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)
• The Mac Geek Gab iPhone app
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• BackBeat Media Podcast Network
• MacGeekGab AAC Enhanced Feed – Thanks to Michael Johnston of We Have Communicators (formerly the iPhoneAlley podcast) and Applr.