5 Beautiful App Icons from Leopard’s Utilities Folder
Some of the prettiest application icons on your Mac can be found in the Utilities folder.
Keep Your Desktop Pristine with Hazel
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.
Macworld Announces Summer of Mac Gems
Mac Gems are Macworld’s picks for the best free or cheap applications for the Mac. For the next 2 months, the Mac Gems weblog will feature an app a day. This is something to keep an eye on. Glasses raised for the Summer of Mac Gems!
Find Your Largest Files with Disk Inventory X
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?
Julius Eckert’s Stunning Quicksilver Skins
Quicksilver’s default interface isn’t the most beautiful among Mac applications. Here are three stunning Quicksilver skins from Julius Eckert.
Launch Event Specific Scripts with Lingon
Lingon is a free utility to launch scripts and applications at defined system events. It’s a bit high-brow, but the linked article does a good job explaining how it all works.
AppZapper 2 Scheduled for Release This Summer
AppZapper 2, according to this cryptic sub-page on the developer’s website, is scheduled for release this summer. For me, AppZapper is great as is, but ‘version two. design by a knife‘ definitely makes me curious.
Create Icons Quickly with Preview and Img2icns
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 [...]
Work Distraction Free with Think
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 [...]
Send Your Mac Monitor to Bed with Sleep Display
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 [...]
