Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
In short, it's a gorgeous application that lets you organize and
edit your photos, create awesome slideshows, prints, or webpages to
show off your photos. This
video
will show you what Lightroom is and the quality of photos you can
make and edit.
Click here for some cool video tips on how to get started and use some of the more advanced features.
Evernote
VMware Fusion
Oh, you see a few distros of Linux up there you say? Yeah, Fusion
can handle any OS you throw at it... 32 or 64 bit! That includes
any distribution of Linux, Windows 3.1 to Vista plus server
editions, Solaris, Novell NetWare, Free BSD, and pretty much any
other OS that can run on an Intel processor.
With VMware Fusion you can enable Unity, which lets you run Windows
apps right on your Mac desktop right along side your Mac apps. You
can then minimize them to the dock, use them with Spaces and
Exposé. You can actually save programs to your dock just like
normal Mac apps and when yo want to open them you just click on it
like a regular application and it opens on your desktop just like
normal. Above you can see my desktop running the Windows version of
Firefox and Minesweeper right alongside with Apple Mail, Adium, and
iTunes.
You should really check it out, there's a free demo on the
VMware
site, and I found my copy for $39 on Amazon.
Hulu
Some tv shows come with commercials, but they are 30 seconds or
less, so you're back to your show in no time. Plus the ads that I
have seen are usually not too bad, I've seen only Chevrolet and
Saturn commercials, both cleaver ads that show how economically
sound their hybrids are. definitely no "as seen on tv" ads
here!
With a nice clean slick player, Hulu really has done it right. I have moused over the video so the controls are shown in the screen shot above, but normally you would just see the video playing in a nice black gradient surrounding, or you can view in fullscreen with nothing but your video on the screen. It's pretty awesome, go check it out for yourself!
If you're on a Mac check out either the full featured awesome Twitterific ($15), or the barebones, stripped down, widget app, Twitgit (free!) and you can update your Twitter feed in seconds just as if you were updating your aim status, it's that easy.
Sofa Control
Sofa Control
($14.90)
(or use the key in iSerial)
lets you control everything on your mac with your Apple remote.
Keynote, Preview, iPhoto, VLC, Quicktime, DVD Player, Finder, Mail,
you can even control the mouse with your remote! Plus over 60 more
applications. When you start it up for the first time Sofa Control
shows you how you can use it with a very interactive presentation
using your remote right off the bat.
This app is really awesome and the only thing I wish they would add
is support for more applications.
Above is what this what you see overlaying the desktop when you hold the menu button for 2 seconds. You get a global menu that gives you access to a whole bunch of the Finder native options. (i.e. dashboard, exposé, front row, screensaver, sleep timer, shut down, restart, also you can open any application or file).
Remote Pairing
So I knew that I could pair my computer to my remote so I tried
doing what Apple says, hold the menu button and next/fast forward
for 5 seconds in front of your IR sensor... nothing. I try it
again... nothing. finally I found out that if you hit menu and
select for 5 seconds it works great! Apparently, Apple doesn't know
all there is about their own products though, a little
weird.
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