If you are fanatical about clean, free and simple Desktop on your Mac, there is a new free utility that can help you with that. HiddenMe lets you hide all your Desktop icons with the click of a button. After installing the free utility, a new icon is added to your Menu Bar. Click the [...]
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Free OS X app: ‘Safebox’ encrypts your files before uploading to Dropbox
February 16, 2012
I don’t know if you’ve read it or not, but it appears that Twitter stores the contacts of your iPhone for a period of 18 months and Apple also freely gives application developers access to iPhone contacts. WTF! We have no idea what degree of privacy we have -or don’t have- when we use services [...]
Free tool for Mac blocks your keyboard while you clean it: KeyboardCleanTool
February 15, 2012
Although Apple rejected this simple toll and dismissed it for not being very useful, I think that this KeyboardCleanTool is actually VERY useful. I don’t know how often you clean your Mac’s keyboard, but I work with it, eat on it, and I generally clean it once a week. What happens if you clean it [...]
Keep your Mac fast and responsive with free iBoostUp
February 12, 2012
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Mac computers are great machines but they are not infallible nor maintenance free. Overtime your Mac will become slower and possibly unresponsive if you don’t run some maintenance tools that will purge bulky, unneeded and old files. iBoostUp is a free utility from Codeius that will optimize your Mac’s System File, fix your hard disk, [...]
How to free RAM on your Mac with one click: FreeMemory
February 8, 2012
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When you see the beach ball spinning on your Mac, it’s not the computer taking a break to think what to do next, and it’s also not telling you it’s time to go to the beach, but you are probably out of free RAM. The other day a friend came to visit and he was [...]
Set mouse and Trackpad to different speeds with free SmoothCursor
February 7, 2012
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If with your Mac you use both a trackpad and an optical mouse, you have probably notched that there’s no way you can have the cursor speed and acceleration of the mouse and trackpad, different from each others. Thankfully someone else noticed it and made a simple but very useful app that allows you to [...]
Firefox 10 released. Download links
January 31, 2012
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It took years for Firefox to get to version 4 and then within 9 months they’ve released 6 versions of the popular browser…I don’t know if I like this 6 weeks release schedule! Mozilla announced the release of its Firefox 10 that is already available for Mac and Windows users from the company’s website. Direct [...]
February 18, 2012
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