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Securing Your Mac: A Guide for Reasonable People, Version 1.0

by TJ Luoma (Nov 30th, 2012)

"How do I protect my Mac online? Should I run any 'security' applications on my Mac?" That question arrived several weeks ago via the contact form here at TUAW, and I have been trying to come up with a reasonable answer to it ever since. That question, or a variation of it, comes fairly ...

Google acquires iOS photo app Snapseed

by Mike Schramm (Sep 17th, 2012)

Snapseed is a popular iOS photography app around here at TUAW -- not only have we spotlighted it a few different times, but the app also won a coveted Apple Design Award back in 2011. And now here's news that Google appreciates the app as well: The ad and search giant has acquired the developer ...

Mozilla evangelist asks Apple, Google and Microsoft to stop installing unwanted plug-ins

by Sam Abuelsamid (Dec 1st, 2010)

Asa Dotzler has been promoting Mozilla Firefox for more than six years, and he's not happy about other software vendors installing unwanted plug-ins in his browser. Among the vendors getting under Dotzler's skin are Apple, Google and Microsoft, each of whom also happen to produce a competing web ...

Macworld 2010: TypeDNA

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 13th, 2010)

On the last day of Macworld, I caught up with the guys from TypeDNA to take a look at what I soon realized was going to be a revolutionary bit of software magic for designers of any ilk. TypeDNA is a series of plugins for Adobe CS4 applications (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) which makes finding ...

TotalFinder beefs up Finder

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 14th, 2010)

A new "hack" for Finder is in the works, and it's pretty darn cool. TotalFinder adds tabs, Visor-like functionality and a few other goodies (with more on the way) to your plain, vanilla Finder setup. If you're skittish, though, don't jump just yet. TotalFinder is alpha, and not in that way that ...

Google Chrome run natively (most of it, anyway)

by Mike Schramm (Apr 7th, 2009)

After much lamenting and a few attempts, Google Chrome can finally be run natively in OS X. Kind of. Don't get us wrong, it works: it starts up fast and runs one process per window, just like the Windows version. But there are a few glaring holes, the lack of plugins (and therefore Flash, which ...

Safari 4 beta, a closer look

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 25th, 2009)

After waiting a day for the dust to settle -- and for developers to catch up -- since Apple's release of Safari 4 beta, it looks like there are relatively few show-stopping bugs to talk about. Just about every problem we've heard about at TUAW, and every issue I've had personally, has been an ...

Understudy plugin offers Hulu and Netflix in Front Row

by Mat Lu (Feb 18th, 2009)

I think one of the coolest features in Boxee, the XBMC-based media center software for Macs and Apple TVs, has been the relatively recent addition of Hulu and Netflix streaming. Now Understudy offers similar functionality for Front Row users. The plugin adds an Understudy menu item to the Front Row ...

ProjectPlus for TextMate

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 6th, 2008)

It's been a while since TUAW talked about TextMate, and fans of the venerable text editor will want to check out ProjectPlus, Ciarán Walsh's latest contribution to the TextMate community. It provides a set of features compiled from several of Ciarán's other plugins, and then some, such ...

Afloat 2.0 returns window floating to Leopard

by Mat Lu (Apr 30th, 2008)

Afloat from Infinite Labs was one of my favorite SIMBL plugins, until it was broken by Leopard. It adds some clever features to windows in Cocoa applications, including a mode where the window remains always visible, "floating" above all other windows, an overlay mode where the window floats but ...

PlugSuit: legacy plugins in Safari 3 for Leopard

by Christina Warren (Oct 27th, 2007)

I have to be honest, as a browser, Safari, on its own, does very little for me. In my pre-switcher life I loved Firefox, in large part because of its plug-in structure - and although Safari is certainly more stable than FF (on my system at least) - it's not the same. Luckily, a number of good ...

Inquisitor updates, and is doomed?

by Mike Schramm (Aug 26th, 2007)

Inquisitor, a bee-you-tiful Safari plugin that allows you to get instant, Spotlight-esque search results, has updated to 3.0 v43, adding "aesthetic tweaks" (always nice) and slightly better output from Google. The new version is available for free download right now. And unfortunately, it may be the ...

Facebook Exporter updated for iPhoto '08

by David Chartier (Aug 22nd, 2007)

Attention all ye Facebook and iPhoto users: you may feel free to begin using iPhoto '08, now that Facebook has updated their Facebook Exporter plug-in. We first found this plug-in back in March, and while I'm definitely not the most active Facebook user or photo uploader, I don't think anything ...

iPlace: Image download helper for Safari

by David Chartier (Aug 21st, 2007)

Considering the graphical nature of the web, I'm surprised more features and plug-ins haven't appeared to solve the problem of downloading images from sites as well as iPlace does. Operating as a SIMBL plug-in for Safari (including the 3.0 beta), iPlace allows you to specify multiple locations on ...

More ecto 3 details, a screenshot and roadmap revealed

by David Chartier (Jun 7th, 2007)

Adriaan Tijsseling, developer of the Mac OS X version of the ecto blogging client, has been teasing us with sneak peeks and development details for some time now, but he's just posted another more revealing screenshot of ecto3, along with more details and a basic roadmap. Adriaan has touted ecto3 ...