DeskTunes: See Your Music
iTunes is an application with an almost infinite amount of extensions. Paul DeBoer recently ran down a list of his favorite iTunes add-ons here on MacApper, and most of them are very good at what they do. He mentioned several visualization aids like Clutter and Jewelcase. Both apps help users expand their visualizer, both on the desktop and within iTunes itself. Steve Streza, a Mac developer, however, was looking for something simple and elegant to display iTunes album art on his desktop. After coming up short in his search, he decided to code DeskTunes, a deceptively simple application that does exactly what he wanted.
ProVoc: Osmosis on a Mac
Students rarely have an incentive to switch to Macs. Most of their schools use Windows as their operating system and switching to OS X at home can often be an unnecessary burden. Software like ProVoc, however, really shows how valuable the Mac is in educational scenarios. As a student, I can say that it’s one of the most invaluable pieces of freeware I’ve ever used. I have tried other alternatives: Genius, iFlash, and Studycard Studio. The three aforementioned programs have a lot in common but none matches up to the feature set of ProVoc.
