Cody Fink

1547 posts on MacStories since January 2010

Former MacStories contributor.

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Fiwi, Easily Drag and Drop Content

Moving content around on the Mac can be incredibly easy or slightly annoying. Growing up on Windows, I’ve lived with the luxury of cutting documents before pasting them in the desired locations. Quite honestly, that’s still my preferred method of moving documents. By default, that’s absent on the Mac. And to be frank, I’ve never liked how the Mac has dealt with files and folders at all. This may seem absurd, but hear me out: To take a file from my documents, and move it into a folder hierarchy buried somewhere on my system (perhaps deeper in my documents), I either have to copy the folder then delete the original, or drag and drop. Copying, pasting, then deleting the original is a terrible way to go about things unless you’re working with text. Dragging and dropping can work okay, but it gets old when you have to go maybe five folders deep. There is no other absolute move command which cut solved.

The second problem with computers in general is screen real estate. On my laptop, every pixel counts. Dragging and dropping is made easier when you have two finder windows open, but again, it gets old having to resize windows each time. If you’re like me and you still haven’t moved to a third party application to manage your files and folders, then Fiwi can help solve the drag and drop dilemma.

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What’s ‘Happening’ Near You? Review & Giveaway!

Where I live, shit’s sparse. I live in a rather quiet town that certainly is jam packed full of residential homes and shopping, but what’s there for the average guy to do? I’m not exactly cosy in New York City or Miami Beach, so I actually have to seek out things to do. Thank god there’s Happening for the iPhone and iPod touch.

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Goalbook, A Place to Jot your Goals. Review & Giveaway!

Boy, I sure am a dreamer. While I probably won’t live on that billion dollar yacht afloat over a man made martini ocean smack dab in the middle of Russia, there’s always the chance right? Probably not, but I might be able to sing in my own local band one day or form an ultra elite team of hackers that protect the world from evil doers like Federico. So for those rather minute goals (and perhaps even bigger ones), I can store my dreams and aspirations in the eye-popping iPhone and iPod touch application, Goalbook.

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Want to Capture Everything and Anything? Voila!

The Mac draws a lot of attention from bloggers who love to create and share content. Great tools like Skitch, Little Snapper, SnapIt, Camtasia Studio, and Screenflow enable us to capture content as it appears on the screen, edit it, format it, and ship it across the Interwebs effortlessly. Separately, these tools are awesome in their own rights. Together, it’s possible to have a super app. Voila (version 3.0) for the Mac takes a little of everything from these mastered tools, and brings them together into a one stop shop that should hopefully attend to all your needs. How do we feel about it? Read past the break to find out.

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Jumbalaya, Remix Letters & Get Points. Review & Giveaway!

Something about the iPad makes it great for casual word games. For example, Words with Friends and Scrabble (which admittedly have the same type of gameplay) are really great to play on the iPad’s larger screen. But if you’re looking for something a little bit different, let me direct your attention to Jumbalaya - which not only tastes good, but also happens to be a great iPad game. Read more



Keep track of Birthdays, Anniversaries, and more with Occasions. Review & Giveaway!

You know, I never really know whose birthday it is, when Mother’s Day is around the corner, or that I missed my best friends anniversary (doh!) two weeks ago. The problem I have, and terribly in my own family, is that I can’t remember jack squat. I can only remember three birthdays - that of my mother, my father, and myself. I really shouldn’t be expected to know more, but you always have a card to send or you have to make some acknowledgement that yes, my cousin did in fact turn 25 recently. But other than Facebook and my lack of mental indicators, there’s really no good system other than the calendar and perhaps a sheet of worn out notebook paper. Yet I have found, there is an app for that. Read more