Category Archives: Mac

A Few Time Savers

July 17, 2010
These well-designed and fun-to-use apps will quickly begin to feel like essentials by gracefully automating repetitive tasks. A few of these are especially good if you are a web-worker or often work with text.
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Improve Fluid SSB’s with Choosy

March 14, 2010
In case you haven’t tried it, Fluid is a very cool application for creating Single Site Browsers (SSB’s). If you use a web application, such as Gmail, on a routine basis you should try creating an SSB. Beside freeing up a browser tab, you get a dock icon, badges, and even growl notifications for [...]
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Annotate Screenshots Natively

March 14, 2010
Screenshots can be handy things. Before I made the switch to Mac I used to use Greenshot or Fireshot. But in Mac OS X its as easy as ⌘⇧4. However, sometimes a screenshot isn’t enough and you need a clarifying arrow or label to really convey your message. There are some [...]
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Managing Windows in Mac OS X

March 12, 2010
Although Expose and Spaces are nifty, they seem inefficient when compared to simply relying on a handful of native keyboard shortcuts and a few useful applications.
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Transmit 3 Keyboard Shortcuts

March 10, 2010
Transmit is a popular FTP client for the Mac. There are lots of alternatives, including Cyberduck which comes close to being better. But Cyberduck is missing a split-pane view of local and remote files which I think is essential. Other popular apps include Yummy FTP, Forklift, and Flow, but Transmit is probably still [...]
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