Products

Photonic

Adam Knight — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:17:22 -0600

Working with a lot of photos to upload can be a pain, especially with any sort of web-based interface. No matter how well-designed the interface is, you’re still in a web browser and suffer from the limitations therein. The answer to effectively organizing and uploading tens, or even hundreds, of photos to Flickr is to use a desktop application specifically designed to help you accomplish this task. Enter Photonic.

Prosperity

Adam Knight — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:59:01 -0600

Personal Finance, The Mac Way

Barton Springs Software is proud to introduce Prosperity, a new personal finance application for Mac OS X. Prosperity features such concepts as:

Sum-Zero Accounting
Direct Downloads
Categories and Tags
.Mac Integration
And more, of course!

Sum-Zero Accounting

Prosperity uses double-entry accounting internally, so transactions across all accounts (including payees) are guaranteed to sum to zero. Because of this, you can find out exactly how much was spent with any one bank account or payee across all dates and accounts, instantly.

Direct Downloads

By using the standard OFX protocol, Prosperity can download transactions from hundreds of financial institutions without having to leave the application. By supporting the standard QIF and OFX file formats, Prosperity can import transactions from even more financial institutions.

Categories and Tags

Prosperity lets users assign categories to transactions as with most other financial packages. However Prosperity also allows users to supplement standard categories with special keywords called tags. This allows a user to categorize a transaction for what it is as well as add in descriptive tags regarding when, where, or what the transaction was related to such as business, home, a specific vacation, or any other grouping.

.Mac Integration

Prosperity can backup and restore documents with the iDisk service if a user has a subscription to Apple’s .Mac service. The user can then later restore the backup document and continue working.

Switchblade

Adam Knight — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:06:20 -0500

The Learning Application Switcher

Switchblade is an application switcher with a twist… it learns!

As you use Switchblade, it develops a list of your most popular and recently used applications and provides this information in a handy system-wide menu for instant access.

Switchblade gives you complete control over which applications appear in the menu, allowing you to designate applications as favorites, permanently hide others, and dynamically show and hide applications based on their Dock presence or other criteria.

Version 1.0.1 addresses several cumulative memory leaks and is an advised upgrade.

A Better Switcher

We built Switchblade after realizing that the Dock becomes less and less useful the more and more icons you add to it. We found that it greatly improved our productivity to keep only the absolute most commonly used applications in the dock, relying on Switchblade to access virtually everything else.

Switchblade also allows you to exclude items based on how many times they’ve been launched, whether they exist in your Dock, and whether currently open, as well as allowing you to force specific applications to permanently hide or show themselves. Switchblade doesn’t replace your dock, it makes it better by leaving valuable Dock space for the applications that truly need it, and putting the rest in an easily accessible location.

Most other applications used for switching applications have grown over time, becoming monsters of applications that attempt to be a Swiss army knife to the problem, and a dozen others. Switchblade does one common task, and does it well.

Activate the menu with a universal hot key of your choosing and start typing. As you type, the menu narrows your choice down until just a key press opens or activates your application. It’s like Spotlight, only it actually is fast.

Customize, Organize

Switchblade lets you customize the way the menu looks in a wide variety of ways, offering sections for popular applications, recent applications, and currently-open applications. There are settings for how large the icons are to how many items are in each section. Switchblade looks different for every user because every user needs something different from Switchblade. It’s there to help.

Requirements

Switchblade requires Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger”