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atMonitor – The most advanced system monitor for your Mac.

By Luke On Jul 6, 2009 Apple | Featured | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments

Not to long ago I was in search of a system monitor that was able to monitor the temperature of my graphics card. I would have settled for an app that did only that but I was fortunate enough to stumble upon atMonitor. atMonitor, Developed by atPurpose, is a full featured system monitor.
atMonitorpreview

atMonitor has the following features:

CPU Monitoring [Load and Temp]
GPU Monitoring [Load and Temp]
VRAM and FPS Monitoring
Hard Drive I/O
Network I/O
Monitoring of the top 3 resource hungry apps.
Logging and saving of all data to XML files.

One of the key features of atMonitor is high level of customization allowed. Layout options include horizontal and vertical layouts, different font sizes, transparency and more. In addition, you can choose to utilize atMonitor’s Dock icon to display one resource of your choice. If you prefer, you can choose to have atMonitor display its “activity viewer” in the menu bar to save screen real estate.

Some features require a newer graphics card and atMonitor currently requires OS X 10.5

You download and learn more about atMonitor here.

Out Now: Camino 1.6.8

By Luke On Jun 22, 2009 Apple | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments

Camino, Defined as Mozilla Power, Mac Style. It brings together the best of both worlds. This recent release brings a few new and exciting features to the table.

Toolbar Search – Sites with OpenSearch plug-ins are discovered automatically and are easy to add to the toolbar search box
Find Bar – The new Find Bar allows for incremental find and puts previous and next buttons right at your finger tips
Improved Tabs – The new scrolling tab bars provides easy access to your tabs
Auto-Update – When a new release is available, Camino will offer you the option of automatically downloading and installing it

Other new features include enhanced AppleScript support, automatic feed detection, and session saving.

To check out all of the new features that Camino has to offer by going to caminobrowser.org/features

You can download version 1.6.8 of Camino Here.

Beak – An innovative Mac only twitter client

By Luke On Jun 19, 2009 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments

Beak With no shortage of available twitter clients, its nice to see something new and innovative come to the market. Whats right for someone isn’t always right for everyone else so it pays to be constantly checking out new clients. Today we are going to give you a little peak at the up coming Beak twitter client developed by Mike Rundle.

Beak [UB][10.5] has many exciting and useful features. I’ll try and give you a good idea of what they are in this post. If you want to learn about every little feature beaks offers I really suggest you give it a try for yourself. Download Beak Here.

flickery 1.1

By Luke On Apr 23, 2009 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments

flickery is a unique desktop flickr client for Mac OS X 10.5 which combines the flickr photo-community with the ease-of-use and elegance of Mac OS X.

With flickery, you can easily upload photos to your flickr photostream (you can even take pictures right inside the application with your built-in iSight or screenshots of your desktop), organize photos in photosets and groups, browse your Favorites and add to them, check out the gorgeous photos available in “Explore”, take a look at your contacts’ photos, their photosets and favorites. flickery even features basic photo editing capabilities like resizing, cropping, rotating or running filters on them

flickery 1.1 features sharing of photos through iChat Theater and Twitter, interface- and speed-improvements and lots of bug fixes.

Requires OS X 10.5

Get the 15 day free trial here. ($19.20 to purchase)

Chrome now closer to your desktop; Gets Cocoa shell.

By Luke On Mar 29, 2009 Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: app, beta, Google, OS X, Software/Freeware

In what appears to be a step closer to a beta release, Ars has revealed that Google’s praised browser is now even closer to becoming a realization for OS X users.

Now, as much as an avid Firefox supporter as I am, the amount of time and effort Google is pushing into this release makes me feel like Chrome is going to be able to hit the ground running. The day this browser is released will be the day it will go head to head with Firefox for the default browser spot on my Mac.

You can find the full story here at ArsTechnica.

Fontcase 1.1

By Luke On Mar 28, 2009 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: 10.5, OS X, Software/Freeware

Drachten, Netherlands – Bohemian Coding is proud to announce Fontcase 1.1, a free update to the new Font Manager with an intuitive and uncluttered interface. While it may look simplistic, there’s is a lot features built in, and with Fontcase 1.1 you can even extend the application yourself with plug-ins if there are features you’re missing.

Fontcase focusses on metadata, and for every font and weight, you can add a wide variety of metadata. You can set tags, genres, assign designers and foundries and much more. They are not just pieces of text, but actually show up in the source list and in Fontcase 1.1 supported languages will now also show up there just like your tags and genres and you can now create smart collections based on the number of activations and when you last activated a font.

Other new features include badges in the sidebar, an updated info pane and more speed. Also, Fontcase now accepts and activates a lot more fonts than before and we fixed several bugs in version 1.1.

New features include:
* A versatile plug-in architecture to extend Fontcase in numerous ways
* Fontcase now analyzes the languages a font supports
* More metadata for when a font was activated and the number of times it was activated
* Badges show the number of fonts in a collection
* Fontcase can now analyze and activate a lot more fonts now
* A redesigned info panel
* Several bugfixes

Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X Version 10.5 or higher
* Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel

You can give the App a try with the full featured demo or buy it now for $55.

Experience the next dimension in sound.

By Luke On Mar 27, 2009 Apple | Media | Software/Freeware 4 4 Comments Tags: 10.5, Apple, audio, OS X, Software/Freeware

GenAudio recently released AstoundStereo Expander 1.2. AstoundStereo Expander is a program that essentially enhances and expands you current stereo sound.

AstoundStereo is a 4D sound experience using only two audio channels, such as headphones or laptop speakers. It processes all digital audio on your laptop or desktop computer in real-time utilizing AstoundSound technology to enhance the audio in your existing music, movie and game collections.

I gave this little program a test drive last night while watching Quantum of Solace. (Note: I was using a 2.1 external sound system from AlTec Lansing. Your experience may differ.) I toggled it on and off while watching and re-watching certain parts of the movie. For the most part it did a pretty good job of actually making it sound better. The difference wasn’t drastic but it was a pleasant improvement from what I was used to.

This seems very similar to Dolby’s 5.1 Stereo Headphone Technology.

You can try out the demo for free our pick up a full copy for $39.95
astoundstereo.com

App Review: iBench 1.0.4

By Luke On Mar 24, 2009 Apple | Software/Freeware 0 No Comments Tags: 10.5, app, OS X, PPC, Software/Freeware

iBench is a synthetic benchmark program for the Mac OS X operating system. It is constituted by 21 tests (12 of integer workload and 9 of floating point) of real usage that allow to check and compare the CPU and memory performance of your Mac.

iBench is a Universal Binary and works seamlessly on 32- and 64-bit Macs and on both Intel and PowerPC Macs.

The only requirements are 512 MB of RAM or more and Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”.

Best of all it’s freeware. So, if you are looking to compare the performance of your Mac against other Macs, I suggest you give this nice little app a try.

Download and more info Here.

Camino 2 Beta 2 Now Available.

By Luke On Mar 1, 2009 Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments Tags: app, beta, OS X, Software/Freeware

While still not overly stable, the new beta of Camino can give you a good idea of what to expect in the finished product. The Mozilla based web browser for OS X has improved tabbed browsing and also implemented Growl support for download notification. camino Other new features includes:

Optional flash animation blocking on a per site basis
Tab rearrangement through drag and drop
Gecko 1.9 rendering engine for faster graphic rendering and compatibility

Camino has aspects of both Safari and Firefox which make for excellent usability and even better design.

If you are interested in learning even more of what Camino has to offer check it out here. Camino 2 Preview

A few thoughts on Safari 4 Beta.

By Luke On Feb 27, 2009 Apple | Software/Freeware | Web 2.0.fuTurE 0 No Comments Tags: app, Apple, beta, OS X, Software/Freeware

I have been using Safari Beta 4 for close to 48 forty-eight hours now. While not blowing my mind wide open, it does offer a few useful features.

Cover Flow, while useful in iTunes, finds a way to be even more useful as a web browser feature. Cover Flow in Safari allows you to visually search your bookmarks and history, a welcomed feature for someone like me who tends to forget names much easier then faces.
Top Sites. While not being incredibly useful, is in my opinion, much better then a static home page. The ability for it to inform you of which pages have changed since you lasted visited them is a nice RSS-esque feature.
Nitro Engine. While totally having a lame name, it’s always nice to be able to load the many pages of the www just that much faster.

So, as LeVar Burton would say: You don’t have to take my word for it. Check it out for yourself. Apple.com/Safari

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