MacStories has been a little quiet lately. As I previously wrote, I’ve been working on the fist complete redesign of this blog (which is finally finished!) but I spent most of time tryin’ to organize something big for you..and here it is!
Welcome to MacStories Festival!
1Password 3: the Review.
Tweet from Safari with Thurly. Reviewed.
If you recently switched from Firefox to Safari, you’ve probably noticed the lack of browser addons. While there are thousands of addons / extensions / whatever for Mozilla Firefox, there’s no doubt that Safari is not a very customizable browser. But anyway, there are a few developers who have developed excellent plugins (that’s how they are called in Safari) you should definitely check out.
Today, I would like to talk about Thurly.
How To: Load GreaseKit Scripts on Snow Leopard
If you spend a lot of time working with your browser, it’s very likely that you’ve heard of Userscripts. As the name suggests, user scripts are small code snippets meant to enhance your browsing experience. Scripts simply edit some aspects of your favourite web pages thanks to some css and / or javascript.
There are scripts that works with google.com, Facebook, Twitter…every famous website out there, mostly. These scripts are usually loaded with a browser extension: on Firefox we have Greasemonkey and on Safari its less known brother, GreaseKit.
MenuBrowser Moves Your Finder in the MenuBar
I love Apple’s Finder: since I switched from Windows to Mac OS X, Finder has slowly become my favourite app. It’s pretty obvious - I know - but I just can’t stop thinking about how things were ugly, hard and non-user-friendly when I used Explorer.
With the release of Snow Leopard the Finder has been completely re-written in Cocoa, fully supporting 64-bit. For this reason now we have live previews, more core animation goodness, more stability, more everything. But Finder is - and always will be, I believe - a “dock app”.
And here comes MenuBrowser.
How To: Edit .nib Files in Snow Leopard
Following my previous tutorial about How To Get Vertical Tabs on Safari 4, you may have wondered how I succesfully managed to edit the browser’s .nib file using Interface Builder.
With the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Apple decided to make it more difficult for advanced users to edit .nib files: that’s part of how they built SL to have a smaller footprint. Indeed, if you try to edit Safari’ Browser.nib file, Interface Builder will say that it cannot open complied .nib files.
As always, there’s a workaround for that.
How To: Get Vertical Tabs on Safari 4 [10.6]
Ever wanted to give Safari 4 a fresh new feel? Or, have you ever wanted to use vertical tabs instead of horizontal tabs?
As MacStories readers, you should probably know how much I’m in love with Mozilla Firefox. Most of all, I absolutely love that addon called Tree Style Tabs, which allows you to display all your open tabs as a “tree” in a sidebar.
Finally, I’ve managed to get a similar result on Safari 4, under Mac OS 10.6.1 (but it should work fine on 10.6 as well). Well, it’s a sort of a workaround, but it definitely works.
Color Stream: A Perfect Tool for Web Designers
If you’re a web designer, it’s very likely that you spend a lot of time choosing the right color for your next big project: everyone knows that picking the right color palette is one of the most important thing when designing a website.
Indeed, color communicates different meanings.
So, what if you’re a web designer and you would like to have a mobile, useful color tool at the palm of your hands?
Roundup: 40+ Twitter Clients and Utilities for Mac
As you may have understood reading MacStories, I’m in love with Twitter (I’m @storiesofmac) For this reason, I’m always searching for the best client around, hoping to find “that new one” which integrates all the features I would like to see in a Twitter app: slick UI, multi-timelines support, Growl, hashtags, url shortening and so on..
To help you in finding the best Twitter client around, here’s a list of 40 Twitter clients for your Mac. To download them, simply click on the link.
Obviously, I haven’t tested all of these apps, but I’m planning to write in-depth reviews for many of them.
Enjoy! :)