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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 ...

A roundup of clock apps for the iPad

by Steven Sande (Sep 10th, 2010)

One of the more surprising app omissions from the iPad was the iPhone's Clock app. It's an extremely useful iPhone app, featuring a world clock, alarm, timer, and stopwatch. Why Apple didn't choose to add this app to the iPad is a mystery for the ages, but at least it's opened up the market for some ...

TUAW's Daily App: Space Invaders Business Cards

by Mike Schramm (Jun 21st, 2010)

The Taito Corporation is the Japanese developer that owns the Space Invaders franchise, and they have done something pretty crazy with the App Store. They've released a series of completely free, Space Invaders-branded apps, most of which have nothing to do with the game at all. There's the Space ...

Five...no, Six useful Mac apps from Thoughtful Tree

by Steven Sande (Aug 7th, 2009)

TUAW receives a lot of app submissions for review, both for Mac and iPhone. But it's unusual when a developer sends us individual press releases for a relatively large number of apps. Steven Degutis is the brain behind a company called Thoughtful Tree. In his words, "I'm an indie Mac developer who ...

Get paid for your time: On The Job 3.0

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 28th, 2009)

On The Job 3.0 was released today, and it's poised to give my long-standing favorite time-tracking app, Billings 3, a good run for its money. On The Job 3 represents a complete rewrite of the application. It's such a new and different beast from its previous incarnations that -- in the words of ...

Widget Watch: Minutes

by Mat Lu (Apr 12th, 2007)

The best widgets, in my view, do one simple thing and do it well. That description would fit Minutes, a great little countdown timer widget. With Minutes you just grab the little blue triangle and spin it around to choose your interval (in whole minutes). When it reaches zero it gives you a Growl ...

Quicksilver Tip: Timed Reminders

by Mat Lu (Feb 6th, 2007)

Quicksilver never fails to impress. I just ran across this excellent tip on macosxhints.com for setting little timed reminders to yourself. There are a plethora of little egg timer type applications for OS X, but why bother with one of those when you can do this in Quicksilver? Suppose you want to ...

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 ...

Widget Watch: The Daily Grind

by Dave Caolo (Mar 6th, 2006)

If you have one of those jobs that requires to you track just how much time you spend on a given task (or if you're just a compulsive nut), check out The Daily Grind. It's a Dashboard widget that lets you start several individual timers, and give a custom name to each one. Plus, you can copy the ...

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