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Cheers!
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Safaricon - pimp your Safari
Give your Safari 'da look' with Safaricon. The themes do not change the browser's look wildly like Firefox Themes, but they're pretty nice (some of them). And the download is worth alone by the app's replacement of the useless 'Report Bug' button with a very useful 'New Tab' button.
Disable Safari Download Warning
Hooray! Finally a free way to disable Safari's super annoying Download Warnings (ya know, the dialog you get 'this may contain an application, do you really want to download it?'.
I HATE it. The only way to disable it until now AFAIK was with the (great) shareware program Saft, but now Safari Enhancer does it for free. Safari Enhancer also allows you to adjust various setting in Safari, though mine behaves weirdly if I disable the cache. Since you're gonna download it anyway, check the link for the full app's function list.
I HATE it. The only way to disable it until now AFAIK was with the (great) shareware program Saft, but now Safari Enhancer does it for free. Safari Enhancer also allows you to adjust various setting in Safari, though mine behaves weirdly if I disable the cache. Since you're gonna download it anyway, check the link for the full app's function list.
iPod Hi-Fi review
Well although it is very expensive and I criticized its price quite harshly in a previous post, the iPod Hi-fi might just be worth the price for you rich kiddos since it seems potent enough to fill up an entire room with sound (party time!), though it lacks a bit of treble detail, something I value highly, but I know most people love powerful woofers, so check out this comparison review.
20060303
FlashMount - mount images in a second.
With FlashMount, you can mount disk images in a second. It does not verify the image and it automatically accepts user agreements, so you can have any disk image (mainly .DMG files) opening almost instantly.
I used 'Get Info' for a DMG file, changed all DMG file types to open with FlashMount and voilà!
Images opening FAST. Loved this app, only 167K.
I used 'Get Info' for a DMG file, changed all DMG file types to open with FlashMount and voilà!
Images opening FAST. Loved this app, only 167K.
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Freewaremac needs your help!
Yeah, it's time to get a domain, I guess. I'm not fond of this blogspot thingie, so I need your help!
1) I need a suggestion for a domain name;
2) Donations are accepted - click the button to donate 1 Dollar if you found this site of any use, or if you feel like it, whatever, you know the whole 'please donate' speech:
I'd really love a domain name suggestion... If you leave it in the comments, it will get to my mail.
Cheers!
1) I need a suggestion for a domain name;
2) Donations are accepted - click the button to donate 1 Dollar if you found this site of any use, or if you feel like it, whatever, you know the whole 'please donate' speech:
I'd really love a domain name suggestion... If you leave it in the comments, it will get to my mail.
Cheers!
ImageWell - best freeware simple image editor available
Ok, this is da bomb in simple image editing:- Watermark your images;
- Crop, Resize, Rotate, etc;
- Send it to your .mac account or any other FTP server;
- 467 Kbytes and free;
- and some other stuff, but I pretty much think I've convinced you already.
Ok enough, go download it, man. Don't even argue with me. It's an order.
20060301
Unpacking and Creating RAR files on Mac OS X
RAR files are a files that have been compressed with the RAR engine, a proprietary format (ya know, like .SIT format). Since I've seem in forums around the net that even Windoze users have problems dealing with RAR files, I imagine many Mac users do too.
I've tested all the freeware solutions to unpack .RAR files, and the only one that always works is UnrarX. Don't forget to check if your RAR file is password protected, because the program asks for it in the beginning but if you ignore that, it will try to unpack the file anyway and only give a message error in the end.
Creating a .RAR file is usually reserved to shareware applications, even on Windows. The only app that does it for free is Gumby, as far as I know (and after a lot of researching). Gumby is a great utility that does so many things you'll have to download the manual (it's a PDF in the main page - there's a link) to learn all about it. To create a .RAR file, just go to the 'RAR' tab and press Alt (Option), and the button will change from 'Process' (for unpacking files) to 'Create'.
I've tested all the freeware solutions to unpack .RAR files, and the only one that always works is UnrarX. Don't forget to check if your RAR file is password protected, because the program asks for it in the beginning but if you ignore that, it will try to unpack the file anyway and only give a message error in the end.
Creating a .RAR file is usually reserved to shareware applications, even on Windows. The only app that does it for free is Gumby, as far as I know (and after a lot of researching). Gumby is a great utility that does so many things you'll have to download the manual (it's a PDF in the main page - there's a link) to learn all about it. To create a .RAR file, just go to the 'RAR' tab and press Alt (Option), and the button will change from 'Process' (for unpacking files) to 'Create'.
Keeping Gmail open all the time / Sunrise Browser
Since I love Gmail and I keep it open all the time, I use the lightest browser I can to keep a window opened with it so it won't affect my CPU's performance.
My browser of choice for that is Sunrise Browser (I've posted about it in this link). It uses Safari's Webkit engine. So Gmail's built-in chat won't work too, but for me, that's less annoyance.
Just make sure you access your Gmail using the URL http://mail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser - or Gmail will be loaded in HTML mode (for theoretically unsupported browsers), which sucks big time.
Update: I was just going to complain that it's a pity Sunrise Browser seemed dead, but it has been recently updated. Go take a look!
My browser of choice for that is Sunrise Browser (I've posted about it in this link). It uses Safari's Webkit engine. So Gmail's built-in chat won't work too, but for me, that's less annoyance.
Just make sure you access your Gmail using the URL http://mail.google.com/gmail?nocheckbrowser - or Gmail will be loaded in HTML mode (for theoretically unsupported browsers), which sucks big time.
Update: I was just going to complain that it's a pity Sunrise Browser seemed dead, but it has been recently updated. Go take a look!
New Apple Products
Well, of course you already know about this if you're a hardcore Mac user, but it's news worth mentioning:
1) New Mac Mini: w00t! Now with Intel Core Solo and Duo processors! Don't ever buy a G-something Mac now, who knows when support for them will be dropped. I am worried (I have an olde iMac G3 DV SE 400 MHz - well here in Brazil, Macs are imported so they cost a *lot*, and I can't stand Windows anymore. I'm not a PC or Microsoft hater, I just hate using it).
2) iPod Hi-Fi - a steal (literally, Apple is putting its hand in your pocket) at USD 349. Just go look for similar solutions from good manufacturers (I'll post a link when I find one, have seem so much, but nothing comes to mind right now).
3) iPod Leather Cases - at USD 99, you'd better order one from the most luxurious casemaker, Vajacases. Top notch Argentina leather and fully customizable. And your girlfriend will love their new iPod Nano Crystal Case.
So, in the opinion of this humble Blogger who cannot afford even a Mac Mini (because they cost more than a 3.0 GHz Pentium IV here, and I cannot live without OS X), it's the only new product worth shelling cash out for (the new Mac Mini).
1) New Mac Mini: w00t! Now with Intel Core Solo and Duo processors! Don't ever buy a G-something Mac now, who knows when support for them will be dropped. I am worried (I have an olde iMac G3 DV SE 400 MHz - well here in Brazil, Macs are imported so they cost a *lot*, and I can't stand Windows anymore. I'm not a PC or Microsoft hater, I just hate using it).
2) iPod Hi-Fi - a steal (literally, Apple is putting its hand in your pocket) at USD 349. Just go look for similar solutions from good manufacturers (I'll post a link when I find one, have seem so much, but nothing comes to mind right now).
3) iPod Leather Cases - at USD 99, you'd better order one from the most luxurious casemaker, Vajacases. Top notch Argentina leather and fully customizable. And your girlfriend will love their new iPod Nano Crystal Case.
So, in the opinion of this humble Blogger who cannot afford even a Mac Mini (because they cost more than a 3.0 GHz Pentium IV here, and I cannot live without OS X), it's the only new product worth shelling cash out for (the new Mac Mini).
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