Archive for the 'Software' Category

Flash-Blocking for Safari on Mac OS X

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 23:31h (UTC)

Every Safari user on Mac OS X should take a look at ClickToFlash which makes your browsing through the Flash infested World Wide Web pleasant again.
Using ClickToFlash, all of those icky Flash bits that have infected most webpages on the internets are replaced with a nice, smooth gradient and the word “Flash” set in a [...]

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Reeder: A Fantastic Google Reader Client for iPhone

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 20:35h (UTC)

Recently I came across Reeder which is a great news reader for the iPhone. It uses Google Reader as a backend so it is easy to sync your feeds across multiple devices and clients (e.g. NetNewsWire on the Mac).
Reeder 1.2—which might get submitted to the app store as early as today—will be quite an update. [...]

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Delay Marking a Mail as Read in Mail.app

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 20:40h (UTC)

It always bugged me that whenever I’m deleting an e-mail in Apple’s mail client Mail.app another mail is selected and subsequently marked as read. Cmd + Shift + U became a good friend of mine. (It marks a mail as unread.)
TurePreview is a lightweight Mail.app plugin which gives you all the time you need to [...]

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Show “Tweetie for Mac” Using F-Keys

Monday, April 20th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 21:40h (UTC)

Today Tweetie for Mac was released and like any other Mac user on Twitter I had to try it on its first day.
I like to assign Twitter clients to all of my six Spaces (Mac OS X’s virtual desktops) and toggle the window using the F5 key. Tweetie for Mac didn’t allow this (bug?):

Of course [...]

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Comparing Mac Task Managers (Winner: “The Hit List”)

Sunday, April 12th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 22:12h (UTC)

My Take on Getting Things Done in the Past
Post-its. Everywhere. Small snippets of paper and an inbox full of reminder mails to myself. It worked for some time but this situation couldn’t last any longer. So I started using iCal’s and Mail’s ability to add and manage tasks. Very basic task management was fine using [...]

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Safari 4 (beta) and 1Password

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 by Daniel Gattermann at 20:27h (UTC)

When Safari 4 (beta) was officially released yesterday the whole internet noticed that our favourite password-remembering piece of software didn’t work anymore.
Just one day after this outcry by all Apple-loving geeks (and a workaround) 1Password 2.9.9 is here to save the day.

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