Posted on October 4, 2009
Poladroid is a fun little app that converts your images into Polaroid-style photos, complete with post-processing. It adds a great (and editable) vignette, and changes the colors of your photos. My favorite part is that you actually have to wait for the images to develop, and you can watch them slowly appear over time. The interface is simple–just drag and drop a photo, then wait. It’s not exactly the most useful application out there, but it’s a lot of fun to mess around with.
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Posted on December 1, 2008
Offshoots is a fun little visual app that grows trees on your Mac. It comes in screensaver and app form–the app runs as your Desktop background. Essentially one vector “branch” appears on screen, and a bunch of offshoots from it appear (as well as leaves), making it a full tree. You can even set Offshoots to grow toward your mouse, and set all of its colors, sizes, and alpha levels yourself.
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Posted on September 10, 2008
Due to the hideous icon of WeatherVane, the app I posted yesterday, I felt compelled to post an app today with a nice, clean icon. After some scavenging, I found an excellent note-taking app called SketchBox. SketchBox is like OS X’s Stickies app, only infinitely better. Each note you make is stored in an iPhoto-esque environment with
your notes in a grid view. But, what makes the notes special is that they can store text, drawings, pictures, and even custom timers. All of these functions make for a great app with an attractive price: $0.
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Posted on September 2, 2008
OSXplanet is a fun project that displays a current view of the world from space–right on your desktop. It can display live data of clouds, volcanoes, storms, earthquakes, and many other natural occurrences. It also renders other planets as seen from other planets, which is awesome. It uses almost no CPU power and has a well-integrated UI. What more could you want?
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Posted on August 26, 2008
Pop Rock is an interesting concept/hack that was created for one sole purpose: to make opening applications more fun. Pop Rock replaces the normal bouncing Dock icon animation with something a lot cooler: the app you opened is on a stage playing a riff on a guitar (whose icon was cleverly stolen from Garageband), and the other apps that are open are on the floor, cheering. the more apps you have open, the louder the cheering is. It’s really a sight to behold, and makes opening apps a lot more fun. Give it a try!
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Posted on August 15, 2008
Klondike Forever is a great Solitaire game for Mac that’s been around for a long time. The developer also made Solitaire Forever, which is essentially Klondike Forever with more game types available. It runs very smoothly and has slick sound effects, as well as an adjustable window size. It even has an iPhone screen size setting (although it doesn’t run on the iPhone). Overall this game is very nice, and has few bells and whistles to distract you. It’s actually very visually appealing, as well, with its fluid movement and impressive graphics. Klondike Solitaire is a fun and simple remake of a timeless classic.
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