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Winning the Think Different™ award for graphic image editors is Graphic Designer Toolbox (GDT). Drag and drop blocks of effects; stack the blocks, re-arrange the blocks, adjust the parameters for each block, to create stunning visual effects. Simple, elegant, efficient, useful. Think of it as a Leggo set for graphic effects on an image or photo. Read my detailed review.
GDT is about snapping building blocks together, just like those you can buy in the local toy store. Maybe you even have played with something like this when you were a kid. It’s simple to understand and use, yet you can make huge complex buildings. This building block idea is so versatile that it’s used in applications like: modular synthesizers, video editors, planning tools, etc.
9WR - Graphic Designer Toolbox: Building block image editor; stack effects, change effects parameters.
Another update to the nifty 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.
A very favorite Dashboard Widget. Plenty of comic strip selections, one low price. Free.
Never miss your favorite strip anymore! More than 100 strips immediately available in your Dashboard, including all the most famous characters, like Dilbert, Peanuts, Doonesbury, Garfield, without launching your web browser and without waiting for slow and ad-crammed web pages.
9WR - freeComics: User friendly Widget displays over 100 daily comic strips.
If you like calculators, you’ll like PCalc. It’s everything that Mac OS X’s calculator is not.
A fully featured scientific calculator with support for hexadecimal, octal and binary calculations, as well as an RPN mode, parentheses, programmable functions, and an extensive set of unit conversions.
9WR - PCalc: Scientific calculator; RPN, programmable, hex, octal, binary calculations; iPhone, too.
Excellent tool for obsessive compulsive cleaning of Mac OS X caches and other files. Works on Mac utilities and applications, too, from Adium to iChat, Firefox to QuickTime and a few torrent utilities, too. Cover your tracks.
In only seconds, it can perform over fifty tasks which would take nearly an hour to perform manually. Safely erasing caches, logs, cookies, histories, and more… MacCleanse won’t miss a thing and could reclaim hundreds of megabytes of storage space.
9WR - MacCleanse: Windex for Mac caches, logs, cookies, files which clutter.
One of my favorite always on utilities. Default Folder adds tools to the Open and Save dialog boxes in OS X, and remembers where to save files based on which application is used at the time.
Default Folder X attaches a toolbar to the right side of the Open and Save dialogs in any OS X-native application. The toolbar gives you fast access to various folders and commands. You just click on the buttons to go to your favorite and recently used folders, manage the folders and files shown in the list, and make changes to your settings.
9WR - Default Folder X: Adds tools and remembers which folder to save files based on application.
Handiest set-it-and-forget utilities ever for the Mac. Preference pane that auto inserts text and corrects common typos—on the fly. Kate’s detailed review. New snippet adds auto URL shortening, which is good for email.
TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.
9WR - TextExpander: Auto corrects typos, inserts text with user-defined keystroke combos.
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