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Snapheal: Retouch & Remove Unwanted Objects From Images On Mac

by Fatima Wahab on April 11, 2012

Image editing apps aren’t rare for Mac, but the majority of them focus on adding color filters, image effects or cropping and rotating a picture. As far as real image editing goes where you can actually add or remove elements within the image, the apps that let you do that are rare. Snapheal is a Mac app worth $14.99 in the Mac app store that lets you erase objects in an image, retouch, rotate and crop images. It has a powerful retouch feature that allows you to adjust the contrast, saturation, sharpness, blur, and light intensity for any particular area on the image. You can compare your two images and save them to any format of your choice. Read More

Pocket Snapper: Massive Camera App For iPhone With Virtual Models

by Hamza Khalid on April 10, 2012

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Pocket Snapper is one of the many photo editing apps in the iOS App Store. It might remind you of a lot of other iPhone photo editors, but it does have its distinguishing features, making it worth its price. For one, there are some unbelievably good filters and effects in Pocket Snapper. Mostly the term of effects in apps implies nothing more than a change in lighting aspects and color values of photos. This is not the case with Pocket Snapper, and the filters offered by it go way beyond ordinary RGB effects. In addition to the beautiful filters and frames, the app will let you hone your photography skills by doing virtual photo shoots of real models, using a feature called iModel. More and that and other features of Pocket Snapper just past the jump. Read More

[Giveaway] SyncMate: Sync Unlimited Devices Of Any Platform To Your Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on April 05, 2012

We’ve covered a lot of tools that let you sync either your iOS device with your Mac or an Android device to it. Some apps were free, others came with a price tag. As far as syncing devices go, if you stick to the little apps, you will be able to, at best, sync between any two devices. SyncMate is a Mac app that is perhaps the mothership of all sync utilities out there. It doesn’t just sync between any two devices, but rather, just about any device that you can imagine; Windows PC, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Sony PSP. Additionally, the app also lets you sync with Dropbox, your Google Account, Nokia phone, and Blackberry. The free version of the app lets you take it for a test spin without any time constraint. The pro version, which costs $39.95, offers lots of additional syncing options including a Mount Storage option that mounts the user accessible storage as a separate disk to your Mac and lets you browse and copy files. Read More

Instant: Add Instagram-Like Filters To Your Images On Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 31, 2012

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Instagram is perhaps one of the coolest apps available for iPhone (and soon to be available on Android). The app is popular because it lets you get more out of your iPhone’s camera, making your images stunning to look at and providing you a sharing/showcase platform. Instant is a Mac app worth $4.99 (for a limited time) on the Mac App Store that lets you combine a polaroid camera and 28 filters to make your photos amazing. The app also lets you connect with your Flickr account and share photos directly to it. You can customize the filters and add a caption to the image. When you add a caption using Instant, the app adds a frame to your image, giving it an authentic polaroid shot look. Read More

Nifty: Add Custom Global App Specific Buttons On Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 28, 2012

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Keyboard shortcuts make it easy to use apps, but sometimes, it’s hard just to remember what shortcuts you’ve set. Often, the same shortcut does different things in different apps and that complicates things further. What’s needed is a universal system for managing these functions, possibly an app wearing a golden ring with something like ‘One shortcut app to rule them all’ engraved on it. Nifty is a Mac app, available for $4.99 in the Mac App Store, that adds a dynamic toolbar on your desktop. The buttons on this toolbar change as different apps are active. The toolbar shows all open windows of a particular app, and lets you add buttons of your choice. These buttons can be app specific; they will appear only when that particular app is active, or they can be global; they will appear regardless of which app is active. Read More

Lock Your Screen: The Mothership Of Screen Lock Apps For Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 23, 2012

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We’ve been covering lockscreen apps for Mac a lot this month, and each app that we’ve covered had its own special feature that set it apart. Lock Your Screen is a Mac app worth $3.99 in the Mac app store, and it literally has everything you could possibly want in a lockscreeen app. In addition to adding a clock, a custom background, iTunes controls, and three different ways of setting a password, the app also lets you add a password hint (feature available by default in Windows 7), lock your system via keyboard shortcut and disable the Sleep function. You can draw passwords either freehand or in a nine dot grid, both of which are set using the mouse and no trackpad is required. Additionally, the app will let you dim the screen when the screensaver is enabled, set the app to enable the screensaver if the system has been idle, and define Work, Movie or Presentation modes, so that the app does not mistake the system to be idle when it is not. Impressed? Read on to discover more. Read More

[Giveaway] Droppy: Easily Move Files Between Desktop Spaces & Apps On Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 21, 2012

Desktop spaces in Mac make it easy to manage multiple apps and windows. Compared to Expose in Snow Leopard, Desktop Spaces, coupled with Mission Control, let you easily distribute and organize your work without overthinking it. While this feature is mostly convenient, it does get difficult to switch files from one space to another, or between two apps that you have open in different spaces. Droppy is a Mac app worth $0.99 in the Mac App store that gives you a simplified way of transferring files between two apps on different desktop spaces. The app adds a wormhole area to the screen, visible across all spaces, where you can dock a file. You can then swipe between desktop spaces and drag the file onto the app you want to add it to. Read More

App Zap: Remove Apps & All Files Associated With Them On Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 20, 2012

Some apps play nice, others not so much. At some point, we download a seemingly innocent app that will do what it says and be easily banished when we’re tired of it or have no use for it. However, it later turns out that app is there to stay, whether we like it or not. Evil apps? Not necessarily. Some apps have more files than others, and depending on what they do, they copy those files to different locations. While you can delete these apps, finding and tracking down the rest of the files isn’t easy. If you haven’t enabled viewing hidden files, it is likely you won’t get to the Saved Application State folder in Library, and will retain some files from an installed, and later removed, app. App Zap is an app uninstaller for Mac that is worth $4.99 in the Mac app store that not only lets you delete files, but also view and selectively remove files created by the app or the app itself. Read More

Imperium: App List, Settings Toggles & App Switcher In One Cydia Tweak

by Hamza Khalid on March 16, 2012

The App Switcher tray in iOS is a pretty useful feature, and surely it falls into the category of most-used options in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This is why there are many Cydia tweaks which are focused on making the tray even better than it currently is, by adding awesome new functionalities to it. A few examples of such tweaks include LockScreen Multitasking, SwitcherLoader and Now Playing Detail Info. There are not many Cydia tweaks, however, which offer a complete alternative to the stock iOS App Switcher tray, and the new tweak Imperium does just that. The wonderful tweak has potential to make you forget if the stock switcher ever existed, it’s that good. Not only is Imperium useful for switching between apps and killing them, it also lets you toggle some of the most used system settings (much like SBSettings) and incorporates an app list of its own, complete with its own dock for pinning app shortcuts. Read More

Finch: Track App Usage In Time & Tag Them Either Work Or Play In Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 16, 2012

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Some people are born workers, while others may stare blankly at a wall or have witty conversations with themselves rather than tackle the task at hand. At the end of the day, both types of people need to justify to themselves that they actually accomplished something, even if it’s just their job. For Mac users who find it increasingly difficult to concentrate on a single task, Finch is a Mac app available for $4.99 in the Mac App Store (free for today only) that allows you to record which apps you use, and tag them based on their usability, i.e., if you use an app for entertainment, you can mark it as such. Similarly, if you’ve used an app as part of your work, you can mark it likewise. The app can remember which apps you use for work and which are used for entertainment, and flag them automatically when they are launched. It records the time spent on a particular app and lets you view a summary of how you’ve spent the whole day. The concept behind the app is that, getting a visualization of how you spent your time on your system will help you curtail your unproductive activities or limit them to a certain extent. Read More

Screen Vault: Enable Widgets, Themes & Padlock Lockscreen On Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 15, 2012

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We’ve covered a few lockscreen apps for Mac this month, out of which Screensavery and Screensaver+ Free are worth mentioning. Lockscreens may not be a very popular concept when it comes to a desktop system or even on Mac, still, Screen Vault is a Mac app worth $4.99 in the Mac App Store that is bound to change your mind. It comes as close to the lockscreen you’re used to seeing for smartphones, as possible. The app lets you lock and unlock your screen either by drawing a pattern or using your trackpad to enter a combination for the vault-like lock. It additionally lets you add system information to the lockscreen, snap pictures whenever someone enters an incorrect password, and customize every bit of the theme that you want. Read More

Recent Menu: View Recently Used Files From Any Folder In Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 14, 2012

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Spotlight is an excellent Mac feature; you can search for any type of file saved to any location simply by typing the name in the search bar. It is a pretty good fail safe, as long as you recall the file name. Imagine having to find a file that you just accessed, and being clueless as to where it was saved and having forgotten its name. You might have several versions of a file saved at different locations, or you might just want to get to your recently used files or apps. Recent Menu is a Mac app worth $0.99 in the Mac App Store that allows you to access recently used items, folders, apps, PDFs, movies, images, code, or all recently accessed files. The app lets you choose which items it should keep track of, and lets you add any folder to the app’s monitoring list. You can toggle the app menu via a customizable keyboard shortcut. Read More

Deck: Elegant Sidebar With Quick Toggles For iPhone [Cydia]

by Aatif Khan on March 14, 2012

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For as long as I have owned and used an iPhone, the first package that got loaded after jailbreaking has (invariably) always been SBSettings. I find myself almost addicted to this highly useful Cydia tweak, which not only eases a lot of toggles, but provides much more than than mere quick switches for various settings. For seasoned iOS-jailbreak users, SBSettings needs no introduction, and neither does the fact that the stock look of the said tweak is, at best, unattractive. That isn’t really a problem, since there are a lot of themes available for SBSettings, but there’s always room for improvement, isn’t there? Enter Deck, the first (and in my experience, only Cydia tweak) that can give SBSettings a run for its money. Granted, it can use a lot of work in its present state, but even then, the elegant sidebar dock that it adds for quick access to a lot of iOS functions and apps, the beauty with which the dock has been implemented, not to mention the heavy customization, makes Deck a worthy contender. Read on past the break to find out more. Read More

Easy File Hider: Quickly Hide/Show Files & Folders On Your Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 13, 2012

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Viewing hidden files on Mac isn’t one of the easier things to do. While it isn’t impossible, it requires you to either go poking in the Terminal, or to use a modifying app like Lion Secrets, and this is just to view hidden files. What if you wanted to hide a file like your Will, Insurance details or plans for conquering the world and the blue prints to your mind control machine? Easy File Hider is a Mac app worth $1.99 in the Mac App Store that lets you quickly mark a file as hidden or visible. Additionally, you can password protect access to this app, so that even if someone gains access to your system, they won’t be able to unhide your files and find them. Read More

Conductor Server: Control Your Mac From An iPhone/iPad [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 12, 2012

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A while back, we covered a Mac App, Mobile Mouse Server, which was a feature rich app that allowed you to use your iPhone as a mouse/trackpad replacement with your Mac. The Mac app was free while its iOS client cost $1.99, but the features are definitely worth it. Conductor Server is yet another Mac app that does the same, and likewise the Mac app is free while the iOS client is worth $1.99. Compares to Mobile Mouse Server, this app knocks it out of the park. The app has dedicated media controls, but additionally lets you switch between open windows of any app. You can preview thumbnails of the open windows and bring them to front on your Mac by simply selecting them on your iOS device. The app allows you to add a large variety of gestures and swipes. Read More

Dammit: Speed Dial To Open (Stacks Of) Apps, Files Or Folders On Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 12, 2012

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If you use either Opera or Chrome, you are probably familiar with the speed dial feature that allows you to quickly access your frequently visited sites. As far as browsers are concerned, this is a highly useful feature. Imagine having something similar on your desktop for your frequently-used files, folders and apps. Dammit is a Mac app available for $2.99 in the Mac app store that implements this very idea on you desktop. Mac users might question what the point of such an app is when you have Launchpad for launching your apps, but Dammit, literally, lets you use your number pad to open corresponding files/folders and apps. You can create stacks (groups of shortcuts, nine in each stack) and swipe through them using four finger swipe. The app runs in the background and can quickly be brought to front using custom shortcuts. Read More

[Giveaway] Disk Drill: File Recovery App That Lets You Undo Delete On Your Mac

by Fatima Wahab on March 07, 2012

We last reviewed Disk Drill in 2010, when the app was still in its infancy and was free. Since then, the Disk Drill for Mac has added new features and introduced a pro version, in addition to a free one, of their file recovery app. The app isn’t just a recovery app; it also provides file protection for important files, letting you choose specific folders or drives to protect. Among the noteworthy new features is the deep scan algorithm that allows you to recover more files, Guaranteed Recovery, which allows you to undo the file delete action. The app can also search for partitions that you may have lost due to formatting. Read More

PDF2Tape: Create An Audio Book From Any PDF On Your Mac [Paid]

by Fatima Wahab on March 07, 2012

Have you ever found a really great PDF - perhaps a book a paper - that you found extremely useful but couldn’t find an audio book for? This is likely the case with many PDFs, since few will make it into audio books, and they are bound to cost you. PDF2Tape is a Mac app worth $0.99 in the Mac App Store, and a stroke of pure genius. The concept is simple; take a PDF and convert it to an audio file in either ACC or AIFF format. The app uses the default Mac voice and narrates the entire content of the file for you to play back. It is ideal for PDFs that you don’t have the time to read, or would prefer to listen to but can’t find in audio format. Read More

Silent Film Director: Create & Share Vintage Videos From iPhone

by Hamza Khalid on March 05, 2012

Who doesn’t like to add a touch of classic to their creations? Hollywood might look like a world of colors to you these days, but things weren't always like this. In the times of Charlie Chaplin, movies had to rely on gestures and text flashes to convey their meaning, and those silent, black and white movies were represented some of the best works of art in their time. Silent Film Director is an iOS app which gives you a taste of how the creators of those movies must have thought and felt. Using this app on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, you can shoot videos and give them a variety of vintage visual and audio effects. Not only that, Silent Film Directory has a gallery of its own, where users can show off their masterpieces to everyone. Read More