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Orb for Mac finally arrives, streams media from OS X to any internet-connected device

Orb for Macintosh has finally hit the streets, bringing with it OS X 10.5 and 10.6 compatibility that enables any and all media from iTunes to be sent out over the internet and consumed on any outside device with access to the web. We’re talking laptops, UMPCs, smartphones and even that ancient PC your grandmother still uses with Windows ME. There’s no mention of any DRM restrictions, and it’ll even allow you to stream live TV if you can manage to connect a tuner card to your Apple. Oh,and Orb is completely free?

(via Engadget)

Image Tricks — photo and image editing software for Mac

Image tricks is a freeware application for editing your photos and images using Mac OS X Core Image filters that transform your photos and apply advanced visual effects. This program also contains a powerful image generator for creating unique backgrounds and abstract images for business cards, web design, print materials and more.

(via Image Tricks)

Isolator

Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you’re working on a document, and don’t want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.

Isolator is designed to stay out of your way, and so it isn’t loaded with flashy features. However, it is customizable so you can get it to do exactly what you want.

Options include:

Hide the Dock when you activate Isolator (10.5/10.6 only)
Customize the background window (including semi-transparency and blur)
‘Hide’ background windows, as well as covering them up (they’re just covered up by default)
Customize the shortcut key (normally shift-command-i)
Disable the menubar icon
Left-clicking the menubar icon can activate Isolator
Automatically launch Isolator when you log in

Get Isolator! For Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, the current stable version is is 4.4. For Mac OS X 10.4, the current stable version is 4.0, or you can try 4.5beta.

Install Isolator by mounting the disk image and dragging Isolator to the Applications folder. Isolator is freeware

(via Isolator)

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ImageSizer

ImageSizer is an Adobe Air application (runs on Mac/Win/Linux) built to resize, rotate, optimize and rename a batch of images, outputting them as a single compressed zip file - perfect if you want to e-mail a load of images off your digital camera, or a folder of images - just drag, drop, fiddle with settings and press ‘Compress your images’.

Once the files are processed, you can simply drag and drop again to export all of your images as a compressed zip archive or a folder on your hard drive.

via Adobe Marketplace

Alarm Clock 2 by Robbie Hanson

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Grab-up

Mac Utility makes uploading screenshots easy.

Run it, it lives in the menu-bar.
CMD+Shift+4
Select the area of the screen you want to copy
The clip is uploaded and the URL is automatically placed in your clipboard.
Go to where you want to use the URL and hit CMD+V

GrabUp.com Software Demo from jon on Vimeo.

Demo of the new build of GrabUp!

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Menubar Countdown is a free, simple countdown timer that displays itself on the right side of the Mac OS X menu bar.

viaCapable Hands Technologies, Inc.

SweetFM now an open source project

SweetFM, a totally awesome Mac client for the Last.fm streaming music & recommendations service, is now an open source project. This means that anyone can download it for free and you no longer have to pay $29.00 for a license key to use the application. SweetFM has also been updated, adding an equalizer for Last.fm streams and bug fixes.

If you’re interested in SweetFM, check out the Chocomoko website or visit the project page on Google Code. SweetFM is a Universal Binary (compatible with Intel and PowerPC Macs) and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

You can read an more comprehensive review on TUAW

via TUAW

The Omni Group - OmniWeb

The Omni Group has now made their web browser, OmniWeb freeware. It has some neet features. There is a pdf manual available, too.

via Macgasm

TwoUp

TwoUp allows you to easily position windows to fill exactly half the screen. This feature, similar to “window tiling” in other operating systems, is missing from the otherwise rich Mac OS X interface.

Using TwoUp TwoUp consists of four actions which can be performed on the frontmost application window:

Left (move window to fill the left half of the screen)
Right (move window to fill the right half of the screen)
Up (move window to fill the top half of the screen)
Down (move window to fill the bottom half of the screen)

These actions can be triggered via the TwoUp menu in the Mac menu bar or via system wide shortcuts. The default shortcuts can be triggered by holding the Control+Option+Command keys while pressing an Arrow key to indicate the direction you wish the window to go. The shortcut keys can be customized in the TwoUp Preferences.