Set this to your Flickr favorites and enjoy.
Beautifully executed idea.
“Colors takes Apple’s basic color chooser (complete with “magnifying glass” to pull colors from other applications), and combines it with an easy way to copy common formats of color values (eg., #rrggbb, rgba(r, g, b, a), etc.) to the clipboard.” It’s a little ways down the page (I couldn’t find a more direct link) but it’s great (and free). I’ve wanted something simple like this for years, since I’ve been using the digital color meter because it’s packaged with OS X and fairly simple. The only problem was that I’d have to remember the hex value for Photoshop. Which, while a nice little memory game, gets old fast. Simple, lightweight, beautiful and dead simple.
“Screen and Web Snapping for Mac OS X Leopard.” Looks like a great solution to something I’ve been hacking together for myself for years.
Some really nice improvements both functionally and visually for the debug tools for the Web Inspector in Webkit.
Clever (and free) word based screensaver clock. It’s got a lot of nice customization options like changing the font and color scheme.
I love all the bundles in Textmate, except how difficult they are to install. GetBundle makes easy to quickly grab ‘em. Highly recommended.
After being incredibly frustrated with the usability software available this looks like a breath of fresh air. Can’t wait to see this finally released!
A great solution for remote file access. I still don’t know why this wasn’t been built directly into the OS years ago though.
A great little widget for those hard to remember special characters.
It’s a flip calendar for design geeks. Love the design.
The beginnings of the instant message chat bubble.
Excited to try playing with the downloadable fonts. Sure it’ll only work in Safari, but if it’s easy I’d love for my headlines to be set in Gotham without going through all the trouble with sIFR.
Everything here looks great and I can’t wait to see what new applications start coming out. The only problem? It’s not coming out until June.
Nice article about Tufte’s “computer administrative debris”. You can easily take this concept of removing debris too far, but it’s important to keep these ideas in your mind while you’re designing interfaces.
Old timey clock screen saver for OS X. My grandparents still have a few clocks like this at their place and that flip just brings back the nostalgia.
Looks like a great solution for those web applications you’ve always wanted to live in their own window.
They combined the CandyBar 2 and Pixadex into a nice icon management package. I’m not that into tweaking my system icons but this is definitely intriguing. If nothing else it might be a great way to keep track and organize icons in general
Great thoughts about the illogical parts, the feeling of UI design. I particularly loved the quote “Change and fresh energy bring hope.”
If you tweaked your apache configuration at all in 10.4 be sure you follow these tips to get it back up and running. I had to copy over my virtual hosts and now all is right in the world.
Updated version of the freeware BitTorrent client.
In case I can’t handle the transparent menu bar in 10.5
Might be really useful for work or even just between my home machines.
I’ve been hoping Apple would do this since I first saw the new dock.
I love it. Here’s to wishing something like this makes it into the final release.
“Keyclick is a Mac OS X preference pane that provides adjustable audio feedback for keystrokes, mouse clicks, and the scroll wheel.”
“NetworkLocation adds a whole other dimension to using locations in Mac OS X. Leverage your existing network locations with powerful extras, like launching applications, or running scripts.”
Nice thing is you can access your data even if you don’t have Knox installed.