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If you’re a stranger to Awaken, let me tell you what it does. Basically, Awaken is a simple application which sets alarms to either pause or play your iTunes. It’s extremely useful if you’d like to wake up to some funky songs in the morning; or to go bed with soothing music in the background, [...]
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As someone who has been on the hunt for an obscure product for some time now I know the power that Amazon Watcher can wield. My 8 month old daughter has been eating an Israeli cereal by a brand called Taami. I was always able to buy it in the store around my neighborhood in [...]
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Linux is for geeks right? And you gotta know command prompts and all that stuff yeah? Not exactly, in fact that kind of image is starting to fade away somewhat as Linux distros such as Ubuntu gain traction and mind share with each new release. OK so Linux still has a market share closer to [...]
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Make Use Of’s Mac section has been growing steadily over the past couple of months and we’ve published a lot of articles about random topics i.e. productivity, music, plugins, etc. So I’ve decided to start a biweekly column dedicated to people who have just started using Macs, a.k.a “Switchers”, focusing on the issues they might [...]
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podUP is a simple application that was built for one purpose and it does it very well — retrieving songs from your iPod. In the past, I’ve had friends come looking for me asking me for help with their iPods. Their complaint was that there were songs in their iPod which were not showing up [...]
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We’ve covered lots of neat Adobe AIR applications here before, but I found a new one lately that just blew my socks off. This new Adobe AIR application is sure to excite the photo lover in anyone! DestroyFlickr is a new application that was built for beauty and functionality. DestroyFlickr does its magic by giving [...]
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“Why doesn’t Google Analytics have real-time tracking?” This would have to be the single most voiced complaint I hear concerning Google Analytics. Aside from that its a solid service and a must-have for any aspiring blogger, but use it for any length of time and you’ll begin to wish for this as well. Or it [...]
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A relatively unknown experimental freeware called Subsume provides you with Growl notifications every time your Facebook and MySpace friends update their statuses. When I first started writing for Make Use Of, I covered MoodBlast, which sends out status updates to popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook but this application does the opposite, mainly. [...]
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If you’re an OS X user you’ll have most probably used Quicksilver or at least heard of it. Well a few months ago I kind of got sick of Quicksilver and wanted to try something new. I eventually stumbled upon Butler. Butler is a really easy to use and powerful search tool for OS X. [...]
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Last year I wrote an article on the benefits of encrypting your PC folders with Truecrypt and I also briefly touched on being able to encrypt your USB stick with Truecrypt. Well, the other day I received a nice new 2GB USB stick as a freebie and so I decided to install John Haller’s Portable [...]
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We are only scratching the surface with the built-in OS X Dictionary application. Dictionary is integrated into the system so if you need to define a word while surfing with Safari, all you need to do is select that word and press Command+Control+D. It even works directly in Spotlight without opening the Dictionary application. If [...]
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Shiira is an open source browser for Mac OS X that is based off Web Kit and written in Cocoa so it runs at native speeds on a Mac. Shiira has been in development since 2004 so it has been in development for about 4 years. Because Shiira is based on Web Kit it uses [...]
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Menu bar items are a great thing to have on a Mac. They’re small applications and most of them don’t really hog resources depending what they do and what tasks they perform. About 3 months back, Jason wrote an article about 5 free tools he had on his Mac menu bar. I would like to [...]
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Ever wanted to master the keyboard shortcuts and get more productive on the web? Here is everything you need – 10 quick cheat sheets for some of the most widely used tools on the web. Download, print and stick them somewhere near your desk. Google Cheat Sheet Windows Cheat Sheet* Mac OS X Cheat Sheet [...]
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Slife is a free time management and tracking tool for Mac OS X that you can use to visually see what applications that you have running and the length of time that they have been active for. If you want to see what kind of applications you generally have open throughout the day and the [...]
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