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DrinkTracker is the perfect drinking companion when you’re out on the town. Another useful app to save your butt when your having fun and can’t keep BAC (Blood Alcohol Content) stats and drink counts straight.

DrinkTracker has the concept of a drinking session and allows you to add drinks immediately or in the past with a date picker. As you keep on adding drinks (which is totally customizable for your favourite drinks) it calculates your blood alcohol content (based on your profile) and will warn you with a popup that you have exceeded your Target BAC. At this point the decision is yours to keep on drinking or stop, however at least you know you should not be driving back home.

Once you have exceeded it you can tap the “Outta Here!” button to get your current location and intended destination, click method of travel (taxi, walk, bus, drive) and get hooked into the standard Maps app which will serve the tailored info to you. It even has an email button that emails a predefined message with the subject “Come Pick Me Up” and your current GPS location to a designated driver.

Highlights:

• Multiple profiles of drinkers
• Pre-defined and customizable drinks w/alcohol content
• Manage multiple locations
• Send a “Pick me up, I’ve been drinking” message by SMS, Email

Great thing about this app is that it does the math for you and even helps you get home in one piece. Definitely a worthy purchase for anyone from an occasional to frequent drinker.  You can even show the cops that pull you over your drinking session in a nice handy iPhone app!

This app makes a great gift for the holiday season to keep everyone alive and well.

A cheap ticket out of a DUI – on iTunes – DrinkTracker by Slappme.com. Find them on Twitter @drinktracker

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One era has come to an end, and an new one is beginning at Apple Inc today. They’ve officially ended all ties with Google’s board of directors as Arthur Levinson has decided to leave behind his affiliation with Google and focus his energies on Apple. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise considering the increasing pressure on Google and Apple to eliminate the overlap between their board of directors at the recommendation from the FTC. On going pressure and the threat of an anti-trust case has seemed to put a strain on the Apple and Google relationship as of late, and it continues to be played out in the media.

We’re not fully sure what the implication might be for this on a whole, but we’re pretty sure that Apple and Google will be facing off in a number of key areas over the next couple of years. Now that all the generals have been divvied up, and the battle lines are currently being drawn, we might see a new Microsoft Vs. Apple Inc battle, unparalleled since the 1980s and earlier 1990s.

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The option key just keeps adding interesting and useful stuff to the operating system these days. I stumbled on another one today, and it’s probably the most useful one I’ve found to date.  Have you ever had an application crash on you  and you’re stuck trying to get back to the finder window then open the Apple menu to force quit your stalled application?  I have at least once a day.  Now you can right click on the application that has stalled and then push the option key while the menu is open.  You’ll be met with a force quit option now that previously never existed.  Saves me a ton of headaches.

Update: According to @zigziggityzoo this has been around since 10.3. I tried it on an old leopard machine and he seems to be right.  My Bad.

We all have files on our computer that we don’t want other people to see. Be it tax information or those pictures from your wild night on the town, these files mustn’t fall into the wrong hands. Luckily, Mac OS X has a very simple way of accomplishing that task. Creating an encrypted disk image is a quick way to access your files while keeping them away from prying eyes.

Go into your /Applications/Utilities/ folder, and find an application called Disk Utility. Now press the New Image Button.

Now name your disk image, and pick out where you want to save it. Choose how much space you want in the image, and leave the format option alone. Pick 256-bit AES Encryption from the encryption drop down menu, and then change the image format to Sparse Bundle. Now click Create.

Disk Utility will then make your disk image, and then it will ask you to set a password. Choose a good password, and don’t allow Keychain to save your password (That kind of ruins the point).

Now all you have to do is double click your disk image, enter your password, and you can move files in and out. When you’re done, you just click eject in the Finder sidebar. Now your files are tucked safely away where nobody but you can see them.

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If there’s one thing I really envied about Microsofts Vista operating system it was their users ability to minimize their windows in a way that wasn’t ass backwards. Since moving to OS X I’ve moved away from minimizing applications as much as I did on my beige boxes, mostly because having all of those windows next to the trash was annoying.

Snow Leopard has taken a step towards fixing the problem. Sadly it does not handle minimized windows as well as Vista or Windows 7 but it’s a huge step forward. You can now minimize to the icon, but you need to enable it before you can access it.

Enable Access

Open your Preferences, then click Dock, and then check the “minimize windows into application icon” button.

Use it

There you go, but, before you’re confused on how to get them back, you need to hold the option key and right-click on the icon that has the minimized windows. Click the window that you want and Viola!

Added Tip: If you hold down the option key while clicking the minimize window button, all the open windows in that application will be minimized together and at the same time. Super Handy.

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Make the Finder into your Finder. Open a window in the Finder, and right click the title bar. Select Customize Toolbar to open the customization menu. You can now select what icons you want on your Finder toolbar.

While a Finder window is open, press CMD+J. In this window, you’ll be able to customize the icon settings and the background for each specific folder.

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