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Want MarsEdit to make a Mail.app like sound when it sends your blog post up to the web? No problem. Just use Growl.

I use Excel almost daily in my work and personal computing life. However, I was still surprised to see support for multiple paged Excel docs natively supported by Apple’s Quick Look.

I could write a hundred of these posts - and I might try! Here are 10 excellent but lesser known freeware apps and utilities for your Mac.

Everyone loves freeware! But developers work hard on their creations, and giving everything away for free doesn’t pay the bills. Here are ten of my favorite shareware applications that I was more than happy to shell out a bit of cash for.

Before Leopard, the OS X’s little calculator application was a close friend. But Leopard lets you do simple equations in Spotlight, so unless I need to calculate something more complicated, I seldom open calculator. Today, however, it seemed unhappy about being woken…

There are lots of ways to take screen shots in OS X. Here’s how to use screen recording software to capture precise frames of an animation in motion.

The AppleScripts included with OS X are an excellent source of code to raid when writing your own automations. But I don’t run them ‘as is’ very often and therefore wanted to minimize their presence in FastScripts menu. Here’s how I did it.

Billed as a maid for your Macintosh and complete with a feather duster icon, Hazel by Noodlesoft automates entirely the business of keeping your Mac pristinely organized. Here’s how I’ve set it up.

A friend of mine recently asked for an explanation as to why her Mac had suddenly begun to throw up “Disk Almost Full” warnings. Her music, movies and pictures folders were all a reasonable size and her trash was empty, but still the warnings persisted. Where did all the space go?

Quicksilver’s default interface isn’t the most beautiful among Mac applications. Here are three stunning Quicksilver skins from Julius Eckert.

The ability to store your bookmarks online is one of the greatest advancements of internet culture to date. Here is a simple AppleScript to keep the Del.icio.us client Cocoalicious running and ready to post whenever you need it.

Excellent apps to add to your collection, each one is among the best freeware applications available.

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.

OS X comes with a host of really excellent applications, but one of the best things about being a Mac user is the breadth and quality of third-party applications that you can install to enhance your computing experience. Here is a list of applications to immediately install on a new machine.

I like to customize my Mac, and one of the easiest ways to do so is to change the default icons for files and folders. And there are some great tools to do this. For instance, Panic’s CandyBar 3 lets you easily swap and restore systemwide icon mods, and even comes stocked with [...]

I run lots of apps simultaneously on my Mac, and while it’s great to be able to quickly switch tasks without waiting for an app to load up, having everything open everywhere can be a bit of a distraction. If you’re the same, check out Freeverse’s Think.
Think allows you to focus you attention with [...]

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 [...]