Archive for 2008
Fluid Adds Zest to Web Apps
Fluid is a ‘Mac’-only application that allows you to create “site-specific browsers“ to bring web apps more concretely onto your desktop. So, you can make individual apps for your Mac – which are small in size, and fast – for web services such as Facebook, Facebook Chat, Flickr, Last.fm, Google Reader, Google Docs, G-Cal, Gmail, Hahlo, Blogger, MySpace, eBay, and hundreds of others.
It’s so simple to make your own app (once you have Fluid) that you can do…
Flip 3D-like solutions for XP and Home Basic
If you happen to be one of the many folks that have a system pre-loaded with an OEM version of Windows Vista Home Basic, or just haven’t stepped into Microsoft’s new generation of OS and are still running XP, here’s a little tip on how you can have your system mimic Vista Aero’s slick new Flip 3D task switcher.
First, I should preface this with the tidbit that I spent a couple hours looking around the net for some way…
Fight Spam with Re-Captcha. And Digitize Books.
Re-Captcha has to be one of the most ingenius ideas to ever grace the internets. What I primarily use it for is hiding my email from spam-robots. Rather than putting my email address on my blog in plain view for spam-bots to see, I use Re-Captcha to hide it.
The Best Web-app you’ve Never Heard of: drop.io
Drop.io is kinda like tinyurl.com plus yousendit.com all rolled into one, with a few added functions to boot. Here’s why I love it.
It’s the best file sharing site that I’ve found to date. Unlike most file-sharing sites, I don’t have to sign up for a membership, nor does the person receiving my file. There’s a 100MB limit, which is ok. Not outstanding, but significant enough to be useful.
Free Tech Support For Your Mac
One of the hidden beauties of owning an Apple Mac is the wealth of effectively free ‘tech support’ offered up by fellow users.
Not only is this support free, it is well organized – across a few key forums and discussion groups, which I shall review below – and is dished out freely by Mac experts who often reply to new queries (or cries for help!) within hours of the original post.
What do such Mac users in these forums…
How to change the location of My Documents in XP and Vista
Having just taken delivery of a new system that came pre-installed with Windows Vista and not much else, I’m using the opportunity to right some wrongs in my rather horribly maintained file structure.
I like to keep my non-system/program files on a partition, while leaving the standard C drive to hold the bulk of installed programs and system files. This keeps all my media (movies, music, photos, etc.) seperate from the drive that houses my OS – allowing me a quick…
Quick Big Mac Diet – De-localize Your Apps
As much as one might like to be a polyglot, freely conversing in a number of the world’s gorgeous languages, most of us are steadfastly mono- or bi-lingual.
Many applications on your Mac, however, come bundled with an array of ‘localizations’ so that one release of a company’s app can suit the needs of practically all of their global users. But that represents a waste of valuable disk space for 99.9% of people who use their apps in just one…
Interactive Internet speed test
It’s rare that tips come so easily, but Speedtest.net have done their SEO work right and so when scouting for a place to test the quickness of my net connection a while back, I was relieved that such a cool tool was the first entry in the Google SERPs.
The completely free, Flash-based Internet speed test gives you a sweet graphical interface to view while testing your hook-up to the Web. Additionally,…
Leopard’s Text-to-Speech, guest appearance by Soundwave?
Leopard’s Text-to-Speech capabilities are great for visually impaired users. Highlight some text, click the designated trigger key, and your Mac will read the text to you in one of it’s many different voices. The default is Alex.
But I prefer Zarvox. Off the record, I believe Zarvox is just a cover name. I suspect it’s really Soundwave, who having been excluded from the Transformers movie was snatched up from the unemployment line by Apple.
Mash up delicious Feeds, Serve with Twitter & Netvibes
Del.icio.us online bookmarking is one of my all-time super favorite web services. Not only can I bookmark all of my favorite pages, but I can browse all the best pages for different topics that have been tagged by people all over the world.
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