iPhone Backup Extractor – open and use files from an iPhone/iPod backup file…
Does exactly what it says, opens up an iPhone/iPod backup package and gives you OSX Compatible and readable files.
Lounge – My favourite Tweet app for Mac and iPhone…
Lounge is a classy set of apps for both the Mac and the iPhone, simple, ad free and easy on the eyes they are my new twitter apps of choice!
Desklickr – Flickr sourced desktops…
We all like a bit of Eye-candy on our desktops. Desklickr directly feeds desktops from FLICKR to your mac desktop.
Google Quick Search – Quicksilver lives on…
Quicksilver was one of those love or hate applications which many a mac user swore by. It was a launcher that meant your mac productivity was increased as it was kind of like spotlight on expresso…
Well although quicksilver is no longer under
Pixlr – Eat this Photoshop Express…
Dont get me wrong, Photoshop Express is pretty cool….but, its just not photoshop. Without layers and selection tools it is simply a neat way to mess around with photos. Pixlr, however, goes that one step further and provides layers and most of the tools your used to in photoshop in a neat and uncluttered layout via its website. It is flash based and so its performance will vary from machine to machine but so far for me it has not been anything other than blazingly fast. I think it even beats installed photoshop cs3 on many occasions! The good thing about Photoshop Express, however, is that you can store your images on the Adobe servers (currently up to 2gb) which is pretty natty. For me, I would rather use Pixlr and a memory stick any day!
This Application was suggested to me by my mate Dan, so thanks matey! (If you have any suggestions please do not hesitate to contact me so you can share them with the world!)
tiltshiftmaker.com – Create tiltshift images on the fly…
I have posted links to tutorials in the past on how to achieve the tilt shift lens effect on images, making your photos look like snaps of model villages. Well forget that as tiltshiftmaker.com does it for you.
You just upload your image and use the simple controls to make your own. Very easy. Very effective.
P.s. There is also an iPhone application that you can use which is pretty cool. You can get that here.
Hab.la – Add live chat to your website nice and easy…
This is nice!
Hab.la is a tiny piece of code that you can paste into your iweb website (or others) that will unlock the ability to include a live chat panel (that you can customise) on your page. The best part is that it is multi-protocol which means it works with ichat, googletalk, and loads more…….
So you can be logged in on adium and somebody visiting your website can see your online and send you a message (this is done anonymously so they will not know your chat details and username etc..) and when you respond in your favourite client (adium suggested but supported by ichat also) a live chat session is initiated…..
It sounds a lot trickier than it is but the Hab.la have included a little file to automatically install the account into your adium or ichat client.
I really like this one!
Slife – Find where those hours go…
This one is quite interesting, if not a little scary!
Slife monitors everything you do on your mac and records how long you spend doing it. Now at first this seems pretty pointless but for all you freelancers out there it could be really useful. One use could be to use it for a few projects that you undertake so you can give your client a better overview of exactly what you did, for how long etc to justify your expenses. It will also be useful for guaging your schedule of charges for your client depending on how laborious each task generally is on average.
Give it a whirl…
YourFont – Make your own handwriting into a font (free this time)
A few posts back I talked about fontifier, which in itself is very good. Thanks to the wonderful Doreen, it turns out there is a very similar service that is free! yes free!…
As with fontifier you print and fill in the template send it back and shablaaaaam…..your writing in font form….
Exquisite freebie!
Great Website Tutorials – Learn HTML and many others…
I never thought I would be saying this, but I actually found myself excited about this website…….its very dour and plain exterior doesn’t reflect its eternal usefullness. Now I dont know much about anything web designery, and that means all of my websites are made in iWeb (which I simply love by the way). Now normally an iWeb website requires no coding knowledge, but to leverage all the funky extras that I have talked about over the past three months, some HTML is very helpful.
This website has tutorials for nearly every web technology. Its arranged in small sections so you can head straight for what floats your boat.
Fill your brain!
