When you have 2 or more Macs, it’s easy to see one’s mac iTunes library and listen to it from another Mac.

But you may want to control your main Mac’s iTunes ( the one connected to your speakers for example )  when you’re using another Mac : you’d want to browse your songs, see the cover of the playing song, etc…

TuneConect 2 is a free and very well done app which exactly does what i described above.

 * First step you enable your main Mac as a server : just install the pref.pane provided with TuneConnect.
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The Wi-Fi became the standard type of connection these days. Bonjour is the OS X system for sharing files, and more in a Local Network. But, what about being able to share these datas via Bonjour without being IN the local network?
You own more than a Mac, you are used to use Bonjour, you want to access your Bonjour Network while you’re in China watching the Olympic Games, read the following review of ShareTool!

First of all, ShareTool allows you to access Bonjour services in a very secure way.

With ShareTool, you can acces your home/work Bonjour services easily: 
With a single click you acces your shared file, printers etc… wherever you are!

Enabling ShareTool is one click away!

Imagine you’re in Japan and printing a photo from your USA
located printer!
The configuration is simple and ShareTool works great with different types 
of Routers (NAT-PMP and uPnP).

Another great feature is data-compressing to avoid using too much bandwidth.

ShareTool works with Mac OS 10.3.9 at least (which is reasonable) 
and it works great with both PPC or Intel Macs.

ShareTool is unique, I’ve never seen a similar application for OS X, and to me it deserves 5 stars out of 5!

Download ShareTool here!

A friend of mine has recently switched to the Macintosh.

When she wanted to try iChat, her @mac.com account couldn’t be validated by Apple’s servers and iChat returned her an “incorrect password” error message.

Then it did happen to me too.

It is really annoying, I had to create an AIM account while the wealthy ones are getting MobileMe!

This free application, Stacks In Da Place, is the easiest way to make your Stacks lokk cool.

All you have to do is to drag and drop a Stack Icon, like one of the great creations available here, and it will create a real box with a stack of files in it!

I just discovered a free application which simply relooks Leopard’s Dock.

You can get LeopardDocks App here, and download Docks here.

Once your Dock is re-designed, no need to keep the app running.

This is my favorite Dock right now :

The Leopard Version of the MobileMe updater was posted by Apple a few hours ago, it wasn’t and it is still not available from your Software Updater.
But a strange thing happened… While it was possible to download the package from here, the link now, is dead.
I have no idea on why this is happening…
Anyway, one thing is now sure, Leopard won’t turn to iTunes OS!
A possible solution is to get it from a Torrents website, for example, this link takes you to a downloadable MobileMe updater.

The file is small: 25 Mb, once installed, you’ll have the updated MobileMe icon in System Preferences instead of the ancien .Mac icon (I’m still looking for the updater for Tiger).

If you check your Software Update after installing the file I linked you to, you’ll see the version 1.1 of MobileMe Updater!

I was expecting to see a small cloud in the menu bar instead of the old double arrows circle, but all I had was… nothing.

If you’re a frequent visitor of MacAmour, you may have read many posts on an Open Source application called QuickSilver. A mix between a Spotlight, Finder, Terminal but most of us are using it like a launcher in OS X.
But if you’re a user of QuickSilver you may also know the developer claimed the project has been discontinued since 2007.
But there’s a wind of hope in the air. While another developer trying to clean up QS’s code to make it faster; the original author of this amazing tool is working on a new version of QS!

Download the latest version of QuickSilver here.
You’ll notice the last version has some new features nobody heard about like Quick Look support!
The last update is version beta 56; june 25th.

Bonus: Nicholas Jitkoff’s (author of QS) conference at Google explaining QuickSilver!
You’ll find the video after the jump.
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