Hack your Mac with MacPilot
Have you ever wanted to change a few settings on your Mac, but just can’t find anyway to do it? That’s just what MacPilot is for! MacPilot 3, from Koingo Software, lets you change many different settings on your Mac. It includes tons of different features that you can change with the push of a button, along with some very useful system tools.
Clips: A New Age of Clipboard Managers Has Come
Over the last few months, I have seen my fair share of new clipboard managers. Some of them are really just clipboard managers, but only one has really wowed me. This one has an amazing interface for handling clippings, but yet it is also extremely usable. It is Clips by Conceited Software.
iPhone Copy-Paste Must be Implemented by Apple
Let’s say you just received a text message from a friend with the address of a restaurant you plan to meet at tonight. You’re in a hurry, so you’d like to quickly forward that info on to a friend. On a computer, you’d probably highlight that text, copy it, and paste it into an email. Yet, that simple ability to copy and paste a block of text is a concept that has eluded iPhone users since the device launched last summer.
MacApper Tip: Enable Full Keyboard Access
Here’s a nifty tip for those new switchers and veteran Mac users alike. One of the biggest gripes with OS X is the lack of the ability to tab through dialog boxes from the keyboard. As an avid keyboard-shortcut user, I like being able to use the keyboard for as much as possible. Luckily, Apple has made it easy for us Mac users to enable this fairly simple feature.
PDFPen: Turning Your PDFs In To Paper
Apple has always been very generous to us by giving us a great, free PDF viewer. Although, sometimes that is just not enough. Sometimes we need features like annotation, forms and shapes. Sure, there’s Adobe Acrobat but that’s extremely pricy if you just want a few more features than Preview. Well, there’s another choice: SmileOnMyMac’s PDFPen.
Think about a piece of paper with text on it. You can draw on it, annotate it and white out text. This is exactly what PDFPen lets you do to PDFs. It turns a PDF into a piece of paper. However, that’s not all it does. It has many other great features; one of which is OCR.
ExpanDrive 1.3: The Most Awesome ExpanDrive Ever
A couple months ago, I reviewed ExpanDrive, the application that gave a seamless way to treat SFTP/SSH drives like real hard drives. At the time, many people were unhappy that it didn’t have FTP and FTPS support. Well, I can now say that ExpanDrive has support for both of these in version 1.3.
Bento 2.0 Released With Many Exciting Features
Last Week, I reviewed Bento 1.0, the extremely easy-to-use database tool designed for the Mac. Well, little did I know that only a week later Bento 2.0 would be released.
Bento 2.0 contains many nice new features, and a little layout adjustment. First, I will talk about the layout adjustment. In previous versions of Bento there was a panel on the right side of the window. This panel contained all of the fields for the current database. In 2.0, this has been moved over to the right side below the Library list. This gives you much more room for the database itself and makes Bento less cluttered. However, if you have a lot of libraries or fields, this can get fairly annoying.
Notebook 3.0: A Truly Noteworthy Update
If you are in school then you know how important it is to take notes, no matter what the class. The old way to do this on your Mac was to just create a lot of Pages or Office documents, and put them in a folder. That method starts to have major flaws once you reach maybe 15 different documents. Well, Circus Ponies brought virtual notebooks onto your computer once with NoteBook, and they’ve done it even better with NoteBook 3.0.
The first thing you will notice about NoteBook is how much it actually looks like a notebook. It has the fringes and everything! It makes it seem much more like taking notes than when done in Pages.
iShowU HD and HD Pro: A Super-HD Upgrade
About a year ago shinywhitebox’s iShowU, the amazing and simple screen capturing app, was reviewed by Michael. Today, I am here to tell you about their newest versions of iShowU, called iShowU HD and HD Pro.
iShowU HD and HD Pro still have the same basis as iShowU: real time screen capturing. This means that there is no need to encode your move after it has been made, because it is being encoded in real time. This is a feature that, in my opinion, moves iShowU ahead of most other screen capturing apps. It also has the usual system audio and microphone recording, pausing, and mouse following.
Bento: Making Databases Has Never Been Simpler
If you have ever tried to use something like FileMaker Pro for making a simple and small database, you know how clunky and complicated it is. Maybe you’ve wanted to make a database, but didn’t want to spend $300+ on FileMaker Pro. Well, there is another option: FileMaker’s Bento.
Bento is a simpler and more Mac-like version of the FileMaker software. It works in the same way, so it’s not that big of a switch from FileMaker Pro. However, as I said, it’s simpler; it does not have all the features of FileMaker Pro, so if you need some of FileMaker Pro’s more advanced features, or if you are using databases professionally, I suggest you stick with FileMaker Pro.
