Barcamp Vancouver, August 18.
These Are a Few of My Favourite Things by Tod Maffin
Cool little applets, widgets, haxies, and gadgets that don’t cost much (at all) but make our everyday computing life so much easier!
Here’s the wiki and the links to these tools.
Built in Zoom:
Universal Access. Set Zoom on.
Keyboard hold ctrl option and + or –
Tiny Alarm: add alarm
TinyAlarm
Address Book on Mac and Facebook.
Update info on Facebook, but then have to manually update
FacebookSync: goes through friends’ list and then checks if anything missing in Address Book, including creating new listing.
Plaxo for PC does this too.
FileChute
Big file and can’t send it by email. Send large files easily. Take file want to send, can zip. Creates URL for them to go and collect file.
ImageWell
Take photo and post on blog. Easy upload. Set up locations in advance. Can edit, crop photo if you want, nice dropshadow, adjust size. Hit send. Now uploaded it. URL is copied to clipboard. Free.
OmniDiskSweeper
Checks where your damn disk space has gone. Can see who the worst offenders are so you can get rid of the crap.
Paparazzi
I love this tool. Takes a full screen shot. If log in with Safari, might be work around for sites requiring login.
Textexpander
If you have to type something all the time, this is great.
Menu Master
Change menu shortcuts on the fly. If you’re used to keyboard shortcuts and switch programs (different shortcuts), who cares! Just set your own with this.
Silicon keyboard protector. London Drugs. $15. Save your keyboard.
Huckleberry Mirror. Little periscope that is angled to turn build-in camera to shoot in front of you.
Quicksilver from Blacktree
Control space gives you the search box. Type name of any program and it starts it up. Has all bookmarks. Type and open.
Adium
Multiple IDs for instant messaging? Use Adium. Lots of not-well-known features. Consolidates everyone under one listing. Logs and archives everything.
WeatherPop
Sits in menu bar and tells us the weather in all sorts of places.
BluePhoneElite
Phone and computer talks together. $10 app.
Oh and Tod has an iPhone. My second sighting and touching.
Blackberry sync sucks. Better app is MissingSync.
View PDF as webpage. Hate Adobe. Use Firefox Add-ons.
Ok, PC guys?
Here’s the equivalent in PC.
Want Facebook Sync use Plaxo.com. Sync with thousands of contacts in no time.
FileChute equivalent is YouSendIt.com. Some similar stuff. Or use Pando. Send up to 1 GB. Sends email and can download. Free
http://www.yousendit.com/
www.pando.com/
ImageWell, try www.Quama.com and drag and drop stuff.
Problem trying to sync up more than one friend. www.doodle.ch is swiss tool for helping schedule lots of people.
CRM app. www.freecrm.com for lead management
PictureSync. Syncs all photos to all places you send your photos. Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Smugmug. Whereever your photos go, you can upload them.
Facebook pluging for Firefox. Share links from the tool bar. Gives little status flash.
Delicious Firefox add-on that lets you add your tags.
Boost is Facebook plug-in that right in toolbar lets you skim Facebook.
Firefox extensions: Web developer toolbar. Let’s you see site without styles. Can disable images.
Firebug. Jump in and explore, edit stuff on fly. Play with CSS without editing things. Can play with other sites to see how they did it. See CSS associated with, for example, the h2 tag. It’s like viewing source but it does it right in split screen. Kind of like Dreamweaver. See what it would look like. Good for quick, dev. elements.
GMail notifier in top menubar.
Firefox also restores closed tab.
Voodopad from Flying Meat for taking notes in an incredibly crafty way. Link all your thoughts together.
Lynda.com is $25 per month US. It’s online training program. Movie library of any program known to man. It’s the “show-me” tool. This is awesome for courses.
Coda. FTP client with preview, edit, manages sites. Visual CSS. Terminal. Reference books. Good text editor. Auto-completion.
VisualHub takes any video file and converts anything to anything.
VLC. Swissarmy knife of video players. Will play any video.