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Free CodeWeavers Crossover Mac Professional Version !
The folks over at CodeWeavers are giving out FREE LICENSES for their excellent CrossOver Mac / Linux Professional Edition (worth USD$70!!) as part of their Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge which met one of its goal. The offer is only valid for one day, today 28 October 2008 23:59 (Midnight) Central Standard Time only.
CrossOver [...]
Firefox Mobile - Fennec
Not to be confused with the Portable version of Firefox, Fennec is a Mozilla’s latest mobile web browser which was released as Alpha for the Maemo platform used on the Nokia Internet Table N810. Later releases will include more platforms but the current release already shows many promising features borrowed from its heavy weight desktop [...]
Screen Sharing Desktops from Leopard using VNC
I’ve been using Chicken of the VNC for a while now but just found out recently that Leopard has a VNC client built into it known as Screen Sharing. Screen Sharing isn’t a standalone application but rather part of the Connect to Server utility in Finder.
Screen Captures in Leopard
Leopard offers several useful built-in utility to grab a screenshot which I find that I’ve been doing a lot lately. So mastering these shortcuts will really save you time. Lets start with the basics.
OpenOffice 3.0
Looks like our favorite open sourced office suite has finally hit the big 3. The release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 was just recently announced on the official website. While I managed to download it from one of their Japanese mirrors two days before the official announcement , it seems that the official site is struggling to [...]
Feeling the heat on your Mac?
smcFanControl lets you control the fans of all the new Intel-based Macs to keep them cool. When I first started my MacBook Pro, I’ve had temperature spikes up to 65°C. You can hardly call it a laptop at that temperature. Once I installed smcFanControl and increased the default fan speed, it has dropped to a [...]
Google Top Draw
Google has just released an interesting image generation software that uses Javascript and Apple’s Quartz and CoreImage rendering engine to produce trippy images like the one below.
You can use it to replace your desktop background and there’s also a screensaver mode that will draw the images randomly based on the scripts that they have provided [...]
Google Chrome for MacOSX CrossOver Chromium
Well, it sure didn’t take long for the folks at CodeWeavers to whip out a MacOSX port of the most talked about browser this season, Google Chrome. CrossOver Chromium is essentially a build of Google’s Chromium project that runs natively on MacOSX and various Linux distribution based on their Wine emulation API. Since its not [...]
Caffeine
Having problems keeping your Mac awake during those long presentations ? Or you just didn’t want the screen dimming to kick in. Well, give your Mac some Caffeine and that ought to do the trick. Caffeine is a nifty free utility that stays in your menu bar and allows you disable screensaver, sleep and screen [...]