SilverFlow is a plugin for the application launcher Quicksilver, adding a new interface.

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Open-With Manager lets you edit the list of file types a given application thinks it can open. This is most useful with regard to the Finder's "Open with" context menu; and it also affects the way applications behave when you drag files to their Dock symbols.

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A teenager is making a multi-touch table running Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft's Surface, for a science fair. The table uses infrared light emitting diodes, where an IR camera transmits input via fingertip motions to the computer running Mac OS X.

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Hahlo is the original Twitter client for iPhone/iPod Touch. It's built on top of the great APIs provided by Twitter and Summize. Just one of the great new features in version 3 is the search capabilities that are made possible via the Summize API. Hahlo 3 has an all-new menu which brings all the great features right to your fingertips. Hahlo's aim is to provide as much of the Twitter.com functionality as possible, in an interface that is as easy to use as it is on the eyes.

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In January NewsGator announced that all of its consumer products, including NetNewsWire, were going free. NetNewsWire 3.1 was released that same month, but Brent isn't one to let a version sit for very long. Citing NewsGator's new focus on "[taming] the information overload problem," Brent is working on NetNewsWire 3.2 and 4.0 almost in tandem, with a decent set of changes and new features already lined up for both.

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Parallels has released a new beta build of Parallels Server for Mac that now supports creating virtual machines to run Leopard Server. When the company released last month's public beta of Parallels Server for Mac (which also supports versions of Windows and Linux), it had removed support for Leopard Server VMs due to technical and performance issues.

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Time Machine users, rejoice! Pierce T. Wetter III has provided a modified version of the GrandPerspective utility - a version that understands the use of file and folder hard links peculiar to a Time Machine backup. You can use this modified GrandPerspective to scan your entire Time Machine backup folder. For one thing, this tells you immediately how big your Time Machine backup really is (something that's surprisingly hard to find out otherwise).

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Profits at Apple have jumped 36% as consumers snap up its MacBook computers and iPods. The firm made a net profit of $1.05bn in the quarter ended 29 March, compared with $770m in the same period a year earlier. Apple shipped 2,289,000 Mac computers during the quarter, a rise of 51% from the year before.

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