Print Documents Remotely with Dropbox on Mac
All through Automator, Dropbox and Folder Actions. Clever, powerful and simple.
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Free Your Mac’s Media Keys from iTunes→
Free Your Mac’s Media Keys from iTunes
The tricks we used before were far less than ideal, requiring you to start up Quicktime in the background, or do some serious hacking to system files within iTunes.app. NoMitsu has created a one-click installer that patches the remote control daemon, the app responsible for managing the media keys. Just download the patch and double-click on it. After entering your password, your media keys will be free from iTunes’ grasp.
I installed this and it works perfectly.
What If iChat Was One Window?→
What If iChat Was One Window?
Adium and several other clients are already part way there—they combine all the services into one list, but they still typically show one window for friends, another for open chats and a third for file transfers.
I’m finding more and more that the best way to design desktop apps is to imagine you’re building them for iOS.
Clever UI concept by Bjango.
Postbox 2.0 Now Available with Unified Inboxes, Quick Reply, Lots More
Postbox is a mail client for OS X I’ve always been interested into but never really got the chance to try, not until the Postbox team pinged us and asked us if we wanted to take a look at the beta of a brand new iteration of the app, Postbox 2.0. I’ve been using Postbox 2.0 since then, and the app is now available for download here. Read more
GrabBox Automatically Uploads Screenshots to Dropbox
Dropbox is the greatest invention of this decade. I mean it: it allows you to effortlessly sync thousands of files and folders between computers and mobile devices, and I know a few business that depend on it for all their work material. I depend on it as well. And it’s not that iOS and OS X developers didn’t spot the huge market: Dropbox-based applications are flourishing in the App Store.
GrabBox is a Mac app that lets you easily upload screenshots to your Dropbox Public folder and share the link with your friends. Read more
Coming Soon: A Dropbox Powered Social Network
I love Dropbox and I see many new apps and services come out every day, but a social network based on Dropbox and living in your Mac menubar? Sounds even weirder than a social network living in your iTunes sidebar! Oh wait. Read more
TotalFinder: What Mac’s Finder Should Have Been
Over the years I’ve tried many solutions to make the default OS X file manager, Finder, better and more suitable to my needs: PathFinder, a 3rd party application that can live on top of Apple’s Finder and brings dual-pane navigation and tabs to the mix, plus some custom Applescript and Automator workflows that allowed me to easily perform certain tasks like “move these files to another location” or “copy newly downloaded files with .pdf extension in Dropbox”.
None of the aforementioned apps and scripts managed to work for me for more than a month. I grew tired of them, and most of all I grew tired of PathFinder living as a layer above Finder, but not really replacing it. I even tried to completely replace Finder.app in CoreServices, you can guess how it ended. I wanted a better Finder with dual-pane navigation and tabs, but I also wanted to be able to tweak it and customize it, yet retaining the stability and efficiency of the default Finder.app. I didn’t want a standalone app, I was looking forward to something that would let me modify the native app without replacing it. A few weeks later TotalFinder by BinaryAge came out (as an alpha build) and I immediately started testing it.
A year later, here we are with a final 1.0 build of TotalFinder and months of reinvented workflow to talk about. TotalFinder reinvented the way I interact and work with OS X so much that I cannot imagine going back to Apple’s default file manager anymore. Read more
Ars Technica Reviews Parallels 6→
Ars Technica Reviews Parallels 6
Parallels has had their eye on Windows 3D gaming from the start and, with this release, they’ve finally converted me. I’ve been a virtualized-gaming skeptic, but the results with this new version are what every delusional Mac gamer was hoping was achievable in the days of VirtualPC on the PowerPC.
The usual 10 pages review from Ars, perfect for Instapaper (although many screenshots are in there). I bought Parallels 6 three days ago and it looks like a huge improvement from the 5.x version so far.
Send Attachments From Finder via Folder Actions→
Send Attachments From Finder via Folder Actions
This hint allows you to drag files to a Finder folder and have them instantly emailed to a pre-configured address, simply by attaching a Folder Action to the folder. It’s a great way to get files off your Desktop and backed up offsite.
Great tip from Mac OS X Hints in 2007 worth a re-link. I use this for Gmail every day, as there’s no better and faster way to get files off your Mac and onto Gmail.