If your lucky enough to own one of apple’s modern wonders of technology (the magic mouse) then you will be pleased to find this new piece of software from VAOR this truly is the best power tool to date for the magic mouse!
If you are already happy with the powers of the mouse then this app is not for you! If however you have a need to make the mouse even more powerful then download this now.
The MagicPref’s application is capable of adjusting all sorts of settings, including launching applications upon your fingers performing tasks on the mouse’s surface. Handy for a truly keyboard less power user!
Application Features:
- Bind variable number of finger gestures to functions
- Improveadjust the sensitivity
- Improveadjust the tracking speed, handy for larger screen mac’s
- Only 1MB Download – small overheads on running
MagicPref’s sits nicely in the menubar, watching out for your predefined finger actions!
You can download a copy now, direct from Apple’s website.
If you have a Mac, and an iPhone then M.H.A. have the perfect application for you! Airlock is a bluetooth device proximity sensor, which once linked to your iPhone will automatically lock your mac when you walk outside of the predefined radius. Not only does this work on the iPhone but it even works with the iPod touch.
Not only does it lock your mac, you can set specific applicationsapple scripts to fire when it locks and unlocks. Making it the perfect companion for all those worried about the security of their data.
What if your iPhone dies I hear you say!! Well no worries people, as there’s always the manual override of simply entering your password and away you go!
Airlock is available from M.H.A.’s website for the small fee of $7.99
If you’re like me you will be constantly worrying about your MacBook and what you would do if someone stole it. That’s where Orbicule’s Undercover comes in.
Over the many years of laptop thefts there has been many variations on the ‘phone home’ technology. One of the most early applications I can remember was called ‘ET Phone Home’ which literally dialled a preset telephone number every few hours from your computer. If the line was engaged then the app new it was still at home and all was well.. However with technology moving on the way it is doing, relying on the machines modem now would be madness.
Applications like Undercover use local wireless network access points and IP Address geo-locating to pin point your devices location with up to a 10 meter accuracy, but also cover the modem and bluetooth for any tethered connections!
However, now there are so many applications like this on the market, developers are always looking for that little bit extra. Undercover not only reports back to Orbicules online tracking website, but is capable of taking screenshots of the PC, taking shots from built in webcams, faking hardware failure and displaying messages on the screen offering finders fee’s etc.
Orbicule are confident that they will help local law enforcement find your stolen MacBook, so much so that they offer a money back guarantee if they don’t! So really, you have nothing to loose! $49/£31.75 is a small price to pay in my eyes.
If your worried about privacy and would rather not have an application reporting back your location constantly then Undercover is ideal, as it only starts reporting once you have notified Orbicule that it has been stolen!
Orbicule also offer an iPhone variant, so you can feel assured in the knowledge all of your tech is covered.
This is one for all you keyboard warriors out there.. QuickSilver is an application which works a little like the Spotlight app.. QuickSilver hides out in the background and is launched from a key combination. (By default ctrl + space) Upon pressing the key combination a command window will appear.
Typing commands into the window can do a whole range of things. From launching applications, to interacting with contacts. It saves valuable mousing time.
Along with being able to launch applications, move files, upload to FTP sites, search for file, queue albums up in iTunes and email files you can also program your own shortcuts to fire when you type in you command. For the more frequent commands you can assign hot keys to them, so you could have a hot key to launch safari and load you favourite website. Or perhaps start composing an email to a loved one.
The recent updates released, have proven performance improvements over the previous version. Which is always a good sign!
Don’t be frightened by the what may seem complex exterior to the application, there are many tutorials dotted around the web to harness the true power of the application. Some good ones are Lifehackers beginners guide, and for those of you more tech savvy of you our there Lifehacker have also produced and advanced users guide. You can find links to these and many more over on QuickSilvers homepage.
QuickSilver is a powerful companion, and is something I certainly could not live without.
Head over to QuickSilver’s homepage to download the latest version!
Blacktree (QuickSilver’s developers) have also published some other handy applications, which include a Quake Style terminal App (Visor), Telekinesis – which gives you remote control of your mac from your iPhone. Plus many more!
Upon install Check Point SecureClient on my Mac OS X 10.6 MacBook Pro I found it was starting automatically on boot up. Which normally isn’t a problem, but because of the way it secures the network adapters it prevents essential traffic on my home network, because of this I am found shutting it down each time I logon. Which is a little frustrating!
The SecureClient doesn’t show up in the normal list of applications, but it can still be disabled using the terminal. (Utilities > Terminal)
- Change to root.
- Run:
tcshsource /opt/CPsrsc-50/.cshrcStartupItemsMgr remove $SRDIR/bin/SecureClient.app
Upon running the above in your terminal window you should find the SecureClient will no longer run on boot up. To run the application in future just launch it from the Applications finder window.
