Mail Act-On 2.0: Act On Your Mail with Just a Few Keystrokes
A few days ago, we reviewed MailTags, a great app for organizing and sorting Emails in Mail.app. We briefly mentioned Mail Act-On, the companion app to MailTags.
Happy Thanksgiving
From all of us here at MacApper, we hope you have a happy thanksgiving! We are thankful for all of you and hope to see you in the future. Look forward to a surprise in the near future!
PCalc: More Than Apple Will Ever Give You
On the Mac, we are very lucky to have a great built-in calculator. It works for a lot of things, but sometimes, it is not powerful enough. Sure, it has most of the features you could want, and it has vastly improved through the years, but there are still some things that are tedious to do. For it’s ease-of-use and amazing interface, I suggest PCalc.
ScreenSteps: Beautiful Tutorials in No Time At All
We live in a world where there are the tech-savvy and the not so tech-savvy. Sometimes us tech-savvy need to tell the others how to do different tasks, such as adding a Mail account or doing maintenance. Usually, this is a pain for the one who has to show the other. It’s hard to tell someone how to do something when they’re not right there with you. Well, there’s a really great tool for this that makes putting together guides extremely easy: ScreenSteps.
Techspansion Closes its Doors Forever
FilmRedux is actually VisualHub. When Techspansion closed, they made VisualHub open-source with a new name, FilmRedux. If you have used VisualHub before, then you will get used to this very easily. And don’t worry, there are many very talented programmers dedicated to this project. To download this, you must use SVN. SVN (or Subversion) is a tool that is used by developers to share their code amongst themselves. Many projects like Adium, Handbrake and Transmission are open-source and use SVN. To download it using SVN, open the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type, “svn co https://transcoderredux.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/transcoderredux FilmRedux”. Once it is done, navigate to ~/FilmRedux/FilmRedux and open FilmRedux.xcodeproj. Then, just click on the Build and Go toolbar icon in Xcode and you’re off!
Share Your Clipboard With Stuf
Do you ever find yourself switching between computers, but you need to manually type in a long URL or phrase from one computer to the next? Stuf, from The Escapers, fixes this.
Stuf lets you share your computer’s clipboard with other Macs in your network. You just need to open up Stuf on all of your Macs and select which clipboards you want to share. All shared clipboards will show up on the other computers. If you need some security, you can easily set up a password for your clipboards.
MacApper Exclusive: Instant Macro Lens for iPhone
Sure, the iPhone camera has been the butt of gadget criticism and the weakest link of what is a life changing, traditional computer use reducing gift from the Apple tree. With the release of the iPhone 3G, there have been some questions regarding design choices:
“Why can’t we take close up pictures?”
“Why is it still 2 megapixels?”
“Why won’t this thing get off its dock and make me a cup of coffee?”
I can’t speak to the latter two questions, but I want to impart a little DIY innovation to make the most out of your iPhone camera. Want to take close up pictures without breaking your warranty, an old digital camera, or purchasing that ugly clarification case with the sliding macro lens? Follow me…
Bento 2 Holiday Pack Released
Recently, I reviewed Bento, the amazingly simple and elegant database tool exclusively for the Mac. Well, they have just released something called the Holiday Pack.
The Bento Holiday Pack is a completely free download, and contains a 30-day trial of Bento (enough time to get those holiday cards sent). The only difference between it and regular Bento 2, is that it contains festive themes and templates that can help you organize your cards, gifts and other holiday-related items. This Holiday Pack also helps keep track of information such as price per recipient of gifts (which in the economic situation today, is very important) and you can even make notations of tax-deductable items. You can even make a tally of all your purchases to make sure you stay in your budget!
Create Ringtones with Free Automator Application
My buddy was in town this past week on tour with his band, and he wanted to hang out. He was excited to show me a new way to make a ringtone in iTunes. I suggested he just use Garageband, but he thought that his way was cooler and made him look like a computer genius. It took him a good 5 minutes to remember all the steps for creating the ringtone, but by the time I finished my coffee, he had his incoming calls blazing Matisyahu’s “King Without a Crown”.
Rulers: Measure Everything On Your Screen
Sometimes you just have to measure things on your Mac. If you’re a designer, you have to measure distances between objects. And if you do any kind of creative work, or page layouts, you also need measurements. You could eyeball it, or you could get a tool like xScope. But, if all you need are simple rulers, you will want to look at omnidea’s Rulers.
