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BusyCal – Your one app for organising everything!

BusyCal

When Dan first told me that I would be reviewing an iCal replacement this time, I will admit, I wasn’t looking forward to it.  In my opinion, iCal is one of those perfect apps.  One that too much fiddling with would ruin.  It’s simple, beautiful and lightning quick.

While using BusyCal, however, I have been genuinely impressed with how the guys at BusyMac have not only dared to toy with the brilliance of iCal, they’ve succeeded in making it better!

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Papers

Papers

Isn’t it nice to have everything in one place, nicely organised and searchable!  I like things to be organised, including PDFs.  Normally you’d do this with folders, sub-folders and more subfolders. But what if you then want to reorganise by Author, rather than Title?   It’s tricky at best.

Enter papers.  Papers is an app for organising your PDFs.  Originally designed for Science papers, it works brilliantly for all forms of PDF.

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Delicious Library: Digital library software for all

Delicious Library

If you walk into a library and take out a book, chances are that the library will be using some high tech software for logging your loans, all of their books and their locations in the library.  It’s enough to make anyone envious!

Well now the power of the library has come to mac.  Delicious library is an app that not only allows you to index all of your books, games, DVDs, toys and gadgets, but also allows you to loan them to friends and even add them using their bar codes.

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Alfred: The answer to all you searching needs?

Alfred

A while ago, as part of the three-part ‘keeping mac awesome‘ tutorial, I reviewed several options for searching your mac.  One that particularly caught my eye was Google QSB.  This allows you to search both your computer and the internet from one box, but is slow and clunky in comparison to Spotlight.

Surely there is an alternative out there! One that will search the computer and the internet easily, and not annoy you as it does.  Enter Alfred.

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Re-inventing the Clipboard: Clips

Clips

The clipboard is one of those features of any computer that we take for granted.  You use it every day, likely more than once.  The ⌘-C and ⌘-V are now among the most used key combinations on all computers world wide.  These are quite amazing statistics, but beg one interesting question:

Why hasn’t the clipboard ever been developed?  For example, you can only copy one thing to the clipboard, you can’t save things that you copy to it, and there is no safeguard, meaning that if you copy something else, your previous copied item is lost.

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