“Certified Mac Software” means I like it. Uh huh.
Hulu is a web site with free TV shows and movies. Hulu Desktop is a utility that runs the shows and movies on Hulu on your Mac. A little buggy, uses Flash, navigation is not simple, but it’s decent quality video. And it’s free (hurry—it may not be free for long). The same shows and movies are also viewable in Safari. Kate’s look at Hulu Desktop.
A lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons.
9WR - Hulu Desktop: Slick, sassy, simple television shows, movies on a Mac.
Mini update for the popular Open Source, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office for the rest of us. If you must have an office suite on your Mac and cannot afford Microsoft’s Office or Apple’s iWork, this is one to get. Big, kinda klunky, often compatible, somewhat slow, very loaded with features, very free, but now competing against the very good OpenOffice 3.0.
A fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
9WR - NeoOffice: Open Source office suite (free), word processor, spreadsheet, database.
A great utility to manage your books, movies, music CDs, video games in the perfect library metaphor. It’s complete with shelves, search, cart-catalog, bar code entry, all downloaded from the internet.
Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games.
9WR - Delicious Library: Manages personal library of books, CDs, DVDs, and video games.
Clever audio recorder looks like a standard cassette tape deck. Saves audio in MP4/AAC format. Safety feature includes inability to record over other recorded tapes. Create labels and box liners. Tapes can be saved in iTunes and copied to iPod.
Audio recorder exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard, designed with a quick-capture workflow in mind. You’re never more than a single mouse click (or keystroke) away from making a new recording, which are called, unsurprisingly, ‘tapes’. TapeDeck records directly to compressed MP4-AAC audio, making it equally useful for quick high-fidelity samples or hours and hours of lecture.
9WR - TapeDeck: Audio recorder uses cassette tape style, records in MP4/AAC.
Handy PDF utility recovers lost passwords, unlocks PDFs, locks PDFs, protects PDF documents from unauthorized access, printing.
PDFKey Pro lets you protect your PDFs in a blink. You can set a password to view the file and a password to restrict printing and copy&pasting of your PDFs. The files created by PDFKey Pro will be identical to the originals and you will be able to open them in any PDF viewer.
9WR - PDFKey Pro: Recovers lost passwords, locks, unlocks PDFs, and restricts access.
What Mozilla’s Firefox would be if it was Mac-like and didn’t have extensions. Uses the latest Firefox rendering engine strapped on to a less Windows-like user interface. Click Here to find out how to migrate from Safari (sorry, couldn’t find a link to tell us why). Oh, did I mention that Camino is fast?
A browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.
9WR - Camino: Mozilla’s web browser for Mac users; thin on features.
Updated version of the easy to use utility to convert video to Flash files. Creates customizable video players in Flash with sound controls, scrub bar, and more. Capture a movie, click to convert it to SWF with a player.
Video2SWF is an extremely easy program to convert your video files to Flash. Output Flash SWF or FLV files, HTML, and self-executables. Supports .avi, .dv, .mov/.qt, .mpeg (video only), .mp4, .wmv (Mac requires Flip4Mac plugin), .aiff, .mp3, .wav, .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .pic, .png, .psd, .tga, .tiff.
9WR - Video2SWF: Utility converts most video files to Flash or FLV files.
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