What is Monosnap?

Monosnap is a very simple to use and easy to install free screen capturing tool for multiple platforms. They have versions for Mac, Windows, iPad and even Chrome browser. The print screens you see in this post are created by Monosnap version for Mac OSX.

 How to start?

Starting is easy. You just download version of Monosnap for your platform, install it and you are ready to go. Mac version of Monosnap installs quick icon on you top bar, you can always click it and select to capture full screen, portion of the screen or record the video (yes, this tool records a screen capture videos as well).

What else is good about it?

All bunch of things we like at Monosnap – its easy to use, doesn’t cost you anything to download, can record screen sharing videos and and even make selfies!

But another additional functionality Monosnap app provides – it allows you to upload and share the print screens on cloud servers. This way you can make a print screen and instantly share it with someone whom you want to send it to.

Application supports FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3 storages as well as popular tools like Dropbox, Box.com Yandex.disk. So you can choose how do you want to share you monosnaps. Really good work by the team who made this app!

Example?

Yes, let me share you example monosnap I have created in less then 2 minutes. Its about how we write posts at Enfew.com blog

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What is DiskDrill

Like it or not, sometimes we have to recover files. Because we have deleted them and removed from trash, because we removed them from memory card, USB flash etc.

And in most cases we need to recover them quick. DiskDrill for Mac does exactly that. It allows for fast recovery of data from your local drives, external hard drives, USB storage and even Amazon Kindle devices. It scans the disc, finds the files and lets you recover them.

How to Start

Starting is easy. You will have to download the app from DiskDrill site, install it on your Mac and you can start scanning. You can scan partitions as well as full disks. The scanning view looks like this if you are running the latest version of the app (2.3.3 in the time of writing).

Its actually simple as this. The main idea DiskDrill team are proposing – recovering files should be simple. You will not see any disc scanning algorithms or functions displayed in this app. All of it runs under the hood, leaving you with list of files to go through and find what you want to recover.

Useful bits

There are couple of other useful bit this app provides. You can choose which file types it searches for. App supports great number of file types by default but you can disable them if you know what you are looking for

Another useful bit is the actual DiskDrill tutorials and how to’s for different recovery scenarios which you can find at the bottom of their web page. How to recover memory card in Mac OS for example.

Overall, nice and simple to use product. Has both, free and PRO versions. Let us know about your experiences while using it!

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What is Folx

Folx is a versatile Internet download manager solving the problem of convenient downloading of multiple files and managing those downloads on your computer so that you can always easily organize and find any of them. It was just recently updated to version 3.0 with lots of new options and revamped interface.

What is new in Folx 3.0

As just said, Folx 3.0 has even greater interface than before, and it is simple and clear for everyone.
Folx 3.0 offers you various ways of adding files to it for downloading:

# Simply copying the download link into Folx;

# Adding the download in a download window of Folx with lots of advanced options: splitting download in threads, choosing when to start the download, assigning the download with tags according to its content, making some comments;

# Intercepting download links directly in your web browser. You can choose what file types to intercept, and what not to intercept.

Also new version of Folx offers handy file manager for easy browsing through completed downloads.

What hasn’t changed is the quality of Folx and its unique tagging system. When downloading a file you can assign it with one or many tags characterizing it the best. You can sort downloaded files by tags in Folx and you can always find those on your Mac even after time goes by just by remembering any of the tags you have assigned.

Choose your Folx

There are two editions of Folx: Free and PRO.

Free Folx offers all possible options for convenient management and sorting of the downloaded content, including smart tagging, splitting downloads in 2 threads, resuming interrupted downloads, and so on.

Folx PRO gives additional possibilities: splitting downloads in up to 10 threads for faster downloading; smart speed adjustment in either manual or automatic modes; downloads scheduler; automatic adding of downloaded files into iTunes playlists. If you ever decide to upgrade from free version to Pro use the ENFDSC code to get 20% discount.

We hope you will enjoy Folx downloader!

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Always free to use whether you download it separately or as part of a StuffIt Trial or StuffIt Deluxe Trial. Access StuffIt files, uncompress Zip archives, decompress tar, gzip and bzip archives, and more. Just drag, drop, and you’re done! From BinHex to Zip, StuffIt to MIME, Expander accesses more formats, in less time, with zero hassles.

StuffIt Expander opens files created with WinZip, 7zX, iShrink, SimplyRAR, Rarify, Rucksack (formerly iArchiver), BetterZip, RarMachine, GUI Tar, CleanArchiver, Springy, TarPit, RAR, Ez7z, Keka, and the compression utilities built into recent versions of Windows and Mac OS X.

2. simplyUnRAR 4.1

simplyUnRAR is a small and simple utility that lets you easily extract RAR files. Simply drag and drop the rar file(s) onto the application and let it extract.

Just place the simplyUnRAR droplet into your Applications folder or somewhere you’d like it to be. You can also drag it into your Dock for all-time fast access.

Features of simplyUnRAR include:
– extraction of multiple rar files at once
– extraction of password protected rar files
– choose to use the same password for all files

3. UnRarX

UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.

4. The Unarchiver v2.7.1

The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for “Archive Utility.app”, the built-in archive unpacker program on Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than Archive Utility, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. I personally find it useful for opening Japanese archives, but it should handle many other languages just as well.

It is very simple to use and install – simply copy it into your Applications folder or whereever you prefer, and then set archive filetypes to open using it. This can either be done the usual way, or by double-clicking the icon to show The Unarchiver’s preferences.

Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, RAR, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other old and obscure formats. See further down the page for a more complete list of supported formats.

5. WinZip Mac Edition

WinZip — the world’s leading compression utility — has been reinvented for the Mac! Created specifically for Mac users, WinZip Mac Edition is a simple, powerful tool designed to help you compress and secure your files using the latest in file compression and encryption technology. Now you can zip and protect your files for swifter, safer sharing and smaller storage with this all-new, easy-to-use Mac tool backed by the best in the business. Zip and unzip files instantly using simple drag-and-drop functionality. Open major compressed file formats (Zip, Zipx, RAR, LHA, 7Z) and create Zip and Zipx files–WinZip’s smallest compressed file format to date.

6. Rarify

This is a very simple interface to the rar binary. And RAR is a popular compression format in the PC-side-of-the-life. Keep in mind that the RAR format won’t support OSX-specific flags (ie, resource fork). For advanced options, use the rar binary in CLI mode itself, or look for other interfaces.

7. 7zX

7zX is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually 7zX compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format, and 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.

7zX currently supports tar, zip, gzip, bzip2, UNIX compress, 7z, s7z and various kinds of segmented archives.

8. Zipeg 2.9

Zipeg is a universal free file opener for .zip and .rar files. With just a click you can open a file and see what is inside. Find exactly what you are looking for and extract it. Zipeg is for everyone!

9. YemuZip by YellowMug

Drag, drop, done. Making zip files cannot be any easier.

YemuZip is an easy-to-use application for making zip files. Just drag, drop, name your zip file and you’re done.

Mac OS X’s built-in compress function makes zip files that contains Mac specific information that, when extracted on a PC, looks like garbage. YemuZip lets you choose between a PC-friendly format and a Mac format that preserve all the Mac-specific metadata.

YemuZip remembers your recently chosen destination folders. This allows you to easily output the zip file to your iDisk or Dropbox, for example. YemuZip can also place the resulting zip file directly in an email.

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It has innovative new features that improve the way you view the web. And powerful new tools to help developers enhance and customize the browsing experience altogether.

What is Safari? – It’s a browser. It’s a platform. It’s an open invitation to innovate. Safari sets the standard for the way browsing should be.

What’s new – The best way to read online, greater support for HTML5, and other new features that make the web even better.

2. Camino – Perfectly formed

Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users.

What’s new in Camino 2? – With innovative features like Tab Overview alongside security features like phishing and malware protection, Camino 2 is the safest, cleanest Camino yet.

Camino 2 also improves upon many familiar staples: blocking Flash animations is more flexible with the new exceptions list; tabs can now be rearranged by dragging within the tab bar; there are optional Growl notifications for downloads; and much, much more.

3. Google Chrome – Modern and fast Web browser

Google Chrome is a Web browser by Google, created to be a modern platform for web pages and applications. It utilizes very fast loading of web pages and has a V8 engine, which is a custom built JavaScript engine. Because Google has used parts from Apple’s Safari and Firefox browsers, they made the project open source.

4. Mozilla Firefox4 – Web Browser

The Firefox browser is created by Mozilla, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web. In the end, the Mozilla community, organization and technology is all focused on a single goal: making the Internet better for everyone.

5. Opera – Fastest Web Browser

Opera is a very fast, elegant and easy to use Web browser.

Opera’s cross-platform Web browser technology is renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience.

Opera Web browser scores a 100/100 on the Acid3 test.

6. Cruz By Celestial Teapot Software

Cruz is a new web browser for Mac OS X that offers a few special features you won’t find anywhere else.

7. OmniWeb

OmniWeb is a powerful, feature-rich alternative to the standard web browser. Save time and be more productive by using built-in web shortcuts and unique drag-and-drop tabbed windows. Stay organized with workspaces that save web pages you have in your tabs, your history, and even the location of your windows on your screen. Tell OmniWeb how you want the web to work—on each individual domain you can choose how to interact with its content, from changing the text size to blocking ads, managing cookies, or telling OmniWeb where to save downloads. Instead of being limited to a standard set of page viewing functions, OmniWeb gives you total control over your entire browsing experience.

8. Stainless – A multi-process browser for OS X Leopard / Snow Leopard

Although Stainless started out as a technology demo to showcase our own multi-processing architecture in response to Google Chrome, we’ve been inspired by our growing fanbase to forge ahead and craft Stainless into a full-fledged browser. In fact, Stainless now has features you won’t find in Chrome or in any other browser.

A prime example is parallel sessions, which allow you to log into a site using different credentials in separate tabs at the same time. This new technology is woven throughout Stainless, from the private cookie storage system, to session-aware bookmarks that remember the session in which they were saved. We’re excited to showcase what we believe is a true browser innovation.

Please note that Stainless is still in development and doesn’t yet have all the features you’d find in a production-ready browser.

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The ultimate translation software! More than 90 million users!

• Quick Look – a sneak peek of content without opening them
• Menu app – menu bar activation, designed on same concept of spotlight
• Auto-complete – related complementarily terms as you start typing.

2. iTranslate –  Quick and Easy Translations

iTranslate is a useful application tool for quick translations from German into English or German into French. All you need is an Internet connection. iTranslate accesses language information from LEO – an online dictionary provided by the Technical University of Munich and Wikipedia – the online encyclopedia and thesaurus, where you can find anything about everything.

3. MacDICT X 2.9.2 – Search a growing number of dictionaries for English words

MacDICT lets you access a growing number of databases, including Websters Dictionary. Other databases include the US Gazetter and the Free Online Dictionary of Computing.  [Requirements: PPC, Mac OS X 10.0 or later.]

4. Dilo 1.3.2 – German/English translation dictionary

Dilo is an application to lookup German <-> English, German <-> French, German <-> Spanish and German <-> Turkish words in public dictionaries to get a translation in the other language, respectively.

5. Easy Translator for Mac

Easy Translator employs the power of Internet machine language translation engines, and enables you to easily translate Web contents, letters, chat, and emails between major international languages.

It supports the following 59 languages:

• English
• Latin
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish
• Catalan
• Portuguese
• Greek
• Russian
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Japanese
• Korean
• Arabic
• Hebrew
• Finnish
• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Filipino
• Hindi
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Turkish
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Swedish
• Hungarian
• Estonian
• Maltese
• Albanian
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese
• Indonesian
• Thai
• Afrikaans
• Belarusian
• Galician
• Icelandic
• Irish
• Macedonian
• Malay
• Persian
• Swahili
• Welsh
• Yiddish
• Haitian Creole
• Armenian
• Azerbaijani
• Basque
• Georgian
• Urdu

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If the data is deleted on unknown premises then it would be very tough for the users to find the reason behind it. There Mac might be infected or some of the clusters may have gone bad. There are more chances that the overall sectors of Mac are damaged and they have some problems with the clusters. Clusters can go bad due to various reasons and one of the biggest reasons behind it is not proper maintenance of your Mac. You have to know that how you will be able to recover that data because sometimes you may lose some precious data and information from your Mac. If precious information is lost then there would be serious problems for you though you do not have to panic. Just sit back and relax because all the problems which are related to the Mac can be solved. Some sort of techniques should be implemented so that all those problems can be tackled in a professional manner. You have to know that how you can tackle all those programs and how to recover data from Mac very easily and efficiently.

Clusters problems can be solved with the help of proper surface scans which can help to properly improve the performance of the computer. If you are going to repair the clusters then remember that you will not be able to recover the data which is being lost from the Mac. It would be very tough for you to get the data back again in the same form after the recovery of clusters which were gone bad. You have to apply some additional strategies so that you will be able to recover that data but the question is still the same and it is “How”? How you can get exactly the sort of state and same information in correct perspectives. You can certainly do it with the help of software. There is some special software which is especially designed in a way to solve all your technical problems related to Mac. You can get the data back in the same from with the help of those applications. You can find the recovery apps from the web and they are the solution of all your Mac related problems. This type of recovery is very easy and one can do it with the help of these apps.

If you are willing to get your data back in the same form then you has to install these programs from the web and you will be able to get some quick data back which was being lost due to unknown reasons. These apps are very easy to be used and all you have to do is to install them after deletion and make a recovery scan on the Mac. It can be done manually of you can also do it with auto scan. Auto scan feature will automatically show all the deleted programs and files from the Mac. You will be able to see all those programs in front of you can just recover them very easily with the help of these apps.

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Most of the people using Mac are really contented by the speed and the performance delivered by the MacBook but there are some issues that might result in the slow and the dizzy performance by a Mac. The first option that is exercised by the most of the Mac users is to enhance the memory of the MacBook but what is the current solution that can go for the better performance and the improved speed of your Mac? There are number of ways that can be followed simultaneously to get a speed and the performance never seen before and the just like the newer one. Let us find some of the options here that may be availed in order to get the best results out of the same hectic slow Mac.

Let us take a start with the extra and the unwanted files and the folders occupying your desktop. The number of the files, folders, icons, etc is directly responsible for the slow performance and the loading of the OS X of the Mac. It takes time longer than the usual one if there are many extra icons available on the desktop. You must get rid of such unwanted objects at your earliest. Let the files either to be thrown out of the Mac or transferred to the relevant folder.

After you are done with the desktop and the extra application on the desktop, it is the time to resort to the start up of the Mac. Whenever, the Mac takes a start, it loads the applications and the programs in the start up. Now, you need to check for those programs and the applications that are no more wanted and you either don’t ever use them or seldom use is there. Just get rid of all the extra stuff so that your Mac takes a shorter time for a faster start up. In order to do the same you need to go to the user settings that can be approached by going to the system preferences. There, you will find the applications and the programs that are listed on the start up and you may select the ones to get rid of the same.

The dashboard is something that is taking a good memory always and the user does not even goes to use the same for his or her own purpose. The dashboard is piled up with the widgets and the apps that you don’t come up with until you ask for the same. Disabling the dashboard is an option that always works and works great in order to free up the memory of the Mac so that the same could be used by the programs necessary for the user.

Non-volatile RAM of the Mac can also be refreshed in order to get enhancements in the speed. This would result into a good speed but not permanently and you would be required to do seldom. This helps in getting the fresh configurations for the smoother running of the Mac OS. This would remove any issues with the configurations of the Mac.

There are certain options that you are not using whereas the same are utilizing the good sources of your Mac. For example, you might not be using the internet or the Bluetooth of your Mac but these system utilities are still working on. These types of system options must be off while you are not using them. These options, if exercised, would be helpful not only for the speed and the performance of your beautiful MacBook but also it would be beneficial for the battery life of the same implying that you are going to avail of more than one benefits at the same time.

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SmallImage is a simple and efficient tool to batch process JPEG files, resize them, recompress them, remove embedded profiles and make them ready for the web or store them efficiently.

SmallImage also lets you retrieve informations about your JPEG files like the EXIF informations, and so on.

All of SmallImage options are available on the main window, making them much easier to use. Presets allow you save the current options for later use. This allow for a quick use of SmallImage in different configurations to create for example full size images for the web along with their thumbnails.

2. Downsize – Batch Resize, Watermark, Frame and more – Stunt Software

Downsize is a utility that allows you to prepare images for the web, email, or presentations by resizing, adding watermarks, frames, and drop shadows. Batch resize an entire folder of images in bulk to save time.
If you have a digital camera and want to reduce file sizes before sending your photographs through email, or posting them on the web, Downsize is the fastest and easiest way to do it. It’s also fully integrated with iPhoto, so you can organize your photos there, and process them with Downsize.

3.  EasyBatchPhoto – batch image processing made easy

Photographers and webmasters often find themselves spending too much time converting, resizing and watermarking (with copyright, for example) images.

EasyBatchPhoto frees you from these repetitive tasks by processing hundreds, or even thousands, of images with a single drag-and-drop.

EasyBatchPhoto performs many other common functions besides scaling and conversion, but what truly sets EasyBatchPhoto apart from the competition is its incredible ease of use and smooth integration into your workflow.

4. EasyCrop – crop and more, without the fuss

To illustrate the power of EasyCrop, consider the following scenario.

• You wish to crop and scale down a photo to send in an email, and you want the file size to be under 50 KB. With a full-featured graphics application, these are the steps you would take:
• Launch the app, and watch the app icon bounce and bounce and bounce …
• Navigate clumsy file dialogs to reach the file you wish to open.
• Crop the image and scale the result.
• Export the result to a temporary JPEG file.
• Check file size; if it’s too big, back up two steps or try a different JPEG Quality setting.
• Open the folder containing the temporary file in the Finder.
• Drag the file into the email you are composing.
• Finally, delete the temporary file now that you no longer need it.

5. ImageWell Reloaded – The Handy Image Editor that will save you time and money.

ImageWell is a small, but powerful, image editing application that lets you quickly  resize, crop, watermark, edit your images, take screenshots and then instantly  upload them to the web, save to your computer or email them to a friend.  ImageWell also lets you annotate your images with text, shapes, arrows and lines,  quickly and easily. And it doesn’t stop there – add a drop shadow, a shaped border,  flip or rotate your image, adjust the sharpness and brightness, plus so much more.

6. iResize v3.2.2

• New and streamlined interface
• Easy and fast
• Check before resizing with the new JPEG compression/quality preview
• Rename and sequential numbering of the resized images, and/or
• Add some text (example: -small) at the end of the file name
• Handles accented characters (à,ü,ç etc.) in the file names
• Rotatio of images in 90° steps
• Reading of the EXIF data
• Localized in italian, french and english

7. QuickScale – Scale many pictures in seconds

Quickscale is designed to let you scale a large amount of pictures to a desired size and format.

Now, why would you want to do that? For example, if you wish to share your holiday photos with family and friends, you can either send them by e-mail or put them somewhere on a website.

8. ResizeIt – Fast image converter.

ResizeIt allows you to change the size of multiple images simultaneously. It can also convert file formats at the same time. It supports multi core and processes multiple images very fast.

9. Sizerox

The Simple Way To Resize, Rename, Crop, Rotate And Watermark 100s or 1000s of your Images with a single “Drag-and-Drop” using presets.

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