How many files are on your Mac? Most of us don’t care, and unless we run an app that scans and counts files we’d never find out. What’s the advantage of knowing how many files you have? Not much, but knowing how many files and where they are will give you a better understanding of … Read More »
Friday, May 24, 2013
How To Get More Information About Files On Your Mac Than You Really Need But Might Anyway
MindNode
Mind mapping on your Mac. Expands beyond the canvas (for bigger brains?). Works with QuickLook, Spotlight, and iChat Theater (Intel Macs only). MindNode Pro adds Reconnecting, Folding, Link Support, and other goodies. MindNode is a free and very easy to use mindmapping application. It was created with the user in mind and features a very … Read More »
Adobe Flash Player
The latest in a string of regular updates of the web’s most popular animation and video player. Lots of new Flash capability to hog your CPU and slow down Safari, Firefox, et al. 11.x is a major improvement. Not one crash in weeks but Safari and Firefox still slow to a crawl with multiple open … Read More »
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wallet – The Personal Money Management System (and the problem with naming anything ‘Wallet’)
Nearly every card carrying adult, male or female, has a wallet or something that resembles a wallet. It’s the little mobile device that carries money, identification, credit cards, and for some may also cause problems with the sciatic nerve. I’m beginning to think that we need a different name for wallet. Why? Because everyone is … Read More »
ExpanDrive
Significant update to the very clever utility which builds SFTP/FTP/SSH into your Mac’s Finder. Your remote computer shows up as a mounted hard drive on your desktop. Unique, easy to use, a little slow, but well done. New version is notably faster and connects to Amazon S3. ExpanDrive gives you perfectly transparent access to open, … Read More »
Navicat for MySQL
Popular utility to create and manage MySQL databases, remotely, locally, on Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X. Loaded with features for the DB professional, though still a little buggy after all these years. Check out the free Lite version. It works with any MySQL version from 3.21 or above and supports most of the latest … Read More »
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Calculator Tab+ Is The Mac Calculator App That’s Easier To Use Than Apple’s Built-in Calculator
When it comes to naming an app I prefer those that are descriptive, those that are clever, or those that are memorable. Apple may do it best. Mail is email. Contacts are address book. Calendar is the calendar app. Others are descriptive but obvious. iTunes. iPhoto. iMovie. Even Garageband evokes the minimalist digital recording studio … Read More »
Renamer
The specialized utility that renames large numbers of files with drag, drop, click. Renames file names, converts characters, numbers files. Highly useful, not inexpensive. Live preview gives instant feedback on new filenames for catching errors and fine-tuning results… Rename with simple text search or with flexible regular expressions. 9WR – Renamer: Saves time, reduces errors, … Read More »
Acorn
Substantial update to the little image editor that does more than expected. Affordable, fast, easy to learn, many image editing tools and options, from gradients filters to layers. Nicely done. Now with a cool brush designer, and improved performance via your Mac’s GPU. Don’t let Acorn’s size fool you; it’s a powerful little guy. Fancy … Read More »
VueScan
Latest of the many (and frequent; every couple of weeks) updates to Hamrick’s popular scanner tool which works on just under a gazillion scanners, give or take a few. A must-have if you scan. VueScan is a powerful, easy to use program that works with 1,600 flatbed and film scanners, on Mac OS X, Windows, … Read More »
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
sBlaster: It’s A New Way To Record Audio From Your Mac To Your Mac
Through the years I’ve tried about every audio recording app for the Mac– from ProTools to Logic, from BIAS to Audacity and plenty in-between. Even now my collection of audio recording apps is larger than what actually gets used. The latest addition is sBlaster which does more than some recording apps. All it takes is … Read More »
Delicious Library
A great utility to manage your books, movies, music CDs, video games in the perfect library metaphor. It’s complete with shelves, search, cart-catalog, bar code entry, all downloaded from the internet. Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog … Read More »