WeatherDock

Weather information stuffed into a Dock icon. Also does weather in a window, the Menubar, the Desktop. From the same developer who does Dashboard KickStart. Excellent. WeatherDock 2 has added many features allowing you to display weather information the way you want it. The new features include a fully customizable icon, a desktop icon and … Read More »

DashFlix

Popular, free, and oh so totally necessary Dashboard Widget to check your NetFlix account for status, delivery, and queue. Now you can compulsively check your list of “At Home” movies, complete with estimated delivery dates, from your desktop. Flip over the widget, and you’ll see a list of all the movies in your queue. Click … Read More »

Sports Fan

Another sports scoreboard Widget for your Mac’s Dashboard. Nearly every team in Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey, professional and collegiate. Scores and schedules updated automagically. Perfect for tracking your favorite teams. Keep an eye on your favorite sports teams – all the information you need in one single and small widget. Show the current scoreboard, … Read More »

Dialectic

In humankind’s never ending quest to find more ways to do the same thing, the Mac world presents to you—Dialectic. Placed squarely at the top of the Do We Need This? category of Mac software is Dialectic. A phone dialer. That’s right. A Phone dialer. Yes, it’s cool. Dialectic is a highly versatile telephony tool … Read More »

Video2SWF

Updated version of the easy to use utility to convert video to Flash files. Creates customizable video players in Flash with sound controls, scrub bar, and more. Capture a movie, click to convert it to SWF with a player. Video2SWF is an extremely easy program to convert your video files to Flash. Output Flash SWF … Read More »

Is Thunderbird a better email than Apple’s Mail?

It can’t be supply and demand, but somehow or another the two most used applications on modern Macs, email and web browsers are mostly free. I use OS X’s Mail. Mozilla’s Thunderbird is very good, with many features Mac users need. Thunderwho? You don’t hear much about Thunderbird these days. Maybe that’s because Apple’s Safari … Read More »