How To Use Alfred As A Snippet Manager [How-To]

Alfred does an excellent job of basic snippetery

App and file launcher, search helper, and all-round work of genius Alfred has all sorts of tricks up its sleeves. One of those is a clever built-in text snippets manager.

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Make Your HD Bigger with DaisyDisk for Mac [Review]

Amazing: I just liberated 10GB of space on my MacBook Pro’s harddrive that was being held prisoner by backups of iDevices I used to own, but had long since gone. And frankly, I’m not sure I would have found and freed up the space without the $10 DaisyDisk app.

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Video Editor Camtasia Adds Green Screen Support And More

Fly me to the moon

Camtasia, the video and screencast editor for OS X, has been updated with two useful new features: remove color, and adjust clip speed.

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Create iOS-Style Keyboard Shortcuts In OS X [Video How-To]

One of the new features introduced in iOS 5 was the ability to create keyboard shortcuts for common and often used phrases. This feature was embraced by many iOS users, and for some has become the most useful feature in Apple’s latest release of iOS. Many don’t know it, but OS X actually includes this same feature. In this video, I’ll show you how to find it and set it up.

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TinkerTool Is A Useful Pocket Knife For Tweaking Your Mac’s Hidden Controls [50 Mac Essentials #50]

TinkerTool is the Swiss Army knife you need for your Mac.

With its blades you can activate – or deactivate – all sorts of features that are normally hidden from view.

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PopClip Puts Text Menus Right Where You Need Them [50 Mac Essentials #47]

PopClip brings cute iOS-style select-and-click text tools to your Mac. It’s great.

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Acorn Is A Fine Image Editor For Everyone [50 Mac Essentials #46]

Acorn describes itself as “an image editor for humans”, and that sums it up in a nutshell.

What you get inside Acorn are pretty much all the image editing features you’re ever going to need, for a fraction of the price of some of the competing apps.

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Apple Woos Chinese Speakers With New Mac Features [OS X Mountain Lion]

Hey China! Apple loves you. To prove it, there are a whole bunch of China-specific features built into OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

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Gatekeeper: First Step Towards App Store-Only Software On The Mac? [OS X Mountain Lion]

One of the big headline features in Apple’s new Mountain Lion OS is Gatekeeper, designed to keep malware and other nasties away from your computer. So is this another step towards App Store-only software on Macs?

The short answer is yes, it is. But it doesn’t have to be. Gatekeeper gives you the choice: do you want to stick to App Store-only apps, or be able to install anything from anywhere?

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How To Set Up Super Quick Web Searches In Alfred [OS X Tip]

The latest update to Alfred adds a selection of smart new features, one of which is a new way of grabbing selected text from any Mac app and pushing it straight into one of your other Alfred actions – such as a web search, for example.

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