News 14.11.006
- Potion Factory Blog We’re proud to announce the beta release of Tangerine, our third application. Tangerine lets you easily create playlists with upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. It does that by analyzing the BPM and beat intensity of the songs in your iTunes library. As mentioned in the previous post, it analyzes the songs blazingly fast to the tune of more than 3 per second (on an 1.83 Ghz Core Duo iMac). The amazing thing is that just copying those files actually takes longer on my iMac.
- usethis.com: Free Software for the mac population iusethis.com is a new way for you to organize your applications as well as discover new ones. You can also use it to check if your apps are up-to-date.
- O’Reilly Network Weblogs: Quartz Composer iSight Prank I had a nightmare where someone turned on my iSight and started spying on me.
- Acqualia - World of Where The principal feature of World of Where is the test in which your geographical knowledge is quizzed. When clicking test you will be greeted with a map swept clean of words and prompted to complete a geographical knowledge quiz; a very effective way of learning your geographical knowledge.
- iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from a compatible source (like a microphone) as well as any audio from the mac itself. Have you ever been in the situation where you wanted to show someone what was going on, but couldn’t? Either the person is not right next to you, not around, in another country (the list goes on). Now just record what you’re doing and what you want to say, and stick it in an email!
- Apple - Mac OS X - Automator Accomplish all of your time-consuming, repetitive manual tasks quickly, efficiently and effortlessly with Automator Workflows. It’s simple to create custom Workflows just by dragging items, pointing and clicking. Perform the task once using your Automator Workflow or many times — even share Workflows with friends. Address Book logo You can easily automate tasks such as renaming a large group of files, resizing dozens of images to fit an iPhoto slideshow or creating iCal birthday events using Address Book contacts, then repeat those tasks again and again. Simple and easy-to-understand application Actions are the building blocks, so you don’t have to write any code. Each Action has all of the options and settings you need. You don’t have to work hard to figure out how to make it work.
- gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet.
- Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.


