“Certified Mac Software” means I like it. Uh huh.
Mini update for the popular Open Source, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office for the rest of us. If you must have an office suite on your Mac and cannot afford Microsoft’s Office or Apple’s iWork, this is one to get. Big, kinda klunky, often compatible, somewhat slow, very loaded with features, very free, but now competing against the very good OpenOffice 3.0.
A fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.
9WR - NeoOffice: Open Source office suite (free), word processor, spreadsheet, database.
Superb weather monitoring utility now with weather alerts; includes warnings, advisories, weather radar screen, in addition to long range forecasts.
Wx can be configured to track weather conditions, watches/warnings/advisories, live radar, and forecast information for up to 20 U.S. locations, and it can download up to 20 weather maps or images.
9WR - Wx: Weather utility features current conditions, warnings, alerts, live radar.
Significant update to the very clever utility which builds SFTP/FTP/SSH into your Mac’s Finder. Your remote computer shows up as a mounted hard drive on your desktop. Unique, easy to use, a little slow, but well done. New version is notably faster and connects to Amazon S3.
ExpanDrive gives you perfectly transparent access to open, edit, and save files with your favorite programs, even when those files are half a world away. Transparent means that you don’t even notice you’re operating on remote files—they act like they’re on an USB drive you plugged directly into your own computer.
9WR - ExpanDrive: SFTP utility, connects to remote computers via the Finder.
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.
A very favorite Dashboard Widget. Plenty of comic strip selections, one low price. Free.
Never miss your favorite strip anymore! More than 100 strips immediately available in your Dashboard, including all the most famous characters, like Dilbert, Peanuts, Doonesbury, Garfield, without launching your web browser and without waiting for slow and ad-crammed web pages.
9WR - freeComics: User friendly Widget displays over 100 daily comic strips.
In humankind’s never ending quest to find more ways to do the same thing, the Mac world presents to you—Dialectic. Placed squarely at the top of the Do We Need This? category of Mac software is Dialectic. A phone dialer. That’s right. A Phone dialer. Yes, it’s cool.
Dialectic is a highly versatile telephony tool that unites your Mac, data, and phones — mobile, landline, & VoIP — enabling you to be more productive. Dialing has never been so much fun. Fun? How can that be? Simple: Dialectic. See a phone number on a webpage? Two clicks of the mouse and the Bluetooth-enabled phone in your pocket is connecting your call — and iTunes is paused and your iChat status is set to ‘On The Phone.’ While Dialectic is a wiz at dialing, there are many more tricks in its bag. There’s the system-wide Address Book menu that allows instant access to all of your contact data, monitoring of incoming calls, a call timer, a comprehensive call log, & much, much more. Best of all, it’s all scriptable which means you can integrate it into your own workflow allowing you to get more done in less time.
9WR - Dialectic: Classy, unique, telephony tool dials phones from your Mac.
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.
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