by Joe Kissell Tweaks and tricks help apps run at top speed While OS X may be pretty well tuned for performance, individual applications aren’t. You can tweak your apps in plenty of ways to make sure they’re operating at top speed. Here are a few of our favorite tricks.
With DrawBerry, you have all the possibilities the vectorial drawing offers you in a free, easy to use and powerful application. If you don't need applications such Illustrator or Inkscape and you want to create some simple (or less simple) illustrations, DrawBerry is for you.
With KeepNote, you can store your class notes, TODO lists, research notes, journal entries, paper outlines, etc in a simple notebook hierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search, you can retrieve any note for later reference.
As described by Lifehacker.com: "Mangle is a handy tool for formatting your Manga and comic collections for easy reading on your Kindle. It includes page sorting, downsampling, and auto rotation for fuss-free reading."
Tab Kit makes tabs more efficient for power users, allowing a wide variety of tweaks, all of which are optional, notably: - Group tabs, by domain or opener (parent) tab, manually or automatically - Multi-row tabs - Vertical tab tree (with splitter) - Sort tabs, by address, last loaded, last viewed, order of creation, origin or title - Control new tab position and close order - Easily duplicate tabs and copy/move them between windows by dragging - Scrollwheel tab switch - 'Mouse rocker' to go back/forward in history - Highlight unread tabs (and emphasise current tab) - Scrollbar instead of scroll arrows in over-long Bookmarks and All Tabs popups - Open Selected Links feature