Apple Goodies

Over the last few days I've come across a couple of really spiffy mac related apps, I just have to share.

If you're a del.icio.us user you've probably wanted better integration between the Mac and del.icio.us, enter Delibar it sits in your menu bar and provides convenient drop down access to your bookmarks.

Some more del.icio.us related goodies, this time to integrate your search results into Spotlight, now I'm not a big Spotlight user but this might just get me to use it. Delimport will suck down all your bookmarks regularly and let you find them using spotlight, it searches tags, descriptions, headings etc.

I've previously linked to some Firefox Intel Mac builds, they've been lagging a bit and not getting updates but it seems now there will be regularly nightlys for Firefox, you can get them here. They're fast, looks pretty and are tracking the head so they're essentially 2.0 betas. So far I'm happy with mine, even my extensions worked which is surprising.

For users on Laptops and older Macs they might be running out of drive space, not a problem on my nice 150Gig SATA disk so I did not try these instructions but if you're having problems have a look at this blog post that might help. Essentially default OS X installs comes with support for every language known to man (including Klingon!?) it also installs tons of printer drivers, removing these will clear up several Gigs worth.

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