Posted on March 8, 2009
DropLink is a new Mac app that’s in the beta stages currently, but looks very promising. Essentially it’s a droplet that sits in your Dock and lets you upload a file by dragging it to the DropLink icon. Once the upload finishes (indicated by an out-of-the-way progress bar and a Growl notification), the link is copied to your clipboard. It’s simple, yet effective reminder of the usefulness of minimal applications that can make your life that much easier.
Posted on February 12, 2009
I was recently contacted by a certain Tiffany of TuneUp Media. After giving me a brief insight into her company’s product, I was sold. TuneUp for Mac is an excellent iTunes plugin that fills in the blanks in your iTunes library, so to speak. TuneUp will examine your music and fetch album artwork, fix the ID3 tags, and add even more information. It can also tell you about upcoming concerts for the current artist. It’s really a nice piece of software, and is perfect for anyone with a less-than-optimal iTunes library. The free version will fix up to 500 songs and add up to 50 sets of album artwork for you. An unlimited version (TuneUp Gold) is available on the developer’s site (listed below) for a very reasonable $20.
Posted on December 22, 2008
Remember MacHeist? Well, this year they’re back, and as always, have a nice little pre-heist offer. The Mac Giving Tree is an awesome Christmas present for those of us who want some extra presents for Christmas. By signing up at their site, you can be a part of the fun. It’s all free (and legitimate, too), and so far two apps are available as pre-Christmas presents: Synergy (an iTunes controller normally priced at $14), and Enigmo 2 (normally priced at $19). On Christmas morning, the other two presents will be unlocked and available for download (plus, an additional two apps if you invite two friends to sign up!). Overall, it’s a great deal, and the guys down at MacHeist have worked very hard to get you these offers. So, head on down and sign up to get some free apps before you miss out on all the fun!
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.
Posted on November 28, 2008
Woohoo! Thanks to a friend of mine (a.k.a. eddieck), my site now passes the XHTML 1.0 Transitional markup test. For those of you who don’t know exactly what that means, it essentially means that the code is clean by the World Wide Web standards! See for yourself:
Thanks again to eddieck for helping me out on this, and I’ll be back posting in no time.
Posted on November 26, 2008
Let me just start by telling you guys it’s been tough to keep up as long as I have. I’m trying my hardest, but this time I had reason to miss a few posts. I screwed up the install of Clickheat (a cool little add-on that lets you see exactly where users click on your site). Some of you may have noticed the error on the top of the page (and I noticed the fact that I messed up my functions.php file so bad I couldn’t even log into the admin page). But anyway, it all seems to be good now. I fixed the file over FTP, and we’re running again. In the meantime, I updated to the latest version of WordPress, as well as some other smaller plugin updates.
But speaking of plugins, I realized I never formally introduced the new Categories system. As you probably can tell, all of my posts are categorized, and as such, the list of categories became pretty long. While searching for a new way to present my categories, I found WP-Cumulus, which puts all of them in a 3-dimensional sphere. I’d like to hear what you think of it (in the comments on this post), because I haven’t fully decided whether to keep it or not yet.
Finally, I have one last proposal. Over the last few days I’ve been messing with my iPod touch a lot (exploring the immense amount of applications available for the most part), and came up with an idea. I was thinking I could possibly do a Sunday iPhone/iPod App Review as a departure from my normal all-Mac schedule. I may or may not try that this weekend, you’ll just have to wait and see. But, if you have any ideas, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Thanks for your patience, and you’ll hear back from me soon. As a matter of fact, I’m searching for some Turkey Day freeware as we speak!
