Posts in mac

Courier App: Share Files To Your Favorite Services. Reviewed.

In the past I reviewed many applications for Mac to upload and share files on the internet. Applications such as Droplr, Cloud or Fileshuttle allow you to quickly select files (or URLs) on your desktop and upload them to remote servers (in Fileshuttle’s case, even your own server) to share a short link with your friends or colleagues later. Those are handy apps that help you saving a lot of time when you need to upload any kind of file. Cloud App is very popular among Mac users, and it’s been running on my Mac for a quite a while, too.

But Courier is different. It’s not an application that lets you quickly upload files to third-party services, it’s a great-looking tool that allows you to send files to popular services you’re already subscribed to like Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook and Flickr. It looks beautiful, it works great. It’s the new application from Realmac Software.

Here’s my review.

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Courier: Great New Mac App from Realmac Coming Soon

Courier is an awesome new app from Realmac Software (which I’m lucky enough to have already tested) set to come out on OS X “in about a week”. Or at least that’s what the teaser website says.

I can’t really say what the app does yet, but as you can see in the video (embedded below, together with the final icon) support for websites like Youtube, Vimeo and Flickr will be part of the application. All I can say is that Courier is great, and will probably turn out to be one of the best apps released on Mac this year.

Check out the video below, follow @courierapp for exclusive news and stay tuned for a review on MacStories as soon as the app will be available.

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Stay: Train Your Windows

If you are anything like me, than at any given time you’ve got 30 windows open and at least 17 apps running at once.

The only thing that keeps me from going completely insane is my second 21” screen I have plugged into my Macbook Pro (15” screen) ninety percent of the time. Now, the extra real estate is awesome when I have all 30 windows open and organized among my spaces the way I like. It becomes cumbersome, however, when I unplug my laptop from the screen to go downstairs. My 30 windows become 30 huge billboards all trying to compete for my attention. Read more

OS X Releases Of The Day: Alfred Powerpack, Swatch 2.0

Alfred, the new kid on the block of “applications to search on your Mac” Cody reviewed back in March, can now be extended with a £12 ($18) “Powerpack” that allows you to quickly navigate your Mac’s filesystem and perform actions with files and folders.

The first Powerpack also includes support for an iTunes Mini Player, but the developers are promising way more feature in the next iterations of the addon such as Clipboard integration, Applescript and Address Book integration. Alfred Powerpack is available at £12 here.

Swatch (missed our Fuel Collective week?) is a must-have tool for any designer, and the long-awaited 2.0 version was released earlier today. The new version sports a brand-new UI design (I love it) and comes with many new features such as the possibility to create and manage collections, support for ACO, ASE and CLR files, customizable cursors and possibility to switch from the standard Color Wheel to CMYK, RGB or HSB sliders.

Swatch 2.0 is available at $9.95 here.

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Guess What: Macs Growing Fast in Enterprises

Mac computers have a very small share of the worldwide PC market: around 3.5%. Those are small numbers if you look at the big picture, but very important sources of revenue when it comes to Apple, which doesn’t license OSes but sells computers. You know the drill.

Now, what’s interesting to notice is that, according to Needham’s Charlie Wolf, the Mac is doing pretty good and growing fast in large enterprises.

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Magic Trackpad USB Mod

Speaking of modders and awesome hacks: Macrumors forum poster markbog hacked his Magic Trackpad to be powered by a USB cable instead of Apple’s (magic) batteries.

“So I took out the batteries in the Magic Trackpad, stripped an old USB cord down to the red and black power wires, and attached them to a battery-sized dowel.”

Well done.

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