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Breeze Makes Window Organization as Simple as a Keyboard Shortcut [Download Of The Day]

Mac OS X only: Breeze is a handy window management app that lives in your Mac menubar and lets you save the current state of any window in any application. You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to the saved window state to easily activate it at any time. More »







Google Adds Superstars, Nested Labels, and Advanced IMAP Controls to Gmail’s Settings [In Brief]

Three of our favorite Gmail Labs features have graduated and moved on to out-of-the-box Gmail. Superstars lets you assign different levels of stars to an email, making a killer to-do list based on priority; nested labels creates labels within labels, so you can organize your mail by sub-categories; and if you use a desktop mail client, you can now adjust which labels show up in your client and which don’t. The Google Search Box lab has been removed altogether, since there’s already a “Search the Web” button in Gmail. All features are available from Gmails’ Settings page. Hit the link to read more. [Official Gmail Blog] More »







XMenu Adds Custom Menus to Your OS X Menubar [Downloads]

If your OS X menubar is insatiable and you want to give it a treat, XMenu will provide it with one or many custom menus for easy access to your stuff. Some are pre-defined for folders you already have on your hard drive, and others can be set to whatever you’d like. More »







Top 10 Micro-Apps for Windows and Mac OS X [Lifehacker Top 10]

Your Windows system tray and Mac OS X menubar have become prime real estate for highly functional micro-applications that provide easy access to information, settings, and tasks. Here are our top ten favorites for both Windows and Mac. More »







Arrange Your Mac’s Dock Like Your iPhone Homescreen for Better Organization [Video]

Whether or not you’re happy about the iOS-centric changes coming with the release of Mac OS X Lion, you can still benefit from organizing your current OS X dock a little bit more like your homescreen. Here’s how. More »







How to Narrow Down Exact Duplicates in iTunes [ITunes]

We’ve mentioned iTunes’ “show duplicates” feature a few times before, but on its own, you might still have to sift through a lot of songs. With the ever-useful Option key, however, you can narrow down those results to show exact duplicates only. More »







How to Clean Up Your Mac’s “Open With” Contextual Menu [Video]

If you’ve made good use of your Mac’s “Open With” contextual menu, you’ve probably noticed it can get a bit cluttered with duplicates. Fortunately, there’s an easy trick to tidy things up. More »







How to Clean Up Your Mac’s “Open With” Contextual Menu [Video]

If you’ve made good use of your Mac’s “Open With” contextual menu, you’ve probably noticed it can get a bit cluttered with duplicates. Fortunately, there’s an easy trick to tidy things up. More »







Hide and Show Desktop Icons on OS X with an Automator Service [Video]

We’ve featured a few ways to keep your Windows desktop neat, but if you want to temporarily hide your Mac’s desktop icons, you can do so with a simple AppleScript and Automator. More »







Bookmark Sentry Scans Your Chrome Bookmarks for Dead Links and Dupes [Downloads]

Chrome: Manually checking your bookmarks file is an extremely low priority for most people but it’s irritating to find out the link you need is dead. Bookmark Sentry scans your bookmarks and displays the dead links and dupes for easy deletion. More »







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