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Photonator: New Photo Collection Manager Enters Public Beta

photonator - photo organizing done right Originally downloaded April 23, 2007. OK... there's not a lot to go on at this point, but the download and a smidgeon of documentation. (...)

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Live Interior 3D: New Native Mac App for Home Design

Live Interior 3D — the art of home & office design Originally downloaded April 21, 2007. (...)

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Utility Lock: Freeware Menubar Utility Provides Screen Locking with a Keystroke

Utility Lock is a custom built Screen Locking mechanism Originally downloaded April 21, 2007. How ironic! (...)

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Keyclick: Still Yearning for Audio Feedback When Typing?

Sustainable Softworks - Keyclick | Overview Originally downloaded April 21, 2007. Yeah, me too. I haven't found anything that doesn't just become annoying eventually, however, for general typing. (...)

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Searchlight: Spotlight for Your Network

Searchlight: Find and stay up to date This sounds like an idea I wish I had thought of! What a great one, too. (...)

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iBlog: Major Update to Blogging Tool in the Works

iBlog Originally downloaded April 14, 2007. I had tried the first version of iBlog and wasn't terribly impressed... it just wasn't flexible enough to interest me. (...)

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fLOW: Create Experimental Soundscapes for Ambient Music Fans

fLOW 3.4 - ambient soundscape generator Originally downloaded April 8, 2007. This sounds like a lot of fun! I wonder if I can make interesting white noise with it, too... (...)

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rooVid: Makes Publishing QuickTime Movies Even Easier!

rooVid - One video. Many destinations. Originally downloaded April 12, 2007. rooVid is now almost a year old, but hey, the web is a big place, and I'd never seen it before! (...)

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EazyDraw: Powerful Drawing and Painting Tool

EazyDraw For Mac OS X Originally downloaded April 7, 2007. I'm not sure how I missed this one when I was looking for a tool to help me envision a home addition last fall... (...)

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Apple v. Samsung: The True Story

Apple v. Samsung. Everyone who thinks Samsung got shafted and/or that the decision was wrong should read this excellent article. (...)

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JustLooking: A New Image Previewer Debuts as Freeware

Announcing JustLooking 2.0 - An Image Viewer for Mac OS X | ChipmunkNinja Originally downloaded March 15, 2007. Here's an interesting new piece of software... (...)

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Still Thinking About It: Can You Mount A Lion Virtually?

Now that I've effectively passed Lion by, I'm thinking again about whether or not to upgrade from Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). As noted in an earlier article explaining why I've avoided Lion, this is...

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TVShows: New Freeware Gathers Torrents for Your Favorite Shows

TVShows automatically downloads your favourite shows Originally downloaded May 3, 2007. Now, I'm not going to recommend TVShows, because it's illegal to torrent actual TV shows, isn't it? But wait! (...)

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MainMenu: A Menu Extra for Simple System Administration Tasks

MainMenu: Your Make-My-Day system management app! Originally downloaded March 24, 2007. (...)

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Spark: Venerable Shortcut-Manager Freeware Gets A Rewrite

Spark 3 Bêta2 Originally downloaded March 3, 2007. Spark is the second application in the "Shortcuts/Automation" category that I'm putting back on the evaluation list today. (...)

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Raskin: A Radical Finder Alternative

Raskin | Beyond Desktop. Originally downloaded September 11, 2012. Raskin is a remarkable Finder alternative that attempts to replicate the workspaces one might use on a physical desktop. (...)

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Windows 8 UI strategic mistake, argues design guru - Computerworld

Windows 8 UI strategic mistake, argues design guru - Computerworld. Excellent and detailed article about the Windows 8 user interface. (...)

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Trying To Tame Mountain Lion Without A Hat

Remember my angst about whether I should migrate my computing life to Mountain Lion? Well, that story's now over, and Mountain Lion has won. Mounting A Lion VirtuallyMore on that in a moment, but first...

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Mars Themes and OS X Mavericks

I'm sad to announce that the MarsThemes software, both commercial and free, will not be supported on Apple's newly released Mac OS X "Mavericks" operating system. This announcement will be of...

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An Audiophile Listening Room with Apple’s HomePod

Apple's HomePod has been the underdog in the "smart speakers" category since its introduction last year. It's more expensive than the offerings from Google and Amazon, and Siri doesn't seem to be as...

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Can You Fall In Love With A Watch Face?

I recently began exploring all the different faces that are now available for the Apple Watch. There are many cool options these days, but I happened upon one that I simply can't get enough of. It's...

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Balanced Article on “Smart Home” in 2020 Gives Nod to Apple for Privacy/Security

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Building Smart Automations With Apple Home, Siri Shortcuts

Over the past few months, I've had a blast building out my smart home, using Apple's Home app as the foundation. Who knew how much fun it would be making things happen in the house without having to...

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Shortcuts Nirvana: How I Accumulated 800 Shortcuts

Since writing an article on home automations and Shortcuts earlier this year, I have continued to find and make shortcuts and recently passed 800 in my library. I thought this milestone would be a good...

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Shortcuts Nirvana, Part 2

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