How to Wake Up Feeling Totally Alert

If you’re like me, you have a hard time getting up in the morning. It doesn’t matter if you went to bed at 9 p.m. the night before, it’s just plain hard. Have no fear! Popular self-help blogger Steve Pavlina has posted some great tips for getting your body and mind working together so that the best hours of your day aren’t wasted on your pillow. Read more…

Getting ‘Back on your Mac’ without .Mac

MacNN found a simple method of accessing your Leopard-running Macs remotely. It uses the new screen-sharing feature in Leopard’s iChat to allow you to login and access the things you probably should have just transfered to your laptop. Read more…

VectorMagic

Many of us have been fed up by the less-than-great performance of LiveTrace in Illustrator. VectorMagic solves all your raster-to-vector needs. The best part is, it’s a free web service. The other great part is that it really works well. You can download the final result in EPS, SVG, or PNG (if you really want it back as a bitmap) format. Read more…

Shakespeare Insult Kit

Have a client who tramples all over your last nerve? Use Shakespeare on ‘em! The Shakespeare Insult Kit lets you pick from a list of adjectives, nouns and verbs, add a “thou” and claim literary moral victory over your assailant. Read more…

Naked light

Though our first thoughts were something along the lines of “Another image editor for Mac? Not a moment too soon!”, we actually became excited about the unique approach Naked light takes to image editing. A public beta is scheduled for release Friday afternoon, November 9, 2007. Read more…