3 Add-Ons Apple should consider
While I am quite the fanboy of Apple and I fully support freelance program development, there are few things I wish Apple would admit would make their products better. In the past they have done this with things like Cover Flow and iTunes so I know that they would at least consider it.
1. Integrate a method of “Letterbox View” in Mail.app
I’m sick of having to add a plugin to Mail in order to have a simple “letterbox” view of my mail. Ever sense the popularity of widescreen monitors, the real-estate for programs like Mail has increased so much potential for the availability of more information without scrolling. Even worse is the fact that Outlook has this as a setting you can simply just enable.
Download LetterBox for Mail from harnly.net
2. Add an auto-rate system for iTunes
I love my music, and this in turn means that I love using my iPod Touch and iTunes. Something I do is base my playlists to sync with my iPod off of the ratings, play counts, and last played meta data. Something that has made my music listening more explorative and interesting is using an auto-rating program which rates based off of previous rates, play counts, and play frequency to rate songs for my play lists. This can’t be that hard, and I think could be pretty intuitive to include with the addition of Genius now. But alas, I still have to use AutoRate.
Download Auto-Rate from Tzi Software
3. The ability to unarchive .rar files
This one I just do not get. I can work with .zip files, but I’d have to go to command-line to mess with a .rar? This doesn’t make sense at all. For this I can only offer one thing, UnrarX.
Download UnrarX from Sourceforge.net
So there are a few things I think would be simple to add into OS X that Apple shouldn’t have a problem including. For the mean time, enjoy those downloads and I hope they help you out with using your Mac a little more efficiently.
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Nice layout for you wordpress. Clean and I can say that is nice! I have another idea for mac! I think walking away from the toy box my first computer feel would be super! I think if they are planning on keeping this feel they may want to include legos with all those computers so that the people who own them will be able to do something while doing nothing!