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QuickCursor

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via: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor

QuickCursor works with any Application that supports the Accessibility API of Mac OS X. It's great to use with Safari, for example: you want to edit code in HTML forms, to write an Article or to edit a Theme directly from the Wordpress Backend - now you're able to do it with your Editor and all it's benefits like code highlighting, auto completion, etc.

Right now, QuickCursor works with BBedit, Espresso, MacVim, Smultron, SubEthaEdit, TextMate, TextWrangler and Writeroom. Unfortunately, Coda is not on this list.


QuickCursor is free, easy to use and became a must have Application on my Mac.

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Cinch

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via: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/

Originally it comes with Windows 7 and it's one of these nice little Window Management features, where I would like to know, why apple missed to put it in OS X before.
Take an Application Window (e.g. Safari) and drag it to the upper screen edge and it turns full screen. Drag it back and it turns back to the origin window size.
The other way: Drag the window to the left or the right screen edge and it fit to half screen size. Try this with two Finder Windows and you'll get something like Midnight Commander.

Cinch places no Menu Bar item neither a Dock Icon, costs $7, and is absolutely worth a try.

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Kiwi

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via: http://kiwi-app.net/

Fresh and beautiful but beta and invitation only ist Kiwi. It comes with several Themes, multi account support and an interesting feature: It's possible to define rules and it's quite handy to do this.
Sooner or later kiwi will become commercial; there is an App-Purchase and it shows $14.95.
I'm not sure why, but still right now I'm with Tweetie and Kiwi won't change this.

If you want to try Kiwi, 5 Invites are available:

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3F629998
6B225928
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After you've registered, please post your Invitation Codes here to spread it for more users. It's just fair. Thank you!

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Waveboard - Update

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There were no other web service or RIA in the last months where is a run on invitations like it is on google Wave right now. And it's just the preview. If you're on Snow Leopard Wave runs fine, but actually there is only a hot coded google Gears for 10.6 available (Gears for SL from MailPlane). And Gears is necessary to get the whole Drag'n Drop features in Wave (okay, it's not  when you like Chromium, but on my Mac Chromium crashes frequently). I've also tried Safari, Camino, Firefox and Fluid.app — all of them are stable but without these cool Drag and Drop functionality.

Waveboard 0.5 came today and it's the missing link. Drag and Drop works almost fine (but you'll need Gears for SL from MailPlane), just Drag'n Drop File Upload is still crashing (seems to be a local issue).

So Waveboard is worth a try. It's fast, stable and free.

Update: Dirk (Developer of Waveboard) contacted me and announced Version 0.6, which is still available for download right now. Crashing due Drag'n Drop is still solved and Waveboard rocks!

 

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SpamSieve

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via: http://c-command.com/spamsieve/

Lacked of spam? Several E-Mail Account with ridiculous spam protection? My own server is fighting with spamdyke against junk and it works fine. But if you're rely on a local solution, you should take a look on SpamSieve.

SpamSieve and the most E-Mail clients like mail.app, Entourage and Thunderbird are really good homies. And after some minutes of configuration and a daily unit of actual junk for practicing, the SpamSieve dude will do a great job.

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DateLine

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via: http://www.machinecodex.com/dateline/index.php
 
 
DateLine displays the current month on your desktop in a transparent window. Double click one day and it'll be show in iCal. Lot of options for customizing (fonts, colors, etx.) are available.
 
It's free, shiny and even worth a try.

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Notify

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via http://vibealicious.com/apps/notify/
 
There almost a lot of users out there who not configured their E-Mail Clients for google Mail, for several reasons. For my self I'm happy how Mail.app and gmail are collaborating but the unsatisfied users should take a look at Notify. It's free, awesome, shiny and handy.

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Incoming!

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via http://incomingapp.com/
 
Incoming! just monitors twitter for phrases, usernames and images - but in an very effective way and it's pretty easy to use.
 
Less shiny but powerful and free is TwitterJunkie.

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Gruml

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via http://www.grumlapp.com/
 
Still on beta, Gruml is the second native Feed Reader running on OS X with google Reader synchronization. In my humble opinion Gruml is a little to beta. I'm missing some features like 3 columns layout and several style sheets. On the other hand this reader is so incredible fast of sync with google and has a good looking interface.

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Desklabels

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via: http://thoughtfultree.com/app/desklabels
 
 
Running a Mac offers a lot of space for even more or less necessary stuff on the Desktop. For myself, I prefer a clean Desktop with just some essential items but sometimes you'll be constrained to store project based things there. At this point I would like to arrange the basics at least. The small shiny App "Desklabels" helps to manage your Desktop and the stuff you keeping on it.

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