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My thoughts on the Apple Tablet…err..iPad
While it’s going to take me a while to like the name iPad, I think the new product announcement is monumental.
The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
It’s easy to dump ire on analysts for getting it wrong so often. What those guys do, however, is provide a particular service to particular people. Interpreting what analysts say in terms of truth or falsity is to forget the real lesson we should take from Prof. Frankfurt: words build worlds.That said, here are some [...]
Invention Of the Year: The iPhone - TIME MAGAZINE
By Lev Grossman
Most high-tech companies don’t take design seriously. They treat it as an afterthought. Window-dressing. But one of Jobs’ basic insights about technology is that good design is actually as important as good technology. All the cool features in the world won’t do you any good unless you can figure out how to use [...]
Mock Dock - iPhone App Launcher
Mock Dock makes your iPhone apps look more like native apps.
VISIT: Mock Dock
SOFTWARE: Yep. Like iPhoto for your PDFs.
Photos have iPhoto. Music has iTunes. But when it comes to PDFs, you’re on your own. That is, until now. Now there is Yep and there’s no looking back.
VISIT: Yep
SOFTWARE: ArtRage 2
ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to [...]
SOFTWARE: Acorn
Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you’ll need without any overhead. Acorn feels right, and won’t drain your bank account.
VISIT: Acorn
SOFTWARE: TextExpander: Customizable Typing Shortcut Utility Saves Time!
TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images. You must have it!!
VISIT: TextExpander
SOFTWARE: Pixelmator
Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.
VISIT: Pixelmator
SOFTWARE: SuperDuper!
SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendlyinterface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper’s built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!
VISIT: SuperDuper!
Taskpaper
For Mac users who want a simpler way to stay organized and get things done. TaskPaper is a simple to-do list that’s surprisingly adept. Unlike the competition, TaskPaper’s text based interface is focused on paper-like simplicity. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later
VISIT: Taskpaper
SOFTWARE: Growl
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications. Notifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information, without you having to switch from the application you’re already in.
VISIT: Growl
Most Useful Mac Software | Tech Magazine
The article represents the most popular and useful Mac OS X programs, applications and utilities. I expect you will find something useful for yourself.
Most Useful Mac Software | Tech Magazine
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