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Recent mini Reviews
Buddi 3.2.2.2∧
Free and simple financial software for Mac, Windows, Linux, which uses Java. It’s not pretty, but works very well as a basic utility for budgets, expenses, reports.
Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.
9WR - Buddi: Simple, free personal finance utility for budgets, expenses, reports.
Trail Runner 1.8 v276∧
Seemingly weekly ever-so-minor minor update to the clever utility for people on the move. Literally. Plans routes with maps, graphs, locations, and calculates distance. Ancient Mac360 review.
TrailRunner is a route planning software for all kinds of long distance sports like running, biking, hiking, inline-skating, skiing and more.
9WR - Trail Runner: Route planning for runners, bikers; maps, diary, exercise plan.
Optimism 2.2∧
Highly beneficial Mac utility to track and chart depression and mood disorders, causes, trends. Monitors daily health using simple selection criteria. Impressive.
An advanced health and mood diary. Optimism helps you discover your depression triggers, the symptoms that they produce, and based on this knowledge, effective strategies for staying mentally well.
9WR - Optimism: Effective mood diary discovers, tracks, monitors depression triggers, influences.
PDFKey Pro 3.7.5∧
Handy PDF utility recovers lost passwords, unlocks PDFs, locks PDFs, protects PDF documents from unauthorized access, printing.
PDFKey Pro lets you protect your PDFs in a blink. You can set a password to view the file and a password to restrict printing and copy&pasting of your PDFs. The files created by PDFKey Pro will be identical to the originals and you will be able to open them in any PDF viewer.
9WR - PDFKey Pro: Recovers lost passwords, locks, unlocks PDFs, and restricts access.
Together 2.1.8∧
Our favorite information manager. Highly intuitive and easier to use than Yojimbo. Love the shelf. Organize files however you like. Holds almost everything.
Together lets you keep everything in one place. Text, documents, images, movies, sounds, web pages and bookmarks can all be dragged to Together for safe keeping, tagged, previewed, collected together in different ways and found again instantly.
9WR - Together: Personal information organizer, stores text, documents, images, movies, whatever.
iCab 4.2.5∧
Update of the not-very-popular but competent and attractive browser from Alexander Clauss. I like the error protocol which identifies sites with crummy HTML. Free and Pro version:
Certainly, iCab has much more features than you can examine in one day. Try it once, and you will see it has addressed all your needs, and iCab can grow with you, to fully meet your personal tastes and preferences -with much wider choices and options than any other browser!
9WR - iCab: Unique web browser, quirky features, granular controls, crazy tabs.
1Password 2.8.3b12∧
Seemingly weekly update to the best password manager for Mac users. Works with all major Mac browsers, uses OS X’s keychain. Easy to use, handles multiple login ID’s and passwords with ease. Look for the iPhone version which was just released. It’s free. For now. This version of 1Password syncs with 1Password on the iPhone.
Have you ever forgotten a password? 1Password keeps track of all web passwords, automates sign-in, guards from identity theft.
9WR - 1Password: Essential for password management, extra security, easy, automated log-in.
MacFamilyTree 5.3∧
Yet another minor update to application which creates a your family’s tree on a Mac. Reports, graphs, graphics, photos, and GEDCOM compatible. Kate’s more detailed review. These folks think highly of their own software:
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: Decent genealogy application manages family tree with photos, reports.
VueScan 8.4.89∧
Latest of the many (and frequent; seemingly weekly) 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.
YummySoup 1.6.9.5∧
Ken Humbard’s delightfully useful recipe organizer which features an online library of recipes from users, a full screen view, and a wine and spirits manager. Kate’s detailed review.
An easy to use recipe management app focused on four aspects of recipes. Organizing, Sharing, Cooking & Shopping.
9WR - YummySoup: Recipe organizer with online recipe library, wine, spirits manager.
Things 0.9.4.1∧
Still the preview release of a highly attractive and capable task manager with project management capability. Reduces complex project and task management to simple, enjoyable process. Highly recommended.
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.
Perfect Diet Tracker 2.3.1.4∧
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, Liinux.
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.