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Yes, you can create and manage multiple iPhoto libraries by holding the Option key and starting iPhoto, but iPhoto Library Manager is waaaay cooler. Multiple libraries, quick view, sharing, sync with iPod, copy photos between libraries, split libraries, merge libraries.
iPhoto Library Manager adds an additional level of control over your iPhoto collection by allowing you to keep your photos in multiple libraries and transfer them back and forth without losing your keywords, ratings, and all the other information you’ve worked to assign to your photos.
9WR - iPhoto Library Manager: Manage, switch, merge, copy photos, sync, share multiple libraries.
Handy Menubar utility which monitors your Mac. Easy to read, unobtrusive, elegant, useful. My recent review of iStat Menus on McSolo.
iStat Menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system. CPU, Memory, Disks, Network, Temperatures, Fans, Bluetooth, Date and Time.
9WR - iStat Menus: Free utility in Menubar to monitor your Mac’s CPU, memory, disk, more.
Helps runners, hikers, cyclists train better by capturing data, planning routes, re-play activity over a detailed map view. Good GPS integration.
Designed to help cyclists, runners, and hikers train better by organizing activity data and presenting it in useful ways. Using Ascent, you can download activity data directly from your GPS into the program, and immediately begin analyzing the data as it is presented to you in various graphical and textual formats.
9WR - Ascent: Training utility for hikers, bikers, runners, maps, GPS integration.
Latest of the many (and frequent; every couple of weeks) updates to Hamrick’s popular scanner tool which works on just under a gazillion scanners, give or take a few. A must-have if you scan.
VueScan is a powerful, easy to use program that works with 750 flatbed and film scanners, on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
9WR - VueScan: Scanner software with many features, works on nearly everything.
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.
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.
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.
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