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Great value for web site or CD photo album creation. Clumsy Java interface, but point and click simplicity, loaded with options. Many different and sometimes attractive ‘skins’ available. None better at this price. Free.
Make website albums of your digital photographs. With JAlbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, just your web browser. Unlike “server side” album scripts, JAlbum albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM.
9WR - JAlbum: Create website, CD photo albums, multiple skins, point, click.
Think of AIR as a container to create and run mini applications in their own private windows, combining Flash, HTML, Javascript, and other so-called Web 2.0 tools. Like Java but without the power. Bascially, Adobe is creating their own private little space on your desktop.
Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications on the desktop.
9WR - Adobe AIR: Multimedia capable, cross-platform desktop environment to develop mini-applications.
If you use your Mac to create presentations for marketing, sales, training, education, using either PowerPoint or Keynote, then ProfCast is a tool you need. It records your presentation while you give, and distributes it as a video Podcast.
All elements of your presentation, including slide timing and voice narration, are recorded. You can then publish your complete presentation on the Web as a PodCast, complete with RSS support.
9WR - ProfCast: PowerPoint, Keynote; sales, marketing, education, training presentation recording tool.
DockStar is a utility for the Mail icon in your Mac’s Dock. It tracks email in various accounts and displays a number in the icon (also does RSS, Notes, and To Do items, with badges in the Dashboard and Menubar). Nicely done.
DockStar is the smart way to keep an eye on your Mail. Add new badges to the Mail dock icon and clickable indicators to the menu bar. DockStar lets you keep track of email in various accounts and folders, RSS feeds, Notes, and To Do items with customizable badges in the Mail icon, menu bar, Dashboard, and even in a Screen Saver.
9WR - DockStar:
To cooks what iPhoto is to photographs or iTunes is to your music. Not just a recipe collector. Does nutritional analysis, manages recipe clippings, plans meals. Look for updates to the MacGourmet Cookbook, Mealplan, and Nutrition modules, too. MacGourmet Deluxe is even more feature laden.
MacGourmet helps you create and edit your recipes, wine notes and cooking notes, easily browse your entire collection and build your own custom lists for categories like appetizers or desserts.
9WR - MacGourmet: Recipe organizer, meal manager, shopping lists, notes, wine lists.
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.
Yes, Virgina, there are other browsers besides IE, Firefox, and Safari. Here’s the latest not-very-popular but competent and attractive browser from Alexander Clauss. I like the error protocol which identifies sites with crummy HTML. Free and Pro version:
Certainly, iCab has much more features than you can examine in one day. Try it once, and you will see it has addressed all your needs, and iCab can grow with you, to fully meet your personal tastes and preferences -with much wider choices and options than any other browser!
9WR - iCab: Unique web browser, quirky features, granular controls, crazy tabs.
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