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Safari 4.0 Beta Review

Apple released Safari 4.0 beta recently. So far I mostly like what I see. My issue with Facebook Chat and Adium seems to be fixed. The new default “home” page called Top Sites, which is a cross between Cover Flow and the bookmarks/history page is a bit annoying because it’s not as customizable as I [...]

Review: Deeper, Customization for OS X

Deeper is a Mac OS X program that brings “hidden” system features to the desktop. All the features it can enable, disable or change are already accessible via the Terminal if the correct command is known. As such the software simply throws a nice graphical interface around these commands. While the GUI is fairly intuitive, [...]

Review: Mint, online money management

Mint is a all encompassing website to help you track your financial data. The site has been fairly well received by most people. On the surface this site is a pretty good idea. Unlike programs like Quicken which need to be told to pull data (at least on Mac, I can’t speak for the Windows [...]

Bookdog, bookmark synching, Review

Bookdog from Sheep Systems is exactly the tool I’ve been looking for to synchronize bookmarks between different browsers, and different Macintosh Computers. Pros: Allows opening of multiple bookmark files all at once. Allows merging of bookmark files from various browsers all at once including online bookmarks from Google and del.icio.us Alphabetically Sorts Bookmarks Verifies links [...]

Cuil: First Impressions

For those who don’t know, Cuil is a new search engine by some former Google engineers that was launched today. Going to http://www.cuil.com reveals a nice simplistic site that I really like. Unluckily the site isn’t getting the best publicity by some people. At the time of this writing, the front page claims 121,617,892,992 web [...]