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If you’re concerned about Mac security, Little Snitch does what your Mac’s firewall cannot. It protects and alerts you whenever a Mac application tries to communicate from your Mac to wherever. You would be surprised to know how many Mac apps and utilities phone home. A Mac’s firewall protects against unwanted intrusions. Little Snitch protects against unwanted, outbound connections from your Mac.
Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private data from being sent out without your knowledge.
9WR - Little Snitch: Outbound firewall alerts Mac user to outgoing communication requests.
Popular bibliographic references manager. Integrates with TeX, creates citations and, duh, bibliographies. Lots of drag and drop and cut and paste.
BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to manual typing, drag & drop or cut & paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. Also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer.
9WR - BibDesk: Bibliographic reference manager, creates citations, bibliographies, features drag, drop.
The Mac slide show application for the 21st century. Storyboard your image shows with text, transitions, audio video tracks, and animations. Excellent, intuitive user controls. Not cheap. I use it for quick video production.
Boinx FotoMagico lets you create professional slideshows from your photos and music with just a few, simple mouse clicks.
9WR - Fotomagico: Professional grade slide show production; audio, video, animation, text.
Minor update to the major update of the classiest photo enhancement tool for Mac users with taste. New effects, cropping, thumbnail view to manage batch changes, media browser included, cool slider functions. Very sweet. Must have. Trust me.
With an animated “drag and drop” style interface, Picturesque makes images gorgeous with tasteful effects like 3D perspective, reflection, glow, shadow, curve, and stroke in less time than it takes to open Photoshop. Picturesque can also beautify images in batch, and with the ability to resize and apply effects on a whole folder of images.
9WR - Picturesque: Photo enhancement utility features 3D, reflection, glow, shadow, strokes.
Totally a one trick pony. TimeMachineEditor works only on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard to change the backup interval. Instead of one hour, change it to whatever period you want.
Change the one-hour interval of Time Machine backups. You can change the interval or decide to make daily, weekly and monthly backups.
9WR - Time Machine Editor: Editor which changes Time Machine’s default one-hour backup interval.
Yet another free disk image utility with many options. DMG Converter creates, reads, writes, and compresses disk images. Formats as Mac, Unix, FAT, UDF, and more.
It is a very useful tool for the collective processing of more than one file and every folder, and it can deal with all the fundamental processing with the drag & drop of the file/folder.
9WR - DMGConverter: Disk image creation tool with many options and formats.
Dashboard Widget for Time Lords and Mac geeks. Lightweight, self-contained (no internet connection required). Deluxe version comes with moon phases, analog clock, light level pane, and user defined places. Very slick.
Displays the current level of natural light (daylight, twilight, or night), sun and moon rise/set times, moon phase information, local times and country flags for cities throughout the world.
9WR - VelaClock: Handy, non-internet Dashboard Widget displays world time, moon, daylight.
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