Perfect Diet Tracker: Be a Geek & Look Great!
Yes, you heard right. Gone are the days of being a rotund honey-bun eating systems administrator! With obesity on the rise, companies and spouses are looking to downsize. What you need is the Perfect Diet Tracker.
It’s a great way to manage what you eat and do it in an extremely geeky way. Your CEO may even be impressed with the included pie charts, that is provided the word pie doesn’t make him drool.
RealPlayer 11: A Viable Media Player for Mac?
Apparently for the last couple years, we were completely unaware that the RealPlayer format was still considered a viable streaming solution, in the wake of Quicktime and Windows Media Player’s growing popularity.
After trying out their previously adware/spyware ridden Window’s version a few years back I completely swore off the company altogether. So, will this latest edition change our minds about how we view RealPlayer?
Dockulicious: Customize Your Dock in a Jiffy
I’m sure you’re all tired of hearing about the new dock in Leopard, however if you’re like me, maybe you’ll find this next application interesting and useful.
Now you can customize your possibly-hard-to-see dock by just dragging and dropping a .zip file onto the free program from Dockulicious aptly named DockSwitcher. In essence this works exactly like all the other dock hacks out there saturating message boards and blogs alike, minus the manual terminal hacks.
SiteSucker: Effortlessly Download Websites
Agatha Christie once said – “I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention – invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.” True as that is in most cases, you don’t have to be a lazy web developer to appreciate the value of this app. Whether you need to download a site you don’t have FTP access to or download all the programs or videos on a page, the customizable SiteSucker will help you accomplish just that with a few simple clicks.
FontExplorer X: In-Depth Review
In the world of design one of your most important tools will always be your font management system. Without a reliable system in place your work will soon spin out of control with your projects looking non-uniform and resembling an alphabet soup. Well okay maybe not that bad but font management is actually quite important and not always entirely that straight forward.
Enter Linotype’s FontExplorer X – a robust and stable program for managing all your fonts, both system and user added. If the fact that it has been developed by Linotype, the world’s leader in fonts, doesn’t excite you, let’s take a look at some of its enterprise level features.
Pimp Your Mac with Blu-Ray
Remember those old 1.4MB floppy drives? Yeah, don’t feel bad, not too many people do remember these relics. While the obsolete technology of yesterday is slowly fading into the background, it makes you wonder just how long the technology of today will be around.
It was an achievement worthy of a downtown parade when Apple introduced the first built-in CD/DVD SuperDrive in 2001. The ability to burn a 4GB DVD on the go was amazing. Now thanks to FastMac, you can upgrade to a Blu-Ray optical drive capable of storing up to 50GB of data on a single disc.
Mac Freeware: Save Up to $1,600 in Software!
So you have your new Macbook, iMac or Mac Pro now. The smell of an athletic shoe store has already hit you as you opened the box, and you wonder about the great adventures that await you!
You’ve already decided you want the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection, and that’s going to take up about $2,500 of your hard earned budget. Depending on how you planned it, you may not have much more left over for essential software. That’s where this list comes in. The following software is 100% free and tried and proven with excellent results. Besides, if it doesn’t work for you, it didn’t cost you anything to start with. SO without further adieu this is my list of freeware essentials for OS X.
Could It Be? Leopard Release Imminent
The long awaited release of Apple’s newest operating system is soon to become a reality. Thanks to setbacks brought on from the release of the extremely popular Apple iPhone, previous dates for OS X 10.5 Leopard have been pushed back again and again. However, it looks like Apple is going to make good on their promise of an early 4th quarter Leopard release.
Expand Your iPhone Storage
One of the great features in the larger capacity Apple iPods, is the ability to bring your entire library of tunes and video wherever the music takes you. Users purchasing the Apple iPhone make a trade off by gaining a lovely interface, generously large display and mobile access.
The downside for true audiophiles everywhere is having to settle for 8-16GB of storage space minus what it takes to operate the iPhone firmware. Thanks to the ingenious collection of scripts by Brian Ashe you will have all the space in the world, at least for your music.
Boot Camp 1.2 Passes its Expiry Date
Boot Camp, the amazing software that allows you to run Windows XP or other operating systems natively on your Mac has come to the end of its Beta period.
Users currently using Boot Camp Beta 1.2 or earlier will need to upgrade to version 1.4, if they wish to continue using the Beta after support for this version ended on September 30, 2007. So if you’re trying to create a new Boot Camp partition and it just isn’t working, now’s the time to upgrade to version 1.4.
