Viewing Archives in OSX

A few days ago, I received a contract which I had to sign and then return back via fax. Unfortunately I didn’t have a fax machine to do this the traditional way, but I recalled my dad sending a fax with our PC many years back through the internal modem. My iBook had an internal modem, and sure enough I found out that Apple built features into OSX which allow you to fax whatever documents which you can print, provided your Mac has an internal modem, or you have the USB modem which you will need for the Intel-era machines.

Here’s a piece of software I wish I knew about a long time ago. It’s called teleport, and it gives you the ability to control multiple Macs with just one keyboard and one mouse.

Demo video inside.

Ever since the inclusion of Dashboard in Mac OS X Tiger, thousands of third-party widgets have been created to this point. Some of them useful, some of them quite pointless. So far, 6 have kept their stay on my Dashboard, two (Junior Mint, MAMP) of which were complementary widgets that were a part of other pieces of software, so I won’t be counting those ones. See the list after the jump.

PicLens is currently a Safari-only extension in its beta stages with Firefox and IE versions said to be in the works. It adds interactivity to most of the popular photo spots on the web by allowing you to convert your experience of browsing through a gallery of thumbnails, into a more cinematic one. The most notable feature of this extension is the ability to see photos in full-screen that is just a click away. What’s even more special is that when Piclens displays the photo in full-screen, it seems to be able to access the highest resolution photo available, even if the author wishes to restrict access to higher resolutions of their photo.