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Applications

Where is SSB functionality in Safari?

February 24, 2009

I use Fluid for Gmail, Pandora and a few other sites. It’s a great app for people who need site-specific browsers.

One of the new features I was looking forward to trying in Safari 4 is its “Save as Web Application” or SSB functionality. Who knows if I would have switched, especially considering all of the [...]

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Review: First look at Safari 4 beta

February 24, 2009

Apple released their first public beta of Safari 4 today, and being the app junkie that I am, I gave it a spin.

My overall impression: Safari 4 has some good improvements — the least of which is not speed — but has nothing revolutionary.

Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s new in Safari 4:

Tabs: The most [...]

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MarsEdit is one of my favorite Mac apps

February 22, 2009

Daniel Jalkut is reminiscing about taking over MarsEdit:

A little more than two years ago, Brent Simmons came to me with an intriguing proposition. Would I be willing to talk with NewsGator about the possibility of taking over MarsEdit, the desktop blog editing software Brent had developed as an adjunct to his RSS feed reader, NetNewsWire.

My [...]

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Under the hood of Twitterific

February 3, 2009

For those who love Twitterific, here’s an interesting article from Jason Snell at MacWorld about how you can get under the hood of Twitterific and make it more powerful.

You’ll need to be at least comfortable with using the command line, and you’ll actually have to read to the bottom of the Read Me file (which [...]

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PIM Review: Evernote

February 2, 2009

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts that compares Journler, Together and Evernote in a PIM faceoff for Macs. The first post can be found here.

Evernote is one of the few cross-platform, web-based apps that I both use and enjoy. Add to it an iPhone app that is nearly as powerful as [...]

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TweetDeck gets the nod over Twhirl and Twitterific, for now…

January 22, 2009

There is no “best” Twitter application, this I’ve decided. It seems that of the three I use, one has a feature I long for when not using it.

Twitterific

Twitterific is simple, straight forward, I can post from NetNewsWire and it has awesome keyboard shortcuts. Plus, the icon is the best of any of them, for what [...]

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Mail Act-On 2: Going back to an old favorite

January 22, 2009

Before I started using Google Apps for Your Domain, I was a power user of MailTags and Mail Act-On, both apps developed by indev.

Not too long after moving to a Google-based system, I abandoned MailTags, which is a terrific app. At the same time, I stopped using Act-On as much. When I switched over to [...]

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NetNewsWire or Google Reader: Which one is better?

January 21, 2009

So it seems I should write a post about NetNewsWire and Google Reader. Why? Because as I was reading John Gruber’s post about NetNewsWire for his Mac and iPhone, a fellow twitterer posted this question:

Mac users of the world: I don’t understand NetNewsWire.. I use Google Reader.. What does NNW offer over that?

My first response [...]

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Adium vs. iChat: A quick review

January 19, 2009

My last post on using Adium for Facebook has led me to this: a quick and dirty comparison of Adium vs. iChat.

Pros for Adium

More chat service options More control over notifications Unified Contacts list for all accounts Full jabber support (Can sign up for account from Adium) Facebook chat support

Pros for iChat

Nicer interface (I love me interfaces, folks) Video conference [...]

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Adium does Facebook chat well

January 19, 2009

I’ve never been a power user of either iChat or Adium. I use both from time to time, and I favor iChat for their interface. But Adium has some useful features that iChat would do well to duplicate.

One of those is being able to use Adium for Facebook chat. Truth be told, most of the [...]

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