Jaxtr is a website that allows you to send free SMS texts to any number in the US as well as a handful of other countries, such as Sweden, and the UK.
While you may be thinking “ho hum, it’s been done” keep in mind that iPhone data plans are limited to 200 texts per month. [...]

I have 10 free invites for Evernote. If you’re interested please leave your e-mail address in the comments.

Evernote is a cool new service that allows you to clip information and save it for a later date. This is a simple concept, but it’s executed beautifully.
With Evernote you can keep track of little bits of information [...]

This is just awesome. I was stumbling around Google Code looking for something interesting to write about when I came across blacktree-visor–innocently tagged as a Quake-style terminal.
That line grabbed my intention and I decided to see what Visor was all about.
Visor is an application that attaches the Terminal to the top of your screen for [...]

One of the greatest things about the greatest RSS reader on the Mac, NetNewsWire, is how many things it can integrate with. It can go hand-in-hand with your blog, your Twitter account, your Del.icio.us account and many others because of its scriptability.
How to use with your blog
If you’re using the latest NetNewsWire you’ve probably noticed [...]

A cool little tidbit I discovered in my favorite GTD application, OmniFocus, is that you can put a space-seperated list of times into the time estimate field for projects or tasks, and OmniFocus will add them up. Simply type in a time in the typical OmniFocus format (1m, 1h, etc.), type a space, and then [...]

If you scroll over a contact in Mail, a little arrow will appear in the bottom-right corner. If you click the arrow, you can perform a number of actions using the contact such as “Search in Spotlight”.
One of the more useful features is the ability to create a smart mailbox that automatically collects all the [...]

Brandon Hopkins is the newest writer to join the MacTips team. Everyone give him a warm welcome.
If you’re like me and you manage more than your personal Mac on a regular basis, you’ve probably heard of Mike Bombich’s wonderful time saving program NetRestore. I won’t go into how to use the software, that is [...]

Ecto is my favorite blogging editor for the Mac. The WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor is so powerful it sends my blogging productivity through the roof.
Generally I don’t like WYSIWYG editors because they produce nasty HTML. Not Ecto. It creates some of the most beautiful code I’ve ever seen a computer [...]

RescueTime is a new start-up funded by YCombinator that tracks how much time you spend using different applications and websites.
I saw they had a Mac version available, so I jumped at the opportunity to sign-up.
RescueTime is smart enough to realize when your idle and only tracks what you’re actively paying attention to (your active window).

You [...]

Once you introduce Quicksilver into your workflow, you wonder how you ever lived without it. We’ve already covered Quicksilver Interfaces and managing to-do lists with Quicksilver, but this just skims the surface of what Quicksilver is capable of.
One of my favorite uses for Quicksilver is for running terminal commands. Doing this was never difficult, but [...]