I will start with PopClip for the Mac. It's a handy little tool to download. It allows you to copy, paste, search, spell check and other options. The extensions are available to download for free from their website. When you highlight text on a page you get a popup that looks familiar, it's what you get on any mobile device when you hold your finger down. It takes away the right clicking when copying or pasting something. If I can save a click in my day, I'm a little happier. I think my favorite extension for it is the Amazon search. I compare product prices a lot when shopping online so this makes it really convenient, simply highlight the words then click on the amazon button and it opens a new tab with the results. Very Nice.
The PopClip App is $4.99 and will prove to be a handy purchase. You can find it in the Mac App Store.
The next App is a productivity App named Blotter. It displays your iCal and Google calendar events and reminders on your desktop. This is a great tool if you are planning a lot or just have a busy life. It's nice not to have to open the calendar App just to see an appointment for the day or to verify when a birthday is that week. The calendar on the desktop is not interactive by click on it. It can be docked in your top banner where you can find the next and previous weeks toggles or you can set up keyboard shortcuts for the navigation of the weeks. It's a little inconvenient to do that but the option is there. There is one improvement they could make, the calendar display. It would be nice to have an option to display a yearly, monthly, or weekly view of the calendar, currently its only the weekly view.
The Blotter App is $9.99 in the Mac App Store. It will make things a little more convenient on seeing you daily schedule.
Last but not least an iPad App Tweetglass. I just heard about this one today and had to share. As you can tell in the name it's a Twitter App. I'm on Twitter for my tech news only and I would like to see other peoples replies once in a while. It's kinda annoying on the iPhone you can't see them easy and on the iPad you have to click on the tweet then you get the drop down of the responses if there is any. Again, a click I can save in my day. Well, this App wraps all the conversations up into a single click and displays them on the same screen so theres no in and out business. The App is visually appealing and simple. They also have a timeline on the right so you can scroll, which is very convenient. I also like how there's a photos icon in the menu area that will bring up all the recent photos that your friends posted instead of digging through the tweets to find them. Definitely an App to check out if you are a twitter nut.
The Tweetglass App is $0.99 in the iPad App Store. Again, very useful if you want to see replies on the same page and an overall great App.
Thank you for your detailed List. Don't know about Blotter before.
ReplyDeleteMy recommendation to use Numeric Notes for any sort of calculations with text inside.
Thanks Devid, Numeric Notes looks like a very handy app, I can see a lot of people using it. It would definitely replace the notes app on the desktop. Thanks for sharing!
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