Spotlight on a Mac - Ted

My new favourite program is Ted.

Now, if you aquire your television through your computer (of course deleting them within 24 hours) this program is for you.

ted can find episodes of any TV show. Just add your favorite shows to ted and it searches for them, and the best bit, it downloads them for you!!! So, when you leave your computer on overnight to make full advantage of the huge amount of data your ISP gives you for free, it just downloads them for you to watch in the morning.

It even comes with a list of shows you might like, but if they don't have what you want, you can make custom lists.

Beaut!

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Spotlight on a Mac - App Cleaner

App Cleaner is a small program that allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted programs.

Now, when you install a program on a mac it spreads it wings to many areas of your harddrive, which are often hard to find when you want to uninstall the program (damn you).

App cleaner finds this hiding files, and deletes them all when you drag the origional program to AppCleaner. Simple. Easy. And most importantly, quick.

You can find AppCleaner here. And it is free.

I do admit, it isn't a program I use a great deal, but when I do use it I thank my lucky stars I have it. I highly recommend it

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Spotlight on a Mac - Adium

In the last few months, I have urged 5 friends to buy a mac when they asked my opinion.

Now I know I am a little biased, I have been a mac lover for some time now, and I do admit I am a little rusty on my windows knowledge (mainly because the IT Natzi doesnt allow MSN at work). But this isnt a pro or con of eachs programs, its meerly a feature on programs I think every mac user should have.

So this week, I chose Adium.

According to Wikipedia Adium is a free instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple platforms. This means that in the one program I can use MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Twitter and a whole range of other clients. Awesome for multitasking. Even more awesome for keeping in touch with friends and family

Now, I do admit, I origionally liked this program for the cute little birdie, especially as you can make him blue, purple, green, red and yellow. I fell even more in love when I discovered that I could put 'outfits' on the birdie! (what can I say, small things amuse me).

Until recently, ok tonight, I never knew about the Twitter add in, but seeing as though TweetDeck died on me this week, it is a welcome addition.

The only downside is that you cant use webcam with msn messenger, but seeing as though we only use it with family, and they all use macs, we just use iChat. Hasnt really caused a drama in our household

All in all, Adium gets two thumbs up

PS, if you have any programs you think i would love/want to know about/should review let me know

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