01-16-12
Vega – My #1 Web Vulnerability Scanner for Mac OSX and Linux
Vega has quickly become the first tool in my web vulnerability and pen testing arsenal. It’s fast and copiously comes up with more results than any other scanner I’ve come across. It’s also a free (open-source) tool, with a host of great features. It also runs sm on Mac OSX and Linux.
11-01-11
Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac – Free Giveaway Contest!
We’ve teamed up with Parallels to give away 4 copies of their new Parallels Desktop 7 product. We will be announcing 1 winner each week. All you have to do to enter is retweet a message. You will be allowed to enter the contest each week with a new retweet for more changes to win!
10-07-11
Growl, the Original Notification System for Mac, gets a Lion Overhaul
Growl has been (and still is) the defacto standard notification system for your mac. This latest update revives the interface and modernizes the app. Growl is one of those rare apps that instantly becomes indispensable, and you just can’t live without.
10-03-11
Navicat Premium – An Exceptional Database Management Powerhouse, available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux
Navicat delivers incredible functionality database management functionality, wrapped in a perfectly designed package. while handling support for the major database types including MySQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
09-26-11
Quickbooks 2012 for Mac – Intuit delivers a business accounting product worthy of OSX
Quickbooks 2012 Business Accounting For those of you that don’t like to read long winded reviews, I’ll get right to the point: As an OSX user, you probably share the distaste left by Intuit over the previous Quickbooks product releases. In fact, at the time that Quickbooks 2012 was announced, I was in the process [...]
09-21-11
Create a Printable Document Index with PDF Index Generator
Since the G2700 ISO 27001 / 27002 certification was an open book exam, I needed a way to quickly find the material I was looking for without having to go through mounds of papers during the exam. Having a printed Index seemed like a logical solution. I tested several applications and was extremely happy with PDF Index Generator.
09-01-11
SpamSieve – The missing spam filter for Mac OSX Mail
The best email spam filter for the Mac, period. Spamsieve provides the missing spam filter for Mac Mail, Thunderbird and Postbox.
08-09-11
Linkinus – Extraordinarily awesome IRC client for Mac
Linkinus IRC Client Conceited Software’s Linkinus is the be-all end-all for Mac IRC clients. I realize that’s a fairly strong statement to make, but it’s well deserved. Linkinus is easy enough for new-IRC users to grasp, and powerful enough for veteran IRC users to maximize. A common trend of the apps I like to review, [...]
08-05-11
The Hit List for Mac and iPhone – An objective review from an Omnifocus power user
The Hit List is very powerfultask list that is dead simple to use; it’s as easy as Wunderlist, and considerably more powerful. While I still continue to use Omnifocus, my wife has made the switch to The Hit List. It’s perfectly suited for her needs without giving her the feeling of being overly complex and [...]
07-15-11
TextExpander: Automate your repetetive email and text based workflows
If you work at your computer, and your work involves typing at all, TextExpander is a must-have utility. TextExpander is a time saving tool; You type in a shortcut key, and it inserts your frequently used text. This is tremendously helpful in saving time when working on repetitive emails and tasks.
07-15-11
How to Enable and Make Scrollbars in OSX Lion Visible
You’ve probably noticed by default that all scroll bars in Lion are now invisible until required. For some this might be confusing. If you want scrollbars turned on by default, all it takes it to change a single setting.
07-11-11
NetShade: Anonymous Proxy software for Mac
Netshade provides a graphical user interface that allows you to anonymously browse the internet by routing your traffic through a proxy server.
07-07-11
SuperDuper: Create bootable hard drive clones, duplicates, and backups for Mac OSX
SuperDuper is an advanced disk copying program, allowing you to create bootable clones of your Mac OSX hard drive.
06-20-11
How to create a bootable USB Flash Drive with UNetBootIn and use it to install Mac OSX, Linux, or any other Operating System
I no longer have a CD drive in my macbook pro, so I wanted to create a bootable USB key in case I ever needed to reinstall the operating system. This method also works great if you want to create a bootable USB Drive to load any other operating system. This method will work on Mac, Windows and Linux systems.
06-17-11
Burn – A Free CD / DVD Burning Utility for Mac OSX
Rather than reviewing some of the newer apps, I wanted to take a few segments and review some of the more essential utilities needed for new Mac users. A feature missing from OSX is the ability to easily and efficiently burn CDs/DVDs. Burn solves that problem.
06-09-11
How to make Candybar work with Mac OSX Lion beta
A quick (temporary) system hack to get Panic’s Candybar working in the current OSX Lion betas.
05-31-11
Mass Email Marketing and Mailing List Manager for OSX with MaxBulk Mailer
Maxprog has created the ultimate tool for online email marketing. MaxBulk Mailer is an application that allows you to send mass emails (in bulk) to your mailing list for no monthly cost. It’s a great tool for online marketing and mailing list management.
05-26-11
12 must have Mac OSX apps and utilities for 2011
My list of some of the most important and crucial apps in my everyday workflow. The list contains a wide variety of apps, including file converters, GTD application, blog editor, a twitter client and more.
05-22-11
Parallels 6 in OSX Lion – Solving “Unable to Load the Parallels Driver”
I had a hard time getting Parallels 6 to load a Parallels virtual Machine in OSX Lion Beta. These few simple shell commands made everything run great.
05-17-11
Six unexpected uses for the Application Switcher
You’ve probably got the basics of the Application Switcher down pat by now: press Command-Tab .. But, as with everything on the Mac, the Application Switcher can do more than you might guess.