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15 Free Tools For Mac OS X

15 Free Tools For Mac OS X You Should Bookmark

Posted by AN Jay

November 7, 2008

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Xe-IMG Image Editor

Xe-IMG Image Editor is a standalone image editor for your Mac. It supports the following images formtats: PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF and SWF. Xe-IMG Image Editor allows yoy to edit photos, add effects, ,filters mask and after you're finished you can save files as JPG, PNG, BMP etc.

Skim

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.

SuperDuper

SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.

The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for BOMArchiveHelper.app, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder.

Burn

With Burn you can burn five different kind of disks. With Burn you can burn Audio CDs and MP3 disks. With Burn you can burn three kind of images. Normal disk images, cue/bin images and toc images. And copy data disks.

Xee

Xee is useful as a more powerful replacement for Preview, or most any other image viewer available on Mac OS X. It is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools.

Bean

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor or more precisely, a rich text editor, designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable.

Perian

Perian is the Swiss Army Knife for QuickTime, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use all the other common media types like DivX, XviD, mpeg4, AC3 audio and more.

RSSOwl

Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators." RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more.

Desktop Manager

Desktop Manager is my own pet project to implement a (hopefully) easy to use virtual desktop manager for OS X. It will be useful to others. Simply run the app and a pager should appear in the status bar and on the desktop.

TwitterPod

TwitterPod is Twitter client for Mac OS X. TwitterPod adoption of Core Data. So TwitterPod can store logs to database and search Twitter logs quickly like Mail.app.

Backboard

Backpack is perfect for collecting notes and tasks. But I missed a dashboard-like overview over my tasks, reminders and calendar events and the possibility to edit and search them a bit more Mac-like

MindNode

MindNode is an elegant and simple-to-use mindmapping application for the Macintosh. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple and intuitive user interface that lets the user focus on expressing and developing ideas. Nearly no time is required to learn the interface.

Text2iPod

Text2iPod X is a very easy Drag&Drop application that can make any text file viewable on an iPod without text size limitation! In version 1.1, the 32kb implementation limit has been resolved.

Deeper

Deeper is a personalization utility for Mac OS X. Deeper allows you to enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and many Apple's applications

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Breckenridge restaurant food grub happy hour restaraunt

Here are some of our personal preferences for places to patronize in Breckenridge. See you there! 

Best happy hour to drink and be jolly: 
- MiCasa 3-6 PM (crowded, for a reason) 

Best happy hour to drink and eat appetizers and call it dinner: 
- Hearthstone 4-6 PM (2 for 1 appetizers and a great setting) 
- Taddeos, in the bar 4-6 PM (2 for 1 appetizers and wine and avoid the crowds) 

Best choices for eating dinner: 
- MiCasa (Out of the ordinary Mexican. Get there by 5 or be prepared to wait a long long time. Order some of the their specialties.) 
- Cafe Alpine (eat at the Tapas bar) 
- Taddeos (Italian - beat the crowds and drink great wine) 
- Empire Burger (the best hamburgers ever?) 

Best late lunch: 
- MiCasa (ask about $5 lunch choices, served until 3) 

Best ski / board tuning shop: 
- Pup's Glide Shop 

Place to rent stuff: 
- Blue River Sports (next to MiCasa, hint hint) 

Best secret places on the mountain to find late powder: 
- Ha ha ha. Funny. 

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Indispensable Web Design and Development Firefox Extensions

27 Indispensable Web Design and Development Firefox Extensions

November 2, 2008 - Categories: Firefox Extensions, Web 2.0 Apps.

A collection of extensions for your every Design and Development need, from Editing CSS and Database Management to Image Capture and Color Pickers.
If there are any you feel I have missed, just leave a comment.

Web Design and Development Extensions for Firefox

URL : MeasureIt.
Description : MeasureIt draws a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.

URL : Firebug.
Description : Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

URL : View Source Chart.
Description : View Source Chart Extension draws a color-coded chart of a webpages source code and displays source in its altered state after the DOM has been manipulated by JavaScript

URL : Web Developer.
Description : The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Features : Clear Session Cookies ; Display Element Information ; Display Image File Sizes ; Display Ruler ; Display Topographic Information ; Edit CSS ; Show Comments…

URL : NoScript.
Description : NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice.

URL : Greasemonkey.
Description : This extension allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.
Hundreds of scripts, for a wide variety of popular sites, are already available at userscripts.org.You can write your own scripts, as well.

URL : FoxyProxy.
Description : FoxyProxy is a free, open-source advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefoxs limited proxying capabilities. FoxyProxy automatically switches an internet connection across one or more proxy servers based on URL patterns. Put simply, FoxyProxy automates the manual process of editing Firefoxs Connection Settings dialog.

URL : DOM Inspector.
Description : DOM Inspector is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL application. The DOM hierarchy can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within.

URL : sqlite-manager.
Description : Manage all your sqlite databases using this lightweight extension for firefox, this extension will be useful to developers who want to create and play with sqlite databases.

URL : QuickJava.
Description : QuickJava is a Firefox plugin that allows you to easily enable/disable the Java and Javascript from the toolbar. Two icons are placed in the toolbar, click on them to toggle the state. If you right click either icon it will update both icons.

URL : FirePHP.
Description : FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call, alll data is sent via response headers and will not interfere with the content on your page.
FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON and XML responses are required.

URL : CSSViewer.
Description : A simple CSS property viewer.

URL : EditCSS.
Description : The Editcss project is an easy way for web developpers to edit and modify currently loaded stylesheets.

URL : Browser Window Resizer.
Description : The Browser Window Resizer is useful tool for testing different screen sizes. It accurately resizes your browser so you can test to see if the web page you are working on looks right in all of the standard resolution sizes.
Window resizer supports the 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, 1280×1024, 1600×1200 resolution sizes.

URL : Table2Clipboard.
Description : This extension adds two menu items, one in Edit menu and the other one on context menu. The item on Edit menu is always visible but grayed if no table cells are selected. The item on context menu is visible only when table cells are selected. To select table cells you must hold down Control key and click on cells to copy.

URL : YSlow for Firebug.
Description : YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they are slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.

URL : Extended Statusbar.
Description : A Statusbar with speed, percentage, time and loaded size.

URL : Dummy Lipsum.
Description : This extension generates "Lorem Ipsum" dummy text.

Validation and Aceesibilty Extensions for Firefox

URL : CSS Validator.
Description : CSS Validator is a Mozilla Firefox extension which Validates a page using the W3C CSS Validator. Adds an option to the right-click context menu and to the Tools menu to allow for easy validation of the CSS of the current page. Opens the results in a new tab. Will only work on pages that have a CSS file associated.

URL : Html Validator.
Description : HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen on the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.

URL : Firefox Accessibility Extension.
Description : This Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension makes it easier for people with disabilities to view and navigate web content. Developers can use the extension to check their use of structural and styling markup that support functional web accessibility.

URL : Total Validator.
Description : The Total Validator Firefox extension provides one-click validation. Once installed all you do is browse to the page you want to validate then click on the TV icon in the browser status bar.

Imaging and Screen Capture Extensions for Firefox

URL : Image Zoom.
Description : Image zoom gives you complete control of the size of most images displayed in mozilla based software. Both individual images or whole pages of images can be zoomed.

URL : ColorZilla.
Description : Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other tools.

URL : Screengrab!.
Description : Screengrab! is an extension for Firefox that makes it easy to save a web-page as an image. With it, you can save anything that you can see in a browser window - from a small selection, to a complete page.

URL : FireShot!.
Description : FireShot is a extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that captures, edits, annotates, organizes, exports and prints screenshots of your web pages.

URL : Abduction!.
Description : Capture an entire web page or part of a web page and save it as an image.

Is the Worst yet to Come?

Nouriel Roubini: I fear the worst is yet to come

When this man predicted a global financial crisis more than a year ago, people laughed. Not any more...

As stock markets headed off a cliff again last week, closely followed by currencies, and as meltdown threatened entire countries such as Hungary and Iceland, one voice was in demand above all others to steer us through the gloom: that of Dr Doom.

For years Dr Doom toiled in relative obscurity as a New York University economics professor under his alias, Nouriel Roubini. But after making a series of uncannily accurate predictions about the global meltdown, Roubini has become the prophet of his age, jetting around the world dispensing his advice and latest prognostications to politicians and businessmen desperate to know what happens next – and for any answer to the crisis.

While the economic sun was shining, most other economists scoffed at Roubini and his predictions of imminent disaster. They dismissed his warnings that the sub-prime mortgage disaster would trigger a financial meltdown. They could not quite believe his view that the US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would collapse, and that the investment banks would be crushed as the world headed for a long recession.

Yet all these predictions and more came true. Few are laughing now.

What does Roubini think is going to happen next? Rather worryingly, in London last Thursday he predicted that hundreds of hedge funds will go bust and stock markets may soon have to shut – perhaps for as long as a week – in order to stem the panic selling now sweeping the world.

What happened? The next day trading was briefly stopped in New York and Moscow.

Dubbed Dr Doom for his gloomy views, this lugubrious disciple of the "dismal science" is now the world's most in-demand economist. He reckons he is getting about four hours' sleep a night. Last week he was in Budapest, London, Madrid and New York. Next week he will address Congress in Washington. Do not expect any good news.

Contacted in Madrid on Friday, Roubini said the world economy was "at a breaking point". He believes the stock markets are now "essentially in free fall" and "we are reaching the point of sheer panic".

For all his recent predictive success, his critics still urge calm. They charge he is a professional doom-monger who was banging on about recession for years as the economy boomed. Roubini is stung by such charges, dismissing them as "pathetic".

He takes no pleasure in bad news, he says, but he makes his standpoint clear: "Frankly I was right." A combative, complex man, he is fond of the word "frankly", which may be appropriate for someone so used to delivering bad news.

Born in Istanbul 49 years ago, he comes from a family of Iranian Jews. They moved to Tehran, then to Tel Aviv and finally to Italy, where he grew up and attended college, graduating summa cum laude in economics from Bocconi University before taking a PhD in international economics at Harvard.

Fluent in English, Italian, Hebrew, and Persian, Roubini has one of those "international man of mystery" accents: think Henry Kissinger without the bonhomie. Single, he lives in a loft in Manhattan's trendy Tribeca, an area popularised by Robert De Niro, and collects contemporary art.

Despite his slightly mad-professor look, he is at pains to make clear he is normal. "I'm not a geek," said Roubini, who sounds rather concerned that people might think he is. "I mean it frankly. I'm not a geek."

He is, however, ferociously bright. When he left Harvard, he moved quickly, holding various positions at the Treasury department, rising to become an economic adviser to Bill Clinton in the late 1990s. Then his profile seemed to plateau. His doubts about the economic outlook seemed out of tune with the times, especially when a few years ago he began predicting a meltdown in the financial markets through his blog, hosted on RGEmonitor. com, the website of his advisory company.

But it was a meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in September 2006 that earned him his nickname Dr Doom.

Roubini told an audience of fellow economists that a generational crisis was coming. A once-in-a-lifetime housing bust would lay waste to the US economy as oil prices soared, consumers stopped shopping and the country went into a deep recession.

The collapse of the mortgage market would trigger a global meltdown, as trillions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities unravelled. The shockwaves would destroy banks and other big financial institutions such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, America's largest home loan lenders.

"I think perhaps we will need a stiff drink after that," the moderator said. Members of the audience laughed.

Economics is not called the dismal science for nothing. While the public might be impressed by Nostradamus-like predictions, economists want figures and equations. Anirvan Banerji, economist with the New York-based Economic Cycle Research Institute, summed up the feeling of many of those at the IMF meeting when he delivered his response to Roubini's talk.

Banerji questioned Roubini's assumptions, said they were not based on mathematical models and dismissed his hunches as those of a Cassandra. At first, indeed, it seemed Roubini was wrong. Meltdown did not happen. Even by the end of 2007, the financial and economic outlook was grim but not disastrous.

Then, in February 2008, Roubini posted an entry on his blog headlined: "The rising risk of a systemic financial meltdown: the twelve steps to financial disaster".

It detailed how the housing market collapse would lead to huge losses for the financial system, particularly in the vehicles used to securitise loans. It warned that " a national bank" might go bust, and that, as trouble deepened, investment banks and hedge funds might collapse.

Even Roubini was taken aback at how quickly this scenario unfolded. The following month the US investment bank Bear Stearns went under. Since then, the pace and scale of the disaster has accelerated and, as Roubini predicted, the banking sector has been destroyed, Freddie and Fannie have collapsed, stock markets have gone mad and the economy has entered a frightening recession.

Roubini says he was able to predict the catastrophe so accurately because of his "holistic" approach to the crisis and his ability to work outside traditional economic disciplines. A long-time student of financial crises, he looked at the history and politics of past crises as well as the economic models.

"These crises don't come out of nowhere," he said. "Usually they arrive because of a systematic increase in a variety of asset and credit bubbles, macro-economic policies and other vulnerabilities. If you combine them, you may not get the timing right but you get an indication that you are closer to a tipping point."

Others who claimed the economy would escape a recession had been swept up in "a critical euphoria and mania, an irrational exuberance", he said. And many financial pundits, he believes, were just talking up their own vested interests. "I might be right or wrong, but I have never traded, bought or sold a single security in my life. I am trying to be as objective as I can."

What does his objectivity tell him now? No end is yet in sight to the crisis.

"Every time there has been a severe crisis in the last six months, people have said this is the catastrophic event that signals the bottom. They said it after Bear Stearns, after Fannie and Freddie, after AIG [the giant US insurer that had to be rescued], and after [the $700 billion bailout plan]. Each time they have called the bottom, and the bottom has not been reached."

Across the world, governments have taken more and more aggressive actions to stop the panic. However, Roubini believes investors appear to have lost confidence in governments' ability to sort out the mess.

The announcement of the US government's $700 billion bailout, Gordon Brown's grand bank rescue plan and the coordinated response of governments around the world has done little to calm the situation. "It's been a slaughter, day after day after day," said Roubini. "Markets are dysfunctional; they are totally unhinged." Economic fundamentals no longer apply, he believes.

"Even using the nuclear option of guaranteeing everything, providing unlimited liquidity, nationalising the banks, making clear that nobody of importance is going to be allowed to fail, even that has not helped. We are reaching a breaking point, frankly."

He believes governments will have to come up with an even bigger international rescue, and that the US is facing "multi-year economic stagnation".

Given such cataclysmic talk, some experts fear his new-found influence may be a bad thing in such troubled times. One senior Wall Street figure said: "He is clearly very bright and thoughtful when he is not shooting from the hip."

He said he found some of Roubini's comments "slapdash and silly". "Sometimes the rigour of his analysis seems to be missing," he said.

Banerji still has problems with Roubini's prescient IMF speech. "He has been very accurate in terms of what would happen," he said. But Roubini was predicting an "imminent" recession by the start of 2007 and he was wrong. "He hurt his credibility by being so pessimistic long before it was appropriate."

Banerji said on average the US economy had grown for five years before hitting a bad patch. "Roubini started predicting a recession four years ago and saying it was imminent. He kept changing his justification: first the trade deficit, the current account deficit, then the oil price spike, then the housing downturn and so on. But the recession actually did not arrive," he said.

"If you are an investor or a businessman and you took him seriously four years ago, what on earth would happen to you? You would be in a foetal position for years. This is why the timing is critical. It's not enough to know what will happen in some point in the distant future."

Roubini says the argument about content and timing is irrelevant. "People who have been totally blinded and wrong accusing me of getting the timing wrong, it's just a joke," he said. "It's a bit pathetic, frankly. I was not making generic statements. I have made very specific predictions and I have been right all along." Maybe so, but he does not sound too happy about it, frankly.

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. Box.net 1 GB 5 GB for $7.95/month; 15 GB for $19.95/month 25 MB free, 1 GB paid accounts Web-based, or through manual syncing hacks. Through Windows and Mac hacks Numerous web app interfaces (faxing, photo editing, etc.); iCal hosting support; Gmail and Outlook mailing integration. box.net . Drop.io 100 MB per "drop" 100 MB for free "drops"; 1 GB codes for $10/year 100 MB per "drop" Browser, email, phone call (for audio recording), faxing of documents, blog widgets No No registration required, passwords optional; Firefox extension (Drag & Drop.io) quickly makes new drops. drop.io . Dropbox 2 GB 50 GB for $10/month or $99/year No limit for desktop-synced files; 350 MB through web interface Software client (Windows, Mac and Linux), iGoogle gadget, web interface. Yes, across systems and with shared files. Revision history saving of documents; multi-user shared folders getdropbox.com . EatLime 1 GB with registration, 100 MB without. n/a Same as storage space. Web-based No. Files can be downloaded as they're uploaded in real time. eatlime.com . Humyo 30 GB with sign-up; 25 GB must be media files. 100 GB for $60 first year, $80 each year after. None Web and Windows client Through Windows client Online file editing (non-media); Mobile phone access. NOTE: Files deleted after 90 days if not accessed) humyo.com . Mozy 2 GB $4.95/month for unlimited space for home users. None Windows and Mac synchronization clients only. Yes mozy.com . Oosah 1 TB of media files ONLY Premium subscriptions available. 200 MB per video, 9 MB per audio file Web-based (but can drag and drop from Flickr, YouTube, and other webapps) Across webapps. Webapp synchronization, live streaming of media files. oosah.com . Orbitfiles 6 GB $5/month 50 MB Windows client or web site. Through Windows client. Can sell original files with 2% commission, auto web embed creator. orbitfiles.com . Windows Live SkyDrive 5 GB n/a 50MB Web site or ActiveX plug-in for Windows explorer. No RSS feeds for shared and public folders; integrates with Live Spaces account. skydrive.live.com . Windows Live Mesh 5 GB n/a Unknown Web site, Windows-based explorer plug-ins. Yes (through Live Mesh client) OS X and mobile support to come; Remote desktop access through computers running client. mesh.com

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36 Resume Ideas

36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work

Make your resume stand out by using a beautiful design that most people have never seen before. Here are some terrific resume ideas to inspire you.

You might want to bookmark this article and come back to it when you're updating your resume. Enjoy!

Beautiful resume designs

Bonus designer alternative resume

Although you would never send this to an Israeli diamond dealer or your local chick sexer, the mix of drawing and print on top of "the back of an envelope" really makes this resume memorable.