Scrivener is an application that can save the bacon of any fiction, non-fiction writer, journalist, editor or wordy person!
It is brilliant at keeping tabs of whats going on where and any notes and research you may have done. The killer feature for me, however, is the ability to write in fullscreen mode without distractions, just you the mac and the page!
Another MAC only gem!
Brad
Yet another great, free service. Scribd allows you to upload your documents for free. It accepts most formats and quickly converts them to iPaper, a great interactive alternative to PDF. The platform allows you to embed and share your documents with great ease.
Check it out!…
Brad
This website is brilliant for generating QR-Codes, the next generation barcode. They can be used to convey short bursts of info, contact details, websites, allsorts!
Try putting one on your business card or website!
Mobile Phones (inc the iPhone) can read and translate them into data!
Enjoy!
Hydra is amazing! (do you see a patter developing here?)
Hydra allows you to create HDR images from your photos automatically!
Best of all there is also a plugin for Aperture.
If your new to HDR or “High Dynamic Range” Wikipedia has a great page here with some examples.
Enjoy!
Riftvault is amazing!
RiftVault is a new Leopard-only secure vault application from EdgeRift that is currently available in a pre-release version. It is stunningly gorgeous and features 256-bit AES encryption to keep your private stuff from prying eyes. You can store credit card info, frequent flyer account data, passwords,
insurance information, or short notes that you don’t want to make public. Any document can be dragged into the Safe Deposit Box to be compressed and encrypted. Up to 2 GB of items can be stored in the Safe Deposit Box.
(Synopsis from TUAW)
Enjoy!
Celtx is amazing!
Basically Celtx is an application to layout scripts, prepare character backgrounds, props, locations, budgets, everything!……it allows you to back your work up to their servers for free and collaborate with other writers if you wish.
If your a writer and you don’t download anything else from this blog, this would be the one that I would say is a must.
And best of all….its 100% FREE!
Enjoy!
Pixelgirlpresents is one of those websites that hosts some strange and altogether wonderful digital artwork for your use as wallpaper for your mac or iphone.
Enjoy!
So, you’ve installed a large piece of software and you decide you no longer want it, either it doesn’t work how you’d like or you simply need the space. You simply trash the app yes?……..don’t you?
Well no, when you install many apps they also place files in other locations on your mac (especially the pro apps).
To use appzapper you simply drag the application icon on to the zapper and zapp!! the application and all associated files are sent to the trash!
This isn’t free but it does give you 5 free zaps! so use them sparingly unless you want to buy it (not very expensive anyhoo!)
Enjoy!
This is amazing – an all-in-one notes application that you can use on your mac-pc-iphone-mobile devices……it works really well and allows you to save web pages, content and pretty much anything else you fancy.
NOW WITH COMPANION IPHONE APP!
This one is cool. A great online word processor brought to you by those lovely boffins at Adobe.
Many of us have struggled to open attachments from pc users and this little gem can solve most of the problems…
“TNEF’s Enough allows Macs to read and extract files from Microsoft TNEF stream files. The files are usually received by SMTP based e-mail programs from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook users. The SMTP based e-mail program will usually receive either a MIME attachment named “winmail.dat” or a MIME attachment with the type “application/ms-tnef.”
The file is a rich text (or MAPI) message that is sent from Outlook to Exchange. When Exchange sends the message to an outside server it writes the MAPI message as a MIME attachment. The unfortunate side effect of this plan is if the Outlook user has someone in their address book as a person who can receive “Rich Text” then the user will receive the TNEF file whether the user uses Outlook or not.”
This one is great it allows you to create mini notebooks to print and customise how you see fit.
This application allows you to create some amazing morph effects between one image and another.
NO LONGER AROUND ;(
This application enables you to quickly and easily convert video for ipod, but what it also has up its sleeve is the ability to convert many video formats to quicktime video inc H.264.
Features…
- Fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format, from 3GP to XviD.
- QuickTime Pro and DivX codec not required.
- DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported.
- Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
- Automatic aspect ratio detection. Anamorphic MPEG-2 and HDV detected too.
- Quality slider. Leave it as is to trust me, mess with it if you know better, or completely ignore it and play with the…
- Advanced settings drawer. Change every aspect of the conversion process.
- Just a few of the supported formats: .mov .mp4 .avi .dv .mpg .vob .3gp .asf .wmv .flv .m4v
This little beauty allows you to play many more video types in the standard quicktime player.
Some supported video types…
•AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
•MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
•AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
•Subtitle support for SSA and SRT
This application allows you to sync any memory device to itunes, including non-ipod mp3 players!
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We all know that unless your fortunate to have a recent mac with a built in isight, webcams are an issue.
Well with the wonderful Macam…you are able to use pretty much any USB webcam.
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