The best text manipulation tool for Mac users. Think of it as TypeStyler for the 21st century. Point and click simplicity creates stuffing graphic designs from text and simple elements. A must-have for designers.

Create high quality headings, web site graphics, buttons, logos and icons. Multi layer support turns Art Text into flexible tool to create complex graphics for web and print materials. Template Gallery provides over 300 ready made buttons, headings, logos and icons.

9WR - Art Text: Manipulates text as art headings, logos, icons, buttons, graphics.

Free and simple financial software for Mac, Windows, Linux, which uses Java. It’s not pretty, but works very well as a basic utility for budgets, expenses, reports.

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.

9WR - Buddi: Simple, free personal finance utility for budgets, expenses, reports.

Excellent Mac utility that monitors all files installed by other Mac applications and utilities and smart deletes via drag and drop. Highly recommended if you try out many different Mac applications and utilities and want to declutterize your Mac. Great utility but use with care.

Uninstall, archive, backup and analysis… CleanApp analyzes, archives and removes applications and on your Mac, complete with all relevant files.

9WR - CleanApp: Tracks installed files, uninstalls, archives, removes application, utility files.

Things is the remarkably attractive, useful, and very capable task manager with expanded project management capability. Reduces complex project and task management to simple, enjoyable process. Highly recommended. Syncs with iPhone version.

Things is task management solution that helps to organize your tasks in an elegant and intuitive way. Things combines powerful features with simplicity through the use of tags and its intelligent filter bar. A Leopard style source list allows for quick and easy focusing. Together with a beautiful user interface, Things aims at the seemingly impossible: making task management both easy and fun.

9WR - Things: Task, project manager, excellent user interface, many handy features.

Let your Mac help you lose weight by tracking what you eat. Creates diet plans, targets specific weight loss objectives, monitors caloric intake, manages multiple users; complete with extensive food database. Or, just eat more veggies and less junk food, get more exercise. Runs on Mac, Windows, Liinux.

Manage your diet based on firm scientific foundations and proven calorie counting methods made easy through the easy to use and intuitive interface and extensive international food database. Use the diet suggestions provided by the software based on your specific user profile,  or follow your own diet plan. Through the diary and extensive food database you quickly learn which foods in your diet provide the most weight gain and which foods you like and can actually eat more of.

9WR - Perfect Diet Tracker: Multiuser diet planner, monitor, calories, track foods in database.

Minor update to the popular general purpose maintenance utility. Checks disks, runs system maintenance, clears caches, optimizes network, clears logs, keeps things tidy under the hood.

A scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. Most of Cocktail’s major features are arranged in five basic categories. In addition, a Pilot lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.

9WR - Cocktail: Maintenance utility, Leopard interface tweaks, Pilot for repair, optimization.

Long awaited update to the popular Mozilla browser. More gaudy, more features, very fast page rendering. Worthy competitor to MSIE on Windows and Safari on the Mac.

Web browser that empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations.

9WR - Firefox: Free faster browser, more features, more security, more hype.

Because you can never have enough speed, there’s Speed Download. Great interface to Mac utility which is four utilities in one. Download manager, FTP client, file sharing utility with encryption, and a .Mac/iDisk/WebDAV connectivity utility.

Faster and more secure, more features, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Speed Download release sets a new standard for download manager innovation, and is designed to be your central, unified hub for almost all the downloading and file transfer activities you do online.

9WR - Speed Download: Ultimate download utility combines FTP, auto-resuming, encryption, .Mac/iDisk/WebDAV capability.

The perfect utility for Mac newbies. TinkerTool unleashes hidden features and settings in Mac OS X without damaging your system. The TinkerTool System adds even more features.

TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system. All preference settings changed by TinkerTool can be reset to Apple’s defaults, or to the state that existed before using the tool. No dangerous background processes are used for TinkerTool’s operation.

9WR - TinkerTool: Utility to open hidden features, settings in Mac OS X.

Seemingly weekly (sometimes daily) update to the best password manager for Mac users, now getting closer to 3.0. Works with all major Mac browsers; uses OS X’s keychain or a 1Password keychain. Easy to use, handles multiple login ID’s and passwords with ease. A free iPhone version is available—for now.

Have you ever forgotten a password? 1Password keeps track of all web passwords, automates sign-in, guards from identity theft.

9WR - 1Password: Essential for password management, extra security,  easy, automated log-in.

The perfect Mac utility for cleaning up messy text in documents. Think of TextSoap as a filter which scrubs text, keeps the good text attributes and formatting, and deletes the bad text.

TextSoap is the only text cleaning utility that maintains formatting while it cleans up the text.

9WR - TextSoap: Mac utility cleans, filters text, maintains attributes, and format.

If you use your Mac to create presentations for marketing, sales, training, education, using either PowerPoint or Keynote, then ProfCast is a tool you need. It records your presentation while you give, and distributes it as a video Podcast.

All elements of your presentation, including slide timing and voice narration, are recorded. You can then publish your complete presentation on the Web as a PodCast, complete with RSS support.

9WR - ProfCast: PowerPoint, Keynote; sales, marketing, education, training presentation recording tool.

Wondering where your money went? Let Money on your Mac show you all the gory details. Why? Because it’s good to track the horse after it leaves the barn. Jumsoft’s (Mac geeks with good taste) Money is a delight.

Money helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily.

9WR - Money: Mac financial tracking utility; simple, elegant, full-featured, affordable, colorful.

Mind mapping on your Mac (Leopard only). Expands beyond the canvas (for bigger brains?). Works with QuickLook, Spotlight, and iChat Theater (Intel Macs only). MindNode Pro adds Reconnecting, Folding, Link Support, and other goodies.

MindNode is a free and very easy to use mindmapping application. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple interface for quickly creating visual appealing mind maps.

9WR - MindNode: Intuitive mind mapper with easy node creation, keyboard support.

Handy utility which converts Microsoft’s Windows audio files so they’ll play in iTunes. Doesn’t convert protected DRM (digital rights management) files.

EasyWMA allows you to convert wma, wmv audio, asf and ogg vorbis files to aiff, mp3, m4a or wav so that you can play your favorite songs in iTunes or any other player on your Mac.

9WR - EasyWMA: Drag and drop conversion of Windows audio files to Macs.

Handy utility which converts Microsoft’s Windows Media Video files (and many others) to more common formats for iTunes, iPod, Macs.

Convert or resize wmv, asf, avi, m4v, mp4, mpg, mpeg, mov, flv, nsv, swf and vob video files so that they can be used with QuickTime Player, Apple TV, iPhone and iPods. EasyWMV has a very simple user interface, supports drag and drop as well as batch processing. EasyWMV can export video to mpeg and mpeg4 formats and can optimize videos for playback on iPod.

9WR - EasyWMV - Convert Windows Media Video for QuickTime, iTunes, iPod, AppleTV.

Everyone wants to manage your money these days. MoneyWell takes a different approach. Think digital envelopes. Think buckets. Lots of easy access reports, schedules.

Powerful personal finance organization and analysis tools in a simple, single-screen solution. Without running complex reports or having to trudge through six levels of pie charts, you’ll know immediately if your spending is on track.

9WR - MoneyWell: Gentle learning curve, comprehensive ‘envelope’ budget management, one-click reports.

Most popular television watching and recording software (requires EyeTV hardware) for the Mac.

Watch, pause, fast-forward and rewind live television on your Mac… record hours of television on your Mac, create subscriptions to TV series and topics of your choice, manage saved episodes, and organize them in Smart Playlists.

9WR - EyeTV: Watch, record, rewind live TV, picture-in-picture, edit, fast-forward.

Latest of the many (and frequent; seemingly weekly) updates to Hamrick’s popular scanner tool which works on just under a gazillion scanners, give or take a few. A must-have if you scan.

VueScan is a powerful, easy to use program that works with 750 flatbed and film scanners, on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

9WR - VueScan: Scanner software with many features, works on nearly everything.

So you want to be a disco DJ? Been there. Done that. Use iTunes and your iPod and Disco XT gets you halfway to DJ stardom. After that, it’s luck and talent.

Includes dual audio deck with user definable EQs and spectrum, looping, filters, effects, cueing, pitch-lock, waveform views and automatic BPM detection. Includes Hit Sampler for playing short audio clips taken from an audio file or recorded from microphone over the mix. Recording mixes to audio files with automatic track markers. Supports microphone input for talkovers.

9WR - Disco XT: Disco DJ mixer, automation, for iTunes, iPod, Mac or Windows.

Yes, Virgina, there are other browsers besides IE, Firefox, and Safari. Here’s the latest not-very-popular but competent and attractive browser from Alexander Clauss. I like the error protocol which identifies sites with crummy HTML. Free and Pro version:

Certainly, iCab has much more features than you can examine in one day. Try it once, and you will see it has addressed all your needs, and iCab can grow with you, to fully meet your personal tastes and preferences -with much wider choices and options than any other browser!

9WR - iCab: Unique web browser, quirky features, granular controls, crazy tabs.

An absolute must have for Mac users. PTHPasteboard remembers what you copy, saves it, makes it easy to copy again with a single click. Pro version syncs multiple Macs.

How often have you copied something only to find that you need it a few minutes later but you’ve already copied another item? PTHPasteboard watches you while you work and keeps a copy of any items that you have copied to your pasteboard.

9WR - PTHPasteboard: Multiple clipboard manager stores everything copied on a Mac.