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July 1st

Productivity is UP! By Buzz

Paparazzi, Skitch and Vienna
There’s a heap of free Mac applications out there that claim to be useful - almost all of them are absolute crap. That is, of course, with the exception of my three favourites - which have increased my productivity at work no end! If you download anything for your Mac, make sure it’s these (and obviously FMenu which i’ve spoken about before)!

Paparazzi is a screen-grab application that takes grabs of web pages, full screen. So none of that screen grabbing multiple scroll windows, then stitching them together in PhotoShop!
Download Paparazzi here.

Skitch is an alternative to screen grabbing stuff to your desktop (resulting in millions of Picture#.png). It’s a little tricky to set up at first, but you can save and annotate grabs to the Skitch server, or your own site via FTP. Very useful, especially when sending images to coleagues via MSN is taking an age!
SignUp and Download Skitch here.

Vienna is an RSS reader that I use for all my blogs. It’ll notify me (on the hour) when my favourite blogs have been updated, meaning I don’t end up checking all my sites to find no new content. Blog links will even open up within the program. It looks cool too (unlike the website!)
Download Vienna here.

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HeyBuzz is a collection of musings, learning's, tips and inspiration... mostly about digital stuff, as observed by Buzz.

Buzz is a sailor, skier, extreme sports enthusiast and designer living in London. He enjoys loud music, trying new things and talking crap. He doesn't really like reading though!

You can visit Buzz's sexy new design portfolio at BuzzGraphics.co.uk

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