Freeware
Camino: Like Firefox Without the Great Features
Developer: The Camino Project
Version: 1.5.1
Price: Free (Open Source)
Download Camino Here.
Mac OSX is certainly not short on internet browsers. There must be at least ten or so to choose from. But why? Why would someone need to many different web browsers? Isn’t one, two, or three enough? Even as a […]
Seashore: Native GIMP for the Mac?
Developer: Mark Pazolli
Version: 0.1.9 (Beta)
Price: Free (Open Source)
Download Seashore Here.
You may recall that in my review of the GIMP, I mentioned that one of its big problems was that the Mac version required that I install X11. Well, it turns out that there is a version of GIMP that was developed in Cocoa […]
Picnik: Photoshop, Meet Picasa, Meet the Web
Developer: The Picnik Team
Version: N/A, Beta
Price: Free while in Beta
Check Picnik Out Here.
If you’ve read some of my other reviews, you know that I hold Photoshop [review] and Picasa [review] in very high esteem. Photoshop is all about image editing power and can dominate every other program when it comes to hardcore photography […]
Kuler: Finally, An Easy Way to Pick Colors
Developer: Adobe Labs
Version: N/A
Price: Free
Check out Kuler Here.
Continuing the week of art + design brings us to a handy color picker called Kuler. This is a site created by Adobe Labs to help people create their own color schemes for programs like Photoshop [review], Illustrator, Inkscape, and the GIMP [review]. And I […]
The GIMP: A Decent Photoshop Replacement
Developer: The GIMP Team
Version: 2.2.17
Price: Free
Download it Here.
I wrote yesterday about Photoshop [review], and those who read it will know that I love it - even though the price is completely unreasonable for the average user. Today brings us to a program that covers that one fault that I had with Photoshop. […]
NetNewsWire: The RSS Aggregator that Should be Free
Developer: NewsGator
Version: 3.0
Price: $29.95 (Commercial), Free (Lite)
Download NetNewsWire (Commercial) Here.
Download NetNewsWire Lite Here.
Let me apologize for the deluge of Mac OSX programs this week. I’ve been compiling a very long list of all of the programs I plan to review well into the future and the Apple list was getting a bit […]
Bean: The Most Minimal of Word Processors
Developer: James Hoover
Version: 0.9.6
Price: Free (and Open Source)
Download Bean Here.
Because of the “huge” popularity of my review of AbiWord, I’ve decided to another review of a word processor. This time, one specifically designed for OSX and written in Cocoa. Now, this is in contrast to AbiWord, a program that was designed for […]
Quicksilver - A Unique Launcher with a Plethora of Possibilities
Developer: Blacktree Software
Version: 1.0B51
Cost: Free (Charityware)
Download Quicksilver Here.
The only thing that I really didn’t like about OSX when I purchased my MacBook was the lack of any easy way to open my programs. Yes, the dock works well for the programs that I use all the time, programs like Firefox, iTunes, and so […]
GMail: The Perfect Email Experience
Developer: Google
Check it out here.
There’s nothing like the college email experience to make you hate web based email. Year upon year having to deal with UCLA’s tempramental web based email nearly drove me to toss my computer through my balcony window - but alas, I pulled through and just dealt with the molasses-like […]
Opera: A Damn Good Browser that Nobody Uses
Developer: Opera Software
Version: 9.22
Download it Here.
Nobody uses Opera for browsing the web - and I can’t really understand why. After all, Opera has innovated quite a few features that still are not commonplace in browsers like Firefox [review], Internet Explorer 7, and Safari. Just take a look at everything that Opera has […]
