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Monday, September 27th, 2010
HyperDock is a System Preferences pane that you can install on your Mac that adds some nice visual improvements to the dock, as well as some very useful window-handling functionality. Currently it’s in beta, but you’d never know it; I have yet to have a single problem with it on my system.
Visually, HyperDock adds window previews when you mouse over icons for running applications, much like what you see in Windows 7. I haven’t decided if I like this feature (on my Mac, or on Windows), but even turned off HyperDock is still worth having installed.
HyperDock adds the ability to set up mouse and keyboard shortcuts for your applications individually or en masse, with options like Activate App, Hide App, Hide Other Apps, Quit App, Kill App, Exposé, Reveal App in Finder, Open Location, and Execute AppleScript. But as much as I love adding keyboard shortcut functionality to my system, it’s HyperDock’s window handling abilities that really shine.
You can set hotkeys for moving and resizing windows. This fixes one of the biggest UI problems in OS X, which is that to resize a window you must grab a tiny widget at the bottom right of the window. Using HyperDock, you can press a key combination (it defaults to Ctrl-Option) and whatever window the cursor happens to be over suddenly starts moving with your cursor. Release the keys, the window stops right there. Adding Shift (for Ctrl-Option-Shift) resizes the window under the cursor.
HyperDock is currently in beta, and while so it is a free download. Once it is released it is likely to “cost a small fee” according to the site.
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Microsoft has announced a new expansion for Zune services. The news is a touch bittersweet for me, since it didn’t involve the arrival of Zune Pass in Canada. Maybe next time…
Those of you who live in the U.K., France, Italy, and Spain, however, can now enjoy the Zune Pass music subscription service for £8.99 or 9.99 Euros per month. That’s only a tad pricier than the $14.99 U.S. residents pay for all-you-can-eat music via Zune. The “keep 10 MP3s per month” option remains U.S. only, unfortunately.
Those four countries — along with Germany — can also now buy music via Zune, and movie rentals and purchases have been extended to even more countries. Here’s how the video expansion breaks down:
- Rentals: U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Mexico, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
- Purchase: U.K., France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
This is great news for anyone who owns an Xbox 360 or plans on purchasing a Windows Phone 7 device — but it’s also good news for Windows users in general. There’s plenty of good content to be had on Zune, and it never hurts to have one more option for purchasing downloadable music and video content.
Hit up the official Microsoft press release for full details.
Zune Pass expanding to U.K. and Europe, more nations get movie rentals and purchases originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Sometimes, when companies blog about a big new feature, there’s a juicy little tidbit of news just thrown in somewhere. That’s the case with today’s Google Apps two-factor authentication announcement from Google. Tucked in amongst the notes was an aside about Google Docs, and it’s a zinger. As spotted by out pal Brad over at Mobiputing, Google Docs users with an Android device or iPad will soon be able to edit their documents.Don’t be deceived by the screenshot — it’s from the current iteration, which only allows for data to be entered in cells. It’s safe to assume Google means that “mobile editing” on supported devices will be much more than that.[via: Mobiputing]
Google Docs editing coming soon to iPad, Android devices originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
In my post introducing iTunes 10, I mentioned that the new iTunes logo was sure to be controversial. Looks like I got that right! Wired News is reporting that a designer emailed Steve Jobs to tell him that the new logo “sucks” and throws away a decade of “instant product recognition.” The designer, Josh Kopac, got one of Steve’s trademark terse responses: “We disagree.”
A lot of people in the design community agree with Kopac that the iTunes 10 logo has got to go. Check out Dribbble, the playground where lots of pro designers preview their new work, and you’ll find several replacement iTunes 10 icons already. One that seems to have gained real traction is a magenta version by Chris Carlozzi. It’s got 154 likes on Dribbble, and has been touted by other blogs as the icon iTunes 10 should have had.
If you don’t love the new logo, take your pick of icons from Dribbble, or show us some other alternatives you like better. If you think the new logo’s just fine, here’s your chance to offer a defense in the comments.
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Ever wish you could leverage the power of Google Suggest anywhere? I’m going to guess no, but still — autocompletion is a thing of beauty when it works well. It can be a real time saver, too, especially for computer users whose keyboarding speed is less-than-blinding.
Those users might want to check out Google Scribe, a slick new Labs offering which brings Google’s suggestion magic to any text entry field on the Web. Just visit the Scribe page and drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks bar, head on over to your favorite social site like Facebook or Twitter and give it a go!
Once you click your bookmarklet you’ll see an activation notice appear. As you type, Scribe will display a drop-down list of suggestions, just like Google’s search box does. You can press enter to apply the first suggestion or 1-0 to pick any option in the list (or use your mouse if you prefer). Google Scribe also offers sorting options and you can set it to ‘always on’ or ‘on demand’ mode.
I can definitely see Scribe being incredibly useful to less-skilled typists, so if you’re the hunt-and-peck type (or if you provide two-fingered keyboardists with tech support) Scribe may well be worth a closer look.
Those of you who can type at a decent rate of speed, well… Scribe is interesting to play with, but you’ll probably keyboard circles around it. In my Twitter tests, I rarely paused long enough for Scribe to pop up the suggestion box.
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
I think we last covered Jajah around 2007. The very fact that it’s now 2010 and the service is still going strong is a testament to its power.
The premise is simple: phone-to-phone, via the Web. You go to the Jajah site (on your computer or through your phone’s Web connection), punch in the number you want to dial, and your phone starts ringing.
You pick up your phone (landline or cell), and then the other side starts ringing. They pick up, and you talk.
There are a number of key advantages here:
- Since it’s phone-to-phone, I don’t need a high-speed Web connection. Sometimes I’m at a coffee shop or someplace with a crappy connection that wouldn’t carry Skype or Google Voice. With Jajah, it’s a non-issue.
- Since it’s phone-to-phone, I’m completely mobile. I can use my cell phone and just go outside; I’m not tethered to my computer.
- It works with my aging Nokia device; I don’t need a newfangled iPhone to use it.
- It gives me a direct number for each of the contacts I have. I can simply dial a local number in my own country, and the contact’s phone starts ringing (even if it’s in the US or Taiwan).
- The rates are very competitive. I use it instead of SkypeOut quite often.
- They can bill you in more currencies than Skype can, which is good for international users.
What I like about it is that it doesn’t try to replace Skype. It is its own thing, in its own niche, and it just works. It’s very, very handy.
Jajah is an incredible phone-to-phone VoIP service originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
ClipUpload is definitely one of the neater tools that I’ve seen today. Once you fire it up, it nestles in a comfy spot in your system tray and waits. When you decide you want to send somebody a file, an image, or a long snippet of text, you just copy that file to your clipboard and click ClipUpload’s icon once.
That single click makes ClipUpload instantly upload your file to an online host (SendSpace by default), and then it copies the link to your clipboard. If the file is big, you get a progress bar so that you know it’s working. Once the link is in your clipboard, you just paste it into an email.
You can also configure it to use an FTP host of your choice. If there’s an image in the clipboard, it uses a different host – imgur.com (here, you can see a screenshot from my super-bland virtual machine). So, uploading a screenshot of your entire screen becomes a matter of hitting Prt Scrn and then clicking on ClipUpload’s icon.
It’s smart, too. If there’s a snippet of text in the clipboard (rather than a binary data, like a file or a screenshot), a single click opens a dialog where you can set other options that are specifically for uploading text or code. You can also review the text before uploading it.
There’s also a log showing all of your uploads and their URLs. It’s a little trickier to access — you need to right-click the system tray icon, click Other settings, and then click Upload log — but it’s there, and it will come in handy if you mistakenly overwrite a link from your clipboard.
Bottom line: ClickUpload is super-elegant, slick, and useful. It’s very, very nice!
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Saturday, September 4th, 2010
Given my fondness for Dropbox, I can’t believe I didn’t find out about AirDropper before today. It solves one of the biggest problems with Dropbox: getting files from friends or clients who don’t want to sign up for Dropbox. AirDropper lets you send the stubborn, Dropboxless target a link that they can use to upload files directly into your Dropbox. There’s no separate account signup, and nothing to download.
If you’d prefer not to email the person, but would rather IM or Twitter-DM them the link, you can check a convenient “I don’t want to send them an email” box, and the link will be sent to only you. AirDropper also recently added support for sending multiple files at once, which makes it about a million times more useful.
My only minor quibble — and it’s very minor — is that AirDropper creates its own folder when you connect your Dropbox account with it, instead of letting you specify a target folder. I’m not sure if that’s an intentional security measure in the Dropbox API, or a choice on AirDropper’s end, but it would be cool to see that extra bit of control so you don’t have to manually sort files later, especially if you have multiple clients uploading to your account.
All in all, I’m giving AirDropper a two-thumbs-up, five-stars, I’m-totally-using-this-myself rating.
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
The Songbird team has released a significant update to their feature-packed media player today. Among the new additions: sync support for several HTC and Nokia handsets (as well as the Blackberry Storm) and sync support on OS X (Mac users will need to download the MSC add-on).
While Songbird is no longer providing official [...]
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
The Songbird team has released a significant update to their feature-packed media player today. Among the new additions: sync support for several HTC and Nokia handsets (as well as the Blackberry Storm) and sync support on OS X (Mac users will need to download the MSC add-on).
While Songbird is no longer providing official builds for Linux users, contributed builds of Songbird for Linux are still available for download.
Songbird’s service pane has also been given a facelift, bringing a more polixhed look to the left-hand side of the player’s main window.
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