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MGG 488: Cool Stuff Found

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Stuff mentioned:

  • ScottEVest Revolution Plus (1:43)
  • OS X Mavericks: Using brightness controls with vintage and obsolete displays (4:09)
  • Shades
  • Brightness Slider
  • MyWOT (Web of Trust Plugin) (6:54)
  • Tor Browser Bundle (10:37)
  • WhatIsMyIp.com
  • Duck Duck Go Search
  • Google Chrome (13:35)
  • How do I use Java with the Google Chrome browser?
  • Monoprice Mac to TOSLink Cable (14:56)
  • Bose Soundlink Mini
  • Don’t panic, but that public Wi-Fi is coming from … inside your house (19:54)
  • Watch the Guardian destroy hard drives (27:13)
  • wget (28:31)
  • cURL (built into OS X)
  • FinkCommander (install extra packages on your Mac) (29:41)
  • iBackup Viewer (31:23)
  • iPhone Backup Extractor
  • Picture Rescue 2 (34:00)
  • Pedometer++ (39:11)
  • Strava
  • FitBit
  • ChargeKey (47:27)
  • Tylt Energi 5K+
  • CableJive iBoltz XS
  • Monoprice Lightning Cables
  • Monoprice Glass iPhone Shield
  • Close L/R Tabs (54:52)
  • Automator Action to Combine PDFs
  • TweetBot (56:18)
  • YoruFukurou (John’s favorite Mac Twitter client)
  • Janetter (John’s favorite PC Twitter client)
  • Osfoora (John’s favorite iOS Twitter client)
  • Karma (1:04:59)
  • Freedom Pop
  • PhotoPresenter 3 (1:04:54)(and it’s free on the App Store!)
  • Hex Fiend (1:13:07) (a hex editor for the Mac)
  • $6 USB Mesaurement Device (1:20:18)
  • Convert the printed page to an audiobook (1:21:27)
  • PDFPen Scan+
  • VoiceDream
  • iReasoning MIB Browser (1:22:57)
  • iPin (1:24:39)
  • Honeywell Evohome (1:25:30)
  • MOS Organizer (1:27:52) (or at MosOrganizer.com)
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