Dear MacJournal, Today I Reviewed You
Simply put, MacJournal is a tool for journaling and capturing notes. But, MacJournal is more than just a diary. Features such as PDF and image support, password protection, encryption, tagging, full screen mode, and a publish to blog feature make MacJournal a versatile application.
The interface will be familiar to most users. You create a new entry, type the information you wish to capture, and format it as desired. A sidebar displays your various journals, should you want to classify entries under different subjects. There is also a calendar to review entries by date.
Stellarium: A Planetarium for your Mac
With thousands of stars viewable to the naked eye, finding the Pleiades, or even figuring out what that bright star near the horizon is, takes a fair bit of research, unless you have a planetarium at your disposal. Until Apple unveils the iPlanetarium, I’m recommending Stellarium.
Open source app Stellarium is a planetarium for your Mac. Stellarium shows you the stars in a beautiful and fun to play with interface. The only thing that looks better is the real night sky.
SlimBatteryMonitor: A Simply Better Battery Monitor
First, it was the iMacs with their thinner, revamped aluminum and glass shells. Next, it was the MacBooks, with the anorexic MacBook Air boosting to be the world’s thinnest notebook. But long before that, the original Mac weight loss champ was a highly customizable menubar utility, called SlimBatteryMonitor.
SlimBatteryMonitor is a replacement for Apple’s menubar battery gauge. It has the ability to save menubar space by showing various states of charge (charged, charging, and running on battery) via customizable colors and optional time or percent text.
