Before all this OSX miracle, yes, I was a Windows user. 2-3 button mouse was my norm and comfort zone.

When my Mac arrived a long time ago, this 1 button mouse simply was something I did not want to use. Then the “Apple logic” phenomenon kicked in and keyboard shortcuts + the mouse became the norm.

But alas, I stll missed contextual menues and alwys having to use the keyboard forced me to buy a 3 button mouse. I felt soiled and wished I could go back. When my new iMac came, I opted for the bluetooth mouse (1 button).

Enter 1 Finger Snap. My saviour. Simple, elegant, and it simply solves the problem. Yes, you now can get a wireless Mighty Mouse, but at the expense of storing a “new” wireless 1 button Apple mouse. Not cost effective.

1 Finger snap allows you to set a delayed right click ( time delay you set from .5 – 3.0 seconds ) which brings up what normally would be control-click.

0.5 seconds works best for me (I hope they can even shorten that), and I am once again happily using my purchased Apple hardware.

You have an option for sound and visual display, but I like the unobtrusive behaviour of no notification.

It works well in Universal Safari and PPC Microsoft Word all for around $7 bucks.

Try it. Especially you ‘ol Windows users.

This is a Must Have App.

Apple Phone In August? [Updated]: “Contrary to recent reports, Engadget says that Apple’s rumored ‘iPhone’ may appear as early as August.

A reader is reporting to us that a coworker’s tech-unsavvy friend, who is regularly hired by Apple to do marketing photo shoots, wa…”

(Via MacRumors.)

Video convertor:

“iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X.It’s many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular
video formats, and it’s infinitely free-er.It’s also really easy.Just drag in your file, and click Start.You can also choose ‘TV’
or ‘iPod’ size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer.On a 1GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video
files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime.

Features:- Fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video
format, from 3GP to XviD. – QuickTime Pro and DivX
codec not required.- DivX/XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported.- Batch Processing of multiple files. Save
in-place, or to a different folder.- Automatic aspect ratio detection. Anamorphic MPEG-2 and HDV detected too.- Quality slider. Leave
it as is to trust me, mess with it if you know better, or completely ignore it and play with the…- Advanced settings drawer. Change
every aspect of the conversion process.- Just a few of the supported formats: .mov .mp4 .avi .dv .mpg .vob .3gp .asf .wmv .flv .m4v”

(Via isquint.)

Apple iPhone hoax ads hit YouTube:

“Fact or fiction, the rumour machine for an Apple mobile phone accelerates with a new batch of hoaxed iPhone ads.

(Via Downlaod excellant video hoax.)

Windows Vista Live Demo Tanks: “Microsoft recently offered the media a demonstration of the voice recognition features in Windows Vista. Much to the amusement of the attendees – and Microsoft’s dismay – the presentation didn’t go exactly as planned”

(Via Download Video.)

Download Video Clips from YouTube :: zfreez.com: “

Unlike all other YouTube download service out there which you need to rename and change extension in order for it to work with .flv players. The downloaded files from this service will be in .flv format BY DEFAULT. It also named the clip according to the clip name at YouTube. So basically all you need left is an .flv player (which can be found at the bottom of this page). If you find us useful, recommend us to your friend.
Now have fun downloading.

Please note: All saved files are in .flv format. You need to download a .flv player. Some free available are VLC Player (9.2Mb) or Dedicated VLC Player (1.12Mb).
The VLC Player also have features converting .flv files into more usable formats such as .wmv, .avi, .mpeg…

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(Via zfreez.)

Flip4Mac – Press Releases:

Nevada City, Calif., July 28, 2006 – Telestream, the media encoding specialist, today announced availability of Flip4Mac™ WMV version 2.1 software. Release highlights include universal support for Apple’s Intel-based Macintosh systems and significantly faster Windows Media encoding for PowerPC Mac users. The Flip4Mac WMV update is free and available for download on Microsoft and Flip4Mac websites.

(Via flip4mac.)

Apple: iPods built to last 4 years: “The internet community has continued to question durability of Apple’s iPod line, leaving some consumers to question whether the popular portable media players are built well enough to withstand the normal everyday wear and tear. Apple has acknowledged some issues in the recent past, offering battery replacements to some and free Nano replacements to those customers who purchased the tiny players with easily-cracked or scratched LCDs.

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(Via macnn.)

Maconnect:

“LiquidCD is a freeware for burning CDs and DVDs built for Mac OS X.
But LiquidCD is more than a burning software and has useful built-in features.”

(Via maconnect.)

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Seashore – About:

“Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.”

(Via Seashore.)

Realviz updates, expands Stitcher line: “Realviz has released new versions of its Stitcher panorama creation software. Targeting photographers of all levels from the amateur enthusiast to the professional, Stitcher is now available in three versions: Stitcher E..

(Via MacNN.)

Mightier Wireless Mouse Unveiled By Apple: “Now you can get the familiar feel of Apple’s Mighty Mouse minus the wires. Apple unveiled the new wireless version on the Apple home page not long after pictures of a prototype showed up at Engadget. The new model has bluetooth and some sort of ‘laser-powered’ tracking system Apple claims is 20 times more sensitivity to surface detail than traditional optical tracking engines.”

(Via MacSlash.)

DashPrefs:

“Dashboard isn’t for everyone. And if you’re undecided if you’re one of them, DashPrefs makes it easy for you to keep making this choice, whenever you want. Even right now! With DashPrefs, you can:

Disable Dashboard entirely — without rebooting, without anything. Saves you system resources, and it doesn’t get in your way in the worst moment!
Disable Dashboard’s Advisory feature. This was introduced in 10.4.7, and permanently checks every 8 hours whether your widgets match those at apple.com — otherwise, an intruder could put malicious widgets on your computer, which otherwise would be virtually indistinguishable, if even at all noticeable. Apparently a useful feature, but unfortunately very vaguely documented by Apple, who don’t provide options for it, let alone a user-friendly means of turning it off!
DashPrefs is free. You have nothing to lose by giving it a try, and a lot to win.”

(Via captire.)

Apple Sells Parallels in Stores

Through our exclusive partnership with Nova Development, Parallels Desktop for Mac will be available in the Apple Store, as well as leading retailers like Staples, Office Depot, CompUSA, Fry’s Electronics, and Micro Center! The product is already on the shelf in the Apple Store, and will be rolling out to the other retailers over the next 30 days. SRP will be $79.99, the same price that is available on our website.

(Via Benjamin H. Rudolph.)

EasyEnvelopes – Dashboard

About EasyEnvelopes
Quickly print a one-off envelope, or utilize its tight integration with Address Book which allows you to quickly find a person’s address to print an envelope for. It handles USPS bar codes for both 5 and 9 digit bar codes, and boasts many time-saving nicities.

EasyEnvelopes works with any country’s addressing format, and is fully international-friendly and localizable. It lets you control the size of your envelope, the formatting for the return address and mailing address, and much more. Print envelopes the quick and easy way with EasyEnvelopes!

(Via ambrosiasw.)