A selection of applications. Some free, some not. Some useful, some not.
Posted by: gvsumac on: November 13, 2008
Delteated!
Okay, sorry if I lost you on the strongbad reference there.
We started out by talking about application deleting. AppZapper and AppDelete are a couple. Yes, you can drag something to the trash to uninstall, but this only works for those applications that don’t have “ties” to the rest of your system. Most programs save data such as preferences and passwords in other locations on your computer. To keep things extra tidy, we’re recommending you get the free program called AppDelete.
But be careful that clicking the icon takes you to the version 2.1, and go check their home page for a new version if it’s been a while.
Not much else to be said for this. Install the program and then drag unwanted apps to the appdelete trash can.
Internet media, Boxee
So this is pretty awesome. You can watch TV and junk via this application 
I was busy scouring for images and this little video clip while Mike was explaining things, so there’s lake of text. Click the image for the website, or watch the vimeo video below for a brief intro.
It is in private alpha right now, which means that it is very selective with users right now. Although if you’re at the meeting, Mike can probably get you an invite code.
Delicious Library
This is really cool. You can use your iSight to scan the bar code on books, comics, movies, or whatever other media items you have that can be found on Amazon.com and it keeps a database of it for you, but in fancy Apple fashion. It talks to you. It checks things in/out like a real library if you want to use it like that. Chances are, this is useless to you and furthermore, it is $40.
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Name Mangler
This application can be helpful for renaming, or adjusting info on lots of files at once. Just check it out and play around.
Twitter utilities!
- Qwitter sends you an email when someone stops following you and lets you know what the last tweet they could tolerate form you was.
- Twitterank is just another site that gives you a numerical value to your meager, internet, “social” existence.
- StatusTweet is a service that sends out Facebook status updates of select Facebook friends. (psst, we made created this one). Click the HELP link for an explanation of this one.
- Search[dot]Twitter is a really good searching site to look for whatever you want throughout ALL (public) tweets.
Thaaaaat’s All!
P.S. Just so the reader knows, as I take notes, I have to skim over some of the applications and comments mentioned. If you want more, make sure to come. Every Wednesday at 9pm! Leave a comment if you’re not on the mailing list and want on it.
Some miscellaneous, but good, free apps
Posted by: gvsumac on: November 6, 2008
*** 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:
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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.
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Caffeine
Prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.
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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.
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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?!”
(sorry guys, no fancy image for this one)
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.
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