“NoodleMac is home of the 9 Word Reviews for Mac software. Not too much, not too little.”
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.
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.
The latest big bug fix of Microsoft’s somewhat buggy but popular Office suite of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Entourage. Welcome relief for many Mac users, certainly. Office 2004 11.5.8 is also available. I’ll spare you ad copy and go right to what you want to read about—bug fixes. It’ll make you proud to use Office.
Compatibility is improved.
9WR - Microsoft Office 2008: Another bug fix update enhances security, stability, and performance.
The Swiss Army Knife of graphic utilities. Something of a poor man’s Photoshop but the claim to fame is batch conversion of file formats and a tool for everything. Cumbersome and cluttered interface but it works.
GraphicConverter is an all-purpose image editing program that can import 200 different graphic-based formats, edit the image, and export it out of 80 file available file formats. The high-end editing tools are perfect for graphic manipulation as well as the ability to use Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. It offers batch-conversion capabilities, a slide show window, and so much more.
9WR - GraphicConverter: Swiss Army Knife utility for graphic images and photographs.
A free standalone player for Flash movies and animation. Create and manage Flash playlists, zoom in on movie. Pro version adds other features such as full-screen viewing.
The only stand-alone application for Mac OS that is able to playback SWF and FLV files with plenty of bonus features. It provides handy movie controls, that let you play, rewind, fast-forward and playback movie files frame-by-frame.
9WR - SWF & FLV Player: Free Flash player for movies, animation, with movie controls.
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.
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.
Copyright © 2004 - 2010 Ron McElfresh, Honolulu, HI USA. All Rights Reserved.
NoodleMac is edited and published by Ron McElfresh, Honolulu, HI. Follow Ron on Twitter. Syndicated RSS Feed.
NoodleMac pages are best viewed in Safari 4.x or Firefox 3.x browsers. Microsoft Internet Explorer is not supported.
NoodleMac is developed on a Mac, powered by an Apple Xserve at ServerLogistics, and uses valid XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1.
This NoodleMac web page was rendered in 0.1833 seconds.