InstantShot! is a Mac OS X freeware program that does everything one could expect from a screen capture program and then some. If you find yourself reaching for Apple’s Grab and find it lacking, take the time to download and learn InstantShot! and you’ll never launch Grab again.

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I recently reviewed SuperDocker, a Mac OS X freeware program that lets you change the appearance of the OS X dock using various themes. Reader Mike suggested checking out CandyBar, a shareware program that also allows easy customization of the Dock but is a management solution for all your Mac icons. After a few minutes of using CandyBar, I think it’s a much better program.

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SuperDocker is a Mac OS X app that customizes your Leopard dock using “themes.” It also tweaks miscellaneous settings for the Finder, Dashboard, and Safari progress bar.

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The Netflix / Roku box just arrived, and after a mere half hour of playing with it, I’m blown away. It’s compelling, affordable, and above all, super easy to set up and use. It’s even better than the Apple TV in several ways, and that’s really something coming from me, a clinically diagnosed Apple fan.

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Sorry I haven’t posted much about tech in the past few days - holiday weekend and all. But I will share some ridiculously funny videos that had me laughing uncontrollably a few evenings ago. It’s of some nutty Japanese game show. Basically, contestants must contort their bodies to fit through a hole cut in a huge foam wall headed toward them. If they can’t do it in time, the wall pushes them into a pool of water.

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Here’s a site worth poking around on: How I Spent My Stimulus (check). Pretty much every tax-paying American is getting about $600 bucks from the federal government to spend as they please. The site has pictures and short anecdotes from people of all walks of life describing what they spent their money on and why.

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aideRSS analyzes RSS feeds, and if pushed it a bit further, can be used to filter blog feeds to only serve up the “best stuff.”

At aideRSS, just enter the blog or RSS feed URL that you want to analyze. The site generates a table of all the feeds recent posts and its activity in terms of comments, Google Reader shares, Delicious saves, Diggs, and Tweets.

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Amazon has offered a music digital download service for a while now. After trying it out, I feel it’s competitive enough with iTunes that I may return in the future.

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Last night I checked out FriendFeed, a new social networking website that fellow blogger Louis Gray invited me to. FriendFeed pulls together your social news activity from other popular websites into one feed. Sounds simple enough, but there are a few additional features that pushed it into the “useful” column for me. It also has a Twitter-like simplicity that makes participation very easy.

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Despite all my personal biases as to why I should avoid Hulu like the plague, I have to say it works well enough, and I’ll use it in the future.

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