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Final Cut Studio 2.0.1 now supports AVCHD in Final Cut Pro 6. However, if you’re using a PowerPC Mac, you’re shit out of luck as this only works on Intel Macs.

The problem with PDFs is that when you get a form online, it’s seldom editable, which means that you’ll have to print it out, fill it in, scan it back to your computer before e-mailing it back.

Formulate is a neat freeware that solves this problem. You load in a PDF, type what you want in a little text field at the bottom of the page and then click on the PDF where you want the text to appear and voila, instant neatness.

[via FreeMacWare]

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I’ve banged up a Photoshop script that resizes your image according to its orientation. I use it as part of a batch process to convert photos to a more web friendly size. As the opening of scripts can recorded as part of an action, this script can be incorporated into part of a larger work flow.

By default, it resizes a landscape picture to 800 by 533 (3:2) and a portrait picture to 533 by 800. This can be changed by opening the script in a text editor and changing the values in the docRef.resizeImage functions.

Doing this:

docRef.resizeImage(400,600,72)

will resize the image to width:400, height:600 at dpi:72.

To install this script, copy it to the Presets > Scripts folder where Photoshop is located and restart Photoshop.

Finally, Goole Earth comes to OS X. There’s a pre-release floating arounding. More about it at UNEASYsilence.

Flurry is nice but here are some others you might want to check out

1. Soundstream reacts to your Mac’s microphone input.

2. The Electric Sheep

One thing that has always stopped me from using Firefox is the absence of a native spell checker. I like how incorrect spellings show up instantly in Safari. Then I discovered Spellbound, a spelling extension for Firefox.

So I downloaded the G4 optimsed build of Firefox, whacked on the Spellbound extension only to see it crack the shits on me. Turns out that to install Spellbound, you must install:

1. Spellbound Extension
2. Mozilla spell check libraries for Firefox 1.0+
3. Dictionaries for Mozilla

Once you’ve got these installed, right clicking in a text box should show a “Check Spelling” option.

Just found this cool plug-in called Skype Caller. It allows you to dial with Skypeout, entries from Address Book in OS X

Tired of iTunes’ usual visual plugins? Jewelcase is a neat one that someone from the Appletalk Australia forum discovered that is absolutely free of charge. It’s also a visual plugin for iTunes but it shows a virtual CD case in 3D with the album cover as well as the track listings from the album on the back.

Just came across this neat little software called Synergy2. What it does is to allow the user to control 2 different machines with one set of input device. For example, with the software installed and running as a server on my Powerbook and running it as a client on my WinXP machine, I can move my mouse cursor off the edge of my Mac’s screen (the edge is user definable) and I gain control of the cursor on my Windows box. Pretty cool.

43 Folders has a nice article on some Quicksilver tips.

43 Folders: Quicksilver: Me & My Arrow