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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 ...

Firefox-Mac-PDF allows in-line PDFs for Firefox

by Cory Bohon (Jun 18th, 2008)

If you switched to Firefox from another browser like Safari that supports in-line PDF viewing (that's the ablity to look at a PDF in the browser instead of downloading it), then you might have been disheartened to learn that Firefox does not support this feature natively. However, you will find ...

SIMBL plugin woes after 10.5.3?

by Cory Bohon (May 28th, 2008)

Did you get home only to find that Mac OS X 10.5.3 had been released today? Well, just as some users were unpacking and installing the shiny new update, issues with SIMBL plug-ins were discovered. If you have SIMBL plugins installed, then you may have an error show up when you try to launch an ...

Stumbi: StumbleUpon for Safari

by Mike Schramm (May 27th, 2008)

Being a Firefox user (I know, I know, and it crashes on me all the time, but still I run back to it ashamedly), I had no idea that there was a gap in the functionality of StumbleUpon (a handy little link-finding and sharing browser plugin) for Safari users -- it only works with IE and Firefox. But ...

Enhance Address Book with PostCheck

by Dave Caolo (Apr 23rd, 2008)

Here's a very handy plugin for Address Book. PostCheck does two things. First, it fills in missing Zip Codes for when you've only got a contact's city and state. It's super simple. Just right-click on the empty Zip Code field and select PostCheck from the contextual menu. In my testing, it ...

iChat Pro makes iChat look like Adium

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2008)

Personally, I'm an Adium user at heart -- iChat is super nice (especially for a built-in chat program), but it just doesn't have the features and customizability that that Adium does. But if you have to use iChat for whatever reason (easy video conferencing comes to mind) despite your love for ...

Liven up Address Book with Avatars

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 29th, 2007)

Is your Address Book full of web-savvy friends who know what a Gravatar (or a Pavatar) is? Avatars is a freeware plugin for Address Book that searches for, displays, and adds your contacts' avatars to their cards. It installs with a package installer as a SIMBL plugin, and it looks to me like SIMBL ...

Inquisitor is updated for Leopard

by Mike Schramm (Nov 27th, 2007)

Well slap my Safari and call me Susan-- it seems that the rumors of Inquisitor's demise (like so many things nowadays) were greatly exaggerated. Apple Reporter points out that Inquisitor, the Safari search plugin that everyone likes so much, has been "repackaged" for Leopard. Originally, we were ...

Adium adds videochat via MeBeam

by Mike Schramm (Nov 10th, 2007)

Videochatting has finally come to Adium-- kind of. They report on their blog that a company called MeBeam has been working on a cross-platform Flash solution, and they've hooked up Adium to use that service. On their site, MeBeam seems a little aloof about what Adium is (they haven't actually ever ...

iWPhone: WordPress plugin renders for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2007)

I run my personal site using WordPress, and one reason I like using it so much is that (although this is hardly exclusive to WordPress as a content manager) is all the great plugins available for it. On another site I ran under WordPress, I loved using the WP-Print plugin-- it automatically creates ...

FlickrExport updated for iPhoto 7

by Scott McNulty (Aug 12th, 2007)

Powerful is the plugin that makes me wait until it is ready before I upgrade to Apple's latest and greatest. Connected Flow's FlickrExport is one such plugin. It makes uploading photos from iPhoto to Flickr, Yahoo!'s photo sharing site, a breeze. Tag pics, upload them, add them to groups, create ...

BlogMate - blogging with TextMate on steroids

by David Chartier (Apr 17th, 2007)

TextMate has a basic, built-in blogging bundle that provides some decent features. You can use a variety of syntaxes (HTML, Markdown, etc.) to pen your next digg-worthy post, and the bundle also has rudimentary support for retrieving posts from your blog to edit. It's not bad, but it isn't stellar ...

Roll Your Own Quicksilver Plugin

by Mat Lu (Feb 16th, 2007)

Regular readers know we here at TUAW love Quicksilver. Indeed, I think it is my single favorite application (and that it remains free is just mind-boggling to me). Anyway, despite a ton of built-in functionality and plethora of plugins to add more, you may still find there are a few things your best ...

iConcertCal

by Dan Lurie (Feb 1st, 2007)

I'm normally not a huge fan of iTunes plugins– I was scarred on the whole idea of media player plugins back in my Windows days, but iConcertCal might just get me to re-evaluate that opinion. The free plugin scans the artists in your music library and presents you with a calendar of upcoming ...

Keyword Manager 1.1 adds major keyword management features, more

by David Chartier (Jan 28th, 2007)

Keyword Manager from Bullstorm scored a license purchase from yours truly the day we found it, and the feature-packed iPhoto keyword plugin recently had an unassuming but handy upgrade to v1.1. Clicking on the "What's New?" heading at Bullstorm's site reveals a strong list of new features, ...