F.lux App
F.lux makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
Vagrant
Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments.
By providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox, Vagrant provides the tools to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable virtual environments.
Happy newyear internet
Even though it is still in beta, if you have need for any RSS reader on the Mac, I’d check out this one. It’s as wonderful as it’s iPhone and iPad counterparts and the first non-Apple app that I’m aware of to take on the new design direction Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) is heading in.
Sparrow Beta 5
Labels! Here they are!
Thanks for your patience.
Label implementation on Beta 5 is really basic but be sure that we will add a lot more useful features in the next release.
Sparrow Beta 5 will begin a new full sync between your gmail account and your Mac. Labels will be the last thing to sync so don’t panic if they don’t show up right away.
The app should be syncing for some time at first launch. We had to do this in order to improve Sparrow’s behavior and overhaul performance.
New features
- Labels
- Quicklook on attachments
- Save Cc/Bcc state
- Click on a sidebar icon (inbox, favorite…) get you to the top of the list
- ‘Move to inbox’ from archive and search sections
- Memorize main window size
- Attachments saved in ‘downloads’ folder
Shortcuts
- Cmd + Enter for send
- Esc to close the window
- Space to open/close a message in the message list
- Open link in background (cmd + click)
General improvements
- ‘Me’ in conversations
- CPU/ memory usage
- Scroll speed
UI
- New toolbar
- New message list buttons
- New sounds
- Label and alias icons in preferences
- New selected cell color
Bug fix
- Single account alias
- Avatar transparency
- Email auto-scrolling to the bottom bug
- Sending issues
- Removing account crash
We’ve done a lot more than what you see in Beta 5. We’ve got to surprise you with Sparrow 1.0.
Beta 6 will be the last Beta. After this, Sparrow will go 1.0.
Thanks for following.
(Source: sparrowmail)
Awesome Mac OSX tool - Alfred.app
I have in my ~3 years with a mac, tried alot of different applaunchers, from osx’s internal spotlight, over Google Quick Search Bar and Quicksilver.
QSB and Quicksilver have a lot of features, but neither of them is as well designed as the brand new Alfred.app which is build by Andrew Pepperrell.
AlfredApp is just launched in a .7beta release, which is so packed with features:
The app also contains a ‘Powerpack’ feature, which could be enabled if you buy the app (£12) (all 0.x and 1.x updates will then be free). When this feature is enabled you are getting a lot of features - with alot more to come.
* Launch apps with a few clicks
* Search the web (Google, Amazon, Wikipedia etc.)
* Open or find a document, image or other file on your filesystem, in your favorite app (press tab and see more info)
* Do calculations
* Spellcheck your writings
* Manage your files (open, delete, copy, move, email etc)
* Control iTunes - see Covers, search, play, pause etc.
* Make your own custom shortcuts (searches, post to twitter, open websites etc.)
Upcoming features:
* Clipboard history
* AppleScript actions
* Address book integration
* Web service integration
* 3rd party integration
The app is so amazing, fast, no delays when browsing and very nice designed.
Set your screensaver as background in OSX
Have you ever wanted to set a screensaver as your desktop background? Well that’s a horrible idea for more reasons than I care to list. However, it turns out that it’s perfectly possible. Just use the following command in Terminal:
Rest In Peace - Ronnie James Dio passed away at 7:45am 16th May 2010.
Google Analytics with new features
The latest version of the Analytics tracking code offers an improved way to track website visitors with Google Analytics. It takes advantage of browser support for asynchronous JavaScript to enhance the speed in which the tracking code is loaded. With this version of the tracking code, you can also place the Analytics snippet higher in the page without delaying subsequent content from rendering.
1. Place the code as the last bit of the <head> section of your page
2. Modify the UA-XXXXX-X with your key.
