It's a Wednesday and today the guys talk about a system preference plug-in for Mac OS X 'RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers ' to find out more info and download a copy goto http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/
It's Monday and we are back! Today the guys dive into CD-Burner XP for Windows users. Create CD/DVD HD-DVD's and Blu-Ray disks Create Audio Cd's from, wav,wma mp3 and other formats Convert iso files into CD's and DVD's You can get this application from http://cdburnerxp.se also in this episode a short conversation on illness and iTunes 8
This Friday on the DFP we talk about iStat Menus for the mac. some key menus are: CPU usage. 7 display modes, multiple core support. Monitor cpu usage for individual processes. Memory usage. 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display. Monitor memory usage for individual processes. Disks usage and activity. 6 display modes and the ability to hide disks you don't want to see. Monitor networking. Current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth and IP addresses. PPP Controls for 10.5 users. T...
It's a big day here on the show this Wednesday aaron picks a free creativity suite for Windows users from Serif. FreeSerifSoftware.com allows users to download full featured free versions of its top creative applications, PhotoPlus 6 is the perfect choice for editing and enhancing your digital images and photos for print, email and the web. PagePlus SE is a great way to get into desktop publishing and easily design professional-looking documents for every occasion. WebPlus SE lets you quickly de...
Kick starting this weeks application picks the guys discuss bandwidth caps and an easy way windows users can keep an eye on just how much bandwidth you're PC is pulling. Net Meter monitors network traffic through all network connections on the computer it's installed on, and displays real-time graphical and numerical downloading and uploading speeds. To Download it go to http://www.hootech.com/NetMeter/
Today n the show, the guys talk about their favorite RSS Readers. Billy uses a free application called Net News Wire that is now also able to run on the iPhone. Find out more over at www.newsgator.com Aaron prefers to use web based apps for news, so he chooses Google Reader, This can also be used on almost any device that has an internet connection, such as an iPhone sign up for this free service by going to www.reader.google.com
On this Wednesday's edition of the show we review a couple of versions of 'trailers', a must have iphone application for any movie lover To find out way more and download these applications visit the iTunes App store
Today on the show billy talks to us about cube runner a fast paced game for the iPhone. To download cube runner visit the app store within iTunes.
It's Friday and today the guys talk about a great streaming music application for you iPhone pr iPod Touch. Last.fm is a social media website for music lovers. Listen to over five million songs, Share music via your phone contacts Purchase tracks and albums from the iTunes Music Store Download this application via the Itunes App Store. Sign up and create your own last fm profile by going to http://www.last.fm
Today on the podcast we discuss a free windows text to speech application called Speakonia. Features include: Clipboard Reading (Whenever something is copied to the clipboard Speakonia reads it aloud) Let Speakonia read your Email for you Speakonia supports many TTS Engines TTS Engines are available in different languages (From Microsoft ®: French, German, Italian and more) Wave Export to get your copy goto http://www.cfs-technologies.com
Today we take a close look at Magnifier A free open source screen magnification application for Windows, Linux and Mac. some features include: Multi-monitor support Lens height and width can have any size Mouse scroll-wheel now controls zoom factor Variable scale factor from 1x to 32x For download links, full support info and shortcut key guide head on over to http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/
Rounding off this weeks bundle of applications the guys discuss a windows application launcher. "PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications (like portable Firefox & Thunderbird), you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks." this application can also be used to launch documents and applications which are stored on your windows computer also . Find out more at http://www.pegtop.de/start/
Today Aaron tells Billy about a free almost iphoto like application for windows users. Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Key Features such as: Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally Animated GIF: ...
Kicking off this week Billy tells us about a super media streaming service. Simplify Media allows users to stream music files from their Windows, Linux PC or Mac and now iPhone. some iphone features include Stream your music over WiFi, EDGE and 3G Navigate fast by artist, album and genre Enjoy artist bios and lyrics. Cover art coming soon. goto http://www.simplifymedia.com to set it up now.
On this Tuesday episode of the show, we talk about a great looking desktop enchancer for Windows XP / Vista. '360desktop transforms your desktop into a panoramic workspace - with more space for everything. Slide around your new workspace quickly and easily between all your open applications, windows and widgets - it'll spin you out.' for more info and a pretty good demo video goto http://www.360desktop.com/media.php
On this episode Aaron and Billy dive into deeper for Mac OS X. 'Deeper is a personalization utility for Mac OS X. Deeper allows you to enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and many Apple's applications' find ouyt more and downkload this application form http://www.titanium.free.fr/
Today on the show Aaron and Billy go back to the 80's of console gaming with www.nintendo8.com (Java required) Hosting over 90 original nintendo 8 bit games you can have hours of fun just on this one site! Also in this show we discuss our favorite games of the past.
Today on the show Billy introduces is to orb, a multimedia streaming service for windows users. using Orb you can send your video, music and photos up to the cloud and then watch them on your mobile [phone, iphone, games console or even your digital photo-frame. For more info goto www.orb.com
To kick start this week of freeware goodness we talk about eBay Desktop for ebay members. Running on Windows Mac and even linux (Adobe Air required) the app allows members to bid, sell and manage settings without using the website. Download adobe air from http://get.adobe.com/air/ Linux users can get air beta from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ and finally instal the ebay app from http://desktop.ebay.com/
To end this week Aaron talks about format factory for Windows. Using format factory users can resize and convert almost any video audio and picture formats in just a few clicks of your mouse. Convert VMV Divx DVD and many more MP3, AAC, and ORG audio TIFF, JPG and BMP images download it free now from http://formatoz.com/index.htm
today on the podcast we talk about two more iTunes App Store picks for your iPhone / iPod Touch. TapTap Revenge a small Guitar hero like game and Where? a nice location based gps app designed to help you find out where the nearest star-bucks is and cheap fuel for your car / bike plus much more! both of these are availible for free in the iTunes App Store
On this monday edition of the show, Aaron and Billy talk about a recently discovered tool for Mac os X. With Grab Up installed and a connection to the internet established users can post screenshots to the web automatically, after a few seconds a link will then appear in your clipboard for you to paste into whatever application you wish so that you can share shots with family and friends. download it from http://www.grabup.com/
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It's Tuesday and we have another super handy mac application kindly supplied by listener Alex Anderson. 'Wraparound is an application primarily intended for users with large and/or multiple screens, which allows the mouse cursor to "wrap" around the screens. Rather than spending time and energy moving the cursor across the screen, from one side to the other, simply drag it off one edge and it immediately appears on the other side.' grab a copy from http://www.digicowsoftware.com/detail?_app=Wrap...
Today on the show we get an application from a listener.Listener Alex Anderson suggested a mac app called cord:â??CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers using the rdp protocol. It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.â??Download cord from http://cord.sourceforge.net/index.html
Today on our 100th episode we discuss one of Aaron's favorite iphone / ipod touch applications, The Mobile News Network from the Associated Press allows users to surf the latest wire stories right from their apple mobile device, also includes photos and even videos. you can get more info and download this mobile application from the iTunes Store by using this link http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284901416&mt=8 Thanks for a fantastic 100 episodes, both Billy ...
Today on the show Billy and Aaron, both self confessed facebook addicts discuss the new and official iphone native application. the app provides all the usual facebook goodness as well as: Facebook IM ability built in Full facebook inbox support ( reply and send messages within the application. Post pictures ti your profile direct from your iPhone Users of both iPod Touch and iPhones can download and install this free from the iTunes Application Store,
On this exciting mondays episode of DFP we have a special software update for you iPhone and iPod Touch Owners. With this update you can now save images, have a scientific calculator, mass deleted and move emails, and of course install native 3rd party applications through the long awaited app store. You can find the software update by going to iTunes and clicking the Update button for your iPhone and iPod Touch.
July 8th 2008
Aaron talks about one of his favorite iphone web apps. Google News for the iPhone does exactly what its meant to do. Bringing you a collection of top news stories from many different sources and countries right on your iPhone or even iPod Touch. See it for yourselves at http://www.google.com/m/news/i
