What aspiring writer hasn’t toyed with the idea of writing a screenplay? You could spend a couple hundred bucks on Final Draft (as I did some time ago) or Movie Magic Screenwriter ($249), two applications that screenwriters love to hate. Or you could try the new, free, open source Celtx, which lets you write [...]
MediaTuner is a rich media aggregator and player that lets you manage text blogs, news, audio, podcasts, streaming video, video blogs, and images. No software to download; MediaTuner runs in your browser.
I had some problems running MediaTuner in Safari, with Safari quitting unexpectedly (I certainly didn’t expect it to quit), but it seemed to [...]
Slide is free program that indexes, groups, and plays images in a scrolling ticker interface. You can share images with other Slide users by publishing and subscribing to channels. Slide isn’t limited to images; you can share pictures, videos and files. Think of it as RSS feeds for just about anything on your hard [...]
There are a number of maintenance utilities available for the Mac, but MainMenu may be the easiest to use. MainMenu packs a slew of maintenance, optimization, and cleaning functions in the Menu Bar.
MainMenu includes all of the standard functions you’d expect from a maintenance utility—repairing permissions, running system maintenance scripts, updating prebindings, cleaning caches [...]
Textpander brings the idea of snippets to any application under OS X. If you regularly type the same thing—greetings or signatures, code fragments or text fragments—Textpander can save you a lot of work. With Texpander, you can insert snippets with a few keystrokes.
Textpander works seamlessly. It installs as a Preference Pane, so it’s available [...]
Who needs TV? DTV, a free, open source platform for Internet television and video, lets you build, manage, and view your library of independent video as easily as you manage your tunes with iTunes. In fact, DTV looks a lot like iTunes. But that’s not all.
DTV has a simple, familiar interface. A Channel Guide [...]
I’ve written about Apple’s free Core Image Fun House elsewhere, as well as Stone Design’s $49 iMaginator. If you want to play around with Core Image effects without shelling out for iMaginator, and want a more refined interface than Core Image Fun House offers, Image Tricks is worth a look.
Image Tricks offers an interface [...]
Dev Benegal, in his comment to my post on “Apple Mighty Mouse’s Fourth Button?,” reminded me about this handy little utility. If you’ve been wondering what to do with all those buttons on your new Apple Mighty Mouse, consider adding DejaMenu to one of them.
DejaMenu displays the application menu of the current program as [...]
If you’re a web developer and want to take a quick look under the hood in Safari, check out WebDevAdditions. This SIMBL plug-in adds a number of options to the View menu in Safari. You can toggle style sheets or view them in a separate window, disable parts of a page (images, links, tables, [...]
The announcement that Yahoo! was buying Konfabulator seems to be stirring up a lot of interest in Dashboard widgets, if my site logs are any indication. Looking for new widgets that are worth a mention, I stumbled on the ColourMod Dashboard widget and the COLOURlovers site within moments of each other. Both sites are [...]