Archive for the ‘Cool Mac OS X Apps’ Category

Podcast with preview

With the new iTunes 9.0.3, slightly released after the iPad Keynote, there is a nice and big surprise for all podcasters.
Previously, when a user clicked a link leading to a podcast, it brought you to an empty white web page. Then, iTunes was opened – and if not installed you got a offer to download [...]

VirtualBox3 vs. Parallels5

The Parallels Desktop virtualization is great, and the update from 4 to 5 brings a lot new features. But there is one thing what makes me really angry: the price!
Pricing
In my humble opinion the price for this update is very much to much. Some months ago, I just bought the update from 3 to 4. [...]

Closed lid with open eyes

A MacBook can close it’s lid and then it is going to sleep. On some situations it could be useful your Mac would stay awake instead of using it magic power LED hypnotizing you.
One of those moments could be

A party and your MacBook is serving some music, but you don’t want anybody to touch it [...]

Chrome Browser for Mac

As a Webkit lover, of course I love the Safari browser. It is fast, reliable, powerful and easy to use. I wish Firefox would use its engine, but there are lot of discussions in the Mozilla forums, that it will remain using the Gecko engine.
From a technical perspective, Gecko is now very solid and no [...]

Zooom and position your windows perfectly

Exposé is a very comfortable way to work with many windows and a lot of applications running at the same time. Especially on Snow Leopard the handling was improved to drag and drop between those windows.
Believe it or not, I am a little bit unsatisfied with the window handling. Notably only beeing able to resize [...]

New Eventbox coming up soon

On a previous article I wrote some words about the Eventbox application. It was invented to merge social profile applications in just a single one for easy and quick management.
The developers made already lots of changes and improvements.
I do really appreciate that all of my suggestions and bug reports were taken seriously and I have [...]

Starting apps more than once

When an application is running, it normally can not be started a second time. If you run it again from the dock, it will bring up the current running to the front.
In some situations, it would be helpful to start it again – especially system applications like the network scanner.

With the help of Path Finder [...]

Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick

Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test.
Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank Parallels Windows XP virtual machine image to the stick, [...]

Skype voice quality

On the release time of the free application Skype for iPhone, I could not let it be to install it. Because I am lazy at typing I initially tested it with just a small chat, only.
But, today I had a situation that I needed to do a Skype call to ask something. The voice quality [...]

Merge them all together

To feel as fit as a fiddle on my Mac’s screen I need to have it clean with only that windows in front I am currently working in.
For how to hide unwanted applications without termination I blogged the article The secrets of hide and seek.
The Eventbox is my best friend when getting updated on RSS [...]