http://www.populize.com Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:01:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At Apples "Lets Rock" event the biggest thing that they have revealed is the iPod Nano-Chromatic. What do you think of it and will you be getting one? http://www.populize.com/2008/09/09/new-ipod-nano/ Pidgin is an instant messenger for Windows and Linux that allows multiple messaging protocols. The Mac OS X version of Pidgin is Adium.   Protocols that Pidgin supports: AIM  Bonjour  Gadu-Gadu  Google Talk  Groupwise  ICQ  IRC  MSN Messenger  MySpaceIM  QQ  SILC  SIMPLE  Sametime  Windows Live Messenger  XMPP  Yahoo! Messenger  Zephyr  Pidgin's Homepage. http://www.populize.com/2008/09/07/pidgin/ Things is a great application for Mac OS X if you're a busy person and have a lot of things to get done through-out a day. As of writing this article Things is still in beta and free to download but sometime in fall 2008 version 1 will be released and ... http://www.populize.com/2008/09/06/things/ If you are an Adium user and want to try a new messenger similar to Adium that supports a lot of messaging protocols then you might want to try out Proteus. Download Proteus http://www.populize.com/2008/09/06/proteus/ NicePlayer is a very good open source media player for Mac OS X that you should definitely check out. Features Zoom-able full screen playback Multi-screen support Boarder-less Windows Floating Windows Below Desktop Windows Heads Up Display controls Playlist Drag & drop Fully AppleScript-able DVD Playback On the fly swappable plug-in engine support Chapter Support Transparent Playback Apple Remote Support Adjustable aspect ratio Resolution Independence Download NicePlayer http://www.populize.com/2008/09/04/niceplayer/ If you're looking for a good CHM reader for Mac OS X then iChm is a great application and you should give it a try. iChm is built with cocoa and the rendering within the application is very quick   Download iChm http://www.populize.com/2008/09/04/ichm/ Google are said to be releasing a browser tomorrow called Chrome. What are your views on this, do you think it will be triumphant or do you think it will fail? More information on Googles Chrome Browser visit the websites below. #1  #2 #3 http://www.populize.com/2008/09/01/google-chrome-browser/ A new version of Boxee for Mac has been released including some new features and bug fixes.   You can see all the new features they've added as well as bugs fixed here   If you would like an invite to Boxee post a comment under this article. http://www.populize.com/2008/08/28/boxee-alpha-092908-released/ I thought that after reading Maclife and MaximumPC that I'd voice my opinion on Macs. I've been using a iMac for the past 2 years now and at first I thought that they were a lot better than PC's. Over the past few months I've been having problems with the graphics card in ... http://www.populize.com/2008/08/22/mac-and-pc/ Wakoopa is a small program that runs in the background of Windows or Mac OS X and logs the activity of applications that you use. When you go on wakoopa.com you can then see what applications you have used the most over a period of time or since you started ... http://www.populize.com/2008/08/22/wakoopa-track-your-application-use/