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The Mac App giving you peace of mind by cleaning your "read later" backlog for you.

Ambient sound equalizer for relax or productivity.

GPGTools is a software collection that brings encryption/decryption and signing of e-mails and files, to you on your mac (for Windows use Gpg4win). The main goal is to bring OpenPGP - in the form of an easy installer package based on MacGPG - to Mac OS X. Read the introduction, in order to get a detailed idea of how PGP works.

Cloud Mate Does iCloud Document Management Cleaner and Better

AirServer is an AirPlay receiver for Mac/PC. It allows you to receive AirPlay feeds, similar to an Apple TV, so you can stream content or Mirror your display from your iOS devices or Mountain Lion.

Apple’s App Store review process is designed to keep the app ecosystem healthy and to protect users from low-quality or hostile apps. And the system mostly works. But sometimes an app is rejected for reasons you might not expect, and it can force developers to scramble to either push back launch dates or even have to redevelop key features.

Want to know how to build an app? Whether you're looking at building an iOS, Android, Windows, Facebook or cross-platform app, these superb tutorials will help you on your way.

“Their guidelines prohibit sexual content or imagery aimed at creating sexual arousal,” Lauridsen says. “But our books are in no way pornographic or intended to create sexual arousal. We didn’t think it would be an issue.”

Designers prune. Left to its own devices, the mob will augment, accessorize, spam, degrade and noisify whatever they have access to, until it loses beauty and function and becomes something else. The tragedy of the design commons. A farmer's market with no entry requirements turns into a bazaar and then into a souvenir stand and finally into a flea market. A bulletin board with no moderator or hierarchy becomes a random mess of affiliate posts and noise, where only a smart search engine is helpful. An Apple product designed with user feedback would have thousands of extra features, multiple input methods and weigh 18 pounds. (The best exception to this rule are some--not all--places where people live, including parts of Manhattan and Kibera, Kenya. But even in the best instances, as soon as commercial interests are served, it starts to fail). It seems democratic and non-elitist to set it and forget it and let the users take over. But the tools we use (Wikipedia) and the brands we covet (Nike or Ducati) resolutely refuse to become democracies.

The "Design" page for iPhone 5 includes an auto-playing video of the device being unlocked. But there's no video element, just a canvas. And if you check the "Network" tab of the inspector, you won't find any video there either. But you will find some strange JPEG images:

Organize your Menu Bar Apps Lets you tidy your Menu Bar Apps how you want. See your Menu Bar Apps when you want. Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see. Have the clean looking Menu Bar you deserve. Bartender lets you organize your Menu Bar Apps, by hiding them, moving them to Bartenders Bar, or displaying the full menu bar, set options to have Menu Bar Apps show in the menu bar when they are updating, or have them always visible in Bartenders Bar.

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I got fed up with all these aimless iPad news apps, so I spent a weekend and built one for myself. I’m sharing my app with all of you, 100% free and totally web based making it easier to install or bookmark.

Use Kaleidoscope to spot the differences in text and image files. Review changes in seconds with the world's most advanced file comparison application.

The AViiQ laptop stand was created to solve a common and recurring problem. Laptop stands were too bulky for people always on-the-go. The AViiQ stand compresses down to a 1/4 inch thin plate, making it easy to stash and dash.

Grimm’s Rumpelstiltskin by Ideal Binary is the world’s first fully 3D interactive pop-up book, for the Apple iPad™, iPhone® and iPod touch®. Powered by our advanced PopIris™ technology, Grimm’s Rumpelstiltskin defines a new standard for interactive books. Immerse yourself in an amazing new world with numerous interactive pop-up scenes, characters and a fantastic musical score.

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Soulver helps you work things out. It's quicker to use than a spreadsheet, and smarter and clearer than a traditional calculator. Use Soulver to play around with numbers, do "back of the envelope" quick calculations, and solve day-to-day problems.