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Use Chax to add a bunch of cool features to Apple’s iChat that Apple chose not to give you. Growl notification, activity log, auto-accept file transfers, AV chats, and screen sharing, and more.
Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple’s iChat more enjoyable.
9WR - Chax: iChat add-on features—unified contacts, Growl notices, log viewer.
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.
Somehow I neglected to provide a mini-review for a utility I use every day for over 10 years. DragThing. Simply put, it’s a floating, expanding, customizable dock that holds icons to all your favorite Mac apps, utilities, games, documents, hard drives, folders. You’re one click away from almost anything on your Mac. DragThing is highly configurable, loaded with customization options, and multiple docks or multiple tabs, or both. Highly recommended.
The original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. It puts all your documents, folders, and applications just a single click away. Highly flexible, it allows multiple docks, each customised to suit your exact needs.
9WR - DragThing: Indispensable, feature-laden, easy-to-use launch dock for applications, folder, documents.
Not our favorite text editor, but very good Cocoa application for those in love with plain and rich text. Jedit X isn’t jEdit for programmers.
Optimized for Mac OS X Leopard, supports tabbed window, File Drawer, none-contiguous layouting, rectangular paste, word completion, smart index menu, smart quote…
9WR - Jedit X: Similar to Apple’s TextEdit, but with muscle and style.
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.
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.
David Watanabe’s free search tool for Safari speeds up your searches by adding keywords to improve your search (same guy who developed the popular NewsFire RSS reader). Safari 4 has something like this built in already.
Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with ideas to refine your search. It’ll autocomplete your words (is it reading your mind?) and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts.
9WR - Inquisitor: Free Safari search tool to autocomplete your search words.
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