Fast Dial - Making The Fox Even Better

June 24, 2008 · Filed Under Mac, Software · Comment 

I´m sure you´ve already downloaded the brand new Firefox 3. Want something to make the new fox even better? Here it is, Fast Dial!

Personally, I´m not a big fan of bookmarks. I always pile up a large collection but never use most of them because it’s painful to digg through them. Fast Dial solves this as it replaces the home page of your Firefox with icons of your favorite websites.

Sites can be added easily, allowing you to create a personal front page with quick access to your daily surfing needs. The design of your Fast Dial page can be fully customized, Fast Dial works with Firefox 2 and 3…. and even on Windows PCs ;)

Snow Leopard - New Features Video

June 24, 2008 · Filed Under Mac, Software · Comment 

Shortly after Apple announced the development of Snow Leopard, the first screenshots of the new Mac OS X version popped up around the web, showing not much more than the system’s version number 10.6

Even though Snow Leopard’s improvements will mainly be found under the hood, some new features start to surface now. The following video shows some of them, the icon video-playback feature looks pretty neat :)


Growl 1.1.3 - Finally Mail-Growling

June 11, 2008 · Filed Under Software · 1 Comment 

Most Mac users will know (and probably use) Growl, a powerful notification system for Mac OS X. If it’s a finished download, a new message or something else - Growl delivers notifications from many applications in a customizable, uniform look.

Growl supports a heap of applications but ever since Leopard came out, Apple Mail was no longer supported. This changes with version 1.1.3 which is supposed to support Mail. But after installing it, nothing changed - Growl was still not reacting to incoming emails.

After various de- and reinstalls, I finally did the right thing - Read the documentation. To make Growl work with mail.app, you have to install growl.mail which can be found in the “Extras” folder of the Growl disk-image. After that, you´ll find a new Growl-tab in the Mail preferences and everything works flawless. Looks like sometimes, reading the f*** manual really does help ;)

Steve Jobs - Gone in 60 Seconds

June 11, 2008 · Filed Under Hardware, iPhone/iPod · Comment 

Missed the famous WWDC Keynotes in which Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone 3G? No problem, the following video will sum it all up, giving you more time to be excited about Apple’s newest soon-to-be-ultra-popular cellphone/gadget.