A free standalone player for Flash movies and animation. Create and manage Flash playlists, zoom in on movie. Pro version adds other features such as full-screen viewing. The only stand-alone application for Mac OS that is able to playback SWF and FLV files with plenty of bonus features. It provides handy movie controls, that let … Read More »

Major update for a different kind of screen capture utility for Mac users. Records the whole screen and a video camera at the same time. From Telestream, the same folks who produce Flip4Mac, VideoCue, WireCast and other very good applications. Using a unique new screen capture system, powerful enough to capture the contents of your … Read More »

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 and new version is loaded with features. Money helps people organize and manage their personal finances … Read More »

Major update to the Swiss Army Knife of graphic utilities. Something of a poor man’s Photoshop but the claim to fame is batch conversion of file formats and a tool for everything. Even the latest version is a bit cumbersome with a cluttered interface but it works. GraphicConverter is an all-purpose image editing program that … Read More »

Handy Menubar utility which monitors your Mac. Easy to read, unobtrusive, elegant, useful. My recent review of iStat Menus on McSolo. And now with a price tag. iStat Menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system. CPU, Memory, Disks, … Read More »

The perfect gift for the truly obsessive compulsive Mac user. Hazel handles every Mac file and folder organization task, automatically. Files, cleans, empties trash, remembers rules (you create them), keeps files and folders tidy. Clever but geeky. Hazel is your personal housekeeper, organizing and cleaning folders based on rules you define. Hazel can also manage … Read More »

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 … Read More »

Yet another Menubar application and file launcher. Set up categories, icon size, add files. Now 64-bit and fast. And they finally changed the name to aLaunch from aLunch (which was nuts). Developer’s complete description of aLaunch: You can chose to display icons at 32 pixels or 16 pixels. Files and folders can be registered with … Read More »