Posted on August 29, 2008
AOL Radio is a nice little app that lets you listen to a ton of genre-listed radio stations online. There are more than 200 stations to choose from, so you know there’ll be something you like. Surprisingly, AOL made a really nice user interface for it that looks right at home on your Mac. It’s nice to get a decent selection of music without having to think about it. And really, they have everything covered: Sinatra-Style Big band Jazz, Video Game Scores, Klezmer, Baroque, Industrial, and Blues Women, to name a few less-common genres they have stations for. It also has an identically functioning app for the iPhone and iPod touch.
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Posted on August 25, 2008
There are two types of people on the internet: people who like Safari, and people who don’t. I personally like Safari because it’s extremely fast, and very simple. Sometimes, though, it would be nice to have some extra features. That’s where Glims comes in. Glims is a Safari addon that adds a ton of functionality and features to the otherwise minimal web browser. Here are some key features that the developer listed on his site:
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Posted on August 20, 2008
Wikipedia is one of the best sites on the web, because of its endless amount of information. But, since there’s so much, it’s easy to get lost. That’s where Pathway comes in. Pathway is an all-in-one browser and tracker app for Wikipedia. On the bottom, you have a standard view of Wikipedia. Above that, there’s a map with the active Wikipedia page in the middle, with a web of related topics branching off. When you click a link in Wikipedia, Pathway automatically creates a path to that page for you in the map, so you can see where you’ve been, and how you got there. With this knowledge you can find things on Wikipedia with ease. Pathway can also save maps as documents for later viewing, which is a nice addition.
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Posted on August 14, 2008
AcqLite is a P2P (peer to peer) app for Mac that used to be extremely popular, since it’s a nicer alternative to the notoriously bloated LimeWire. But, unfortunately it appeared as if the developer stopped updating it after the 0.2.9 release in July of 2007. But, just yesterday, the developer released version 0.3, which has vast improvements over the old versions. This one is Leopard-compatible, and is significantly faster than any P2P app out there right now. Its features are comparable to Acquisition, another nice Mac P2P app, only AcqLite is free (hence the name). If you do any P2P file sharing at all, and need a nice, free client, AcqLite is a must-have for you.
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Posted on August 6, 2008
Remember iStumbler, the network-finding app that I reviewed a while back? It wasn’t a bad client, but it lacked a clean, organized user interface, which lost it major points. Well, AirRadar is pretty much the same thing as iStumbler, except with a great user interface. It supports Growl notifications for when it discovers a network, and works very fast. The interface is spotless, and the app itself is definitely worth trying for people who need to find a WiFi network. You can even favorite networks or graph the signal strength over time. As an added bonus, you can tell it to automatically join the strongest network in range. Highly recommended.
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Posted on August 5, 2008
MacFusion is an interesting application that can mount files on a remote server as if they were local drives. For example, you can SSH into a destination, and it will mount it in Finder. You can name remote servers and give them icons, and do a lot of customization with them. To disconnect, you eject them just like a disk image or external hard drive. Pretty slick. Overall this is a very cool app that’s worth looking into if you’re someone who frequently uses SSH or FTP.
Note: MacFusion requires that you have MacFUSE installed, which is available here:
Code.Google.com/P/MacFUSE
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