Psst: Silence your startup sound
Who has time to turn down the sound down before restarting your Mac? If you answered “not me” to that statement, then Satsumac Software has a piece of software for you.
Psst can silence the startup sound, or if you really want it can max out the volume as well. This software might fall into the “questionably useful” category, especially when reading the warning on the Satsumac Software page: Important: The method Psst uses to change the volume does not work on every model… .
NetNewsWire 3.0 Beta Released As “Sneak Peek Ware”
Newsgator and Ranchero Software have released a new version of their wildy popular RSS reader, NetNewWire. Version 3.0d46 has been released to the public as a “Sneak Peek” which is described as pre-beta (and I’d imagine something comparable to an Alpha release).
The software is not yet feature-complete, but still shows lotf of promise. New features include Spotlight searches, a combined view, cover art for feeds, full screen mode, Growl notifications, a thumbnailed tab view, show/hide subscriptions option, the ab ility to add any image to your iPhoto library, add author to your Address Book and a feed pop-up button. Ranchero suggests that you back up your preferences and data folders before instaling and running the pre-release software.
Keyboard Cleaner: Questionably Useful
Dropped a piece of potato chip into your MacBook Pro’s keyboard and can’t shut down for risk losing that torrent just to clean it out? This is where one of the most questionably useful applications to be released comes into play.
Keyboard Cleaner was developed by Jan Lehnardt, mostly for the laptop crowd. Keyboard Cleaner blanks the screen and render the keyboard useless, making it possible to clean out any unwanted gunk from between your keys. When finished, Apple+Q gets you back to whatever it was you were doing before that food/dirt/fingernail/etc. went astray and ruined your blogging session. Anothe use could be locking down the keyboard when walking away from your computer to prevent feline or canine interference with your latest script.
