Twitter app to rule them all. Instead, individual tastes and needs dictate which one ...

Friday Favorite Triple Pack: Alarm Clock 2, Apptrap, and TimeMachineEditor

by David Winograd (Jul 3rd, 2009)

When I consider what should really be system software, I always think of three little beauties that belong on every Mac: Alarm Clock 2, AppTrap and TimeMachineEditor. They are all one-trick-ponies, take up little space, are free for the downloading, and Apple should buy them up for Snow Leopard. ...

Friday Favorite: Scrivener

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 26th, 2009)

Not long after I bought my first personal Mac in late 2004, I stumbled across an article that mentioned Ulysses, a text editor geared toward creative writers -- essentially the marriage between a word processor and project management software. It allows you to have all documents within a writing ...

Friday Favorite: TextEdit

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 17th, 2009)

What's free, flexible, easy-to-use but powerful and can handle a wide variety of file types? Our good friend, TextEdit, an app that ships with every Mac. TextEdit is, of course, a simple text editing tool like Notepad or WordPad on Windows. But there's a lot more to "simple text editing" that you ...

Friday Favorite: Woopra

by Dave Caolo (Apr 3rd, 2009)

A few months ago I was looking for an alternative to Google Analytics and found Woopra. It's still in beta so don't expect it to replace your current solution, but I'm having a lot fun using it on a few WordPress blogs. Setup is easy, if not a bit time consuming. First you've got to submit your ...

Friday Favorite: R-Name

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 27th, 2009)

R-Name is a simple, single-purpose application that takes the names of files and folders on your Mac and renames them one at a time or in batches. I use it almost every day. Yes, there are a dozen ways to batch rename files. I like R-Name for a few reasons: It's fast, both in loading and ...

Friday Favorite: Mac HelpMate

by Steven Sande (Dec 26th, 2008)

I'll open this Friday Favorite with a caveat -- Mac HelpMate is not an app that just anyone is going to want to license. However, if you're a Mac consultant and/or do system support for many Mac users, this is an application you should consider. Mac HelpMate is the brainchild of Dean Shavit, an ...

Friday Favorite: ColorBurn

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 19th, 2008)

This is a gem for anyone who does design, both for the web and print. ColorBurn is a Dashboard widget from Firewheel Design that generates a new color palette each day for designers to try out. The suggested colors also have the hexadecimal values for web design. There is an option to change the ...

Friday Favorite: ShareTool

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 14th, 2008)

Another Friday Favorite, our weekly opportunity to get all sloppy over our most-loved applications. If you have an always-on Mac at home, a decent upstream connection and another Mac anywhere outside of your home network, you might find ShareTool to be as useful as I do. It allows you -- with an ...

Friday Favorite: Instapaper for iPhone/iPod touch

by Michael Rose (Oct 31st, 2008)

Another Friday Favorite, our weekly opportunity to get all sloppy over our most-loved applications. I'll admit that when I first started trying out Instapaper, as a quick and dirty "bookmark this for later" web service, I didn't see that many advantages to it. There's delicious.com for bookmarking ...

Friday Favorite: Coda + Versions + Beanstalk

by Robert Palmer (Oct 24th, 2008)

Welcome to Friday Favorites! Every Friday, one of us will get all sloppy over an app, web service, or Mac feature that makes us grin like an idiot every time we use it. This week, Robert tells us about his favorite Web development tools. It's no secret that I heart Coda. I've been in love with the ...