Dropzone: The Swiss Army Knife of Drag and Drop
Its only when using a PC I realise how significant drag and drop functionality is on a mac and how it is mostly intuitive. However there are times when I wish things could be simpler. Step in Dropzone.
Basically Dropzone lives in your dock and you set up various locations and send-to actions like uploading to Flickr or an FTP Server. Then it simply awaits your dragging and dropping escapades!
Autograph – Use your Multi-Touch trackpad to add your signature to emails and documents…
AUTOGRAPH
Autograph is a neat little application that lets you use your multi touch trackpad to scribble a quick signature, note or image to use in documents etc.
simple and neat.
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.
PLEX – Front Row, Watch Out!
There are lots of Front Row alternatives out there but this one is pretty damn smooth! It is skinnable and so you can customise its look. It also has many MANY codecs built in so watching most of your movies in most formats shouldn’t be too much of a problem…
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.
iMagePhone – Quickly create wallpaper for your iPhone
iMagePhone is an application available in Lite (Free) or Pro (not Free) versions. Its a very neat and quick way of making and loading wallpapers for your lovely iPhone or iPod Touch.
I, use the lite version because a) its free and b) I dont need the extra features that the pro version gives you such as quartz filters etc as I can do all that shiznit in Pixelmator which is fast becoming one of my favourite applications.
Paparazzi – Capture images of WHOLE websites
Lots of posts coming to you today…. mostly because i’m off work sick, freezing cold and bored to death!
Anyways…
Paparazzi does something that I have been looking for for a long time. It is an application that captures images of an ENTIRE webpage, no matter the size…great for bloggers or for those of you who would like to document and record the evolving states of your website.
IF YOUR RUNNING LEOPARD MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD VERSION [0.4.3] AS [0.5] DOES NOT WORK…
Below is a capture of the bbc.co.uk
HP iPrint Photo – Print Photos direct from your iPhone
This free iphone app is brilliant. It allows you to print directly to an HP printer via wifi.
Check it out…Its Free
