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• 11.28.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Presentation posted in Geekery

  Whether you’re a designer or a software engineer or in some area between the hemispheres of the brain, there are multitudes of reasons why you would want to make a clear and professional presentation, be it a screencast, a software manual, or a quick mockup for a client. These are a few of my favorite tools for making presentations that impress without breaking too much of a sweat. I’m saving online tools until a later part of this series, so the cool online slideshow and PowerPoint replacements are going to wait a bit…

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• 11.28.07 Archive Previews in Together posted in Geekery

  I just had to take a moment to mention that the zip Quick Look plugin works inside of Together. The plugin (the .mac download is crashed and I couldn’t find a mirror, sorry) lets you peek inside zip files using Quick Look. Inside of Together, that gives you an instant preview of the contents of archived files within your library or project. Absolutely awesome.

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• 11.27.07 A Square Meal for your Mac posted in Geekery

  In the midst of working on the next installment of our “Top Mac Apps” series, I just spent my allowance and my lunch money at “Give Good Food To Your Mac”, a mac software promo that I think I got an early invitation to yesterday. It appears to be open to the public now. The beauty of this one is that you get to choose which apps go in your bundle with full knowledge of what you’re getting (and a chance to try before you buy), and get volume discounts up to 70% off. And the selection is excellent, in my opinion. With a base including apps like CSSEdit and Boinx iStopMotion Home, the list is topped off by a few newcomers and some video apps that I’m excited to put to work. Take a gander, spend some hard earned cash. You’re worth it.

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• 11.22.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Utilities posted in Geekery

  What’s a mac without a good set of utilities? These programs are, just like the rest of this series, the ones that are proven in my workflow to work. Not always beauty contest winners, and not always well known, but tried and tested by me. Not that I’m offering money back guarantees or anything :). The topics range from disk repair and archiving to memory management and there should be something here for any intermediate to advanced mac user.

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• 11.22.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Geeking Out posted in Geekery

  There are some things that normal people (the ones who spend less than 50% of their lives in front of a computer) just don’t need to know about. These probably fall into that list. For the rest of you, here are some of my favorite highlights from the “Geekery” world:

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• 11.22.07 C6 Top Mac Apps 2007: Productivity posted in Geekery

  Well, the year is quickly coming to an end and I thought I’d chronicle our latest Mac app adventures. So what makes this particular list of OS X app picks special? First, I’m not doing reruns, so you’re not going to hear about TextMate and Quicksilver all over again. This list assumes you’ve picked up on the basics from at least one of the gazillion top ten lists on Digg, and made your own decisions. Second, this list isn’t a popularity contest. Some of the apps I’m including aren’t popular (yet), some aren’t even widely known. I dig through a lot of apps to find what’s going to work the best for me (and hopefully look good doing it), meaning I offer this list as nothing more than a documentation of my findings. As always, I’d love to hear what you’re using…

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• 11.19.07 Things Screencast posted in Geekery

  Tagamac has produced a screencast that takes a look at the upcoming GTD release from Cultured Code: “Things“. It’s an in-depth look that should generate some excitement about what looks like it’s going to be another substantive entry in the OSX GTD app arena. Take a look and then jump on the mailing list on the Things homepage to get on the list for a beta!

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• 11.1.07 MY Favorite Leopard Feature posted in Geekery

  I would just like to take a moment to point out a new feature in Leopard that hasn’t gotten as much hype as a keyboard nerd like me would like. Backstory: I own 2 diNovo Edge bluetooth keyboards (and a Revolution MX mouse to go with each). I’d been relying on a location switcher that would detect the presence of the keyboard and then run an Applescript to switch the modifier keys (flip Option and Command) for the PC keyboard layout. The Applescripts relied on Universal Access behaviors to manually pull down the menus. Not elegant, but way better than doing it by hand. So anyway…

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• 8.20.07 EagleFiler: Productivity and File Management posted in Geekery

  C-Command, the makers of the excellent Spam filtering software, SpamSieve, have released an app called Eagle Filer. This app seems to have existed under the radar for a little while now, but I thought it was time to give it a try. I’m now a die-hard user. Here’s why…

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• 7.7.07 Path Finder Update posted in Geekery

  Path Finder has been updated to 4.7.1 with a bunch of fixes and features. First of all, Subversion support is no longer experimental, but considered stable. I’ve been using it since the last release with good luck and enjoy having it built into my GUI file manager. The move-to-trash delay has been significantly decreased, and the “Open With” menu is finally sorted by application name. For a full list of changes, see the Path Finder changelog.

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