Sometimes Newton's Law of Inertia is just as applicable to the digital world as to the physical. All too often our files sit around never to be filed. Downloads and other sundry files pile up never to leave. Fortunately, an uncluttered desktop can be a reality.

Meet Hazel, your personal housekeeper.

Timing is the best way to keep track of the time you spend with your Mac. Find out where your time goes - without ever having to start a timer again!

Timing automatically tracks which documents you are editing, which applications you use, and the domains of the websites you visit. Afterwards, just drag and drop activities into projects. There are some default categories, but you are free to customize them!

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If you’re fastidious about keeping your windows tidy, Stay is for you. Stay ensures that your windows are always where you want them to be, even as you connect and disconnect displays.

We make easy to use, impeccably crafted iPhone, iPad and Mac apps.

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche.

Lastly, Espresso’s ‘Workspace’ view is in many ways quite different from Coda’s tab bar—maybe not so different in functionality, but in the way it feels. Unlike tabs, which feel like open documents (which means you instinctively close them when you’re done), Espresso’s workspace allows you to keep important and frequently used files always hanging around. If you have two files of the same name (style.css for instance), it will add a little runner letting you know which location it belongs to. Espresso’s workspace is also much more flexible than Coda. You can pull out windows, and use the brilliant style overrides—a feature first seen in CSSEdit 2—to make live edits to a web page. It’s definitely a superior workflow.

VirtualHostX 2.0 is the easiest way to host multiple websites on your Mac. It's the perfect solution for web designers working on more than one project at a time. (Aren't we all?) No more nesting folders or asking the programmer across the cubicle for help. With VirtualHostX you can easily create and manage Apache virtual hosts with just a few clicks. Download today!

Version 2.0 is more than just a new logo. Now VirtualHostX offers finer-grained control over your Apache settings, and works with MAMP, XAMPP, and Apple's built-in web server. It even lets you share your virtual hosts with other users on your local network.

Querious is a MySQL database management application written from the ground up for Mac OS X. Unlike mindless Mac OS X ports of applications originally made for Windows or Linux, Querious works the way you'd naturally expect it to as a Mac OS X app. Querious is precise and easy to understand, giving you full control without getting in your way.

Viewing, searching, editing, importing, exporting, and structuring your MySQL databases has never been so easy. With Querious, you can even open up raw CSV or Tab files in a spreadsheet-like document. Need to rename or reorder the columns? No problem. Searching for data is a breeze, and you can even convert the whole file to another format in a snap!

In order to get my stuff onto an iPad or iPhone, however, I must receive explicit approval by a human being working for Apple after this human being has manually reviewed my work, derived my intentions for the product, and made a value judgement on what my creation brings to the device. As long as that process exists, there shall be no arguments that the iPhone or iPad are more open than just about anything we’ve ever seen before… including Flash. To claim that because Apple is pushing open standards like HTML5 (really for their own benefit) means they are somehow more open than Adobe is folly.
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When the biggest problem in personal technology is that the leading company is getting a little too exceptional, it’s a good problem to have.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don't need administrative privileges to use the tool. With this design, it is no problem to use TinkerTool in professional networks where users have restricted permissions. The program will never change any component of the operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system updates.

All preference settings changed by TinkerTool can be reset to Apple's defaults, or to the state that existed before using the tool. No dangerous background processes are used for TinkerTool's operation.

TinkerTool is electronically distributed software. You can download the product free of charge.

Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to any more feeds because you can't keep up with your existing subs. Maybe you've even abandoned feeds altogether.

Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what's hot.

Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pandora are becoming more and more like desktop applications every day. Running each of these web apps in an individual tab in your browser can be a real pain.

Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps.

As noted in my recent iTunes First Look, iTunes 8 contains a number of new features, as well as some interface changes. Among the interface changes, the Preferences panel received a rearrangement (which it needed) and a trim (which I don’t think it needed). For example, don’t bother looking for the following preferences (that existed in iTunes 7), as they’ve been trimmed in iTunes 8:

With flickery, a flickr.com desktop client for Mac OS X Leopard, you can easily upload your photos to flickr, manage your sets and favorites, view your contacts’ photos, search for photos in flickr’s database, comment, view the most “interesting” pictures and much more. All in one tiny, yet powerful application.

But the one constant for the past four books has been an ingenious piece of software called Devonthink, which is basically a free-form database that accepts many different document types (PDFs, text snippets, web pages, images, etc). It has a very elegant semantic algorithm that can detect relationships between short excerpts of text, so you can use the software as a kind of connection machine, a supplement to your own memory. I wrote about this several years ago for the Times Book Review, and I still get emails from people every couple of weeks asking about the software. (The Devonthink guys should put me in an infomercial.)

Enables OGG playback in Quicktime and iTunes

Apple Mac News and Rumors

Mac OS X Password Manager with AutoFill that leverages the OS X Keychain and provides built-in support for most browsers.

Disco allows you to burn optical media, and makes it an amazing and fun software experience.

Solutions for integrating Macintosh and Windows

Repairing permissions is probably the most common recommended troubleshooting and maintenance step; it's easily the most maligned. Dan Frakes takes a closer look at what repairing permissions does, when you should do it, and when you shouldn't.

Flërnk - Productive Downtime

Mac Geekery - Optimizing AirPort Connectivity

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