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Ommwriter: a Mac writing app that helps you concentrate

Download Squad  Nov 20 09

Filed under: Macintosh, Office, Productivity

Ommwriter is a Mac word processor with a bit of a gimmick. Like one of my favorite writing apps for the Mac, WriteRoom, Ommwriter goes full-screen, with a minimal interface and a focus on avoiding distractions. Ommwriter is even more extreme, though, adding a calming background and soothing music to the mix, and restricting your control over text formatting to a bare minimum to reduce fiddling. The good: that fiddling-reduction thing really works. You can make your text larger or smaller, and choose between three fonts, but that's it. It keeps you away from the controls and focused on your words. Full story...

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Silobreaker offers alternative search service for news and current affairs

Download Squad  3 hours ago

Filed under: News, Freeware, Search, Web

Who do you think of when you want to search for what's happening now? Increasingly people are searching social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and Google has increased the speed of its index to offer more up-to-date real-time information.

Get rich quick by extorting university student pirates!

Download Squad  3 hours ago

Filed under: Fun, Internet

In what must surely be a sign that schools and universities are under-funded, a network security dude at the University of Georgia has just been arrested for shaking down multiple file-downloading students.

Firebug web development extension comes to Google Chrome

Download Squad  19 hours ago

Filed under: Developer, Utilities, Productivity

Firebug is one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox: it's a web development tool that highlights elements in a page's HTML source, allows for live editing of CSS, and more.

Listary spruces up Windows find-as-you-type

Download Squad  19 hours ago

Filed under: Utilities

Here's a Windows tip for you, in case you didn't already know it: If you open up an Explorer window and start typing up the first few letters of a folder or filename, selection will immediately jump there.

Firefox 4 gets animated: New videos show slight browser tab changes

Download Squad  19 hours ago

Filed under: Mozilla, Browsers

We've already seen some photo mockups showing a few of the changes that could appear in Firefox 4.

Google Stream? Google will launch "huge" new social features tomorrow

Download Squad  20 hours ago

Filed under: Google, Social Software, web 2.0, Microblogging

Google is working on something mysterious that has to do with Gmail and social networking, but the details are still under wraps.

Liquid Scale removes unwanted picture parts to resize images on your iPhone

Download Squad  21 hours ago

Filed under: Photo, Commercial, Imaging Tips, iPhone

Liquid Scale is an iPhone / iPod Touch app that allows you to resize images by removing unimportant elements in the photo, leaving the important ones untouched.

Universal sues Grooveshark music service

Download Squad  21 hours ago

Filed under: Business, P2P

Grooveshark is a fantastic music service; it lets you immediately listen to almost any song or album you can think of.

Microsoft and Facebook renegotiate advertising and Bing integration

Download Squad  22 hours ago

Filed under: Business, News, Microsoft, Social Software

Microsoft and Facebook have worked together for two and a half years now, with Microsoft selling display ads on the social network.

Adobe says Flash performance on Mac to rival Windows in Flash 10.1

Download Squad  22 hours ago

Filed under: News, Adobe, Apple, Analysis

I almost (not quite, but almost) feel bad for Adobe right now.



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