I avoided the “Must Have” label for this one but it was tough. If you don’t like your current AV software or are about to spend money on some you should look here first. Avast Personal Edition is free (for home/non-commercial use) and is complete anti-virus software that does well in independent tests. I use [...]
Popularity: 16% [?]
Quicksilver is is even more a “must have app” than Pathfinder, because it’s FREE and just as great. There is a bit of a learning bump to get into it but it’s well worth it. Look at it this way, you’re not spending any money for it so the time to learn it is the [...]
Popularity: 10% [?]
PBS is doing something which I hope will catch on. They are piloting three science shows on their TV stations (of course) and also making them available as free video Podcasts. You can visit the PBS website to watch the shows or subscribe to the podcast feed using iTunes or any other rss aggregator/podcatcher. They’re [...]
Popularity: 9% [?]
When I first fired up Pathfinder I had a flashback to my DOS days using XTree Pro. Now, DOS flashbacks would normally be considered a bad thing, but XTree was an absolutely great file manager and one of my all-time favorites. Pathfinder gave me the same impression, it’s a Finder replacement and so much more. [...]
Popularity: 15% [?]
Just prior to the holidays I got into listening to podcasts big time when I was looking for things to keep me occupied when I was out of the house. While I’d listened to some podcasts in the past, this is the first time I really looked at what’s out there and actually subscribed to [...]
Popularity: 11% [?]
In the recent past a couple comments posted to this site have been incorrectly flagged as spam. This means I actually have to log into the Wordpress admin console to even know they exist and then to release them. I had been considering turning off the spam filter since I hadn’t received any real [...]
Popularity: 9% [?]
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