MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

LifeHacker has a nice list of freeware alternatives to the shareware apps in the current MacHeist bundle. I completely agree that the quality of the apps has ‘diluted’ in the new bundle.

MacUpdate Promo is bundling 10 apps for 65 bucks, calling it the ‘Parallels Bundle.’ Notable includes, besides Parallels itself, are Hazel, Leap, Typinator and Art Text. 13 days to buy.

VoodooPhone is a plugin for Flying Meat’s VoodooPad which lets you export your wikis to your iPhone or iPod Touch for viewing in Mobile Safari. Excellent.

Some brand new MacBooks and Macbook Pros are experiencing some strange graphics. Unfortunately, mine is among the afflicted. Fingers crossed for a new machine. (See also the Ars Technica article about the problem.)

This is one of those small customizations that makes my Mac super excellent. Mail.appetizer is an email alert plugin that gives you a preview of new mail messages as they arrive in your mailbox. Most importantly, it’s gorgeous.
As you can see from the screenshot at the right, the notification window, in addition to [...]

Recently I’ve been listening to a good deal of audiobooks, especially when falling off to sleep at night, and of course my Mac plays them for me. A major annoyance with this setup, though, is the super bright laptop screen illuminating the room and making me feel as if my bed is on a [...]

Caffeine has been updated and not allows you to set how long it keeps your Mac awake. Perfect for watching streamed vids that play in Safari.

MacHeist is offering a bunch of software for 49$ again. This time, though, no Pixelmator, CSSEdit, or 1Password.

Pipette is a tiny Mac OS X only application which lets you sample any color on your screen as a hex value and copy it to your clipboard. To use the app, simply drag from the color picker window to the area of the screen you want to sample. While dragging, the app [...]