Two greatest Mac Apps
by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.
I’m hopelessly behind my RSS reading. I’m trying to catch up, reading really fast, skimming and unsubscribing from a lot of feeds.
Merlin Mann’s 43Folders however, is going to stay a little longer – in part because he brought my attention to two really great applications for the mac:
Backdrop just puts up a big window (in any colour you like – I take black, thank you) that you can use to block out all the other windows and the mess on your desktop. Menushade dims the Mac menubar (or makes it completely black). It springs back to life, when you mouse into it…
So writing a blog entry looks like this:
instead of this:
I like it!
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I’m not an OSX user, but doesn’t is support multiple desktops?
It does through add-ons. However I’ve never really gotten fond of multiple desktops. While I multitask a lot (way too much actually) I find that the concentration on one task helps me focus much better.
And instead of multiple desktops, I have two screens, which I find much more helpful – specially when developing software.