CommunicateFacebook Notifications Brings Facebook To Your MacBy Adam Pash on September 11, 2009 at 5:30 AM Mac OS X only: Free menu bar application Facebook Notifications brings notifications and status updates from the popular social networking site to your desktop.After you install and enter in your Facebook credentials, just click on the Facebook Notifications icon for a quick look at your most recent notifications and messages along with quick links to take you straight to your news feed, pr
I’m now running OS X 10.5.6 on two of my three eligible Macs (the fourth is a 12-inch PowerBook G4), and so far, I couldn’t be happier. I haven’t run into any nasty compatibility issues or really disastrous bugs (although Finder once auto-quit and restarted when I was fiddling with the menu bar), and general system performance seems noticeably improved. All that said, if you’re looking for big flashy changes, look elsewhere. Snow Leopard is exactly what Apple said it was all along: a nice co
Filed under: Software , Cool tools , Friday Favorite I’m a sucker for Mac maintenance utilities. That’s not to say that I run them on a regular basis like I should do, but whenever I find a new one I like to give it a try and see how it’s going to work for me. Dare To Be Creative Ltd. recently released version 2.0 of MainMenu , a collection of Mac utilities that resides in your menu bar. The US$10 application takes up very little real estate in your menu bar, displaying a small r
Section: Computers, Software / ApplicationsWe all know that Microsoft has a habit of taking some of the ideas that Apple put into Mac OS X and putting them into Windows. Just look at Spotlight and the Search in the start menu. Windows 7 even takes a few cues from the Dock in OS X, even if it merges those ideas with the Windows tradition of the menu bar. The list could go on, and now the list may include OS licensing.It seems that somewhere within the latest leaked build of Windows 7 there is