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Perian QuickTime plug-in updated; A must-have for every Mac

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 14th, 2011)

Yesterday Perian updated its QuickTime plug-in for the Mac. For those of you who don't know about it, Perian is a plug-in allowing Mac users to view a virtually unlimited number of video codecs in QuickTime Player. Among the codecs are AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6 and VFW, just to name a ...

Kickstarter-sponsored WALdok is a speaker dock that plugs into your wall

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2011)

It takes quite a bit for me to be impressed with yet another speaker dock. I run my music through some pretty good PC speakers, so I don't really have a need for a separate speaker to play music directly from my iPhone. But something about the WALdok appeals to me. It's a tiny dock that plugs into ...

FlickrExport for iPhoto and Aperture updated to version 4

by David Quilty (Dec 3rd, 2010)

FlickrExport, Connected Flow's popular photo management plug-in, has been upgraded to version 4 for both iPhoto and Aperture. Full of new features like video uploading, support for multiple Flickr accounts, the ability to add photos to multiple photosets during uploading and metadata-only uploads in ...

Mailplane 2.2 adds several key features

by TJ Luoma (Sep 22nd, 2010)

Mailplane, the native Mac app for Gmail and Google Apps email, has been updated to version 2.2, adding several new features and improving on others. Leading the charge is support for the recently-released "Priority Inbox." You can now tell Mailplane to open either your regular inbox, Priority Inbox, ...

Mail.app plugin WideMail makes a comeback in Snow Leopard

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 28th, 2009)

Since upgrading, Snow Leopard users with widescreen displays may have been missing WideMail, the plugin for Mail.app that gives you a 3-column display of your messages. We mentioned it some time ago, and you may recall it being one of the casualties of my Snow Leopard upgrade. Letterbox, an ...

How to revert to the stable version of Flash player

by TJ Luoma (Nov 19th, 2009)

It's no secret that Flash is a blight on the Internet and should be killed with fire. However, some sites insist on using it, and so you may be interested in having it around. Towards that end you may have read about the pre-release of Flash player 10.1 and decided to install it for the possible ...

ClickToFlash makes the web a nicer place to visit

by TJ Luoma (Oct 14th, 2009)

"Ever wanted to rid the web of the scourge that is Adobe Flash, but still retain the ability to view Flash whenever you want?" When it comes to sales pitches, that one is pretty difficult to beat. Ever since Flash was unleashed on the web, it has been used for obnoxious and annoying ads. About the ...

Tired of those winmail.dat files? Letter Opener 3 can help

by Steven Sande (Sep 8th, 2009)

If there's anything that drives Mac users into a frenzy, it's those winmail.dat files that can show up in Apple Mail when they receive email from colleagues or friends using Microsoft Outlook. Winmail.dat files can either files that are attached to the message, or they can contain information such ...

First Look: Watermark your iPhoto pictures with Impression

by Steven Sande (Aug 21st, 2009)

Blue Crowbar Software is a small Belgian Mac development firm that is quickly making a name for itself for its innovative iPhoto and Aperture plugins. We've previously covered iPhoto2Twitter here on TUAW, and now Blue Crowbar has announced a new iPhoto plugin for adding watermarks to pictures in ...

From Firefox to Safari (and back again)

by Robert Palmer (Jun 29th, 2009)

I realize I may not be your average browser user. As a web developer, a browser to me is two parts daily use, two parts testing, and one part challenge. Since 2005, I've been using Firefox in some form or fashion as both my primary browser and as a testing vehicle. I had recently started a ...

TUAW First Look: iPhoto2Twitter

by Steven Sande (Jun 10th, 2009)

If you use Twitter as much as I do, then you're going to love iPhoto2Twitter, an iPhoto plugin from Blue Crowbar Software. While sending iPhone pictures to Twitter is a piece of cake, it usually takes more steps to prepare a photo on a Mac to become a photo-tweet. The idea of iPhoto2Twitter is ...

Widemail makes Mail.app widescreen friendly

by Aron Trimble (Dec 8th, 2008)

I find the Mail.app plugin Widemail extremely useful. At my day job I use Outlook and the widescreen view is very efficient for space management. Prior to upgrading to Leopard, I used the application Letterbox written about here; however in my recent search for a Mail-enhancing plugin I wanted ...

Coda 1.6 released, offers plug-in support

by Robert Palmer (Nov 11th, 2008)

A cheery little dialog box informed me just a few minutes ago that Coda 1.6 is available from the fine folks at Panic. Coda is a one-window web-development and editing environment that is one of my favorite apps, and one that we've covered here before. Coda 1.6 introduces a plug-in architecture ...

Perian 1.1.2 released, fixes updating

by Cory Bohon (Oct 21st, 2008)

Last night, Perian was updated to version 1.1.2. If you need to extend the capabilities of QuickTime, the free Perian plugin allows QuickTime to play back all kinds of popular video formats (.AVI, .MKV, .FLV and more). It's a handy utility for anyone who watches a lot of video on their Mac. Here's ...

Beta Beat: Glims for Safari

by Cory Bohon (Aug 6th, 2008)

If you're looking for a Safari plugin with the usefulness of Inquisitor and then some, then look no further than Glims for Safari. This (currently in beta) plugin gives you the same search functionality as Inquisitor, plus some extra and useful features like full screen viewing. Actually, the ...