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iTunes controller which displays album artwork. Controls iTunes, adds customizable keyboard shortcuts. Very attractive. Despite the developer’s insistence to the contrary, highly distracting.
CoverSutra gives you a handy and attractive way to control iTunes without having to leave your current application. See what’s currently playing or enjoy your album artwork. Don’t let yourself be distracted from your work.
9WR - CoverSutra: iTunes controller, floating window, shortcuts, displays album cover art.
Worthy competitor to Yojimbo or Together, ShoveBox is the Mac utility which easily stores files; scraps, snippets, photos, movies, web pages, notes, PDFs. Convenient Menu Bar access. Even better, there’s an iPhone version which syncs.
ShoveBox catches all those little scraps of information that you can’t act on now but would rather not forget. It sits up in your menubar, waiting for you to drag in text, images, URLs, and more.
9WR - ShoveBox: Handy Menu Bar utility captures, stores, organizes many files.
Best looking way yet to browse your iTunes collection using Cover Flow but without using iTunes. The wheel—re-invented. Again. And, again, do all this without interrupting your workflow. Uh huh. Sure. Yes, it’s distracting, but oh so cool.
Control, browse and search you music, without interrupting your workflow. Key features include playlist filter, search filter, integrated songs browser, full screen mode, Last FM, Growl, Apple Remote, Apple-flavored bezels, inbuilt notification system, desktop artwork, global hotkeys, info bar, menu bar item.
9WR - CoverStream: Control iTunes, search music using Cover Flow, full-screen mode.
Because you can never have enough tools to tinker on your Mac, there’s MacPilot. A huge list of utility functions, features, fun tweaks for the Mac geek hiding inside.
Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations with the click of a button! Optimize your network for broadband connectivity, completely customize Apple File Sharing, perform essential maintenance without having to remember mind boggling acronyms.
9WR - MacPilot: Geeky utility tweaks Mac, opens hidden features, cleans caches.
Our favorite free non-iChat audio, video, and chat utility. Good for VoIP phone calls, decent video and audio, good chat sessions. Live and talk dangerously with the new Skype; for Mac, Windows, and iPhone.
Talk to friends, family and co-workers across the internet without long distance telephone charges. It works by using P2P technology for the data transmission, meaning there is no central server as a middle manager.
9WR - Skype: iChat-like VoIP utility for audio, video, chat, free phone calls.
Yes, another Mac browser to try, this one developed using Cocoa, Objective-C, and WebKit. Flock does browser social networking angle, Sunrise aims a few features towards developers, otherwise it’s Safari under the hood.
Sunrise is the open-source web browser that (is) based on (the) WebKit framework for Mac. It is light and fast.
9WR - Sunrise: WebKit, visual bookmarks, multiple search engines, thumbnails, window fader.
Create slick looking media presentations using PulpMotion’s advanced and more expensive cousin. Theme-based drag and drop app combines photos and movies for attractive, animated presentations. Exports to QuickTime, iPod or iPhone, iDVD, Garageband, iWeb, or Mail. For less money there’s plain vanilla Pulp Motion.
Create professional looking presentations using your own pictures, videos and music! PulpMotion Advanced brings the beautiful animations of PulpMotion to the next level. Not only can you access all standard media repositories, such as iPhoto, Aperture, Lightroom but it lets you navigate in your media in full screen. A convenient timeline shows on which dates you have images or videos. Select date ranges to quickly access the media by date.
9WR - PulpMotion Advanced: Attractive, intuitive, theme-based photo, audio, video, animation presentation application.
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