“Got a favorite Mac software title? Tell me about it. I might like it, too. Or not.”
Mind mapping on your Mac (Leopard only). Expands beyond the canvas (for bigger brains?). Works with QuickLook, Spotlight, and iChat Theater (Intel Macs only). MindNode Pro adds Reconnecting, Folding, Link Support, and other goodies.
MindNode is a free and very easy to use mindmapping application. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple interface for quickly creating visual appealing mind maps.
9WR - MindNode: Intuitive mind mapper with easy node creation, keyboard support.
Because you can never have enough text editors, there’s MacVim. Now with Safari-like tabs, multiple windows, toolbar.
MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X that is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the existing Carbon port of Vim.
9WR - MacVim: Cocoa-based Vim text editor, tabs, toolbar, transparent background, multibyte-me.
Mactracker does what your memory cannot. Everything you wanted to know about every Mac model from the original 128k in 1984 to the latest MacBooks. Handy, detailed, fun, and free.
Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. Also included is information on Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPod, Apple TV, iPhone, Wi-Fi Cards/Base Stations, Newton, and Mac OS versions.
9WR - Mactracker: Historical database of details on every Mac made since the original in 1984.
This is not your father’s outliner. It’s more of an organizational tool. Outlines? Yes. It also collects and organizes data, manages tasks, tracks expenses, plans events, even handles multiple columns.
Use OmniOutliner’s document structure to create hierarchies of main headings and subpoints that can be expanded and collapsed, which are immensely useful when it comes to brainstorming new ideas, drilling out specifics, and lining up steps needed to get everything done. But you aren’t limited to outlines - you’ve got multiple columns, smart checkboxes, customizable popup lists, and an über-innovative styles system at your disposal.
9WR - OmniOutliner: Enhanced outliner with super organizational power, collects, and manages information.
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.
Popular utility to create and manage MySQL databases, remotely, locally, on Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X. Loaded with features for the DB professional, though still a little buggy after all these years. Check out the free Lite version.
It works with any MySQL version from 3.21 or above and supports most of the latest MySQL features including Trigger, Stored Procedure, Function, Event, View, Manage User.
9WR - Navicat for MySQL: MySQL database server administration, create, sync, back up, report.
One trick pony with multiple tricks. Record your voice and play back with eight different voice effects. Huge waste of time that’s actually fun. Email crazy voice messages, save to iTunes. use your Mac to wake you up with irritating, annoying voice—just like mom.
Switch the effects while recording for some extra fun… record a conversation between Darth Vader and chipmunk to produce something that just seems wrong.
9WR - Voice Candy: 8 digital voice effects for fun, email, no profit.
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