Recently, I’ve come across a very cool and useful Mac application known as GrandPerspective, a utility that scans a chosen area of your hard drive and outputs an illustration of how your hard drive space is being used. This can be particularly useful if you’re running low on disk space or have large unused and/or unwanted files hidden away that are taking up a lot of your free space.

IconFactory makes a great universal tool for designers called xScope — for people who constantly use this kind of tool, it’s a worthwhile investment. But, a new app now gives you similar functionality — for free. Rulers provides a subset of xScopes useful features in an easy-to-read format. Photoshop-style rulers appear at the side and more »

If free or low cost software is your lifeblood, this is for you. Macworld, a popular Apple site, has officially started their Gem a Day blog. From now until mid-August, Mac Gems will have a daily post about a new piece of software for your Mac that is either free or has little cost. These more »

We have not discussed the freeware app Caffeine on Appletell before. It’s basically an app that runs in your Mac’s menu bar that, when you control-click the icon in the menu bar, you can select periods of time for your screen to remain on. This is great for those times when you have a 10-minute more »