Mac Gems: Delicious Library 3 lets you track your movies, music, and more

Mac Gems: Delicious Library 3 lets you track your movies, music, and more

It’s been eight years since we reviewed the original version of Delicious Library, Delicious Monster’s clever app for managing your media. But the question that greets Delicious Library 3, the latest edition in the franchise, is this: In 2013, is it still a good way to track and document all the items in your media(…)

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Preview, sips, and more: OS X image processing tools

Preview, sips, and more: OS X image processing tools

On a recent trip, I found I had failed to add copies of my auto-resizing drop tools to my travel MacBook Air. My droplets allow me to convert images to TUAW-standard sizes, namely 225 pixels for small images and 456 pixels for banner images. (See? Information you never thought you’d need to know.) What a(…)

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How to Hide Newsstand – No App, No Jailbreak! iPhone 5, iPod, iPad iOS 6.1.3, 6.0.1, 6.0 – YouTube

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How to Hide Newsstand – No App, No Jailbreak! iPhone 5, iPod, iPad iOS 6.1.3, 6.0.1, 6.0 – YouTube. In this tutorial I will show you how to: – Hide Newsstand into a folder – Hide Apps into Newsstand – Hide Folders into Newsstand Steps to hide Newsstand: 1. Put the Newsstand on the 3rd(…)

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Mac Gems: Delineato Pro a clean, inexpensive diagram and mind-mapping app

Mac Gems: Delineato Pro a clean, inexpensive diagram and mind-mapping app

There’s an endless array of minimalist, “distraction free” text editors to capture notes and ideas, but what about more visual, free-form thoughts? Fapptory’s Delineato Pro (Mac App Store link) is a new diagramming and mind-mapping Mac app with a clean design and lack of visual clutter. Each Delineato Pro document starts fresh with a gray(…)

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Easy way to open new Finder window in same folder as frontmost window

You recently published a hint explaining how to open a new Finder window in the same folder as the frontmost window, using an AppleScript. Here is an easy way to do the same thing: no Applescript, no special apps needed. In the Finder, make sure the Path Bar is visible (View > Show Path Bar).(…)

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AppleScript to open new Finder window in same folder as frontmost window

A user at Stack Exchange asked an interesting question recently : how can you open a new Finder window in the same folder as the frontmost window? When you open a new Finder window (Command-N in the Finder), it opens to the folder you’ve set in the Finder’s General preferences. There may be some situations(…)

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Mac Gems: GIF Brewery makes it easy to create animated GIFs

Mac Gems: GIF Brewery makes it easy to create animated GIFs

Animated GIFs—we’ve all seen plenty of them. They’ve become the de facto standard for Internet memes and funny animations, but they’re also useful as alternatives to short video files—any modern browser (or in-app Web view) displays animated GIFs, so you don’t need to worry about which video formats a particular browser supports. In fact, some(…)

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Mac Gems: GIF Brewery makes it easy to create animated GIFs

Mac Gems: GIF Brewery makes it easy to create animated GIFs

Animated GIFs—we’ve all seen plenty of them. They’ve become the de facto standard for Internet memes and funny animations, but they’re also useful as alternatives to short video files—any modern browser (or in-app Web view) displays animated GIFs, so you don’t need to worry about which video formats a particular browser supports. In fact, some(…)

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Mac Gems: GIF Brewery makes it easy to create animated GIFs

Mac Gems: GIF Brewery makes it easy to create animated GIFs

Animated GIFs—we’ve all seen plenty of them. They’ve become the de facto standard for Internet memes and funny animations, but they’re also useful as alternatives to short video files—any modern browser (or in-app Web view) displays animated GIFs, so you don’t need to worry about which video formats a particular browser supports. In fact, some(…)

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Mac Gems: The Unarchiver is a free, robust file-extraction utility

Back in the days of 56-kbps modems and 1.44MB floppies, compressing files was a necessity. These days, bandwidth and storage are less of a concern, but there are still reasons to package files into neat little bundles. A zip archive, for example, lets you attach a single “file” to an email message instead of tacking(…)

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Don’t Starve Review

Depressed by its bleak perspective, alone and freezing in the digital marketplace, Don’t Starve survives solely on mystery and cheek. The first self-released offering from developer Klei Entertainment – best known for attractive consoles side-scrollers like Shank and Mark of the Ninja – Don’t Starve drops the player into an unforgiving boot camp in wilderness(…)

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Mac Gems: ForgetMeNot keeps you from forgetting email attachments

Mac Gems: ForgetMeNot keeps you from forgetting email attachments

We’ve all experienced the embarrassment of sending someone an email referencing an attached file or document, only to receive a reply that, despite our claims, nothing was attached. It’s a frequent-enough problem that a few years back, Google added a feature to Gmail that would alert you if you forgot to attach a file referenced(…)

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Mac Gems: Beamer streams video from older Macs to Apple TV

Mac Gems: Beamer streams video from older Macs to Apple TV

I know more than a few people who connect an older Mac to their TV, using various audio and video cables, to play videos. Most of these people would love to instead stream those videos wirelessly to an Apple TV, but their Macs aren’t new enough to support Apple’s AirPlay technology and the AirPlay mirroring(…)

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Favorite Mac Gems of 2012

Favorite Mac Gems of 2012

For Macworld editors, the end of the calendar year means more than just holiday vacations and the passing of yet another end-of-the-world prediction. It’s also the season of awards. Over the past couple weeks, we’ve given you our 2012 Editors’ Choice Awards for the best Mac products of the year and our 2012 App Gems(…)

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Mac Gems: Miro Video Converter makes it easy to convert video

Mac Gems: Miro Video Converter makes it easy to convert video

If you work with video, chances are you occasionally need to convert video files from one format to another. For instance, if you’ve downloaded videos from YouTube or other online video services, that content may be in Flash or Windows Media formats, which aren’t viewable on any iOS device. Or if you update web content,(…)

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