The Web’s Best Open Source Software Archive

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Open Source Living is a great place to find some of the web’s best open source software.  There is a lot of really high quality open source (aka free) software on the web these days.  If there is a software package you’ve been thinking of purchasing, I’m sure you will find a great free replacement at this site.

Huge List of Free Icons

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Kirk Montgomery has posted a great collection of links to  free icons for your website or application.

Keyboard Cleaner

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Keyboard Cleaner is a simple freeware application that disables your keyboard so you can give it a good cleaning!

Quikly take Web Page Screenshots in OSX

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Paparazzi! is a new tool I’ve added to my MacBook Pro that makes it super easy to make complete screenshots of web pages. Simply drop an url onto the Paparazzi window and get a PNG back. It is important to note that the resulting screenshot is the entire webpage and not only the part of the page that would be viewable within a browser window.

Freeware Archive Software for OSX

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Since receiving my MacBook Pro a few months ago, I’ve been looking for a capable and free archive/unarchive program. The Unarchiver is a great freeware application that handles most common compression formats like zip, gz, rar, 7z and many others. It has great Finder integration which makes it extremely easy to extract files. I would highly recommend this great piece of software as a replacement for the out-of-the-box OSX compression tools.

Colorize Black and White Photos

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Do you feel like being Ted Turner and colorize black and white photos? Recolored is a pretty sweet free application for Windows that let’s you colorize B&W photos by simply drawing colored lines over top of regions of your pictures. There was a video circulating arount the ‘net a few months ago that showed how the technique would work. Now it’s actually an application that works very well!

25 Best License-Free Fonts

Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Vitaly Friedman shares a list of the 20 Best License-Free Fonts.

Save Keystrokes in OSX

Friday, November 18th, 2005

Textpander is a sweet, free utility for Mac OSX that helps you type more efficiently and more accurately. Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations. It works with any application you open in OSX!