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While writing this post in MarsEdit a total of 14 apps are open and 11 windows are scattered across my screen. One of these windows is VLC media player wherein I’m casually watching one of my favorite movies. It would be great if I could keep this application on top of the pile no matter what my primary focus is on. Afloat makes this happen.

Vidnik is a new application from Google’s Mac team which lets you capture video from your Mac’s iSight and upload it to YouTube with one click. Add tags, categories and a description all from within the app. You can even trim the movie down before uploading.

Inquisitor, the excellent search add-on for Safari, has been purchased by Yahoo! Smart money. I love Inquisitor and am excited now that the free application will have some capital behind it for future development.

I’ve never been entirely convinced by the little green button on OS X windows. It can be difficult to predict exactly how pressing it will resize some windows, and occasionally, full-screen, regardless of what is being displayed, is exactly what I am after. Here is the fine-grained and keyboard friendly solution that I’ve hit upon.

Acorn, the newish and excellent image editor from Flying Meat, has been updated to 1.2b1. Along with Pixelmator, Acorn is the new breed of Mac image editor that takes advantage of your computer’s GPU (rather than its CPU, a la Photoshop) to render effects and filters with wicked speed. It’s already an impressive application and [...]

Some intelligent thoughts on Microsoft’s Yahoo-deal back out from Macworld. I was struck by the extreme strangeness of the proposal from the start and have consequently followed it somewhat closely. The whole thing now looks like something of a double backfire. I’m very interested to see what will come of it all.

My blogging career started almost simultaneously with the purchase of my first Mac a year and a half ago and it’s been a great experience so far. Below are the applications that I use daily to administer my personal blogging empire.

I have a new 15 inch, 2.4 GHz Penryn MacBook Pro. It’s an excellent machine, fast and pretty, and I love it. But I’ve been having some problems. And they started the moment I unboxed it.

Text to Speech was one of the minor but significant improvements made in Leopard, and the improvement comes in the form of a new voice named Alex. Though it’s not a perfect substitute for a human voice, Alex is a great leap forward when compared with any voice included with Tiger.

Visigami from the Google Mac Team will search Flickr, Google Images and Picasa for keyword images and pan the results across your screen in a few different ways. I don’t see that application being all that useful, but it also comes with a screensaver version, which looks pretty.