CheckUp, from App4Mac, is an application I have been using for some time now. It has really helped me in controlling my core temperature, disk speed and memory usage. With its powerful Growl notification integration you can really know and understand very easily what is happening inside of your Mac. In this review I will look at this application section by section.
Disney always tells you to “Wish upon a star” to make your dreams come true. While I Love Stars from The Potion Factory won’t make dreams come true, It definitely solved a problem that I had.
I Love Stars is a Menubar app that displays clearly your rating of the current iTunes song. By simply clicking on a star you can change the rating of a song. If you hate to have unrated songs in your library (like yours truly) you can have it flash and play a sound when an unrated song is played.
A great feature of I Love Stars is the fact that it is so discrete. When you aren’t playing a song it hides and you can also make it disappear when unrateable things (podcasts, streams etc.) are playing. To operate it you can either click on the stars or use keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-Cmd-star rating).
I Love Stars is a great little app that does one thing but does it well. You can get it for free today from The Potion Factory
I’ve been looking for a tool to take out the trash and do my repetitive filling jobs for a while now and I think that I’ve found my favorite. Meet Hazel, my personal housekeeper.
Hazel is a background app that does so much. Hazel is a preference pane that you access through system preferences. When you open the Hazel preference pane you are greeted by 3 tabs; Folders, Trash and Info. I’m going to run through what each one does.
I was looking for a simple, easy way to control my Mac from my iPod Touch. I did a quick search an found a app called Telekinesis.
Telekinesis is an app of two parts, Thing 1 and Thing 2 (to quote Dr. Seuss). Thing 1 is the server side application that you run on your Mac, then you have an iPhone web-app. (more…)
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Hi. I’m Sebastian and I’m a new blogger for IMP. I love free stuff and I haven’t paid for any software (other than iWork) on my Mac.
Up until a while ago, I was using Safari as my web browser of choice – mainly because it came pre-installed on my Macbook. I have recently switched to Cruz, a free browser from Todd Ditchendorf, the creator of Fluid.
Cruz is slick, fast and customisable, when you launch it for the first time it will look almost exactly like Safari. It”s when you go into the settings that you see the magic. You get some general settings like homepage etc. but one of the really cool things is the Appearance. There are 3 skins to choose from; Default (Grey), Mobile Me (olive) and HUD (black), I prefer HUD. You can also set the Spaces settings and even the window opacity. (more…)
Here I am going to deviate from the norm. Yes, I know what we really haven’t set a norm yet, having only had two posts, but they were both on a theme and I am going to explore a different aspect of that theme. Instead of Will Gets Things Done, this is What Will Got Done.
You may know that I’m in High school. You probably don’t know that I’m taking Journalism as an elective. One of our recent assignments was to write a review, so I decided it was a perfect way to earn some Geek Cred. I chose to review Twitter. So, without further ado, here is my masterpiece… (more…)
