The Mind of Dr. Mac

Objective Development, makers of such great utilities as LaunchBar (my personal fave) and Little Snitch, are offering their addictive new iPhone/iPod touch game, Pebbles, absolutely free until the end of August. Furthermore, you can get both the Mac version and iPhone/iPod version free!

It’s a great little game, clever and quite addictive. You should definitely check one or both versions out. You just can’t beat the price (both are free).

To download Pebbles for the iPhone and iPod touch (free), click HERE.

To download Pebbles for the Mac (free), click HERE.

Touch Arcade, one of my favorite Web sites, reported that Sega’s Columns Deluxe game is available for free over the 4th of July weekend!

Read about it here.

Download it here.

Read what I had to say about Touch Arcade in this blog a few week ago here.

The other day I was cleaning up my hard disks by throwing away unneeded files and folders. When I tried to empty the Trash, this is what I saw:

An hour later there were still 2,775,000+ files left to be deleted. At that rate it would have taken several months to empty the trash… so I downloaded a little app called Super Empty Trash, launched it, selected All Volumes from its Delete files from window:

A few minutes later all 2.75 million files and folders were gone!

Kudos to SuperEmptyTrash’s creator, Marco Balestra, for making such a useful little tool and for distributing it at no charge. Thanks, Marco!

Download it here: SuperEmptyTrash for Mac OS X.

Don’t miss today’s exciting Dr. Mac column in the Houston Chronicle:

Click here to read it: Fancy that: fun games for free

It seems everyone and his sister wants to learn how to write iPhone apps… so I think it’s awesome that Stanford University (yes, that Stanford) is offering its iPhone Application Programming course. The course includes video of the lectures, plus PDFs of all the associated materials such as assignments, handouts, and syllabuses. And the best part is the price: It’s all absolutely free!

For more info, click here.

This is very cool . . . Alltop just introduced a way for you to build your own custom news page with only info from the sites you like best! It’s called My Alltop and mine looks like this:

Three more things about My Alltop pages are very cool:

1. It’s free.
2. When you hover your cursor over any headline you see a summary of that article immediately.
3. You can share your custom news page with your friends.

If you want to check out mine, click here: My Alltop: LeVitus

And if you want to create your own, click here: My Alltop: Create an Account

Who doesn’t like free training? And who doesn’t like high-quality free training? Well Apple’s got ‘em both for you. Topics include:

Get Started with Mac

• Anatomy of a Mac
• Move to Mac
• Windows on a Mac
• PC to Mac: The Basics
• Finder Basics
• The Finder: Doing More with the Sidebar

Wireless

• Wireless Basics
• Setting Up Your Wireless Network
• Wireless Printing, Backup, and More
• Streaming Music Wirelessly

Going Further with Leopard

• Parental Controls
• Time Machine Basics

Guided tours

Don’t miss today’s Dr. Mac column in the Houston Chronicle… The title of this post pretty much says it all… 

Click here to read it: Five of my favorite free iPhone apps.