Apr 12, 2010 Posted by Admin

AOTW – RipIt – From your DVD to your Mac (PC would have rhymed better…)

RipIt is a neat little program which helps you copy your DVD movies (‘rip’ your movies) to your hard drive. The creators of the program, ‘The Little App Factory’, suggest that ripping your DVD’s to your mac hard drive will save your macbook battery, since ‘Laptops use a lot more juice when they’re spinning a DVD and a hard drive’. While this may be true, I... read more

Apr 5, 2010 Posted by Admin

AOTW – SizeUp (Size up) – Stealing a Windows feature for once!

SizeUp is small program created by Irradiated Software that is designed to provide you with better control over how your precious, precious screen real estate is being organized. Using SizeUp, you can quickly position a window to ’snap’ into certain areas of your screen using keyboard shortcuts or your mouse (). This program instantly reminded me of the ’snap’ feature in Windows 7,... read more

Feb 28, 2010 Posted by Admin

AOTW : Marketplace (July 5th)

‘Marketplace’ attempts to allow the user to browse Craigslist ‘without the ugly’, and it certainly succeeds at reaching this goal. It’s a very simple and clean interface, with no learning curve at all. Besides just giving the familiar and often overwhelming Craigslist interface a makeover, the additional search options (such as multi region searching capabilities as well as... read more

Feb 28, 2010 Posted by Admin

AOTW : The Hit List (June 28)

Their are quite a number of mac applications which can be used in order to manage a To-Do list, so why would you choose to use ‘The Hit List’ instead of them? The answer is, you probably won’t! Especially not at the price THL costs ($60 dollars). However, if this program were free, it would likely be listed at the top of most people’s ‘Must Needed App’ lists. It is very... read more