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NEWS: Yahoo Widget Engine Updated!
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I'm jumping up and down with joy. Really, I am! The Yahoo Widget Engine (Konfabulator) has been updated for Leopard! Finally, I can have all my widgets back!
On the downside, it's only 35 degrees here in Chicago and I'm freezing my gluteus maximus off.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, November 29 @ 21:33:21 MST
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NEWS: LiteIcon Beta for Leopard
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Ugh! I'm so bummed. LiteIcon has been updated for Leopard, and the reviews at Macupdate say it works... but it's not working for me (and it's all about me!). You're luck will probably be better. If you think you have a solution fo me, let me know!
Update: As Cletus™ is always telling me, I am a dork. I was inadvertantly launching an old version of LiteIcon. After finding the new one, everything works great!
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, November 27 @ 04:27:34 MST
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NEWS: Dragthing Updates with Tweaks, Kills Bugs
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The King of all Dock Apps, Dragthing, has received an update to provide some tweaks for Leopard and kill a few bugs. One of my favorite new features is the "No Glass" theme that matches Apple's last minute change to their Dock when it's stuck on the side (see my snapshot below).
Another tweak provides a preference for Spaces that allows you to tag specific docks for specific Spaces.
In my snapshot, Apple's Dock is pinned to the right, and 4 Dragthing docks are at the lower left.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, November 01 @ 10:23:19 MDT
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NEWS: Unsanity Talks Leopard Updates.
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In a weekend blog post, Unsanity's Slava discusses updates for many of his company's software products.
It's been a while we have posted something on this blog. I plan on
changing this over next few weeks. ;) For now, we'd like to shed some
light on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility, install issues, and life,
universe and everything. First and foremost, we are actively working on the Leopard compatibility for all our haxies...
Read more at Unsanity.org.
Posted by coyle on Monday, October 29 @ 04:10:00 MDT
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NEWS: "Picture Switcher" Caught Taking Steroids.
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The lab results are in: Picture Switcher 2.0 is a desktop picture application on steroids! In addition to the all the options you get with Apple's Desktop System Preference, you can apply Core Image effects to every desktop.
I've been running it and it takes all your old desktops and makes then new when you apply a few filters. Click the preview to see some of the available filters and visit the Picture Switcher website to read about more features and download a demo. For the next couple of weeks, it's ten bucks cheaper at $20.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, September 27 @ 04:45:00 MDT
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NEWS: Pixelmator is Black.
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I admit back in June, I was cynical that Pixelmator would be released. Anyone want to help me get my foot out of my mouth?
I downloaded the new graphics app and gave it a spin around the block. For $59, it's great. The menus look very familiar (cough-photoshop-cough), so you can move around quickly! Download the demo of Pixelmator and try it for yourself!
My one small complaint is the omnipresent transparency of the toolbars. Maybe it's my old rock-n-roll eyes, but if there is anything on your desktop, the bleed-though makes it tough to see the tools. Click the preview below to see what I mean.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, September 27 @ 04:30:00 MDT
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NEWS: New Shapeshifter!
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Hey, listen up! Unsanity has released an update to Shapeshifter that not only fixes a lot of bugs, but themes Safari 3. Did you hear me: THEMES SAFARI 3! Below is a list of what's new. Grab it and then visit the Theme Archive and beautifinacious your Mac.
- ShapeShifter no longer causes instabilities when used with Apple's Pro applications.
- ShapeShifter now works properly with beta versions of Safari 3.
- Cocoa pull-down menus now use the correct text color when pressed.
- Cocoa box titles now use the correct text color.
- guiTweak now presents a more informative error dialog when an insurmountable error prevents tweaking from concluding properly.
- ShapeShifter now honor's Camino's "CAMINO_DISABLE_HACKS" environment variable.
- The preference pane no longer erroneously states that new version
"(null)" is available when an internet connection is present, but is
unreliable.
- ShapeShifter now properly handles OS versions with a bugfix number greater than 9 (e.g., OS X 10.4.10).
- Windows bmp "magic pink" transparency conversion now works properly on x86 machines.
- Adding a new guiKit to the ShapeShifter prefpane no longer causes
the names of guiKits that are available to all users on the computer to
disappear from the ShapeShifter prefpane.
- Resolved an obscure issue that could cause applications to crash occasionally when ShapeShifter is loaded.
P.S. I think the fact that Safari 3 can now be themed bodes well for the themeing of Leopard. Maybe someone running 10.5 can install Shapeshifer 2.5 and let us know in the Comments what happened.
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, September 12 @ 09:55:08 MDT
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NEWS: 24 iTunes Controllers Evaluated.
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Musings from Mars took the time to run two dozen iTunes controllers through their paces and reports on what he found. This very detailed article is a must read for anyone with iTunes.
Umm... that should be everyone.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, August 16 @ 05:15:00 MDT
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NEWS: Shhhh... RAILhead Posts Some Leopard Picts
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Maury McCown at RAILhead Design has posted a handful of Mac OS X 10.5 pictures on his site showing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I hope Apple fixes some of the more glaring problems before 10.5 ships in October.
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, July 17 @ 05:25:00 MDT
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NEWS: Need a New Chum?
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My buddy Bill Cochran sent a link to Chumby, your new digital buddy. Using your wifi network and desktop computer, you program Chumby with a playlist of widgets that display traffic, weather, and the all important celebrity gossip!
At around $200 it's an expensive alarm clock, but if you need a never ending stream of info while drinking your morning coffee, then snap up a Chumby. (It reminds me of those advertising LCD screens in elevators which I'm convinced suck your brains out.)
Posted by coyle on Monday, July 16 @ 07:51:37 MDT
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NEWS: Panoramio and Google Earth
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Last night I was bouncing around on Google Earth and I noticed a bunch of extra blue dots on the map. Linked to each dot was a photo someone had taken of that area. In downtown Chicago, there were hundreds of dots by dozens of photographers!
At the end of May, Google acquired a company called Panoramio, a photo archive specifically created to link with Google Earth. Previous to the acquisition, users could only view their linked images on the site, of by adding a KML file to Google Earth, but now the 2 million photos are part of Google's standard information stream.
Last night as a test, I uploaded about a dozen pictures to the site. Within the next month, these photos will be merged into Google Earth, until then you can view them on Panoramio of download the KML file.
Viewing any photo also shows pictures taken by others in the same area. It's really a brilliant idea and I'm going to make sure my next digital camera has build in GPS!
 Click Preview to enlarge.
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, July 11 @ 08:26:58 MDT
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NEWS: Mac+ Interviews Everaldo
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If you ask a Mac user about icons the name Iconfactory will quickly enter the conversation. On the Linux side of the world, the word icons is synonymous with Everaldo, the creator of the Crystal series of icons. Mac+ magazine interviewed the artist about his business (Yellow Icon), how he got started and what he thinks the future holds.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, July 05 @ 07:35:00 MDT
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NEWS: LiteIcon Updates
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System icon replacement tool, LiteIcon, has updated to version 1.2.2 which adds drag-and-drop support for Pixadex.
Umm... this news story is kinda short so let me pad it by saying I hope the White Sox sweep the Cubs this weekend.
Posted by coyle on Friday, June 22 @ 08:09:07 MDT
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NEWS: iStat: Not Just for Dashboard Anymore
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The longtime favorite Dashboard Widget, iStat, is now a standalone ap that resides in the menubar. There are eight MenuExtras, each with its own set of preferences.
Posted by coyle on Thursday, June 21 @ 09:45:53 MDT
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NEWS: Jump Through a few Hoops for Free Bryce 5.5
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You can get a fully functional copy of Bryce 5.5 for free if you're willing to jump through a few hoops. First, go to Download.com and grab the Mac version (a link to the Windows version is also there).
Before you can run the installer, you need a serial number from daz3d. This requires you to create an account, so get the sacrificial email address out. When you run the installer, it will prompt you to install some component from daz3d. I decined and the process continued.
So now I have a fully functional copy of Bryce which I have no idea how to use, but hey, it was free! If you are an artist who does know how to use Bryce, the daz3d site has a link for a $20 upgrade to version 6.1.
Ya know, the Rendered area of the Download Section is the only one without any contributions. Why don't you grab Bryce and show me what you can do!
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, June 19 @ 09:05:59 MDT
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NEWS: Plasq Beta Tests Skitch.
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M2 contributor, macjac, is very excited about the next software release from Plasq, the company that brought us Comic Life.
"plasq Skitch - allows users to clip an image or to create their own, edit it in a
number of ways (such as adding notations, color, text and more), change the format to suit its intended purpose (jpeg, gif, png, pict, and so forth...), and then upload to the web, or forum, or simply save it to your Personal Archive.
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
All the links are then saved to a History which Keeps Track of preivious links for UPDATING!
CHECK IT OUT!"
See, I told you she was excited. Take a look at this video and you'll understand why. Skitch looks pretty revolutionary. Sign up for the beta program and read more info here.
Posted by coyle on Monday, June 18 @ 08:00:00 MDT
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NEWS: TabMeister Released at Pangea.
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What are you doing right now? (Oh yeah, you're reading this.)
Well stop for a minute and head over to Pangea Software and download a demo of TabMeister. It's an easy to use utility for adding tabs around the border of your desktop. The tabs contain links to apps or documents on your Mac.
The program sports the new iPhone-ish look and costs $14.95. (Umm... don't forget to come back here when you're done.)
Posted by coyle on Tuesday, June 05 @ 11:22:47 MDT
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NEWS: Pixelmator on the Horizon.
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M2 reader nerg dropped a line to mention Pixelmator, a soon to be released graphics editiing application from the two bothers who founded Jumsoft.
The Pixelmator user interface is derived from Apple's Heads Up Display
as seen in iPhoto among other things. The screenshots look beautiful
and TUAW has a video
pf the app in action, but I must admit my concern. Pixelmator relies
heavily on third party technologies (ImageMagick, Cairo, Sparkle, and
Automator), several of which are Open Source. What will happen over
time to an application built like this as these various elements
receive updates? We won't have to wait long to find out. Pixelmator is
scheduled for release this month at a price of $39. (TUAW) Pixelmator Specs.
Posted by coyle on Friday, June 01 @ 07:57:29 MDT
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NEWS: Amazing Photographer
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Melissa recommends you visit the website of Margot Quan Knight. These photos feature the human form and represent the artist's perception of loneliness, exuberance and wonder.
Posted by coyle on Wednesday, May 30 @ 09:01:37 MDT
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NEWS: Human Interface Guidelines
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Anonymous writes "nergalicious points to an ambitious project to Wiki-fy and update Apples Human Interface Guide. While primarily for developers, there is a lot to be learned about icon design and weight, and in the example of iTunes skinning, how not to mix GUI elements!
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Posted by coyle on Wednesday, May 30 @ 05:34:14 MDT
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