“Got a favorite Mac software title? Tell me about it. I might like it, too. Or not.”
Wondering where your money went? Let Money on your Mac show you all the gory details. Why? Because it’s good to track the horse after it leaves the barn. Jumsoft’s (Mac geeks with good taste) Money is a delight.
Money helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily.
9WR - Money: Mac financial tracking utility; simple, elegant, full-featured, affordable, colorful.
Somehow I neglected to provide a mini-review for a utility I use every day for over 10 years. DragThing. Simply put, it’s a floating, expanding, customizable dock that holds icons to all your favorite Mac apps, utilities, games, documents, hard drives, folders. You’re one click away from almost anything on your Mac. DragThing is highly configurable, loaded with customization options, and multiple docks or multiple tabs, or both. Highly recommended.
The original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. It puts all your documents, folders, and applications just a single click away. Highly flexible, it allows multiple docks, each customised to suit your exact needs.
9WR - DragThing: Indispensable, feature-laden, easy-to-use launch dock for applications, folder, documents.
iPhoto plug-in to add bulk keywords and manage keywords for thousands of photos. The best feature is Quick Assigner which adds keywords to many photos at same time. Kate’s detailed review.
Whether you have 300 or 10,000 photos in your iPhoto library, organizing the photos with keywords will help you quickly find what you are looking for.
9WR: Keyword Manager: Inserts, manages iPhoto keywords; simplifies nesting, tagging, adding keywords.
Outliner based on the once popular Acta for Mac. Outliners make great organizing tools for notes, projects, plans, task lists. If you’ve never used an outliner, Opal is the one to try first.
Opal lets you organize just about anything — ideas, reports, lists, notes, projects, graphics — in the form of an outline.
9WR - Opal: Outliner for organizing thoughts, notes, tasks, exports to Microsoft Word.
Latest version of open source (free) FTP utility by David Kocher. Not as fast as Yummy or as simple as Transmit but worthy and priced right.
FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 browser… with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, Quick Look and the Keychain.
9WR - Cyberduck: Free FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 browser, many languages, features.
Popular writer’s tool. If there’s a book inside you waiting to get out, try Jer’s Novel Writer. Elegant but with plenty of useful writing features.
Jer’s Novel Writer is a relatively simple word processor with extra features to support large creative writing projects. This program is all about momentum, and reducing the number of things that break the flow when I am writing. Jer’s Novel Writer is designed to help me keep writing when the creative juices are flowing, and then find all the things I need to go over again when I am more in a nitty-gritty mood.
9WR - Jer’s Novel Writer: Writer’s tool; margin notes, auto outlining, full screen, database.
Backing up the data on your Mac is more critical than ever. Documents, movies, photos, music, and a few dozen apps and utilities make a healthy Mac essential. To eliminate the single point of failure, many Mac users opt for a second hard drive and a backup utility. I recommend two hard drives, Apple’s Time Machine for one, and SuperDuper! on the other. No other utility for a complete clone of your Mac’s hard drive is as easy, secure, or as thorough as SuperDuper!
SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper’s built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically.
9WR - SuperDuper!: Easy, powerful utility to clone your Mac’s hard drive.
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