April 2008
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Dialectic – A Versatile Telephony Tool for Mac
Dialectic – a versatile telephony tool for Macintosh – provides system-wide dialing of phone numbers using Bluetooth mobile phones, landlines, many VoIP services and more. It integrates with leading contact management applications including Marketcircle Daylite, Microsoft Entourage, Now Contact, Palm Desktop, FileMaker Pro & other databases as well as Apple’s iCal and Address Book.
Simple: Zoom without smoothing
When you use the zoom function Mac OS X automatically smoothes the zoomed image – this isn’t always what’s wanted.
MacSpeech Dictate is highly recommended
Speech dictation has been around for the Macintosh for years. There has been IBM’s ViaVoice and MacSpeech’s iListen. I never tried ViaVoice but I did purchase iListen when it initially came out back in 2000. In short, I hated it. The accuracy was so awful that it was such a chore to use it. I [...]
Put Items On The Dock
Handy utility lets you add things to the dock without the need to drag and drop.
Simple: Announce when application displays an alert
If an application displays an alert, Mac OS X will bounce its dock icon a few times – easy to miss. Here’s how to set things up so the computer will also use the system voice to tell you what’s going on.
eSpeak Macintosh Installer
An eSpeak installer for OS X is now available. eSpeak is an open source speech synthesiser that works in a large number of different languages.
Create keyboard shortcuts for self-modifying menu items
Creating keyboard shortcuts for menu items whose names change.
Touchpad tips and shortcuts
Make the most of the new touchpads found on the 2008 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
More flexible startup scheduling
Macworld 911 explores ways to have your computer turn itself on when you want it on.
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