Weather information stuffed into a Dock icon. Also does weather in a window, the Menubar, the Desktop. From the same developer who does Dashboard KickStart. Excellent.

WeatherDock 2 has added many features allowing you to display weather information the way you want it. The new features include a fully customizable icon, a desktop icon and a menu item.

9WR - WeatherDock: Free weather utility displays current conditions in the Dock.

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.

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.

Popular, free, and oh so totally necessary Dashboard Widget to check your NetFlix account for status, delivery, and queue.

Now you can compulsively check your list of “At Home” movies, complete with estimated delivery dates, from your desktop. Flip over the widget, and you’ll see a list of all the movies in your queue. Click on any movie to bring up Netflix’s summary of the film in question.

9WR - DashFlix: Widget checks NetFlix account status, delivery dates, movie queue.

Yet another minor update to application which creates your family’s tree on a Mac. Reports, graphs, graphics, photos, and GEDCOM compatible. Here’s a more detailed review. 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: Decent genealogy application manages family tree with photos, reports.

Live dangerously with the latest Flock social web browser for Mac, Windows, Linux. Think of it as a cross between Camino and Firefox. Lots of bells and whistles like Firefox, not as pretty or elegant as Camino. If you like many buttons on your browser, and you collect browsers, you’ll like Flock; now based on Firefox 3.0.5.

Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.

9WR - Flock: Firefox-like browser, attractive, easy to use, with Firefox extensions.

Great value for web site or CD photo album creation. Clumsy Java interface, but point and click simplicity, loaded with options. Many different and sometimes attractive ‘skins’ available. None better at this price. Free.

Make website albums of your digital photographs. With JAlbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, just your web browser. Unlike “server side” album scripts, JAlbum albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM.

9WR - JAlbum: Create website, CD photo albums, multiple skins, point, click.

Ultimate simplicity and focus in a writing word processor. A very handy and free application for writers who want to write, not learn to use a word processor.

Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean. If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.

9WR - Bean: Simple writer’s word processor—word count, inspector panel, auto-save.

Handy utility which converts Microsoft’s Windows Media Video files (and many others) to more common formats for iTunes, iPod, Macs.

Convert or resize wmv, asf, avi, m4v, mp4, mpg, mpeg, mov, flv, nsv, swf and vob video files so that they can be used with QuickTime Player, Apple TV, iPhone and iPods. EasyWMV has a very simple user interface, supports drag and drop as well as batch processing. EasyWMV can export video to mpeg and mpeg4 formats and can optimize videos for playback on iPod.

9WR - EasyWMV - Convert Windows Media Video for QuickTime, iTunes, iPod, AppleTV.

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 sports scoreboard Widget for your Mac’s Dashboard. Nearly every team in Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey, professional and collegiate. Scores and schedules updated automagically. Perfect for tracking your favorite teams.

Keep an eye on your favorite sports teams - all the information you need in one single and small widget. Show the current scoreboard, full results from previous days, the upcoming schedule (game times are displayed in your local time), or current division and standings.

9WR - Sports Fan Widget: Displays current sores, previous results, upcoming schedules, current standings.

Two utilities 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.