Useful Apps You Didn’t Know You Needed – Psst
Jan/090
I love my MacBook, I really do. I haven’t regretted buying it for even a moment. But lately, like a newlywed couple after the honeymoon is over and the bills begin to roll in, I’ve noticed one or two of my MacBook’s annoying little quirks.
Arguably, the most annoying of those quirks is the startup chime that is impossible to shut off. Most of the time it is no big deal to just ignore it, but when I’m trying to nerd out in the wee hours of the morning without leaving the side of the SO–still sleeping soundly in bed, well, you can imagine how not easy to ignore that stupid chime is.
Enter Psst. Psst does one thing, it silences that chime, both effectively and without announcing itself in any way. And really, what else does an effective application need to do.
Psst does not work with every Mac, but when it does, its great. Its running on my MacBook now, with no sign of going away.
Floaty – Afloat for OSX
Jan/090
With every day of using my not-quite-as-new-but-still-new MacBook, it seems I discover something new and interesting, especially when it comes to apps. The world of Mac apps is an as-yet untapped resource before me, and Afloat has got to be one of the downright coolest things I have found so far. You see, Afloat makes windows semi-transparent.
Sounds neat huh, but maybe not all that great by itself. What makes it great is that Afloat will also stick those semi-transparent windows in an always on top configuration, and voila, more screen real estate. Stick your IM app on top of your web browser and use both at the same time, or superimpose a video over your work and the two won’t get in each other’s way. Download it and give it a try. Its at least twice as cool as it sounds.
Netbooks and OSX Compatibility
Dec/080
Boing Boing Gadgets has a great chart out today detailing netbook compatibility with OSX. Looks like the MSI Wind and the Dell Mini 9 are the way to go now that the WiFi drivers are roaming the wild.
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