TODD’S APPS
A monthly review of must have, worthy of looking or just plain interesting apps that are relevant to the design industry. Compiled by Todd Pearce, MBDAV.
UNIBOX
HAZEOVER
PA S T E
Unibox is an email organiser for mac users which should assist trolling through the countless emails, respondents, threads and the like. Unibox allows you to group by sender, thread. You can easily explore the entire email history with a person in a single list, drill down into threads including multiple contacts etc. Sorting through the most recent email contacts and even being able to list all attachments from a contact. You can even visually browse through attachments - so if you know what you’re looking for, you can find it easier than searching through emails and opening separately. Email becoming a grind? Check it out and see if this is right for you.
HazeOver is a GUI app that allows you to focus more clearly on the window you have open at the time; or maybe more to the point - background dim the ones you’re not working on to keep distractions away from the task at hand. Its operation is simple - the window you are using is bright; the rest are dimmed. Works across multiple monitors too. Great for focusing on a single task, working at night or low light situations. Not sure if it makes a difference to power consumption; but I suspect if much of your screen is not being powered up to full brightness, there may even be some power savings when working on battery to be had also?
Are you often cutting and pasting the same thing? Or wish you could have quick access to something you cut and paste in another file or program a week ago? Well, Paste could be your saviour. Once loaded, Paste can remember as many previous pastes as you wish, up to and including unlimited settings! So if you’re often working with the same images, sections of text or links etc. Paste might well save you heaps of time and frustration going back and trying to find the thing you frequently cut and paste. If any other members use or know any new or interesting websites, tech or apps, please feel free to drop me a line and I’ll share it with the other members.
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