AmazonWatcher looks for Amazon deals
August 6, 2008
AmazonWatcher is a simple application that, well, watches Amazon. After putting in the Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) for whatever you want to watch, the application can be set to sharp you whenever the item is in stock (if you’re still waiting for a Wii, for instance) or when the …
Yuma: New scripting tool for web developers
July 15, 2008
To web developers, scripting is the glue that connects web pages and back-end systems. For example, PHP is a very popular scripting environment that has been used to write web apps like WordPress and phpBB. For those of you who use PHP, you know that it is a dynamic, weakly-typed hypertext prepr…
ted: episode downloader for bittorrent
July 7, 2008
In the past we’ve covered the Mac application TV Shows, which automates starting bittorrents for tv show episodes. Sadly, it hasn’t been updated in a while (though the main page still promises an update soon). However, I recently ran across another application that works in a similar way called …
Adobe Flash Player 10 beta brings major speed improvement
July 7, 2008
The slowness of Flash has distant been a complaint on the fairer platform and it finally looks like somebody at Adobe was paying attention. Adobe Labs has released a beta for Flash Player 10 and among the changes is a major speed boost. Indeed commenting on his personal site, one Adobe Flash engin…
Firefox 3 Download Day a huge success
July 3, 2008
The graphic above says it all — Firefox 3 Download Day was a success, with 8,002,530 downloads in 24 hours. Amazingly, that happened despite all of the initial download glitches that happened on Download Day. The Mozilla team is reporting that 29,116,621 copies of Firefox 3 have been downloaded…
Mac 101: Safari tabs
June 27, 2008
Here’s a quick tip for Safari users. As you know, tabbed browsing is best thing to happen to the ‘net since The Tron Guy. Keyboard jockeys create new tabs by pressing Command-T. But there are a few of you who dislike releasing the mouse, even for a second.
You folks can simply double-click th…
Evernote + Screencast ready for prime duration and paid use
June 24, 2008
Two of my preferred Mac-friendly cloud services have now made the jump to actually accepting money from subscribers, which is a good thing (really, it is!). TUAW favorite Evernote has moved from private to public beta, and Techsmith video hosting site Screencast.com is now at 1.0 release status….
