Archive for June, 2007
Featured Mac Download: WhatSize displays folder and file sizes
Mac OS X only: Freeware app WhatSize shows you exactly how much space files and folders are taking up on your Mac.
Similar to the ‘Details’ view in Windows, WhatSize offers a file size column in a Finder-like interface. You can filter WhatSize file size and/or file type to narrow down your hunt for large [...]
How To: Read/write to NTFS drives on your Mac
If you’re sharing files between your Mac and NTFS-formatted Windows drive, you’re stuck in read-only mode with OS X’s default drivers. But the Hackszine blog describes how to go read/write on NTFS with previously-mentioned filesystem mounter, MacFUSE.
Using this method you could format a drive NTFS and share it between a Mac and a PC [...]
Mac File Launchers
We talk up the file launcher and manipulator Quicksilver quite a bit here at TUAW, but there is a solid batch of similar productivity-enhancing utilities that offer different things for different users. Whether you’re looking for a simple utility that lets you launch your applications faster than Spotlight can find them, or you’re prepared to [...]
Skype 2.6.0.148 - Uses P2P for voice-over-internet phone. (Free)
Skype 2.6.0.148 - Uses P2P for voice-over-internet phone. (Free): “
Skype 2.6.0.148
Skype allows you to talk to friends, family and co-workers across the internet without long distance telephone charges. It works by using P2P technology for the data transmission, meaning there is no central server as a middle manager.
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(Via MacUpdate - Mac OS X.)
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AudioFinder 4.5.6 - Manage your audio sample library. (Shareware)
AudioFinder 4.5.6 - Manage your audio sample library. (Shareware): “
AudioFinder 4.5.6
AudioFinder is an audio asset management system, and music production hub. AudioFinder gathers all the most useful tools in one quick and intuitive application, enabling you to be more creative by handling all the time consuming tasks that slow down your music production.
AudioFinder can build [...]
News: Movie studios fear Apple TV
News: Movie studios fear Apple TV: “Despite rumors of an upcoming iTunes-based movie rental service, many movie studio executives are worried that the Apple TV could give Apple the same advantage in negotiations with their industry as the iPod does in the music industry. Concerns over this issue are part of what has kept most [...]
How To: Build the ultimate iTunes media server
How To: Build the ultimate iTunes media server: “
A member of the MacTalk forums describes in detail how he set up the ultimate iTunes media server in his home.
Actually, to say it’s only an iTunes media server is a bit of an understatement. The author has a system of security cameras and lots of [...]
Safari for Windows Downloads Top 1 Million In 48 Hours
Safari for Windows Downloads Top 1 Million In 48 Hours: “Apple today announced (via a news release) that more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.”
(Via digg.)
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News: iPhone to use third-party Web 2.0 applications
News: iPhone to use third-party Web 2.0 applications: “During his keynote address at WWDC, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed that the iPhone will support third-party applications based on Web 2.0 standards. Developers will be able to create apps which look and behave like built-in iPhone applications, and can seamlessly access the handset’s services, include making [...]
