Tag: PREFERENCES

When Mac app bundlers MacHeist included Tweetie for Mac in their NanoBundle2 last year, they promised purchasers early beta access to Tweetie 2. That promise got complicated when Twitter acquired Tweetie and hired its developer, Loren Brichter, to work on the official Twitter iPhone app. Tweetie for Mac seemed to be dead. Well, now that Tweetie has been reborn as the official Twitter for Mac ...

One thing that I can say about Bynamite is that it looks slick. It's a service that purports to let you easily opt out of over 100 ad networks and specify what interests you (and what doesn't) so that you can get better targeted advertising. It's not an ad blocker. It's a browser add-on for Firefox and Chrome that's coupled with a website. Once you install the add-on, it crunches for a while (you ...

Just over a week ago, additional code landed in the Chromium source which paved the way for a more full-featured Chrome browser sync. In addition to bookmarks, options appeared for preferences, autofill, themes, and URLs typed into the Omnibar. This morning, the recent versions of Chromium have added an additional menu item to the Personal Stuff tab on the Options menu. Next to the Sync button ...

The Universal Access preference pane on a Mac allows you to invert the colors on your display, but a neat little app called Nocturne goes a lot further, providing a highly-customizable way to deal with issues of colorblindness or eye strain. Nocturne has two modes -- day and night -- and you can change the color and brightness settings on each to suit your individual demands. If you have a ...

Looking for a simple way to back up (and restore) several different Windows email clients and web browsers? Open source MailBrowserBackup supports a lengthy list: Browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Flock, Internet Explorer (Favorities ONLY), Mozilla Thunderbird, Opera (browser profile and mails), Apple Safari, Google Chrome, SRWare Iron EMail: Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook 2003/2007 Instant ...

Late last year, Google added the ability to customize search results by promoting or removing items. These "SearchWiki" features also let you share, comment on, and add results to a page. Although the promote and remove buttons appear next to every site in a Google search, most of us either ignore them or are a bit annoyed by them. If you're one of those people, you'll be glad to know there's now ...

Safari 4 marks a dramatic shift in UI design for Apple's browser. In the Mac version, the big news is the Chrome-like "tabs on top" layout, and the equally Chrome-like Top Sites feature, but some smaller things have changed too. A new autocomplete feature has been added to the URL bar, and Google Suggest has been added to the search bar. Worst of all, in my admittedly-finicky opinion, That blue ...