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Picasa for Mac - worth it just for the collages

Simon @ January 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet

I’ve been playing round with Picasa for Mac since the beta launch a couple of weeks ago. I was keen to try it because I’ve started to use Picasa to back up all my photos. For some reason, Flickr feels like more of an open/ communal area, while I can keep all my family photos [...]

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Another utterly essential Mac App - Xslimmer

Simon @ April 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet

I’m holed up, with a to-do list the length of a football pitch, a load of writing to do (yes, real writing, not just powerpoint!) and a sprinkling of childcare thrown in. Just enough time then to find a bit of software to reduce some of the apps clogging up my hard drive by [...]

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Another big shout for Skim: pdf heaven

Simon @ April 12, 2008 # One Comment

I think I’ve mentioned it before - but if you find yourself having to read lots of .pdfs on screen, and you want to mark them up in some way, but can’t afford a full version of Adobe Acrobat, can I utterly recommend Skim - which is free: a .pdf reader which lets you highlight [...]

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My new favourit mini-app: WhatSize

Simon @ March 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

So - you know that your hard drive is filling up. And you also know that as you’re not going to take all your music, video, powerpoint stuff off, you need to look elsewhere to create a bit of space.
You know there’s all sorts of stuff built up over the years - but you’re just [...]

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Trying out Zemanta

Simon @ March 26, 2008 # 8 Comments

Back at Seedcamp in the Summer, I met the guys behind what was then a very wizzy little app called Zemanta. They went on to win it, which was great, even though I felt is was a solution looking for a problem. But then, hey - what do I know?
It effectively scanned a piece of [...]

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