Tag: applications
Songsmith - Why the Hate?
by Josh on Jan.15, 2009, under Random
The commercial for it is a joke.
The resulting sound quality is terrible.
It comes from Microsoft.
All good reasons to brush it off as one big joke, right?
Tour de Flex
by Josh on Nov.18, 2008, under Flex
I’ve been having a blast with this thing, and if you haven’t downloaded it yet for some reason, do it now.
SSBs
by Josh on Jun.24, 2008, under Development, Mac, Web
SSBs? Site-Specific Browsers, courtesy of Fluid.app.
Fluid is a slick little app that allows you to create unique browsers for a particular website. These new browsers appear as regular applications that you can leave in your Dock, or Applications folder. In the screenshot above, you can see the Unfuddle app that I made in about five minutes earlier today.
Pretty handy for those sites you tend to visit a lot, and leave open all day long. Plus, if a site supports it, you can get some fancy Coverflow browsing of the links in the page as well.
One Machine to Rule Them All
by Josh on Feb.12, 2008, under Random
For the third or fourth time in the last week, I’ve caught myself trying to treat my iPod or cell phone as an additional display connected to my Mac. A few times it’s been because I wanted to skip a song on the iPod, so I moused over to the edge of my screen, and was slightly irritated when the cursor didn’t pass over to the iPod’s screen.
Today, it was my cell phone, because I had received a text message and I wanted to read it. Again, I tried mousing off of the edge of my screen to the phone’s, to read the message. I guess I’ve been spoiled by Teleport.
Caffeine for your Mac
by Josh on Feb.08, 2008, under Mac
I often work with two Macs at a time - my PowerMac and a MacBook Pro. I navigate between the two of them using Teleport, which allows you to control multiple Macs with one mouse and keyboard, simply by mousing over to the other machine, as if it were a second display. It even lets you copy and paste from one machine to another, and drag and drop files across machines. Pure hotness.
As I’m usually glancing back and forth between the two machines, it can sometimes get to be irritating when one of them switches on it’s screensaver or sleeps. To prevent this, just give the Mac a healthy dose of Caffeine. When running, the app is a simple little icon that appears in your menubar, and takes only one click to toggle on or off, preventing your Mac from entering sleep mode or activating it’s screensaver. The best part? It’s free!
