coconutBattery is a great little tool for checking the life of your PowerBook (or iBook) battery. It works by doing the appropriate ioreg command and extracting the relevant battery information. It can report the number of charge cycles, the current and maximum charges, and the age of your Mac. I wasn’t even aware all that […]

Every once in a blue moon a cool piece of software comes to market that makes me think “wow!” Freefall is definitely one of those products and is this week’s KissMyBrass.net Download of the Week.

I’ll admit it. I’m a die-hard astronomy nerd. I have a telescope and whenever the night sky allows, I gaze up […]

Much fanfare is in order for the great folks at Optical Alchemy for creating JewelCase, quite possibly the coolest iTunes plugin yet and my Download of the Week. Here’s a screenshot:

JewelCase displays a virtual 3D jewel case that features album cover art, artist, song and album information. It even beautifully renders and blurs album artwork […]