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• 7.5.07 FlyGestures is Free posted in Geekery

  If you, like me, do occasional laptop work without the aid of your 12 button mouse, head over and grab FlyGestures, some nifty OS X software which just became freeware. You can set up simple mouse gestures to do just about anything you’d like…

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• 6.22.07 Pandora Better posted in Geekery

  I have a new favorite Pandora interface: PandoraJam. It’s a native Cocoa app (Mac only) that gives you keyboard shortcuts for Pandora, last.fm scrobbling and recording to iTunes with album cover tagging. It’s shareware ($15). I’m having a blast with it. I’m uncertain of the legality of it, but I’m enjoying taking my Pandora stations on the road with my iPod…

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• 6.21.07 My Personal iGTD posted in Geekery

  I get a lot of searches coming in related to iGTD. So, inspired by a recent article on 43 Folders, I decided to offer a few of my own tricks for working with what I consider to be one of the best GTD apps for the mac.

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• 6.12.07 Path Finder And Subversion posted in Geekery

  Path Finder, one of my favorite utilities for OS X, has just come out with version 4.7 and added experimental Subversion support, along with a few other very cool goodies…

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• 5.22.07 Pathway: Wiki Breadcrumbs posted in Geekery

  Pathway is an amazing little OS X tool for surfing Wikipedia. It lets you see a map view of the pages surrounding your search and then creates a breadcrumb trail of your path through the pages. You can add multiple start points, track notes and files for each page, download and preview images and re-arrange the maps by dragging. It’s a sweet tool for research, and great fun for downtime!

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• 5.17.07 iFreeMem: Free Up Some RAM posted in Geekery

  iFreeMem from Activata is a utility that I’ve been testing out lately with excellent results. It reconfigures your available RAM to speed up access times. The benchmarks are impressive, but more importantly, so are the results. Read through the information page for a rundown on how and why it works. The dock icon gives you a pie chart of your wired/active/inactive/free memory that lets you keep track of resources easily and run iFreeMem when necessary. It takes about a minute to optimize my 3 Gigs in my Macbook and after it runs there is a significant speed increase and a decrease in spinning beach balls. Which is great, because I hate beach balls. You can download a 15 day trial of iFreeMem and registration is only $8.00.

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• 5.10.07 onebox Updated: Todo Items posted in Geekery

  I’ve updated “onebox”, the 30 Boxes, Quicksilver and Growl integration script, with a new feature: todo items. See the download page for download link and instructions…

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• 5.6.07 MAMP Universal Binary posted in Web Design, Geekery

  MAMP 1.6 is out as a universal binary (Mac Apache MySql PHP). Version 1.4.1 is available as both Intel and Power PC only downloads from the same page. I still haven’t tried MAMP Pro, but the combination of MAMP, Headdress and a good Subversion workflow have kept me plenty happy.

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• 5.4.07 Tangerine: Sticky Sweet Color Management posted in Design, Web Design

  Tangerine is a new color management app for OS X that provides designers with a consistent palette for creating color palettes that translate between applications. It functions as a floating palette available from all applications and adding colors can be done with copy and paste, a dropper (magnifying glass) or with input sliders. The colors are then available with the click or drag of a swatch in any of your applications. It works with profiles and adjusts for different screen modes. In my short time experimenting with this program I’ve fallen in love with it. This is an excellent extension to the built in Color Picker and in tandem with a good Color Wheel makes for an excellent color management setup. If you deal with color, in print or web, check this out!

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• 4.23.07 A Few Thoughts on Coda posted in Web Design

  I seem to be the only one not thinking of switching my entire web development platform to Coda. I’m not saying it couldn’t ever happen, but in my last 2 hours of experimenting I’ve been suffering from Dreamweaver flashbacks.

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