The Big Mac Blog

Tank Buddy – A Fish Keepers Best Friend!

Big Mac Blog — Sun, 30 May 2010 22:39:02 +0000

Now bare with me on this one, this is only going to appeal to those of you who keep fish as pets, like me! With this app you can keep tabs on water quality, ph etc and remind yourself when you need to replace water etc.

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Vidalia – Tor anonymiser for Mac

Big Mac Blog — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:32:06 +0000

With the worlds creepy net authorities breathing down our necks and online security more and more of worry there are ways of making sure that your presence online is not traced back to you. Now i’m not advocating gaining acess in to DARPA or something like that but if you would like to feel safer and give lord (Darth) Mandelson the middle finger then download Vidalia. Open. Run. Enjoy.

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Erm….sorry I have been away…but I’m back!

Big Mac Blog — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:20:33 +0000

So it has been a six month hiatus. My only excuse is that I have been uber busy and have not had the money to keep running BMB. I renewed my hosting and domain name but will not be able to keep up the payments in perpetuity and thats where you come in.

Basically if you need hosting or know anyone else who does, I have secured an amazing deal from justhost. Just click on the banner in the sidebar to the left to see whats on offer at the moment. Everything is unlimited and amazingly priced but more importantly their support is second to none which makes them ideal to those of you who have never had their own host before.

Okay, marketing over, I am now back on it big time and will be flooding more cool apps and mac things your way, as always, mostly free, but always cool.

Brad

MagicPrefs: Make your Magic Mouse Spectacular!

Big Mac Blog — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:14:22 +0000

The new Magic Mouse is a mighty fine bit of kit. Oddly enough, despite only having a couple of gestures enabled, the Magic Mouse is full multi touch enabled.

MagicPrefs enables tons of new features, my favourite being able to assign the apple logo as a button!

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Scribus: Page layout for Mac for Free!

Big Mac Blog — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:44:34 +0000

Scribus is an open source project for basic desktop publishing and offers some great advanced features albeit in a slightly cumbersome and aesthetically functional package.

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Burn: Burn DVD’s and CD’s with ease and for free

Big Mac Blog — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:29:39 +0000

Although not as sophisticated as applications such as Roxio’s Toast, Burn is one simple and useful application for making various format discs that is completely free. Isn’t that lovely?

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Carbon Copy Cloner: Clone, Copy and Backup your data…..tasty!

Big Mac Blog — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:25:39 +0000

Carbon Copy Cloner has been around for quite some time now but that has not diminished quite how useful this application can be. Its especially useful for making a completely cloned copy of drive and has got me out of trouble many a time. In its latest iteration it has a simplified interface and really feels like a premium application rather than the freeware that it has always been!

Enjoy.

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Dropzone: The Swiss Army Knife of Drag and Drop

Big Mac Blog — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:43:35 +0000

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!

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Autograph – Use your Multi-Touch trackpad to add your signature to emails and documents…

Big Mac Blog — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:27:57 +0000

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.

CLICK HERE

Bodega – An App Store for Macs

Big Mac Blog — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:12:32 +0000

BODEGA – An App Store for your mac.

We have all been wowed by the success of the app store for the iPhone so it was only a matter of time before someone came up with something for mac software.

Bodega lists some of the best apps available for macs, whilst not quite delivering the app store experience (you have to visit the individual sites to purchase) it certainly is easy to use and attractive.

check it out.

CLICK HERE