Bokeh Review Giveaway – Concentration For You and Your Computer
Back in February, we reviewed an application called Freeze Frame, from Elgebar Studios. A few days ago, a program by the name of Bokeh (which is replacing Freeze Frame) was released by Ollie Wagner and Geoff Pado. While we here at MacApper have have reviewed apps that cause a computer or a person to complete tasks faster, we have never reviewed an application that can do both. Bokeh is that program.
PlugSuit: Say Goodbye to SIMBL
Last year there were rumors being spread about the end of InputManagers in Leopard. The rumors contained horrifying details about the end of InputManager and SIMBL. One developer, Emanuele Vulcano, developed PlugSuit, a new way to apply SIMBL InputManagers. This guarantees that these plug-ins would not meet their demise. Although the rumors turned out to be false, this development ensures the existence of application plug-ins for years to come.
Flashmount: DMG Mounting in a Jiffy
The DMG file format dates as far back as Apple System 7. In Mac OS X 10.3, Apple “wow”ed the world, including me, by creating a faster way to mount disk images upon one’s desktop. As of not so long ago, Apple released Mac OS X 10.5, but this almighty revision of the Mac operating system did not include any faster ways to mount disk images, so a developer at Liquid Lunch decided to take matters into its own hands. He created Flashmount for this generation of “multi-taskers” and “speed demons”.
Quick Look Plug-ins: Save More Time
With the release of Leopard came over 300 new features. Some of these new features includes Time Machine, Screen Sharing, and Quick Look. I find Quick Look to be the most useful addition to Mac OS X. Upon installing Leopard, Mac users had one gripe — they complained that Quick Look could not handle all of the file extensions that they used in their daily lives. To solve this problem, developers created plug-ins for Quick Look in order to make it more compatible with different file extensions.
GrabUp: Screen Sharing at the Next Level
Recently I published an article describing all of the cool things one can do with Apple’s built-in “Grab” application. The article included the majority of the modifier keys available while taking a screenshot, and I also described what uses there are for taking screenshots. The one explanation I did not go into enough detail about is the fact that screenshots can be used to teach someone far away how to complete a task on their Mac. GrabUp makes screenshots one hundred fold easier to share.
Grab the Perfect Screenshot
Being a blogger for MacApper gives me the chance to become skilled in the art of using Apple’s “Grab” feature. This mighty feature allows its controller to take screenshots of any part of the computer. With Leopard’s arrival, more interesting features have come to grab, assisting my fellow knowledgeable bloggers. We would like to share with you the shortcuts necessary in order to get the best screenshot possible from your Apple computer.
AppZapper For The Cheap
AppZapper is a great program for all Mac users. Before AppZapper, people always complained that there was never enough room left on their hard drives. When deleting a program with AppZapper, the program is deleted along with its preference files.
This task is not performed without a price. Some people, myself included, do not like to buy one-click applications. I would like to introduce to you the free AppCleaner and AppTrap.
Atomic Parsley is the Missing Ingredient to All MP4’s
iPods are the one device that define today’s generation. As we all know, iTunes is Apple’s application for organizing media and importing it onto an iPod. When I bought my first iPod, I quickly realized iTunes was lacking some easy tools for batch tagging my MP4 videos. After time, without proper tagging, the MP4s in your iTunes Library can become disorganized and impossible to find when imported on the iPod. The command line program Atomic Parsley fixed this problem, but was unusable by some less intense computer users. After time, different GUIs were created from “Atomic Parsley”, all with slight differences in features. Today I will explain MetaX, vID Infiltr8, and Lostify.
Even Quicker Sharing With QuickShareIt 2.0
Recently, a member of the Macintosh community who goes by the name of twenty08 released a new version of QuickShareIt (QSI). This version has been completely redone from the ground up and offers many more cool new features. If you didn’t know, QSI is known for its drag and drop file upload system. All one needs to do in order to upload a file is to drag the files onto the QuickShareIt dock icon and wait for the upload to complete. Files are uploaded to QuickShareIt’s servers and a link to the file(s) is copied to your clipboard.
MacHacha: Upload to The Internet With Ease
Websites like Rapidshare and MegaUpload are used all over the world. They allow people to upload files for anyone else to download. This can make it easier to share home videos and pictures with family and friends.
While this is great, some online sharing services, like Rapidshare for instance, limit upload file size. MacHacha is a very useful utility that can solve that wee problem.
