iPhone/iPod touch only: One of the great strengths of Songbird, a jukebox app intended to serve as a more open-ended iTunes killer, is its Firefox-like extensibility. The 779Media group jumps out of the gate with a remote-control application for iPhones and iPod touch devices that, while simple in functionality, does give you basic play/pause/back/forward control [...]
Songbird Remote Controls Playlists from your iPhone or iPod Touch
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Articles, Productivity, Software
Tags:addon·Linux·mac·music·Software·windows
Microsoft Vista Ultimate gets the (PRODUCT) RED treatment
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Articles, Software
It’s not like (PRODUCT) RED versions of Windows Vista haven’t been shipping on associated systems for months now, but for those who’d prefer to keep the rig they have and just get a colorful / charitable upgrade to Microsoft’s latest OS, this is for you. Listed on the official (PRODUCT) RED website and up for [...]
Tags:microsoft·pc·Software·vista·windows
uTorrent for Mac Officially Released
December 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Articles, Featured, Software
Mac OS X only: If you’ve been waiting patiently for the popular BitTorrent application, uTorrent, to find its way to your Mac, your wait is finally over: uTorrent for the Mac is officially available. We’ve been waiting for the Mac release for a while now, and leaks of the beta had already made their rounds [...]
Tags:download·mac·Software·torrent
Free Software We’re Most Thankful For
November 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Articles, Software
Dear free software developers: Before we American nerds sit down to our turkey and mashed potatoes today, know that your creations are at the top of the list of things we’re most thankful for. Whether you’re an indie hacker putting out the occasional script or an employee at a giant internet company building out [...]
Adobe Illustrator CS4
November 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Articles, Featured, Software
by Ben Long, Macworld.com
If you’re someone who started out with Adobe Illustrator back when it was called Illustrator 88, then you’ve seen lots of changes over 20 years. Illustrator is one of a handful of powerful vector drawing products aimed at graphic artists and illustrators, and it’s always been elegant and production-ready. Even if Adobe [...]
Tags:adobe·creative·cs4·editing·illustrator·Software·vector
Adobe Flash CS4 Professional
November 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Articles, Productivity, Software
by David Karlins, Macworld.com
Adobe Flash CS4 has been radically redesigned and restructured. With CS4, Flash has finally turned the corner from a code-based authoring tool with an interactive animation element, to a designer-friendly space for illustrators to intuitively draw animation. Yes, draw animation—by shaping the path of an illustration the same way an artist would [...]
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EventBox for Mac
November 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Articles, Internet, Software
Social networking has brought us our friends and family much closer, but has brought other issues. Apart from enabling you to see what your friends have been up to from day-to-day (and some people love this) and feeling somewhat obliged to keep up, the biggest issue is that one friend may be using Facebook, whereas [...]
Tags:application·eventbox·Internet·mac·social·Software
Coda 1.6 released, offers plug-in support
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Articles, Internet, Productivity, Software
by Robert Palmer on Nov 11th, 2008
A cheery little dialog box informed me just a few minutes ago that Coda 1.6 is available from the fine folks at Panic.
Coda is a one-window web-development and editing environment that is one of my favorite apps, and one that we’ve covered here before.
Coda 1.6 introduces a plug-in architecture [...]



