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• 1.18.07 Circle Six on OS X Utilities posted in Geekery

  As part of our current series of software roundups, here are our must-have utilities for OS X. These range from maintenance to productivity, simple and useful to downright powerful. Leave us a comment and let everyone know what you think should be on the list. System Utilities Probably the most deserving of this list, and thus the […]

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• 1.17.07 Circle Six on Widgets posted in Geekery

  This is a short list of our favorite OS X widgets. I try to keep the number of widgets running at any given time to a minimum, so this is, as I said, a short list. CharacterPal from Taco Widgets is extremely handy. CharacterPal is a widget that helps you remember how to type any special character. […]

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• 1.14.07 Circle Six on OS X Productivity posted in Geekery

  I thought that over my next few articles I would expound on a few of my favorite applications. I’ll highlight a few classics and a few apps that I think have a really bright future. This first post is going to be about productivity. I always seem to start with a […]

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• 1.9.07 Better CSS Debugging with OSX posted in Web Design

  CSS has never been the easiest part of web design. Browser inconsistencies, holes in the specs and some things that we just haven’t figured out how to do can leave a designer a little frustrated (and thinking about slicing up an image in Fireworks and building on of those table things). But […]

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• 12.15.06 Review: Micromat Protege posted in Geekery

  A couple of crashes on my G5 and a major slowdown on my G4 Powerbook scared me a little. Disk Warrior 3 really helped, but I’m still waiting for my boot disc to run it on my laptop. In the meantime, I came to the realization that none of the Firewire drives that I […]

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• 12.9.06 Unadulterated Praise for Firebug posted in Web Design

  I’ve long recommended the Firebug extension for Firefox as an essential web developer’s tool. Along with Xylescope, it’s been a major tool for debugging all aspects of my web pages. But 1.0 Beta is out now, still free despite some rumors to the contrary, and it’s rapidly taking it’s place at the […]

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• 11.29.06 kuler: Color palettes for the masses posted in Design, Web Design

  Adobe is offering a relatively new color tool for free, called kuler. It lets you put together color palettes using the usual color theory, with tools like RGB sliders for adjusting parts of each palette. If you have (or create) and Adobe I.D., you can save and publish your palettes. Each […]

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