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New CCIE Rack Rental Widget

Posted by admin on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I have just finished programming a new OSX Dashboard Widget.  It checks the current pricing and availability for CCIE Routing and Switching, CCIE Security, CCIE Voice and CCIE Security racks.  The process for creating a widget is pretty straight forward.  The only part that wasn’t support out of the box was making AJAX calls to […]

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Half as many free iPhone apps hit app store as paid apps

Posted by admin on Sunday, July 20th, 2008

It seems the rush of free iPhone applications is slowing.  Today, for example there were four applications released in the free section: Clowdy Photo Blogger, Vecka, Writing Pad, and Quitter.  However, there were eight new applications for the iPhone which cost money: eWallet, Jade, Kenkou, Moo Box, Shout It, Sketches, SuperPong, and Tiny Violin.   […]

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The Real Top 10 Free iPhone Applications

Posted by admin on Saturday, July 19th, 2008

So, you have your iPhone 3g or you are keeping it old school and decided to keep your old iPhone and upgrade to 2.0. Either way, hopefully you have visited the App Store on your iPhone or through iTunes. On either your computer or phone you have probably seen the top 25 free […]

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#7 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Google Earth

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#7. Google Earth
If you are a fan of Google’s other applications, such as Google SketchUp(free 3d modeling), then you are probably no stranger to application number 7. Google Earth provides a great way to go sight seeing with out getting on a plane, in your car, or leaving that comfortable spot on the […]

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#8 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Camino

Monday, April 21st, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#8. Camino
Number eight is a browser alternative to Safari or Firefox. The benefit is that it is a native os x application which makes it faster to open and browse sites than Firefox. Some of the features include Toolbar search, find bar, slick tabs, auto-update, rss feed detection and more. It’s worth […]

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#9 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Quick Silver

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#9. Quicksilver
Quicksilver is usually #1 in a list of Mac software, but since the I use mostly spotlight to open applications I use quicksilver a lot less than I use to. However, it’s still a great way to interface with your applications. There is a lot of support and add-ins for the application […]

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#10 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Cyber Duck

Friday, April 18th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#10. Cyberduck
Into the final ten applications. The top ten are free applications for OS X that I use almost everyday. At number 10 is Cyberduck. Cyberduck is a great free FTP/SFTP/WebDAV & Amazon S3 browser. It is very easy to use and includes support for bookmarks, quick look, keychain, spotlight, Growl, […]

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#11 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 - Uncategorized

#11. Bean & Smultron
Today we have two great applications Bean and Simultron.  First, Simultron is a great free text editor.  This application is geared towards programmers and is similar to the very popular TextMate.  While TextMate is, undoubtedly, a better application.  It isn’t free :(.  So the alternative is Simultron.
Smultron Details:
Smultron is a free text […]

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#12 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#12. AppCleaner
Now that you have downloaded all of these applications you might want to delete one.  Perhaps, you didn’t like them as much as I did.  It happens.  To solve this the #12 application is to help remove unwanted programs.  Most Mac applications can be deleted by simply moving it to the trash can and […]

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#13 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#13. TGEmu with Military Madness (Game)
What in the world is TGEmu?  Well TGEmu is a Turbo Grafx 16 Emulator (PCE).  Since the PCE is dead and it had one of the best strategy games of all time on it, Military Madness, todays download brings these two things back to harmory via emulation.  Military Madness did […]

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#14 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Monday, April 14th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#14. Growl
Today’s great free application for Mac Os X is Growl.  Essentially, Growl is a notification service that runs quietly in the background and alerts you when specific events happen.  The messages can range from changing songs on iTunes to receiving new mail.  Other programs such as Adium integrate in with Growl to notify you […]

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#15 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#15. AppFresh
So, now that you have downloaded apps 25-16, you’re going to need a way to keep these applications up to date.  To do this, you can launch the applications and check for updates on each one individually, or use AppFresh.  This application updates widgets, applications, preference panes and Apple updates.  It also integrates in nicely with your […]

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#16 Leopard application of the day (Free)

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 - Free Applications, Mac top 25

#16. Perian
When it comes to watching videos on OS X, I believe that many users have multiple applications to watch them.  VLC is one of the most popular media players for Mac, second only to QuickTime.  Wouldn’t it be great to just enable QuickTime to support all the codecs that VLC supports (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, […]

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