Andrew’s Mac Tips — MPEG Streamclip
February 11, 2007MPEG Streamclip is an extremely handy tool for editing, merging and exporting movie files. Open a movie file (or several files that will be combined, and treated as one) in its editing window…
Andrew’s Mac Tips — WordService
February 10, 2007WordService is a package that adds a gazillion new text manipulation options to the system-wide Services menu; in fact I’ve had it installed so long that I thought it was part of the system!
Andrew’s Mac Tips — mimiFoto
The screenshots pretty much tell the whole story: Drop an image to tweak the iPhoto icon. Not much more to say really…
Andrew’s Mac Tips — GrabberRaster
GrabberRaster is a screen grabbing utility. I grab a lot of screen shots in the course of building this site, so I’ve tried a few different methods; many methods are built right in the OS.
I like GrabberRaster because once it’s launched I can take several grabs and they’re automaticaly saved as high quality, reasonably sized jpegs. One click and, after renaming, they’re ready for posting…
Andrew’s Mac Tips — Convert To MP3
February 9, 2007Convert To MP3 is another of those handy “Well” applications where you drop a file on its window and it processes it without asking for parameters.
In this case you are dropping a movie file (MOV, MP4, whatever) and it is extracting the audio from the file and converting it into an MP3 file…
Andrew’s Mac Tips — AppDelete
February 8, 2007If you are really fastidious though, you might like to try AppDelete. When you drop an app on AppDelete’s icon in the Dock, it takes that application and any associated support files that it can find and moves them to the trash…
Andrew’s Mac Tips — Thumbscrew
Thumbscrew is a great tool for taking an image and producing a smaller version (a thumbnail) and adding some effects — tasks that would otherwise require launching an elaborate graphics manipulation app such as Photoshop. Just drop the originals on its well — several at once if you like…
Andrew’s Mac Tips — Wordpress
February 4, 2007Wordpress.com is a free service where anyone can setup their own weblog (or Blog) in minutes…
Andrew’s Mac Tips — Some Great Web-Based Services — Wordpress
Andrew’s Mac Tips — Scrivener
February 2, 2007Scrivener is a tool for writers (Shareware with a fully functional 30 day trial, and great value at $35). With it, you create writing projects and within those projects you create folders and pages. You can add notes, links and labels to any of the folders and pages…
Netvibes
February 1, 2007I guess this is web 2.0. A site that pulls stuff in from other sites, mashes it up and presents it in a unified form. I don’t get out much, but if I did, Netvibes would sure be a handy way to catch up on feeds and other info that interest me, all on one page…
