Apps of the Week

Private Eye – Check who’s phoning home

Posted by admin on Oct 13, 2011 in App of the Week, Apple, Featured, Security | 0 comments

There are a miryad of possibilities to check what connections are active on your Mac. Rubbernet, Little Snitch and Dtrace (for the unafraid) are only two of them… Now there is a new small and free tool called Private Eye that sort of formats the Dtrace output in a nice way, so you can verify strange outgoing or incoming connections. You can download it here – everyone should have this on his...

App of the week: Caliander

Posted by admin on Jan 12, 2011 in App of the Week, Apple, Software | 0 comments

Trying out Caliander, a new way to view your appointments ahead and I must say, I quite like it. No hassle to set-up as it uses the iCal database, so great sync with Google Calendar (follow the instructions here for easy set-up of sync between iCal and GCal) Caliander on the Mac App...

App of the Week: Together

Posted by admin on Dec 12, 2010 in App of the Week, Apple, Software | 1 comment

I have been searching for a while to find the ultimate solution that covered (almost) all the needs for my document workflow. At home as for work I come across a lot of information (web pages, PDFs, photos, text snippets, mails, …) that I need to keep somewhere for archiving and later access. I had tried them all (Rucksack, DEVONThink (which came in close second), …) But only Together gave me the flexibility I need: You can store all different types of content I need (Rich Text, PDF, Images, WebArchives, …) Bookmarklets to...