If you happen to have the July edition of MacLife, flip to page 22 and you’ll find FileChute in the article “The 30 Best Mac Apps You’ve Never Heard Of”.

My favorite quote: “FileChute makes sharing files online cut-and-paste easy.”

TapDex is in the news again! This time on one of my favorite Mac tips sites, macosxhints.com. TapDex is this week’s software pick.

Rob Griffiths raised some good points regarding TapDex’s weaknesses. I will be addressing them in the near future.

Dan Frakes posted a nice review of TapDex on Macworld’s online Mac Gems column.

Before he posted the entry, he contacted me with a frequently asked question - how does one copy a field (e.g. phone number or address) to the clipboard. Prior to TapDex 3.3.3, you do this by clicking on the field name. While this is the way Address Book does it, it is not very intuitive. Most people try to Ctrl-click or right-click on the field body instead and that didn’t work.

I’ve just released TapDex 3.3.3 to address this confusion. You can now ctrl-click or right-click anywhere in a field to get the contextual menu with all the actions you can perform.

1Password now works with Safari 3.1. That was quick!

A while back, Roustem over at Agile Web Solutions gave me a special link to send out to Yellow Mug users. Here it is:

https://agilewebsolutions.com/store?d=YellowMug

Visit this special web store and receive a 25% discount on 1Password.

One of the first things I noticed after upgrading to Safari 3.1 is that the 1Password plug-in disappeared. And this is when I realized how much I’ve come to depend on 1Password.

I’m sure Roustem and Dave are busy addressing this issue and will come out with a fix soon. But in the meantime, this is one good reason for 1Password users to wait a while before upgrading Safari.

For those who haven’t tried 1Password, it is a great cross-browser password manager and more. 1Password rocks. Check it out here.

FileChute uses snipr.com as the primary short URL service. When the primary service is not available (which has been the case for the last day or two), it switches to a secondary one. But there was an issue with the secondary service implementation.

I released FileChute 3.0.3 this morning to address this problem. Current FileChute users can update from within the app (”Check for Updates…”) or download the new version here:

http://www.yellowmug.com/filechute/

To clear any cached broken short links, use the “Clear Cached Short URLs” item in the File menu.

One of my biggest gripes with Leopard was Stacks. Showing the contents of a folder rather than the icon of that folder itself simply made no sense to me. As a Mac user, I was annoyed by this behavior. As the developer of FolderBrander, this was really bad news because it made FolderBrander much less useful.

Fortunately, the latest update to OS X brings back the pre-Leopard behavior as an option. Ctrl-click on the folder in the Dock and select “Folder” for the “Display as” option. Macworld has a nice article by Dan Frakes summarizing the update with a brief mention of FolderBrander.

The most in-depth and intelligent review of the MacBook Air I’ve come across so far:

http://www.macworld.com/article/131864/2008/01/macbookair.html

I recently received an email from the CEO of a small company in L.A. where I used to work. I was there for just a few months and he probably doesn’t remember me by name.

No, he wasn’t writing to beg me to go back and work for them. He happens to be a TapDex user and was experiencing some issues after upgrading to Leopard. I told him to grab the latest version and the problem went away.

Small world? Or is Yellow Mug huge?

Amazon is selling VMware Fusion for $60 with free shipping. That’s $20 less than if you were to download and purchase a license directly from VMware.

If you are like me and have no patience, just download a copy from VMware and request a 30-day free trial license. Use the trial license until your copy arrives. Mine arrived this afternoon. I replaced the trial serial number with the one from the box and now I have a licensed copy.

I meant to post this earlier because there was a $20 rebate. The offer expired on Dec 31, 2007. But even without the rebate, this is still a great price. Amazon also carries Parallels Desktop for about $18 less than the retail price.