iTunes 9 was released this past Wednesday and it adds many new features, but our favorite addition is the ability to manage your iPhone/iPod Touch applications directly from within iTunes. Many frustrating hours will be saved by no longer having to move apps one-by-one on your device.
One of the most exciting improvements in Snow Leopard is Automator. Automator lets you create services, workflows, applications and folder actions to help automate tasks and activities. Using OS X’s extensive library of built-in actions you can create just about any type of service, workflow or action.
One of the great time savers and productivity apps on the Mac is TextExpander. Using predefined shortcuts and abbreviations, TextExpander expands them into snippets or even full paragraphs. Now Smile On My Mac has brought that same functionality to the iPhone/iPod Touch with their app, called TextExpander Touch.
As we are inundated with more and more emails on a daily basis and in many cases there’s a need to archive and save certain or all email messages. Companies often need to retain emails to comply with legal requirements. MailSteward lets you archive and manage your email traffic and easily access the information using powerful search tools.
An often forgotten feature and underused feature of OS X is the Services menu, found in the Application menu of most applications; it has powerful automation functionality that will make you life easier. Snow Leopard brings lots of improvements to the Services menu that can streamline many of your computing tasks.
Why another mail client for the Macintosh? Doesn’t the Mac come with a pretty good mail client? We agree, but Postbox seems to take mail clients to another level.
Do you use Time Machine and want a quick status of activity or your last backup? Well using a simple command to check the Time Machine log file and GeekTool, you can get that information right on your desktop.
Twittelator Pro v3.1 from Stone Design is probably one of most full-featured Twitter clients now available. If you used or looked at an older version in the past, Twittelator Pro v3.1 deserves another long hard look.
Do you travel between time zones on a regular basis? Have you ever changed your computer’s time zone to reflect your present time zone and all event time stamps get changed causing scheduling confusion? iCal has the ability to let you easily specify time zones and not affect the times of past events.
Do you want to customize the look and feel of your Finder windows? Text labels too small? Icons too big? It’s easy to make it look exactly as you want.
