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Thursday
Dec092010

Some Nifty Utilities...

I'm not doing many custom screencasts these days, as I'm snowed under with trying to get a show out each week, plus I've a ton of stuff to arrange for Macworld 2011 and MacMania 11.

But, it's really hard to say no sometimes!

So I've done a couple of little jobs, just to keep my hand in.

The first couple have just gone live over at Decimus.Net.  The guys at Decimus asked me to do a couple of screencasts for some new updates to two of their utilities.

DTerm

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This is a rather smart, free utility that allows you to access the command line from pretty much anywhere or from any app. A simple key combination brings up a DTerm window that magically knows the location of the file you're working on, and allows you direct access to the files in that folder. Add in autocompletion and it's a very useful tool.

And did I mention it's free!

You can find the video I did for it over on this page.

Synk

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This is a live file synchronizer that allows you to back up or replicate your files in real time. Ideal for mission critical data that needs to be synchronized say between a laptop and a desktop or a USB drive. No scheduling required, it just happens. It's also clever enough to synchronize a laptop once you've been out on the road and return to base - just reconnect and the sync kicks off - very useful.

You can find the video explaining the live sync feature of Synk over on this page

 

I did another three small screencasts for another vendor - an iPad version of an application that I've covered before on ScreenCastsOnline. Once that's published, I'll give you the links to that.

It looks a very impressive app, especially on the iPad!

Reader Comments (2)

Now it only takes a short video to make me buy software ... used to need a full screencast for that. ;)
Synk is very nice indeed.

December 10, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterPasc21

I watched the video on the software site and I thought is that Don. Wow !

December 10, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterChris Humphreys

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