1. Download the Screenstagram screensaver from here, then Double click the icon once you have unzipped the file

2. Install the screensaver

3. Enter your Instagram details when it asks you

4. Browse to the screensaver within your settings and alter them if you need to.

It was developed by the Barbarian Group and you can find out more about it by going to there site www.barbariangroup.com

I was having some issues ripping some DVD’s for my AppleTV, namely kids films by a very well known film company. My children love these films and because they keep getting the DVD’s out and scratching them I wasn’t going to purchase them for the third time. I usually use handbrake for this task but for some reason this disc would copy it in the wrong order, only a few of the chapters would be back to front. If you have this problem then read on to find out how this handy little program has helped.

I use ripit to rip the entire disc  which creates the usual video and audio ts folders, which are in the right order but the file size is to large for what I want. You could burn it to DVD from there but I only want it on my AppleTV or other IOS device. I then use HandBrake to convert these files for my AppleTV, I also have the added bonus now that I can run it back through handbrake again setting the size of the file I want so that I can put more than a few films on my iPad or iPhone for the children to watch.

Ripit also seems to work very fast even ripping the movie at full size, although it has an option to compress the movie for iTunes and your AppleTV much like what you get just using handbrake. It’s a great value liitle app for the mac from the people at the LittleAppFactory.

www.littleappfactory.com

Transferring photos over wifi and for free couldn’t be easier with this free app.

You start it up and just input the IP address in your browser and you can browse the photos from your iPhone on your iPad or Mac using a web browser.

Download for your iPhone or iPad – itunes.apple.com/us/app/wifi-photo-transfer

I have used the Microsoft remote desktop app for a while, that was until it started having problems seeing my local drive making impossible to upload work to our windows server. I started to search the internet to find something else that would work for me, I found a application called Cord which is much easy to use and remembers a number of servers that I use. As with Microsoft’s remote desktop it would frequently forget which server I used and even if I saved the small file with the details for each server I still had to manually input the details each time I needed to log on.

Cord is so simple to use, I just set up the servers put in the details and when I need that server I just click connect. In the preferences you can save what to open and what resolution you want to view the external server. I have noticed it looks a little fuzzy compared to MS remote desktop, but I can live with that if it mean it remembers my local drives, and more importantly remembers my drives right down to a particular folder!

You can download Cord here.

Cord say this on there website -

“Macs interact well with Windows, and with CoRD the experience is a bit smoother. Great for working on the office terminal server, administrating servers or any other time you’d like your PC to be a bit closer without leaving your Mac. CoRD allows you to view each session in its own window, or save space with all sessions in one window. Scale session windows to whatever size fits you—the screen is resized automatically. Enter full screen mode and feel like you’re actually at the computer. The clipboard is automatically synchronized between CoRD and the server. For system administrators, CoRD creates a simpler workflow by allowing you to save server information, then quickly connect to that server by using HotKeys or the server drawer. This makes quickly connecting to a specific server easy, even when managing many servers.”

Querious is a new MySQL database management application written from the ground up exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard. Unlike mindless Mac OS X versions of applications made for Windows or Linux, Querious is a stunning new app that is precise and easy to understand, giving you full control without getting in your way.

Viewing, searching, editing, importing, exporting, and structuring your data has never been so easy. With Querious, you can even open up raw CSV or Tab files in a spreadsheet-like document. Need to rename or reorder the columns? No problem. Searching for data is a breeze, and you can even convert the whole file to another format in a snap.

Very handy app, why not check it out www.araelium.com/querious

So here are a few links to apps I have been using/testing out over the last few months.

Smultron – HTML code editor – very handy little HTML/CODE/CSS Editor using this instead of the equally good TACO – download here http://tuppis.com/smultron/

Things – GTD app for mac – like this one as iGTD keeps crashing and losing my data! – download here http://culturedcode.com/things/

Taskbarn – online project/task managment – nice and simple does exactly what it should – view here www.taskbarn.com

Orchestrate App – did try this but still find it to0 restricting and hard as hell to get it to do what I want!

That’s it for now, will try and write at least one review of something I using later this month…

An excellent all round package for task management, easy to use and intuitive too.  You can also use this on your iPhone – read the iPhone app information here

Things – from Cultured Code

Watch the screencast here

I heard about this application via a TWIT podcast then via ScreenCasts online video tutorial. Looks like a great way to do presentations or timelines of events. Take a look at there site for more information and videos or check out ScreenCasts online for there in-depth look at the great product.

www.beedocs.com

www.screencastonline.com

As I have just got back, I see Apple have a new 3G iPhone coming and more importantly for me they have finally made .mac useful again, or should I say ‘mobileme’. It looks like the iPhone and mobileme will be a great combination!