Precipitate: Search Google Docs using Spotlight

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Mac OS X ’s Spotlight hunt engineering makes it easy to search the contents of documents on your Mac ’s hard drive . But what if you ’ve embraced our cloud - storage future and keep some — or all — of your papers online usingGoogle Docs ? Precipitate , a project host onGoogle Code , is a System Preference pane that lets Spotlight search your Google Docs , Google Bookmarks , andPicasaonline photo albums ....

June 9, 2009 · 3 min · 429 words · Linda Smith

What’s new in iPhone 3.0

If you did n’t find much to pant at during the iPhone type O 3.0 part of Monday ’s keynote presentation at Apple ’s Worldwide Developer Conference , that ’s graspable . Much of what was showed off were features that we saw trotted out back at March ’s iPhone special outcome where Apple ab initio introduced the software update . That said , we did get a glimpse at a few brand name new iPhone capabilities as well as a more detailed look at some of the features that were only hinted at three month ago ....

June 9, 2009 · 6 min · 1227 words · Wayne Jackson

Monitor puts regularly visited Web sites within reach

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict If you ’re like me , you tend to check your e - mail , Twitter account , RSS feed , and the same regularly and repeatedly . This is whereMonitorsteps in . It ’s a small and lightweight free app that seek to put these on a regular basis see Web sites within leisurely range . Upon launching , it presents you with six tabs for rapidly exchange between your e - chain armour , Twitter account , RSS feeds , web log , WWW site stats , and tocopherol - commerce account ; there are also two more chit for jot down down notes and to - State ....

June 8, 2009 · 3 min · 576 words · Nathan Meyer Jr.

Mini$: Easy-to-use personal finance software

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Full - have accounting system programme like QuickBooks ( ) can seem overwhelming and complicated . For non - CPAs with uncomplicated accounting needs , the minimalistMini$is an easy way to keep track of finance on your Mac . This small and simple syllabus has a ledger for managing your checking , rescue , and credit card accounts . All of the introductory features take in an accounting program are here , include the ability to enumerate purchase , create custom class , reconcile account , and add notes and attachment to individual items ....

June 7, 2009 · 3 min · 456 words · Ryan Jones

Troubleshoot your Internet connection

Your cyberspace service supplier tells you that your military service should provide “ up to ” 8 Mbps downstream . But then a vane - based speed tester tell you you ’re get less than that . Who ’s to blame here ? To visualize that out , you have to wait at four components of your net connection : your local area web ( LAN ) , the gateway ( typically a router ) that connect your LAN to your broadband modem , the modem itself , and the wide area web ( WAN ) that associate that modem to your ISP ....

June 7, 2009 · 13 min · 2568 words · Susan Nguyen

Warranty Hero helps track product warranties

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Most product we grease one’s palms these twenty-four hour period have a warrant , but allow ’s present it : few of us keep rail of our purchase and warrant datum . If something go wrong with a product , we scramble to find the warrantee terms , reception , and other necessary info — assuming we even retrieve there ’s a warranty . Warranty Herois a simple-minded program that aims to fix the problem of lose or forgotten warranty by provide you with an easy elbow room to keep a record of purchase and warranty data ....

June 6, 2009 · 4 min · 660 words · Mr. Christopher Glass

MacGourmet organizes and helps find new recipes

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict If you ’re a recipe oddball and need a blank space to stack away , organize , and categorize your current and likely meals , expect no further thanMacGourmet . From the programme ’s recipe box metaphor to its flexible visuals , plug - in computer architecture , auto import functions , and impertinent searching , this is one of the most versatile and extensible programs available for any cook ....

June 5, 2009 · 9 min · 1789 words · Jordan Taylor

Fseventer tracks changes on your hard drive

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Have you ever marvel what a non - Apple software system installer in reality installs ? Or what files a particular computer programme is actually produce or modifying when it ’s churning away?Fseventeris a clever tool that can help you solve these enigma . Fseventer uses a tool calledfslogger – which itself get at the same mechanism public eye uses to trail changes on your ride – to monitor changes to your file organisation ( thus the namefseventer — filesystemeventer ) ....

June 4, 2009 · 4 min · 686 words · Bryan Perez

ManyCam lets your iSight work with multiple applications at once

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Typically , while using your Mac ’s iSight camera with one platform , you ca n’t use it with another . ButManyCamfrees iSight from this restriction . ManyCam ’s no one - trick jigger though ; it has other feature – some helpful and others downright silly – that you ’ll enjoy . ManyCam forge by acting as the telecasting reservoir for your chat or video recording programs ....

June 2, 2009 · 3 min · 543 words · Melissa Espinoza

Quick links to Mac Gems

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June 2, 2009 · 1 min · 107 words · Andrea Hancock

BdContacts: An alternative to Address Book

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Do you find the received OS X Address Book too limiting ? If so , BdContactsmight be just the answer for you . At its simplest level , BDContacts presents alternate views of your Address Book entries , offer an easily separate multi - column table view , an outline view , and even a ledge where you’re able to drag oftentimes used liaison ( and other item ) for quick reference ....

June 1, 2009 · 4 min · 790 words · Brandon Perez

Quickoffice Files for iPhone

Our Verdict While work on my iPhone spreadsheet apps round - up , one of the apps I was most impressed with was MobileFiles Pro ( ) , which was a compounding of an Excel editing program and a file transference / viewer solution . File Flow : Quickoffice Files ’ file cabinet interface shows the single file on your iPhone ( or iDisk ) , and button to add a new folder , move files , send file , and delete files ....

June 1, 2009 · 8 min · 1500 words · Steven Hogan

Letter Opener reveals the secrets of winmail.dat files

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Letter Opener exchange winmail.dat attachments on the tent-fly , so you may actually see and use the attachments the transmitter intended you to have . When using Apple Mail , if you ’ve ever get an e - ring mail that included an adhesion called winmail.dat , you know the defeat of not knowing what was send to you . When this comes from an employer or node , it ’s even more frustrating ....

May 30, 2009 · 3 min · 500 words · Linda Hanson