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QuickTime 7.5 Security Update

admin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:48:11 +0000

Apple has announced that Quicktime has various security update.

Flash 10 Player Beta Update

admin — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:11:56 +0000

Adobe released Flash 10 Player Beta for Public. With code name Astro, it has many enhancement and features.

2 Best Text Editor for Mac

admin — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:03:10 +0000

Text editor is a commonly tool for both web designer and programmer. Many text editor has its best at Windows platform such Ultraedit, Editplus, etc. So i hereby introduce you with best text editors in Mac. Actually, there’s not many of text editors that suites me on Mac, but I use these two editors for my daily use for programming and coding websites.

BBEdit

BBEdit is the most famous professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh among designers and programmers. BBEdit is an award-winning product that provides many features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.
Status: Commercial
Price: $125
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Text Wrangler

The basic idea, a text editor is a tool for simply editing text. You can use a text editor for a many tasks from cleaning up data, to write and edit HTML or coding. Text Wrangler is a clone (almost) of BBEdit and It’s FREE !
Status: FREE
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Actually, there are numbers of text editors on Mac such: Macromedia Dreamweaver, TextEdit, JEdit, and TextMate. But I guarantee you will love using BBEdit or TextWrangler.

ACDSee Replacement in Mac

admin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:17:21 +0000

As you know, ACDSee is a powerfull software to manage pictures in Windows. ACDSee has a version that can runs on Mac too. Unfortunately its developed on 2005 and there’s no more update to follow Mac OSX untill now.

Adobe actually has their own version for managing pictures, Its Adobe Bridge. Adobe Bridge its Adobe’s picture manager not only related to Adobe Files (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, etc.), but all kind of image files. You can Easily move, copy, rename, manage, print, and of course, view.

Simple interface with ability to drag and drop files, search metadata. Adobe Bridge is recomended running on fast computer, of course.

Adobe Bridge CS3

Adobe Bridge CS3, bundled with all Adobe Design Package.

4 Free Great RSS Feed Readers for Mac

admin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:31:43 +0000

The reader checks the user’s subscribed feeds consistently for new content, downloading any updates that it finds. The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed’s hotlink into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates subscribe process. RSS makes websites information accessible for humans to accumulate web sites information in an automatic way that can be piped into appropriate programs or filtered displays. RSS feeds can be read by application software called an “RSS reader”, “feed reader” or an “aggregator”. RSS is an ancestors of Web feed formats acclimated to broadcast frequently adapted feeds such as blog entries, account headlines, and podcasts.

Netnewswire

Status: Free
Download: author’s website

On Mac, Newsnetwire is the best RSS reader of all, in my opinion. It has lots of feature such; Desktop integration, Podcast, and many more.

Vienna

Status: Free
Download: author’s website

Vienna is simple and fast application. It has featured that simplify the process, it has many style to match your feeling.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Status: Free
Download: author’s website

Mozilla Thunderbird are email client application with rss reader inside. You don’t even need to open another application to read both email and rss.

Shrook

Status: Free
Download: author’s website

Feature highlights included synchronization, abounding podcast support, acute groups, congenital browser and avant-garde user-interface. It supports all versions of RSS and Atom.

Thats all folks… tell me what you think !!

Mac Download Manager with iGetter

admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:08:02 +0000

Windows user already know GetRight, a friendly and easy to use download manager and seamlessly integrate to any browser, so what is the same (or near) for Mac. Here, I recommend one of the best download manager for Mac users, Here’s a short review.

I recommend you iGetter a great tool for download manager in Mac. iGetter can abundantly advance the acceleration of your downloads application anecdotal (accelerated) downloading. In accession it allows auto resume on torn downloads, chain clarification by assorted criteria, scheduling downloads for low cartage periods, auto redial on torn connection, auto block and shut down on completion, and abundant more.

By affiliation with QuickTime technology iGetter allows the previewing of all accomplished video, audio and added QuickTime clear downloads (Macromedia Flash, PDF, etc.) anon in the application. In addition, iGetter shows all of the accessible book media information. (Mac adaptation only).

iGetter, just like GetRight, is a shareware programs. If you have money, I recommend you to buy it.