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Is your Favicon ready for Fluid?

Most mac users expect things to “just work”, however when using Fluid you may find some sites favicons aren’t anywhere close to being perfect. 

Review: Fluid

If you are a bookmark junkie you may have your entire bookmarks bar filled with so many sites its hard to find your favorites.  Fluid allows you to make site specific browsers for your favorite sites allowing you to easily access them from your Dock. Fluid can either find the favicon for the chosen site [...]

New iTunes ad is just as awesome as usual

Apple released another iTunes ad this week, and this time it features Coldplay’s new song Viva La Vida (Live the Life).  As usual, this song was almost instantly sent to the top of the charts in iTunes, with only two of the American Idol David Cook’s songs above it.  This ad is one of the [...]

Get a New Effect for the Dock

When OS X was introduced, and the dock was unveiled, Steve Jobs awed Apple Fans by showing off the suck effect when minimizing windows. Well, the suck effect is great, and so is the scale effect, but did you know that there are more than just those two?

Thwarting Spam

Spam, spam, and more spam. It seems as if every time I open Mail thats what I’m greeted with. However, many people don’t realize you can fight spam right inside Apple’s Mail.

Homework Management on the Mac

I, like most of the contributing writers here at MacFocus, are teens and students, and everyone that I know integrates, in one form or another, school and technology. Whether it be simply using a word processor to type up a paper, or utilizing the internet as the valuable information resource it can be, it is definitely an asset.

Picturesque 2.0 Now Available; Sports New UI

Acqualia Software released version 2.0 of the amazing Picturesque image tweaking application. Version 2.0 includes many new features, and a stunning new interface.

MacFocus Freeware Pick: Tetris for the Mac

This week’s pick will help you pass the time!

What do you expect to be announced at WWDC?

With all the hype around the iPhone for the past year, there is no doubt in my mind that WWDC this year is going to be full of, to say the least, interesting announcements. The obvious of these announcements being a 3G iPhone along with statement about its SDK and new software are going to be talked about for quite a while. However, my question for you is what else do you think will be announced, if anything at all? Will there be new iPods or Macs? Or maybe even just some larger software updates? Your guess is as good as mine.

Mini Review: MarsEdit

For those of you who are into blogging as a “profession” or something more than a hobby, blogging clients are the absolute way to go. On the road? Write a post and submit it for later when you’re back online. No internet connection? Same there. Tired of WordPress’ visual editor? Use a visual client. Well, [...]

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