Easy, Powerful Time Tracking with OfficeTime
I am not very good about keeping timesheets. When I’m billing clients, I often cut my billable hours short because of gaps in my time tracking. My boss likes to know how many hours I’m spending on projects each week, but I can’t get motivated to use the Excel spreadsheet we have for logging projects. But OfficeTime has had a profound effect on my timekeeping. I started off with the 2-minute quickstart tutorial, and was up to speed in no time. Now I know where my time goes and why. Now I see when my peak-efficiency times are during the day. Now keeping track of my hours is almost fun.
MacGourmet Deluxe: A Chef’s Dream Come True
My Mother had an old, dog-eared copy of The Joy of Cooking in our kitchen when I was growing up. At such a young age the book seemed huge and magical to me. Now, I am cooking my own meals when I have time. I don’t have The Joy of Cooking, but I do have a laptop with MacGourmet Deluxe sitting at-the-ready when my culinary urges strike.
MacGourmet Deluxe combines the robust MacGourmet recipe organizer with the Nutrition, Mealplan, and Cookbook plug-ins. Here is a small list of what you can do with the Deluxe version of MacGourmet:
CopyPaste Pro: The Mother of All Multi-Clipboard Apps
Single copy-and-paste is SO last decade. Ever since the introduction of the first Mac in 1984, users could cut, copy, and paste images and text to a temporary storage area called the Clipboard, which allowed them to easily duplicate and move one item at a time from document to document, application to application. But soon, there arose a need for more clipboards, and an easier way to manage several clips at a time. Enter CopyPaste Pro.
The newest release of CopyPaste Pro has several extremely useful features, including:
Calories: Daily Nutrition Tracking Made Easy
Those of us who are watching our waistlines know how tedious and downright frustrating it can be keeping track of our daily caloric intake. There are a few decent applications that help make the process easier, but even they fall victim to an overcrowded user interface or difficult instructions. Enter Calories, an elegant, powerful nutrition tracking app.
ForgEdit: Easy Text Editing for Programmers
I have long been a champion of the underdog. I am a Mac user, after all. I seek out shareware that strives to outdo its commercial cousins, either with innovative features or with a lower pricetag. As a programmer, I am always looking for the next great Integrated Development Environment, or the next editor. ForgEdit is a newcomer, and has earned a spot on my shortlist, along with powerhouses like BBEdit, TextMate, XCode, and Coda.
WhoIs Analyzer Pro Giveaway Winners
Last week I reviewed WhoIs Analyzer Pro, a fast, easy domain lookup application. The developers offered two licenses to commenters who listed a domain they looked up, how the experience was, and anything surprising that they learned while looking up the domain/IP/email/ASN.
The winners have been chosen, and licenses will be sent shortly. The winners are:
1. Abubaker Shamlan
2. sinbad
Congratulations, and enjoy WhoIs Analyzer Pro!
WhoIs Analyzer Pro: Review and Giveaway
Have you ever come up with a great domain name, and wanted to know if it’s already taken? Ever wondered who owns Internet.com? Have you tried to figure out whom to contact about the spam you keep receiving? WhoIs Analyzer Pro improves on its command-line cousin, making domain lookups easy, fast, and more useful than before.
Mountain Tanks: Scorched Earth Fans Rejoice!
If you are a fan of turn-based strategy games, this may seem simplistic to you. If you feel that most turn-based games have too many variables to worry about, then this may well be for you. And if you like to blow stuff up, then this is definitely for you!
Mountain Tanks is simple to learn. The objective is straight-forward: destroy your opponent’s cities before they destroy yours. For those who remember the early 90’s artillery game Scorched Earth, this will bring back fond memories, and there are strong similarities between the two games. And, one can hope, there are some features the devs will implement in future versions. For now, here’s how it goes down…
Retro-Gaming with Neon Tango
Back in the early 80’s, before Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Grunge music and cable television, there existed a paradise of electrons and buttons and beeps. It was a haven where even the dorkiest kid could get some props for beating the high score. For those of us who spent our formative years dropping thousands of quarters into machines at the local arcade, there is a new game that will bring back the romantic days of the twitch-fest.
Things: One To-Do App to Rule Them All
I own several to-do or GTD apps: TaskPaper, Opal, OmniOutliner, OmniFocus, OmniPlan, Merlin, Apple Mail’s To-Do List, iCal, NoteMind, and Things.
I have used them all at one time or another, and I have tried and deleted half a dozen more. With so many different task managers to choose from, what could possibly make any one stick out over the others? Plenty.
For the record, all of the apps I mentioned are good for what they do. Some are strictly for outline-style lists with checkboxes and the like; some are text-based, and follow the notion of keeping it simple; some are full-fledged project-management applications, and are good for long-range planning, but not so good for keeping up on day-to-day tasks.
