*** Sorry, readers: despite efforts in either the normal OR html editing mode, this little wordpress wants to ignore the s p a c i n g I try to apply. This explains why some application description ends up next to the wrong image and such.***

So this week, Mr. President was absent and yours truley (Rob) got to present on some applications and web links that can be handy for a mac user. There probably isn’t enough time to go through all of these in the meeting itself, but below you can find some info on each one.

Web Applications (iPod touch & iPhone)

Yes, there are plenty of great applications to download and play with via iTunes (or the device iteself), but you have to store that on your device and possibly pay for it. So, since Apple is nice and friendly, they did some elbow work of putting together a page for us users to browse applications that are provided by websites. Mind ye, the downside to this is that you will need an internet connection to utilize it.

Enough word-junk, just click the iPhone above to browse the webapps and note their URLs and put that into Safari on your handheld. Enjoy!

Calendars for your iCal

Next up from the Apple site is something that may not interest you in the least, but I’ve used it a couple times. Click the image below to go to the calendars download page and browse all sorts of prefabbed calendars. Download whichever interests you (I have mexican holidays for example), and add it to your iCal.

And now for the applications:

• Appfresh

This program helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X.

• Caffeine

Prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.

• CamTwist

This one might be a little more advanced if you’re not the sort of computer user to just “play around” with a programs settings. That’s where all the fun in this little app is! In brief, it takes your iSight (webcam) video feed and puts it through the program to apply special effects and such. I have used it in the past when streaming live video to add a caption at the bottom (such as you might see on news programs). Make sure to set the capture device or webcam input on whatever website you use to “camtwist.”

Download here, whatever version is most recent.

• Disk Inventory X

This program reads your drive and gives a graphical result of how much space your files take up. This is handy if you’re running low on space and ever wonder “where does it all go?!”

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Go to their home page and watch the little movie clip for a good explanation. The free download is there too.

…and much, much more.

Whelp, I ran out of time writing this. I will save more goodies for another week.

Stay tuned.