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• Move BBEdit's Documents Drawer to the Other Side I've begun using BBEdit as my primary text editor, as Smultron is no longer being updated, and isn't quite working right for me in Snow Leopard.
• Business Center Briefs: Jumsoft Overhauls Keynote Themes Add-on maker Jumsoft has overhauled its bundle of themes for Apple's Keynote presentation software, unveiling Keynote Quartet FX '10 on Tuesday. The updated...
• Ten Quick Calculator Tricks The lowly Calculator sits there in your Applications folder. It's so unassuming you barely notice that it has menus and little interface details that make it not...
• Quicksilver Beta 57 Released, Not Dead Yet Fans of the launcher-and-do-everything utility Quicksilver have been concerned for a while that it had might have transformed into a Norwegian Blue parrot. The...
• Airlock Uses Your IPhone to Secure Your Mac The MHA, a Kentucky-based software company with a name that can be tough to work into sentences, released Airlock on Tuesday. Airlock unlocks your Mac when you...
• Troubleshoot Windows Remotely Over the Net Microsoft's Internet-based remote-access tools let you quickly fix Windows problems on far-away PCs. Here's how to use them.
• 10 Free Downloads for Your Laptop With these no-cost tools for syncing data, monitoring battery life, working with wireless networks, and using a thumb drive, you can get the most out of your laptop or netbook.
• Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Speed, Simplicity, and Security Stressed Google demonstrated for the first time its Google Chrome OS, a Web-centric operating system set to be officially released late 2010.
• Agile Web Solutions Releases 1Password 3 Everybody bring out the noisemakers, confetti, and party poppers. Fresh out of public beta, the one-stop password-managing shop known as Agile Web...
• EMC Brings Avamar Backup to PCs, Macs EMC is extending its Avamar backup software to desktop and laptop PCs and Macs.
• Bugs & Fixes: LaunchBar Causes an Unexpected Surprise Step 1: Take one of the best utilities ever created for the Mac; one that I use every day. Step 2: Enhance its latest version with a promising new feature. What...
• Peek Inside Folders, Files With FolderGlance I previously covered FinderPop, a great utility that, among its myriad features, lets you see what's inside a folder in the Finder by simply right-clicking on...
• Bare Bones Software Releases Yojimbo 2.1 Update Bare Bones Software has announced an update to Yojimbo, its intuitive information organizer. Yojimbo 2.1 includes a few fixes and refinements to version 2.0...
• Jitouch Adds New Gestures to Multi-Touch Trackpads I'm a big fan of the Multi-Touch trackpads on Apple's recent laptops; by letting you use various gestures to perform actions, this technology makes the trackpad...
• SMART Utility Monitors Hard Drives' Health A few years ago, I covered SMARTReporter, a simple, free utility for monitoring your drives' Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) status. As...
• Six Ways to Botch Your Backups Want to lose all your data and sink your business? Follow these six simple rules.
• Virtualization Revs Up Small Business How a new virtualization system turbocharged a Vancouver Volkswagen dealership.
• Synchronize Your Data With Multiple PCs, Macs, and Mobile Devices Gone are the days of carrying important files on optical discs and thumb drives. Here are some easy ways to synchronize your files across multiple platforms.
• DoorStep X Security Suite Ready for Snow Leopard Open Door Networks updated its DoorStop X Security Suite, adding compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 along with other enhancements to its collection of security...
• BusyMac BusyCal 1.0 Apple's iCal ( Macworld rated 4.5 out of 5 mice ), included with OS X, is easy to use--and its price can't be beat. But it's not especially powerful or flexible...
• Bugs & Fixes: Font Duplicate Misadventures Troubleshooting fonts is among my least favorite Mac tasks. Understanding precisely what is going on and what fix is needed too often seems a bit above my pay...
• Multiple-Clipboard Utilities & Why You Should Use One As someone who works with text for a living, I'm a huge fan of utilities that provide multiple Clipboards. These programs store multiple recent contents of the...
• Psystar Selling Software to Run Mac OS on Generic Hardware Oh, Psystar. We know you. We lov--well, we put up with you. But still, you continue to let the dream of Mac cloning live on, EULAs, sketchy products, and pending...
• LaunchBar 5 Adds Clipboard History, More The one utility that I need above all else is Objective Development's now venerable LaunchBar. That sentiment may sound an awful like Jason Snell's when he wrote...
• PTHPasteboard Pro Provides Multiple Clipboards As a writer and editor, I couldn't be nearly as productive as I am without a multiple-Clipboard utility--a program that stores multiple recent contents of the...