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Essential Mac OS X applications

Essential Mac OS X applications

50 Mac Apps With Well Designed & Sexy Interfaces « SUBERAPPS November 19th, 2009 50 Mac Apps With Well Designed & Sexy Interfaces Ever since the roundup of 21+ essential iPhone apps with sexy interfaces crashed my hosting server (!), I understand how much people love roundups of well designed apps. This post is a round up of 50 handpicked Mac apps that have either well designed or have really sexy interfaces or both! They’re not arranged in any order, just random. I know it’s a giant list to digest, so bookmark this for future reference! Pixelmator [$59 | Website] Pixelmator is a great alternative to Photoshop, low memory footprint and extremely beautiful. Tapedeck [$25 | Website] TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. Snowtape [$29 | Website] Snowtape lets you listen to radio stations and record them live. Delibar [$18 | Website] I have a review for Delibar coming up next week, so stay tuned! CleanMyMac [$29.95 lifetime or $14.95 6 month license | Website] Swatch [$4.95 | Website] Snippet [$12.95 | Website] Anxiety Capo Bodega Blogo

Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software 13 Excellent Mac Utilities You Might Not Know About (But Should) Don't Forget to participate in a contest where you can win an amazing e-Commerce template from TemplateMonster. There are many Mac apps/utilities out there, but getting by free and good ones are not that easy. That is why I am sharing The 13 Excellent Mac Utilities You Might Not Know About But Should. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best. You are welcome if you want to share more web apps that our readers/viewers may like. focus booster focus booster is a simple and elegant application designed to help you eliminate the anxiety of time and enhance your focus and concentration. SMARTReporter SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. Fan Control Some MacBook (Pro) are just to hot for daylong use. iTweaX iTweaX is a free utility to reveal some usefull hidden features and maintenance tools for OS X 10.5.x and OS X 10.6 coconutBattery Permissions Reset WhatsOpen Xbench

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10 Awesome Apple Blogs For Geeks [Mac] Are you a part of the Apple cult? Do you love your Mac so much that you sulk when you have to use a PC? Are you desperate to find out more about iPad releases and Apple events? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then read on. If you’re an Apple fan and you love reading Apple news, you’ll love today’s list. Here’s a collection of some of the best Apple blogs, covering tips and tricks, Apple releases, gossip and gadgets. 1. Just in case you haven’t noticed, we’ve got plenty of Mac information right here on MakeUseOf. Despite such an array of Mac information right here, we know sometimes you need to delve deeper into the world of Apple and get your gossip, speculation, accessories and other Apple-centric goodies. 2. The Unofficial Apple Weblog is a haven for all forms of Apple news, including Mac and iOS news. 3. The Cult of Mac is a blog dedicated to all things Mac and Apple related. 4. If you need to know what Apple is up to generally, Mac Rumours is a great blog to read. 5.

Tuning Mac OS X Performance This FAQ provides recommendations for optimizing Mac® OS X performance. Additionally, it provides advice and links to advice for troubleshooting certain Mac OS X performance problems. Comprehensive advice on this topic can be found in the "Performance" chapter of our book Troubleshooting Mac OS X. Optimizing Mac OS X performance RAM, RAM, and more RAM Mac OS X loves RAM. Maintain ample free space on your startup disk Mac OS X makes extensive use of Virtual Memory (VM), which requires free disk space on your startup disk, aka your boot volume. See our "Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space" FAQ to determine if you have sufficient RAM and free disk space to get the best performance from Mac OS X. Turn off the eye candy While I imagine everyone is impressed the first time they see a window minimized to the Dock with the Genie effect, this entertainment has a performance cost. Make the Dock less entertaining Open System Preferences > Dock. Disable or remove unnecessary fonts

OS X Mountain Lion - See everything OS X can do. MiscKit TCP/IP Ports [ Home | Contact Me ] Any Port in a Datastorm It seems like every day there is a new Internet service that uses some new set of poorly-documented, unregistered ports. I created this page to gather together all the information I could find about the ports used by these new services, for use by firewall administrators and other network monitors. "dyn" in the ports field denotes dynamically allocated port(s), usually in the range >=1024 <=65535 A name in the ports field (e.g. When a specific port is registered it is usually assigned for both TCP and UDP even though only one or the other may be required. This is not intended to list old, well-documented services such as telnet, FTP etc. You may contact me by email with any suggestions or corrections, or post a message to the TCP/IP Ports discussion. iSCSI iSCSI is specified in RFC 3720 - Internet Small Computer Systems Interface. Also associated with iSCSI is iSNS, Internet Storage Name Service, on port 3205. Printing Napster PalTalk Ultima Online

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