Slide show maker for Flash junkies. Takes digital images and produces video and audio slide shows in Flash SWF format, standalone or web presentations.

In just a couple of minutes you can convert a folder full of photos into a stunning slide show with sophisticated transitions and effects.

9WR - SWF ‘n Slide Pro: Makes audio video slide shows in Flash from photos.

Mac utility that monitors all files installed by other Mac applications and utilities and smart deletes. I want this to work like the Tiger version. Bug free.

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.

Free utility to run OS X system maintenance, configure hidden features, muck around and customize your Mac. A more detailed review.

Configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and of some of Apple’s own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files.

9WR - OnyX: Enables hidden Mac features probably hidden for a reason.

What Mozilla’s Firefox would be if it was Mac-like and didn’t have extensions. Uses the latest Gecko rendering engine (1.8.1.16) strapped on to a less Windows-like user interface. Click Here to find out how to migrate from Safari (couldn’t find a link to tell us why).

A browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.

9WR - Camino: Mozilla’s web browser for Mac users; thin on features.

Yet another Omni beta. Extensive product management application features multiple projects, tasks, resource allocation, scheduling, filtering, timelines, and critical paths. It’s not Microsoft Project, but very good and easy to use.

Create logical, manageable project plans with Gantt charts, schedules, summaries, milestones, and critical paths. Break down the tasks needed to make your project a success, optimize resources, and streamline budgets. It’s project management made painless.

9WR - OmniPlan: Project management for humans, multiple projects, timelines, critical path.

Inspired update of the excellent notebook metaphor outliner organizer. Manages clippings, tasks, projects, notes, media, photos, links, schedules, all in a notebook metaphor using a simple outline structure. Not easy to master but worthwhile to try, even better when accomplished. Now with diagramming, sketching, PDF annotation, and more.

Circus Ponies NoteBook helps you keep track of photos, e-mails, graphics, documents. Create project journals, directories, or portfolios. Clip images, e-mails, and news stories. Add formatted, searchable notes. Find anything using NoteBook’s patented indexing technology.

9WR - Circus Ponies Notebook: Organizer for notes, tasks, projects, in onscreen outliner notebook.

Comfortably useful peer-to-peer file sharing utility. Not BitTorrent but easier to use. LimeWire has a Pro version, too. Now it costs money to steal files.

LimeWire is a fast, easy-to-use file sharing program that contains no spyware, adware or other bundled software. Compatible with all major platforms and running over the Gnutella network, LimeWire’s open source code, is freely available to the public and developed in part by a devoted programmer community.

9WR - LimeWire: Elegant P2P file sharing utility for Mac, Windows, Linux.

Not just another alarm clock. More of an alarm clock system that does a little of everything whenever you want. Sends text messages and email, plays iTunes music, and does about 127 other things.

Speak or display favorite inspirational quotes randomly throughout the day, or even send them as text messages to your cell phone! Have important reminders, or even birthday cards, e-mailed to contacts. Record laps with the Stopwatch. Track time differences for your investment portfolio. Even use it to help cook dinner by using the timer!

9WR - Alarm Clock Pro: Alarm clock, scheduler, timer alerts, sends messages, plays music.

Unique back up utility creates disk images of important Mac files such as Mail, iCal, Address Book, iPhoto and iTunes libraries, and more. BackityMac doesn’t clone, it backs up specific files. Clever, elegant, handy, affordable.

BackityMac is the easy solution for backing up your most important files.  Simply click one of the presets on the side or add your own files.  BackityMac will then make a disk image of those files ready for restore when you need them most.

9WR - BackityMac: Backs up important Mac files to recoverable disk images.

Poor man’s Fireworks in a friendly package. Cocoa vector-based graphic application loaded with tools, shapes, layers, text along path, filters, effects, scanner integration, and media browser.

VectorDesigner is a vector drawing application designed to be simple, intuitive and powerful to use. It has everything you need to create fancy vector graphics such as posters, brochures, stickers, logos, web graphics, t-shirt and more.

9WR - VectorDesigner: Vector graphics with non-destructive tools, filters, effects, layers, browser.

Marc Moini’s one trick pony with extra tricks to enhance scrolling on your Mac. Makes scroll wheel or trackpad smoother, faster. Goes in reverse and uses keyboard, too. Nice.

Smart Scroll offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling… Other features include Universal Scroll Keys that let you scroll from the keyboard, FileMaker Pro and AppleWorks enhancements, and more.

9WR - Smart Scroll: Utility improves scrolling, reverses, adds keyboard scrolling, grab scroll.

Application to create moving slide shows-- movies from digital photos. Easy to use interface, intuitive controls. Pan and zoom across photos, add titles, export to QuickTime movies for use in iMovie.

Photo to Movie enables you to create a movie by zooming and panning over a photo. It presents a simple interface to specify the starting and ending frames and generates full quality QuickTime or DV Stream files (compatible with iMovie).

9WR - Photo to Movie: Makes moving slide show movies from still digital photos.

Yet another Menubar application and file launcher. Set up categories, icon size, add files. Barely not bad. Developer’s complete description of aLunch:

You can chose to display icons at 32 pixels or 16 pixels. Files and folders can be registered with aLunch as well. Folders will be opened in the Finder. Different categories can be registered by using groups and separators.

9WR - aLunch: Now how many items are in your Mac’s Menubar?

Yet another PDF utility. Prepares PDF documents for print-shop specifications. Joins PDFs, rearranges, splits, adds and edits hyperlinks.

Now you can print out your manuals, reports, essays, articles, web pages, etc., in a convenient and economic way. You can even create books for languages that read from right to left like Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew.

9WR - PDFClerk Pro: PDF utility joins documents, rearranges pages, adds editing features.

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

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.

Poor name, weak official description of an indispensable Mac utility. One of our ‘must haves’ for years. Elegant solution to renaming multiple files. Lots of multiple files. Many features. Needs to rename itself.

A Better Finder Rename allows users to quickly rename multiple files. This powerful, yet easy-to-use utility transforms the often tedious and time-consuming task of renaming multiple files into a simple matter of seconds.

9WR - A Better Finder Rename: Context menu utility renames multiple files with few clicks.

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.

Mind mapping on your Mac (Leopard only). Expands beyond the canvas (for bigger brains?). Works with QuickLook, Spotlight, and iChat Theater (Intel Macs only). Pro version also available.

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.