If you own a Magic Mouse you undoubtedly love it, but if you are not using MagicPrefs, you are missing out big time! Today we bring you an awesome freeware utility that supercharges what your mouse can do. We also show you how to adjust you keyboard modifiers, and don’t forget about the current software giveaway!!

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A mac-native bitmap image editor for OS X! A great alternative for Microsoft Paint / MacPaint. We also show you how to find the full path to any open file or folder in seconds with a great hot mac tip!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download Paintbrush from the developer’s website.
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 32 MB)
• Hot Mac Tip: Discover an open file’s full path
• Viewer Email: NeoOffice & Virtual Hosts
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Coming Next Week:

An addicting Motorcycle side-scroller game that we know you’ll love!

Today we show you a useful Menubar Countdown timer for your computer. It’s free, and simple to use! We also talk about blind carbon copy in Apple Mail!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download Menubar Countdown from the developer’s website.
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 30 MB)
• Don’t forget to Take the 5 minute survey!!
• Hot Mac Tip: Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) in Apple Mail!
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Coming Next Week:

Give Microsoft Paint a run for it’s money!

Learn how to install MAMP for Mac OS X; a freeware web server environment that includes PHP, Apache, and MySQL. We’ll also show you how to install WordPress locally on your machine, and teach about symbolic links. (They are the UNIX equivalent of aliases).

If you are getting errors trying to instal MAMP and Wordpress, check out this troubleshooting video here!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download MAMP from the developer’s website.
• Download WordPress from the developer’s website.
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 43 MB)
• Hot Mac Tip: Symbolic Links!
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Coming Next Week:

A great little timer utility that lives in your menubar!

Be a hero, and save some helpless little chicks in this fun puzzle game, today on Mac App Guide!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download Pakoon 3 from the developer’s website.
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 26 MB)
• Hot Mac Tip: Quickly Create PDF’s from almost any application!
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Coming Next Week:

Easily setup your own personal web server!

A super-powered multimedia framework and player for your computer, today on Mac App Guide!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download VLC from the developer’s website.
• Check out the file compatibility list at VLC’s site.
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 30 MB)
• Hot Mac Tip: Customize the iTunes MiniPlayer!
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Coming Next Week:

A fun puzzle game where you need to guide little chicks through the maze!

Author and create CD and DVD discs in many different formats, today on Mac App Guide!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download Burn from the developer’s website.
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 24 MB)
• Hot Mac Tip: Resize photos in Apple Mail!
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Coming Next Week:

A multimedia player that will handle any file format you can throw at it!!

An alternative open-source web browser that plays well with your mac!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download Camino from the developer’s website.
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 20 MB)
• Hot Mac Tip: Do mathematical calculations in Spotlight!
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Coming Next Week:

A great system app for buring all different formats of CDs and DVDs!

Play one of the all-time most popular games in the world, now available on your Mac!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download Quinn from the developer’s website.
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 21 MB)
• Hot Mac Tip: Cleanup your cluttered menu bar!
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Coming Next Week:

A clean and lightweight alternative to Safari!

Batch convert audio files to and from many different formats, with this awesome multimedia application!

Episode Show Notes:

• Download Switch from the developer’s website. Make sure you select the free version, and get the right one for your platform.
• Hot Mac Tip: Access OS X’s built-in text-to-speech synthesizer from most applications!
• Get a copy of this week’s epsisode here. (iPod compatible, 25 MB)
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Coming Next Week:

An addicting Tetris clone that’s even better than the original!

Receive custom application notifications so that you are always aware of what your apps are doing! 

Next Week: Easy batch processing and transcoding of audio files in all different formats!

FTP made easy, with this lightweight and powerful application!

Next Week: Your applications can now let you know what is going on with a system-wide notification framework.

Save the world – or at least some little penguins, with this fun lemmings-clone game. Today, on Mac App Guide!

Next Week: A sleek and powerful FTP client!

Find, download, and watch podcasts, television shows, viral videos, and more, with this powerful multimedia player!

Next Week: Save your penguins with a fun Lemmings-clone game!

A comprehensive office productivity suite that’s great for using at home, school, and work!
 

Next Week: A popular multimedia player that also lets you legally find, aggregate, and download TV shows, podcasts, and more!

Consolidate all of your chat and IM accounts with this multi-protocol chat application. Today on Mac App Guide!

Next Week: A comprehensive office productivity suite for Mac OS X!

Test your skill with a pair of fun 3D strategy and puzzle games, today on Mac App Guide!

Next Week: A handy web app for managing all your chat and IM accounts in one convenient place!

Create your own photo-mosiacs with ease, today on Mac App Guide!

Next Week: Two fun 3-D strategy and puzzle games!

Easily and quickly backup all your important data with this popular utility! Today on Mac App Guide!

Next Week: Create your own photo-mosaic posters with a fun multimedia app!

A powerful and lightweight bit-torrent client for OS X, today on Mac App Guide!

Next Week: A simple and secure application for cloning your hard drive and creating incremental data backups!

Now you too can make those slow workdays blow by with an addictive card game! Today on Mac App Guide!

Next Week: A web app that is a great torrent client for downloading video, audio, software, and more!

Make QuickTime much more useful by adding in a bunch more natively supported multimedia formats and codecs, today on Mac App Guide!

Next Week: An infamous “game for the day job” that is included with every Windows machine, but hard to find for the Mac.

Protect your Mac from prying eyes and potential thieves, on this week’s episode of Mac App Guide!

Next Week: Watch almost every video format, including Windows formats, from within Quicktime!

Today we bring you a great web app that helps you find, analyze, and connect to wireless networks, anywhere!

Next Week: Turn your mac into a motion-sensitive remote controlled alarm system!

May 2009 Update: It appears that the developer has recently decided to make AirRadar a commercial (paid) app. It’s not very expensive, but if you don’t want to buy it, we recommend you check out iStumbler, which is an almost identical app that is still freeware!

For our inaugural episode, we are reviewing a fun game that originated in the 1980’s. Pac The Man X is a remake of the classic PacMan game, to be enjoyed on our Mac!

Next Week: Quickly and easily find and connect to wireless networks!