BitRocket - Mac OS X BitTorrent Client : "UI Features: * RSS support (Download .torrent's from within the application) * Integrated (Customizable) Search Engine (Download .torrent's from within the application) * Flexible Filtering * Torrent Generator * Live Info View * UPnP and NAT-PMP Port Forwarding" (Via bitrocket.) Read more [...]

Mac plugins for Facebook : "Want an easy way to upload and tag your photos on Facebook? Need to know sooner if your friends are poking you or that you’ve been invited to an event? What you need are these free Mac OS X plugins so you can spend even more time procrastinating on Facebook." (Via applesource.) Read more [...]

More syncing with PlaxoPlaxo Online

* · Retrieve your address book and calendar from anywhere at anytime
* · Synchronized with all of your other Plaxo Toolbars
* · No download necessary, just sign in on the Web

(Via plaxo.)

.Mac alternative goes on trial: "The NotMac Challenge has released a solution that may replace .MacA free open-source alternative to .Mac has been assembled and is currently being tested." (Via notMac Challenge.) Download HERE Read more [...]

Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 1.0, GPU-powered image editing tool that provides everything needed to create, edit, and enhance still images. Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, Pixelmator features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and color correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, color management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images. More info Read more [...]

SWF & FLV Player for Mac - SWF Player - FLV Player - Mac Flash Player: "SWF & FLV Player is a free, swift and smart Flash player for Mac OS. Eltima enriched it with numerous handy options and controls, which ensures top grade usability for viewing and managing Flash movies. Using extended Flash movie controls you can easily forward and rewind Flash movies, arrange a playlist of Flash movies to view them randomly, repeat loaded file or the whole playlist continuously. SWF & FLV Player provides control Read more [...]

PhotoArtist2 from Ben Vista have developed an excellant photo retouching tool in PhotoArtist2. The under 15 mb application allows you to play with 50 filters and numerous mixing features, you can truly become an artist with your photographs. You can fill in or apply the full filter or customized individual filters to your picture, or simply brush on with 15 different brush types. You control the opacity, brush size and filter type. You can apply many filters to an image or keep reverting Read more [...]

Free iTunes to be given away at Starbucks: “Starbucks plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to customers in all of its domestic coffee houses to promote a new wireless iTunes music service that’s about to debut in select markets, reports AP…”

(Via MacMinute.)

PulpMotion 1.4 offers iLife ’08 integration: “Aquafadas has released PulpMotion 1.4, the latest version of its application that gives users a new option for designing and sharing, in a few clicks, videos slideshows that integrate personal photos, videos and music…”

(Via MacMinute.)

"If you're using Safari, there's an easy way to download YouTube videos. Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A, which shows the Activity window. If you're also loading other sites, you'll see a list of them: scroll until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details about what is being loaded. You will certainly notice an element whose size is over 0.5MB (most of the time, over 5MB). Double-click on it (even if it is still loading), and Safari will download Read more [...]

Top 10 Safari Plugins : "Safari, now available on both the Mac and PC, is the best Mac browser in my opinion. Better, in fact, than Mozilla’s highly extensible Firefox offering. With Firefox plugins getting all the coverage, we thought we’d restore the balance and bring you a selection of the best Safari add-ons." (Via mashable.) Read more [...]

Briefly: Leopard nears release as developers see build: “A new build of Leopard emerged for developers Friday evening just days after Apple released an update via Software Update for the previous build. Build 9A559 follows on the heels of 9A528d, and comes roughly one month after Apple delivered 9A527.”

(Via Think Secret.)

Slim Aluminum MacBooks Soon?: “9to5mac reports that Apple is readying MacBook updates in the near future which will see new enclosures.

The new enclosures have been seen in both Black and Silver aluminum variants and are ‘considerably slimmer’ than the current MacBo…”

(Via MacRumors.)

Native Mac OS X version of OpenOffice.org coming in 2008: “OpenOffice.org is finally getting native Mac OS X support. The open source office suit has been available for Windows and Linux for years. And since 2005, you’ve been able to run OpenOffice.org on OS…

(Via MacMegasite.)

Version 3.8.2 is the latest update for Cocktail that adds twelve new Automator actions, the Safe (Safe Boot*) option to the Startup Mode setting and possibility to show or hide Quit Finder menu item. * What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode?: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107392 The update also addresses an issue in which improper permissions were applied to the Firewall and Secure logs during the rotation of these logs, as well as an issue in which Cocktail may report problems with diskutil Read more [...]