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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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• 11.22.07 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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• 11.1.07 Man Alive posted in Geekery

  I just discovered Bwana while looking for something completely different. It can open and format man pages right in your web browser. I’ve found other utilities that beat paging in Terminal, but this is really nice. I’ve tried it in Firefox (man [manpage]) and in Safari (man://[manpage]) and it works great. If you’re feeling geeky or just wondering what the geek next to you is talking about, check it out. There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned man page to put some hair on your chest.

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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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• 5.17.07 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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• 1.30.07 The Salem Trials (Testing Witch) posted in Geekery

  Usually when I try out a new utility it takes me a while to find out if I’ll get used to having it around or not. Eventually, it either becomes an indispensable part of my everyday computing habits, or is relegated to a dusty corner where it will be AppZapped during the next housecleaning round. Witch, by Peter Maurer, turned out to be a different story for me, though.

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• 1.21.07 The Final Roundup posted in Geekery

  The final list of software roundup posts, compiled for easy access. Productivity Widgets Utilities Firefox Addons Internet Multimedia Thanks for reading, and I promise no more “Top…” lists for quite a while. Just had to get that out of my system ;-). osx» reviews» software» tools» utilities»

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• 1.21.07 Circle Six on Multimedia Apps posted in Geekery

  As the final post in our software roundup, I’m going to cover a few of our favorite shareware and freeware multimedia applications. I’m going to go very light on audio, since Randy handles most of our audio needs on a PC platform. He keeps talking about switching, but for the time being I don’t […]

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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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