Remarkably useful and elegant personal information manager. Stores and retrieves almost anything; email, snippets, URLs, photos, images, documents, files, whatever. Simple design, highly flexible organization.

EagleFiler makes managing your information easy. It lets you archive and search mail, Web pages, PDF files, word processing documents, images, and more. Use it to collect information from a variety of sources. Browse different types of files using a standard three-pane interface. Organize them into folders and annotate them with tags and notes, or leave everything in one folder and pin-point the information you need using the live search.

9WR – EagleFiler: Personal information manager stores, retrieves files, email, PDFs, photos.

EagleFiler 1.5.9

Major update of Photoshop wannabe with attractive interface, buckets of tools, filters, effects, including advanced color correction tools. Well done.

Pixelmator is a layer-based image editor. You can quickly create layers from your photos, other pictures, from selections… allows you to blend layers, change their opacity, create clipping masks or even add layer masks to hide some portions of layer.

9WR – Pixelmator: Mini Photoshop with tools, filters, effects, layers, color correction.

Pixelmator 2.0.2

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, Linux.

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.

Perfect Diet Tracker 3.6.2

Major update to the popular but poorly named Mac maintenance utility, now for OS X Lion, too. Does far more than clean your Mac’s caches, including creation of bootable Emergency Disks, and built-in ClamAV antivirus system, opens many hidden settings.

Lion Cache Cleaner is a one stop solution for all of your OS X maintenance needs.  Intel or PPC, Tiger or Lion, LCC has the tools to keep your system running at its best.  LCC Documents and the LCC Engine maintain system health by providing full automation of common maintenance chores including virus scanning of internet downloads.

9WR – Lion Cache Cleaner: Utility cleans caches, creates bootable emergency disks, ClamAV antivirus.

Lion Cache Cleaner 6.0.9

Our favorite Mac site monitoring tool. Solid, dependable, full of notifications when checking sites. Tracks sites, servers, forums posts, comments on blogs, even checks web mail.

It checks servers for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, or other means. You can use it to track updated sites, and to alert you when an important server goes down or recovers.

9WR – Dejal Simon: Server monitor tracks failures, notifies via email, alerts, Twitter.

Dejal Simon 3.4

Another open source BitTorrent utility for peer-to-peer file transfers, a common euphemism for stealing files over the internet.

Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.

9WR – Transmission: BitTorrent utility, queue, throttle torrents, Growl support, Dock badge.

Transmission 2.50

Latest of the many (and frequent; every couple of weeks) 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 1,600 flatbed and film scanners, on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

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

VueScan 9.0.79

Ultimate simplicity and focus in a writing word processor. A very handy and free application for writers who want to write, not learn to use a word processor. The latest version has a few more highly desirable features, including tabs, a zoom slider, date-stamped backups, autosaving, and a page layout mode.

Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean. If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.

9WR – Bean: Simple writer’s word processor—word count, inspector panel, auto-save.

Bean 3.0.7