Many Mac apps have the wonderful “Check for Updates...” in the main menu and possibly even the option to check automatically.

But not every app has this built in capability. How do you keep your apps up to date? One way would be to make use of the very helpful Bodega. Read More...

Tags: Productivity, Utility, Jenn

By Alex T., Guest Blogger

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you probably know what Twitter is. If you have used Twitter.com before then you'll know that there are a plethora of 3rd party clients for you to use.
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Tags: Freeware, Social Media, Alex T.

By Freda Walrod, Guest Blogger

I heard about coconutBattery a long time ago, but didn’t think it would be that useful since the info about battery health is available in System Profiler, as well as in my favorite Widget iStatPro. Read More...

Tags: Utility, Freeware, Battery, Freda

By Alex T., Guest Blogger

Have you ever wanted to delete unwanted files from your Mac and you don't really know where to begin? Sure you can blame iTunes and all the videos you have. However, using tools such as Disk Inventory X, may give you another perspective at what is taking space in your hard disk.
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Tags: Disk Utility, Freeware, Alex T.

By Chad, Guest Blogger

The primary—and my favorite—feature is bookmark syncing. It has helped me on more than one occasion in switching from PC to Mac and my recent switch from Firefox to Safari. Read More...

Tags: Beta, Safari, Plug-in, Freeware, Chad

By Freda Walrod, Guest Blogger

There are literally dozens of ways to tell the world what you are doing with Twitter. Most of them are built with Adobe Air, but if Air isn’t your cup of tea and you are running Leopard (OS X 10.5) you do have a few options that are genuine Mac OS X applications.
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Tags: Freeware, Social Media, iPhone, Freda

There are times when you just don’t want to have your Mac go to sleep and fiddling with settings means you may forget to put them back.

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Tags: System Utility, Freeware, Screensaver, Jenn

I’ve been trying to decide between using ShoveBox and Evernote. I pointed out they each have strengths and a friend pointed me to a blog that said why not use them both... and a third app as well to round out the usefulness.
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Tags: Freeware, Payware, Productivity, iPhone, Donationware, Jenn

I have far too many email addresses that I monitor in Mail.app. I had been falling hopelessly behind on weeding out the junk and actually getting it into the trash. I was missing some stuff that came in as well. Read More...

Tags: Freeware, Productivity, Jenn

There are so many to choose from and some that warranted gem status in the past may be losing a bit of lustre. It’s not a bad idea to check out a few different apps to see which might suit your workflow best.
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Tags: Freeware, Payware, Productivity, Donationware, Jenn

And if not, perhaps you just aren’t using instant messaging enough to warrant looking for better solutions. Read More...

Tags: Freeware, Jenn

But there is one I just keep coming back to for ease of use and for the right-at-hand features it provides. Intuitive editing tools make it quick and easy to use.
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Tags: Freeware, Beta, Graphics, Jenn

...at least what you are spending time on when using your computer? There’s an app for that (that’s a hard one to resist using - it’s so applicable.)
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Tags: Freeware, Productivity, Jenn

Since I work in Academia I end up dealing with a lot of articles, tech reports — papers in general. Having a way to organize them for me and others who need to access them is rather useful.

I just tweeted these with the #macappgem hash on Twitter. It’s a useful grouping to have handy and they are all free. Read More...

Tags: Freeware, Reference, Jenn