Category: Application Reviews
DragonDrop Review: Simplify Moving Files in OS X
DragonDrop helps Mac users move their files around in finder with a creative tool that sits in your Menu Bar and activates when you need it. It acts like a temporary shelf to store your files so you can find the new folder to drop them. Let me show you how it works. Open a [...]
AirFoil Streams Audio From Your Mac or PC to Apple TV
If you have an Apple TV, you’ve no doubt used it to stream audio, like Pandora, to your home theater, but there is no Apple provided way to stream music from your MacBook or Notebook to your Apple TV or AirPlay speakers. Enter AirFoil, an AirPlay solution that lets you stream any audio from your [...]
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Dockview Brings Live Windows Style Previews to Mac Doc Icons [Review]
For those of us jumping from Windows to a Mac, one feature I miss from Windows 7 is the live previews that the OS shows you as you hover over the taskbar icons. With Dockview you can now have those Windows Style Live Previews of your open applications. The simple utility will run in the [...]
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PandaBar Adds Pandora to Menu Bar and Brings Keyboard Media Controls [Mac]
If you use Pandora on a regular basis, you need to download PandaBar right now. PandaBar is a Mac App that brings Pandora to your Mac menu bar, but it doesn’t stop there. In addition to moving Pandora out of your browser, it also supports keyboard shortcuts for media playback and the Apple remote. The app runs [...]
CrashPlan+ Review: Backup Online or With a Friend
CrashPlan is an interesting online backup tool that delivers a trio of backup options to keep your data safe. Best of all, two of these options are completely free and the paid service, CrashPlan+, is competitively priced. What is CrashPlan? CrashPlan offers automatic online backups, like competitors Mozy and Carbonite, but in addition to allowing you to [...]
SnapNDrag Pro Shoots Mac OS X Screenshots With Ease, Beats Preview
For software trainers, reviewers, teachers or anyone else who takes screenshots on a Mac, the built-in Preview tool is upstaged by a simple new utility in the Mac App Store called SnapNDrag Pro. We take a lot of screenshots and find the built-in Preview tool acceptable, but it has some weaknesses. Preview lets users create a [...]
Reeder for Mac Makes RSS a Pleasure
Reeder for Mac (spelled with ee instead of ea) is a $10 front end app that connects to your Google Reader account, delivering a more elegant interface, better sharing functionality and an overall better Google Reader experience. Before you ask, Reeder for Mac is definitely worth the $10 price for anyone who uses Google Reader on a daily [...]
How to Tell Which GPU Your MacBook Pro is Using and Manually Choose Your GPU with gfxcardstatus
If you ever want to know which graphics card your Apple MacBook Pro is using, then gfxcardstatus is the perfect utility. The MacBook Pro has what is called switchable or dynamic switching graphics. When your system needs a lot of graphics processing power for things like video encoding, picture editing or especially gaming, the computer switches from lowered [...]
AutoPainter HD Makes Art out of iPad 2 Pictures
AutoPainter HD is a photography app for the iPad. It uses the pictures you have on your iPad or that you take with your iPad 2 and transforms them into what looks like paintings. It is a fun app that can save those pictures you hoped would be beautiful, but didn’t turn out because of [...]
Dragon Dictate for Mac Good for Simple Dictation Only
Dragon Dictate 2.0 for Mac from Nuance is a speech recognition program that allows the user to enter text using a microphone instead of a keyboard. I first attempted to use Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows more than a decade ago. At that time the speech recognition engine was about 85-90% accurate to my best recollection. [...]
