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In the switch to Mac OS X, what's the worst change, overall, that Apple made to the interface? It's clickthrough. At long last, here's a utility that blocks it.Read more... Listen  

A major upgrade to Late Night Software's Script Debugger offers AppleScript programmers boosted power and convenience, along with an answer to the burning question, "What the heck has Matt Neuburg been up to for the past several months?"Read more... Listen  

ProVUE's Panorama database is already insanely fast (because all the data is kept in memory), easy to use (because you can always see all your data in a grid), and incredibly powerful (because it basically lets you wrap a GUI application around your data). So where can it go from here? Database sharing over the Internet, that's where!Read more... Listen  

The continuing saga of one man's valiant efforts to take control of his backups.Read more... 

At last, a utility that lets you ask the question: Exactly what was copied during that last Time Machine backup? Right now, it's a command-line tool and its feature set is still in flux, but don't let that stop you.Read more... 

A simple free tool lets you isolate large files that you've inadvertently and unnecessarily permitted to occupy space in your Time Machine backups folder.Read more... Listen  

Make a movie of what's happening on your computer screen - how snazzy can that be? With ScreenFlow, it can be very snazzy indeed. This program has knocked my socks off - with my shoes on.Read more... Listen  

OmniFocus is the best Macintosh expression of the Getting Things Done life-management technique Matt Neuburg has ever used. More than once, it has extricated him from a logjam of pending tasks. So why does he feel that it's not quite ready for prime time?Read more... Listen  

Plato, Hegel, and Marx, move over! Jon Nathan's Dialectic beats the pants off of yours - it looks up phone numbers in your Address Book and then dials the phone (any kind of phone, from zippy new software to old-fashioned hardware).Read more... Listen  

TidBITS extends a wrinkled, trembling hand to today's youth by creating a new subscription mode that is sure to appeal to those with short attention spans.Read more... Listen  

Mac OS X has been around for 7 years, so why are there still all these secret settings and undocumented mechanisms?Read more... 

In which Matt and Tonya find editorial happiness, doing in five minutes together (although 3,000 miles apart) what might have taken two days separately, and having a heck of a lot more fun too.Read more... Listen  

With the release of the recent 10.5.2 update, how does Leopard stand up under the criticisms I leveled at it in my article, "Six Things I Hate About Leopard"? Hint: Two out of six isn't bad, but it isn't good either.Read more... Listen  

You know there's something really clumsy and annoying about Open and Save dialogs, but you can't quite say what it is. Right? Right??? Well, Default Folder X shows you what it is - by fixing it.Read more... Listen  

One movie is worth a thousand words.Read more... 

First the Dock lost its silly reflectiveness, then we blocked the menu bar's transparency. Now a new utility, Quay, lets you replace Stacks in the Leopard Dock with folders that have hierarchical menus - just like on, uh, Tiger, Panther, and every iteration of Mac OS X. Except Leopard. Except that Quay's hierarchical menus are cooler.Read more... Listen  

The transparent menu bar has fallen, a victim of hackers' ingenuity. Users, rejoice!Read more... 

Back from the field filming the DARPA Urban Challenge, will I be able to perform a simple task using iMovie '08 - to overlay some text onto an entire movie - without ever having used the program before, and without reading the manual?Read more... 

Spotlight on Leopard is so much better than Spotlight on Tiger, it could be a major reason for upgrading. It's full of power user tricks you might not realize are there - until you read this article, that is!Read more... Listen  

The Leopard menu bar is even more transparent than I thought.Read more...