So you have a Unibody MacBook Pro and want to switch between the slow Intel and the faster nVidia video?

Apple equipped most of their Unibody MacBook Pro models with 2 graphics processors; one for long lasting battery life (Intel) chip and the one for gaming (nVidia) and otherwise graphics intens purposes.

The switching happens automatically and there appears no clear way to do the switching yourself … or is there?

File compression on the Mac made easier with a free program called Keka.

As a switcher from Windows, I do miss my WinRar under MacOS X. Keka is offering similar functionality – with the exception of compressing in the Rar format. It does however decompress numerous formats including Rar.

Here I present to you briefly Keka as a tool for your Mac.

In this article; A quick and free trick to optimize PNGs on your Mac …

While developing and maintaining my website, I use several tools to optimize the size of my PNG image files.

So far I think that PNGOUT (for Windows see ardfry.com which also offers an Adobe Photoshop plugin) produces the best results. As a switcher between MacOS X and Windows I noticed the freely available PNGOUT port for MacOS … but unfortunately this is just a command line tool.

I started playing with the Automator included with MacOS X, dabbled with AppleScript and Shell scripts, but never got a really convenient and satisfying thing going … until I bumped into ImageOptim created by Kornel Lesiński.

The process of finding the correct episode information and manually renaming these files can be quite cumbersome and boring.

This will sound familiar for those storing TV Series (video files) on their computer; filenames are inconsistent, often contains irrelevant information, have no titles, etc.I wrote a little application exactly for this situation called “Name My TV Series” – it’s available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS X.

All the needed information concerning TV Series is provided for free by TheTVDB.com. The only thing they ask for you to contribute to keeping their database up to date – if you’re up for it.

p.s. Name My TV Series can now also be found on AlternativeTo.net … 

This program utilizes TheTVdb.com – please consider a donation!

TotalFinder is an extension for the MacOS X Finder, which adds tabs, sorting (folders first), dual pane view, etc.

On top of that: it’s very affordable (only $15!), it’s fast, it’s small, and it’s very stable.

If you’re – like myself – a switcher from or between the Microsoft Windows platform to MacOS X – or even worse, you’re used to applications like Directory Opus, then you’ll most certainly appreciate TotalFinder.