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Recent mini Reviews
SonicMood
Soothing background of melodic tones; digital wind chimes; iTunes-like interface for mood chimes with bells, crystals, violins, and nature sounds. Quirky and cool at the same time.
SonicMood creates a soothing background of melodic tones… polyphonic sounds with stimulating harmonies… to have a relaxing effect.
9WR - SonicMood: Beautiful wind chimes, mood chimes, nature sounds, sensual harmonies.
MacFamilyTree
Massive update to the nifty app which creates your family’s tree on a Mac. Reports, graphs, graphics, photos, and GEDCOM compatible. Well done, loaded with features, easy to use. These folks think highly of their own software, so check your credit card balance:
A stunning, configurable user interface, animated charts, editable reports and powerful print and export options. Visualize migration of your ancestors over centuries and continents.
9WR - MacFamilyTree: Great genealogy application manages family tree with photos, reports.
A Better Finder Rename
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.
Freeway Pro and Freeway Express
Update to very popular web site creation applications loaded with tools. Creates XHTML and CSS using a page layout system.
With Freeway, you can quickly and effortlessly lay out your website, embed images and content, then publish your work as clean, standards-compliant HTML, and upload to your server, to .Mac, or to a folder. Freeway’s smart about publishing—it’ll only upload only your changes, saving you lots of time.
9WR - Freeway Pro & Freeway Express: Web page creator uses page layout tools, XHTML, CSS compliant.
Cyberduck
Latest version of open source (free) FTP utility by David Kocher. Not as fast as Yummy or as simple as Transmit but worthy and priced right.
FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 browser… with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, Quick Look and the Keychain.
9WR - Cyberduck: Free FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 browser, many languages, features.
CopyPaste Pro
Itty bitty update of the major update of the classic multiple clipboard utility. Not only stores multiple clips in the clipboard, but clips are editable, archived for future use, multiple view capable. We prefer PTH Pasteboard, though CopyPaste is very good.
Never lose a clip again—every copy is saved and available in a clip browser. Edit any clip instantly with the handy built in word processor. Create archives to keep any important clips you want to save and use later.
9WR - CopyPaste Pro: Stores multiple clips, edits, archives, accessible history, multiple views.
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