Posts in category: Mac

Internet is suffering from the PROBLEM OF PLENTY. Probably, download manager for Mac and Windows are one of the most used software after the browsers and antivirus products. Stand-alone download managers with the inherent capability to automatically capture download links, support for torrents, flash video capture, auto grabber are most craved creature on the internet. Like Windows users, Mac OS users are also blessed with an abundance of options as far as download managers are concerned. Leech, Folx, Download Accelerator plus and many other options free and paid options are available in the iTunes store. In the past, we shared ever growing list of download managers for Linux, which was updated a couple of days back only.

New generation of Mac users scarcely use dashboard widgets. For many Mac users, including me, Mac dashboard widget is a matter of the past. Many of us do not see a point using this venerable technology from the past, but there is a whole community out there who still admires what this light weight, low RAM consumer and less hogger blast from the past. Of course, it comes with its own flaws like it still uses your RAM in the background even after closing of those widgets. With tons of multi purpose apps, desktop widgets are not seen as a most convenient to get in touch with the most important things in the life. The multitasking could also to be blamed for the slow death of this technology. However, if you belong to the elite group, who still enjoy using them, we have got your back covered.

Google Drive, the first giant step of Google in dog-eat-dog cloud computing segment, has already raised a concern in tech corridor. The conspicuous consumption of free cloud resource has increased by manifold ever since the arrival of Dropbox and other service providers. Google made the competition fiercer by adding more spice to it – Google docs, Google chrome web apps, offline working mode and many other tools. The first step towards gaining prime position in the cloud service segment was to lure not only Windows users, but Mac users as well. Although, the dedicated Google Drive Mac client is good, but it still leaves a lot to be desired. The interface is far from what you would expect from a Mac app and the options enjoyed by power-users are scarce.

In the era of apprehensible information served by most of the brands through professional websites, mutinous twitter arrived with something totally conflicting. Its unerring 140 characters limit has educated many people to utilize the limited space in a more efficient manner. Anything above 140 characters is abbreviated due to inhibited nature of the SMS protocol used in the social networking site. In a world lead by social networking sites, it would be safe to surrender ourselves to the behemoth. Following post provides one the most comprehensive list of best twitter clients for Mac.

Unlike Windows counterpart, Google Reader Mac applications are scarce. Without any fuss, Google Reader could be considered as one of the intuitive and beautiful web-based RSS feed reader app, but how about its alternatives on Mac OS. With increasing use of web, RSS feeds are excellent way to keep yourself updated with latest news and information without any need of web browser. The feed reader application simply reads the feed and serves it to users in a dedicated app thus bringing news, weather and other vital information on your fingertip in a snap.