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Major update to the only decent applications which turns your Mac into a voice mail and messaging system. PhoneValet answers your phone, and handles voice mail, just like expensive telephony systems. Now with a “live receptionist” feature to transfer calls, auto transfers calls, network dialing, and more.
PhoneValet: announce, answer, transfer and record calls, keep a searchable call history, call blocking, smart dialing, call logging.
9WR - PhoneValet: Answers phone, handles voice mail, records audio, logs calls.
Clever audio recorder looks like a standard cassette tape deck. Saves audio in MP4/AAC format. Safety feature includes inability to record over other recorded tapes. Create labels and box liners. Tapes can be saved in iTunes and copied to iPod.
Audio recorder exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard, designed with a quick-capture workflow in mind. You’re never more than a single mouse click (or keystroke) away from making a new recording, which are called, unsurprisingly, ‘tapes’. TapeDeck records directly to compressed MP4-AAC audio, making it equally useful for quick high-fidelity samples or hours and hours of lecture.
9WR - TapeDeck: Audio recorder uses cassette tape style, records in MP4/AAC.
The Mac editor I love to hate. BBEdit has been around forever, does nearly everything despite a creaking, aging interface. It’s the one text editor I cannot throw away despite both opportunity and attempts. As BareBones Software puts it, “It doesn’t suck.” Much.
An intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit’s best-of-class features, including grep pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files (even unopened files on remote servers), project definition tools, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, code folding, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Mac OS X Unix scripting support, text and code completion, and of course a complete set of robust HTML tools.
9wR - BBEdit: Aging text editor does everything for coders, web developers.
A calculator. A free calculator. A complex, high-precision, scientific calculator loaded with features, support for complex and hexadecimal numbers. 25 digit screen, statistics, linear regression, full expression history, floating point numbers.
A free, full-featured, graphically laid out, high-precision, scientific calculator… Ideal if you need to enter large expressions or have accurate precision. “Data” drawers allow an easy way to generate statistical data, linear regression and gaussian elimination.
9WR - Magic Number Machine: Free high-precision scientific calculator; hexadecimal, octal, binary, decimal display.
Our favorite Mac site monitoring tool. Solid, dependable, full of notifications when checking sites. Tracks sites, servers, forums posts, comments on blogs, even checks web mail.
It checks servers for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, or other means. You can use it to track updated sites, and to alert you when an important server goes down or recovers.
9WR - Dejal Simon: Server monitor tracks failures, notifies via email, alerts, Twitter.
Major update to one of my favorite non-Apple Widgets. Tracks delivery status of packages from Apple, Amazon, DHL, FedEx, UPS, USPS, and many others. A must have.
Don’t waste your time checking the site constantly, just open this all-in-one delivery tracker and enter your order number or tracking number. The status will update automatically for you, and even count down the days!
9WR - Delivery Status: Free Dashboard Widget to track package delivery status automatically.
Flash Player turns 10. Windows, Linux and Mac users rejoice. Or, not. Yet another version of the web’s most popular animation and video player. Lots of new Flash capability to hog your CPU and slow down Safari, Firefox, et al.
Adobe’s Shockwave and Flash Player, as it is formally called, is one of the most ubiquitous Web browser plug-ins, allowing you to view all kinds of nice interactive animations many people have produced for their Web sites. While not quite essential, this will make your Web browsing experience much more enjoyable.
9WR - Adobe Flash Player: Version 10 with more tools for developers, not users.
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