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Lean, clean, snippet machine to store information on your Mac. Elegant layout, simple to master. Grab and save notes, serial numbers, photos, anything in a structured free form database (contradictory, but it works).
Caboodle provides a single place to store, organize, and find those little pieces of information that you might have previously stored in Stickies or obscurely-named text files strewn over your desktop.
9WR - Caboodle: Stores information in unique database, both structured, free form.
This is not your father’s outliner. It’s more of an organizational tool. Outlines? Yes. It also collects and organizes data, manages tasks, tracks expenses, plans events, even handles multiple columns.
Use OmniOutliner’s document structure to create hierarchies of main headings and subpoints that can be expanded and collapsed, which are immensely useful when it comes to brainstorming new ideas, drilling out specifics, and lining up steps needed to get everything done. But you aren’t limited to outlines - you’ve got multiple columns, smart checkboxes, customizable popup lists, and an über-innovative styles system at your disposal.
9WR - OmniOutliner: Enhanced outliner with super organizational power, collects, and manages information.
Substantial update to the little image editor that does more than expected. Affordable, fast, easy to learn, many image editing tools and options, from gradients filters to layers. Nicely done. Now with a cool brush designer, and improved performance via your Mac’s GPU.
Don’t let Acorn’s size fool you; it’s a powerful little guy. Fancy math to keep your pencil strokes from having sharp edges, squeezing as much performance out of your computer’s GPU as possible, and simple innovations to make your life easier.
9WR - Acorn: Simple image editor, layers, filters, effects, vector shapes, text.
Very attractive, newspaper-like RSS newsreader. Looks like a digital version of the daily paper. Features multiple sections, a shelf for clippings. Ultra simple, rather inviting, friendly. Think of it as digital nostalgia.
Instead of treating news like email (as most RSS readers do), Times presents you with headlines and photos from a variety of sources all in one place, letting you more easily discover the news you want to read. Like your own personal newspaper, you can put feeds into separate areas, create pages for different subjects, and more.
9WR - Times: Unique, friendly RSS digital newspaper; headlines, photos, links, pages, sections.
Utility that does what it says. Nothing more, nothing less. If you need to import plenty of contacts and addresses into Address Book, this is the utility to use.
Import contacts into Apple’s Address Book application on Mac OS X. It works with CSV or tab-delimited files, and gives you complete control over how the import is done. In no time, your hundreds of contacts are stowed away in the Mac OS X central Address Book, where they can be used by any application.
9WR - Address Book Importer: Uncluttered utility maps, imports data into Apple’s Address Book.
It’s a crazy name for a very unique and useful Mac utility. All Macs these days come with screen sharing built right in. That means you can view and control a nearby Mac right from your Mac’s keyboard and screen. ScreenSharing Menulet makes it easy. From Dan Frakes of Macworld on screen share connections:
ScreenSharingMenulet aims to make such connections easier by providing a menu-bar menu that lists any computers on your local network with Screen Sharing (or Remote Management—aka, Apple Remote Desktop) enabled. Choose a computer from the menu and the Screen Sharing application launches and initiates a screen-sharing connection to the chosen computer.
9WR - ScreenSharingMenulet: Menu Bar utility makes Mac screen sharing simple, easy.
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.
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