Todos - No Program Left Behind

Ever wanted to be able to launch an app without having to go through the finder window and locate it? If your answer is yes, then Todos, may be the perfect app for you.

I am not quite sure how to describe it: Part Finder window.....Part Dock.....Part Dashboard Widget.

Once launched Todos (meaning Everything in Spanish) opens a black, widget-like display showing you all the Applications that you have on your Mac, allowing you to open any of them by simply clicking on the relevant logo, before the Todos window simply fades away.



Todos allows you to select the directories that you want scanned for Apps to include, and which ones to ignore.....



Downlad Todos for free from the OpenSoft Development site here

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iStat Pro 3.0

iStat pro 3.0 is a widget that allows you to monitor all the main systems of your Mac.

Giving you a graphic view of your CPU, Memory, Hard Drive and Battery life, as well as information on the temperature, Network connections and overall uptime.



This latest version has a couple of updates:

iStat pro 3.0 is the next incarnation of the chart topping system monitoring widget.
4 new skins are included which all feature fully anti-aliased cpu and memory usage graphs complete with beautiful gradients.
Also added is the ability to choose which drives, network interfaces, temp sensors and fan sensors are displayed, giving you complete control over what you want to monitor.

You can download iStat 3.0 here

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Skype for Mac OS X - With Video Preview

Skype, the well known internet VOIP provider, have released a preview version of their software for Mac OS X users.

The best thing about this release is the inclusion of Video Calling! Perfect to use with your integrated iSight.

You can download it here

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Wireless Mighty Mouse

Apple have now released a wireless version of their popular (and feature-packed) Mighty Mouse available for £49. Powered by Bluetooth, and powered by a pair of AA batteries, the new Mighty Mouse will connect with any Bluetooth-enabled Mac.

With a laser tracking system that ensures precision navigation on a range of surfaces, and accroding to the promotional material you don't even need a mouse mat any more.

The of the main selling points of the Mighty Mouse in it's "Wired" version was the range of options that could be applied to the different buttons on the body of the mouse. All of these options have been retained on the wireless version.





Scroll Ball & Button

Positioned on the top of the Mighty Mouse, the Scroll Ball gives the user a full 360-degree scrolling capability. This scrolling comes into its own when:

-Scrolling down long pages
-Moving around large images
-Navigate big spreadsheets

Additionally, the Scroll Ball can be clicked to access multiple Mac OS X features like Dashboard, Expose or Spotlight

Touch Sensitive Shell

Previous incarnations of the Mac Mouse (both Wired and Wireless) have beencharacterizedd by the single mouse button. In general, the lack of an easy ability to 'right-click' had been a bit of an issue for some, especially PC-Swtichers who feel a touch lost without it. While this Wireless Mighty Mouse appears to have a single top shell, touch-sensitive technology detects which side of the mouse has been clicked. For more traditional Mac users, the preferences can be set up to override this and treat the Mighty Mouse as a one-button mouse.

It has been noted by some early users, that in order to right-click you must ensure that your first finger is not in contact with left side of the Mighty Mouse. Failure to do so means that the Mighty Mouse assumes you are performing a left click.

Force-Sensing Wide Buttons

In addition to the Scroll Ball and the Touch Sensitive Top Shell, there is another control mechanism built into the sides of the Wireless Mighty Mouse. Here touch sensitive buttons located on either side of the Mighty Mouse allow you to access Mac OS X features like Expose, Dashboard or a range of othercustomizablee features

Looks/Design

As we have come to expect from every product that comes out of Apple's in house design team, the Wireless Mighty Mouse looks great. Here, the stylish, clean lines of the existing wireless Bluetooth Apple mouse have been retained with the addition of enhanced clicking options. The combination should satisfy any Mac user looking for a new mouse.

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SuperDuper - "Heroic System Recovery for Mere Mortals"

Since I got my MacBook Pro, I really have used it for everything and as a result this machine is the sole repository for all my my photos, documents, movies and music. So, if anything happened to it............DISASTER!!!

To deal with this, I have got myself an external hard drive now and was looking for a program to help manage the backing up process and the brilliantly named SuperDuper! was recommended to me.

SuperDuper! allows you to create a fully bootable backup, meaning that recovery (in the event of the aforementioned DISASTER) is straight forward.

Available in two versions:

Free Version - Allows you to back up and clone your drives.....Download it here

Paid Version ($27.95) - Gives you access to the Scheduling feature, smart updates, Sandboxes, scripting and more......available here

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Mac Letterbox

Mac Mail is the default mail client found on Macs and is pretty widely used. As standard, the email preview pane is located below message list.

In other mail clients (including Microsoft Entourage and Mozilla Thunderbird......as well as Outlook for those ex Windows users that have made the switch) it seems that a preview pane that sits to the right of the message list is both desirable and popular.

To meet this desire, Aaron Harnly has developed a plugin for Apple Mail that rearranges the interface into three vertical columns:

- Folder Lists
- Message List
- Preview Pane


The layout really takes advantage of the widescreen aspect on the MacBook Pro. I downloaded it recently, and haven't even considered switching back to the old layout.....

You can download the plugin for Apple Mail at Aaron's site

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New Site for MacBookProse...

Thanks for visiting!

I have moved the content of MacBook Prose over to a new site at www.macbookprose.co.uk and any new posts will be added at the new site.

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