App mini Review Archive

Excellent tool set to make your Mac become a radio station and you the disc jockey. Good for disco D.J. operation, full automation, multiple players, online streaming.

It features 3 main players and one library player, all with selectable individual audio outputs, detailed time calculations, a lot of fast and smooth iTunes integration, and Nicecast artist and title publishing. It is complemented by a seprate scheduler for full station automation.

9WR - Radiologik DJ: D.J. software simulates radio station queue, segue; automation, mixing.

Mind mapping on your Mac. 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.

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.

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.

A great utility to manage your books, movies, music CDs, video games in the perfect library metaphor. It’s complete with shelves, search, cart-catalog, bar code entry, all downloaded from the internet.

Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games.

9WR - Delicious Library: Manages personal library of books, CDs, DVDs, and video games.

Best Mac spam filter gets better with age. Incredibly accurate, easily trained, integrates with Apple’s Mail, Microsoft’s Entourage, and Address Book. If email spam bothers you, get SpamSieve.

SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e-mail clients. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within your mail client, and you can customize how it interacts with the rest of your message sorting rules. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as it adapts to your mail.

9WR - SpamSieve: Easily configured Bayesian email spam filter for Mail, Entourage.

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.

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 750 flatbed and film scanners, on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

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

Professional level 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.

What Mozilla’s Firefox would be if it was Mac-like and didn’t have extensions. Uses the latest Firefox rendering engine strapped on to a less Windows-like user interface. Click Here to find out how to migrate from Safari (sorry, couldn’t find a link to tell us why). Oh, did I mention that Camino is fast?

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.