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Breeze: another fresh take on window management

Filed under: SoftwareWe've covered a surprising number of innovative Mac utilities for easily positioning windows, from MercuryMover to SizeUp and, most recently, Divvy. Well, a new one, Breeze, is taking yet another look at the task of window manageme...

Announcing Trunk, an app store for Evernote

Filed under: Software, Internet ToolsEvernote announced a new extension to their platform today, Trunk. It's essentially an App Store for Evernote, highlighting applications, hardware and platforms created by third parties which integrate with Evernote...

Icons and World Clock created with CSS3 magic, courtesy of Webkit

Filed under: Graphic DesignRecent versions of Webkit, the browser engine that Safari and Chrome are based on, have allowed for extensive use of CSS3, as well as some proprietary CSS tricks. The result has been some very innovative art created entirely ...

GOAL! EyeTV filters out the vuvuzelas at the World Cup

Filed under: SoftwareJust in time for the US to advance to the round of 16 in the World Cup (sorry, Algeria), Elgato offers a special edition of its EyeTV software that does what just about everybody (who's watching the World Cup) wants: filter out tho...

Friday Favorite (on a Tuesday): OpenTerminal

Filed under: Friday Favorite I'm aware that it's not, in fact, Friday. When we find an app that's not new, but is really useful to us, we usually save it for a Friday before we salivate all over it. I'm an impatient guy, though, so here's your Friday F...

Mac 101: taming Safari toolbars with shortcut keys

Filed under: Mac 101As you've probably noticed, there are suddenly a lot of Safari Extensions floating around, thanks to the new features in Safari 5. PimpMySafari is ramping back up, and the Safari Extensions Tumblog is doing a great job of keeping tr...

TUAW Hands-on: POWER A turns your iPhone into a universal remote

Filed under: ReviewsThere are a few options for turning your iPhone into a home entertainment remote control, but I recently got a chance to try out the POWER A, and it's become my current favorite. The hardware portion of the POWER A package has been ...

WWDC 2010: iBooks update includes PDF viewer

Filed under: WWDCiBooks, Apple's native e-book reader on the iPad, is getting some updates, as announced today by Steve Jobs at the WWDC keynote. Among those updates are (better) support for bookmarks and the fulfillment of one of the most common reque...

myTexts for iPad, distraction-free writing to go

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A while back, I shared my discovery of myTexts, a robust distraction-free writing application ... well, as robust as a stripped-down, no-frills editor would want to be. Now, myTexts has shown up on the...

iPad as desktop status monitor

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Imagine this: you put your iPad into its dock next to your desktop (or laptop), and it transforms into a heads-up display of all the important stats from your machine. Maybe add some news and weather, and your "Today" list...

Friday Favorite: BetterZip

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BetterZip is a utility I might not use every day, but I'm very thankful for it when I need it. It's an archive/compression utility which handles a broad array of archive formats, including ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, and some that you rarely...

Divvy up your windows

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For those who deal with a lot of windows, especially on multiple screens, any utility that makes it easier to organize and reposition those windows quickly is a boon. I've used SizeUp for a while now, and have become very...