My favorite maintenance utility for the Mac, MainMenu puts a variety of essential tools and scripts in your menu bar where everything you need is no more than a couple of clicks away. Its simple interface has been gussied up, and it’s now compatible with OS X 10.4.8 and a Universal Binary.
Santa Software
Inquisitor is like Spotlight for Safari, beautiful and gleaming, with autocompletion and a handful of options. Best of all, it’s now free.
David Watanabe
I don’t watch television, but this slick new HBO Widget offers up a selection of free teasers and trailers, as well as the complete schedule for HBO and Cinemax channels. Watch clips from Bill Maher and Inside the NFL, interviews with the cast of the Sopranos, previews of documentaries and special features, and The […]
First Microsoft kills Internet Explorer for the Mac (no great loss), but now I’ve heard rumors that Windows Media Player may be next. Even if WMP is updated, why bother? With Telestream’s free Flip4Mac WMV, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) in QuickTime Player or in your browser. Optimized for G4 […]
Vitaly Friedman combed the web to find the 20 Best License-Free Quality Fonts. The selection is impressive; whatever your project, you’ll find some winners in here.
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I just did something I never thought I’d do: I installed a GUI theme to give my Mac a consistent look. I love OS X, but I’m getting tired of Apple’s indiscriminate proliferation of window styles. The clincher was the new look in iTunes 5.0.1. So you have aqua (e.g., Preview), metal (e.g., Safari), […]
SizzlingKeys lets you control iTunes with hot keys, allowing you to switch tracks, control the volume, change your rating and pause or resume play, all without switching to iTunes. A floater window displays the current song name, artist, and cover art, if available. You can also search your Library or display playlists in a […]
I don’t use a PDA. I had a Palm once, a long time ago, but I never bothered to replace it after the battery died. Someone once said that using a PDA was like getting in your car to drive next door. Most of the time, simple pen and paper do the trick and […]
FolderGlance adds a contextual menu to the Finder that lets you see deep into your folders and open their contents in a single click, displaying their contents to an unlimited number of levels. If you want to open a file in an application other than the default, hold down the Shift key; all of […]
I want to help some of my newbie Windows friends get started with news feeds. Can any Windows users out there recommend their favorite free newsreaders? While we’re at it, Mac users can chime in with their favorite free newsreaders for the Mac.