When I was new to the Mac, I wished there was a simple way to get the full size applications icons. They were beautiful and well designed, so I wanted to look at them at a full resolution. But as I said, I was new to the Mac, and I didn’t know many tricks to get the .icns file and convert it to a .png.
If you’re in the same situation now, IconGrabber is for you.
“Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.
Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, reinvindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.
If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.”
This is what you can read on Ommwriter official website. And that’s what Ommwriter really does.
So, you download a lot of stuff everyday and your downloads folder is a total mess. Or, you download so much stuff (music, icons, PDFs, images) that sometimes you can’t remember which files you’ve already downloaded..and you download them again, just to be sure. Obviously, you don’t have time to clean up that folder or, you just don’t want to.
Then, there’s another situation: you work a lot. You work so much that after some time your /Work folder wastes tons of GBs. Pages files, spreadsheets, PSDs,notes, stock photos..that’s very likely to happen.
Ok, let’s talk about Decloner.
Seems like there’s another kid on the block of gestures extending apps: jitouch. I reviewed BetterTouchTool a couple of days ago, and it’s a great utility in case you didn’t notice.
By the way, this jitouch is simple and cool, keep on reading to find out why.
I’ve never used Time Machine.
Ok, this can sound crazy, but I never felt the need of goin’ through the whole Time Machine process to backup files I can manually backup when I want. But you know, everyone has his favorite tools, so the choice it’s up to you.
Anyway, I think developing a backup utility for Mac should be a very hard task: I mean, even if I don’t use Time Machine, the rest of the world seems to love it. For this reason, creating from scratch an application to backup your Mac files it’s definitely difficult: you have to create something unique and make people want it.
Today I’d like to talk about a beta application I discovered yesterday, Parachute.
There’s something great about indipendent Mac developers: sometimes they exactly know which application would be interesting. That’s what Malarkey Software did: they knew it would be awesome to download entire Flickr photosets.
And here comes Photo Grabbr.
Say you own a Magic Mouse or a multitouch Macbook: gestures are great, aren’t they? You can perform actions by simply tapping / moving your fingers on the multitouch surface and this is a huge time saver in my opinion. Gestures are even better than keyboard shortcuts sometimes.
Now, Mac OS has a big problem with gestures: you can’t assign custom gestures to the applications you like. I mean, why can’t I tell Tweetie to refresh with a simple gesture? Now, I’d hate to say so but..
..There’s an app for that.
Say you take screenshots of your desktop or open applications now and then to show off via IM or Twitter. Sure, you know how to take that screenshot: Cmd-Shift-4 (for an area) or Cmd-Shift-3 (for the whole screen). But getting it out onto the web? What a hassle to fire up an FTP client or twitpic.com just to drop off one little picture!
Enter TinyGrab.
There are many applications both on Mas and iPhone which let you manage your Flickr account without accessing the web interface. Because you know, I don’t like Flickr web app so much: sure, it’s better than Facebook and Twitter, but compared to any good Mac application, it doesn’t make it. But I think this is common problem to many webapps out there.
Anyway, I’ve been wondering for months whether there was a Mac app to entirely manage my Flickr account from my desktop. Then, I met Flickery.
In this article I will outline the great features Flickery has, and how it could become one of your favorite Mac apps.
And guess what, we even got 5 copies to give away.
