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Two utilities to make your Mac become a radio station and you the disc jockey. Good for disco D.J. operation, full automation, multiple players, online streaming.
It features 3 main players and one library player, all with selectable individual audio outputs, detailed time calculations, a lot of fast and smooth iTunes integration, and Nicecast artist and title publishing. It is complemented by a seprate scheduler for full station automation.
9WR - Radiologik DJ: D.J. software simulates radio station queue, segue; automation, mixing.
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.
Yet another software and hardware package to transfer videos from a VCR to your Mac. Perfect for playing old videos on iTunes, iPod, or edit in iMovie. Compare to Roxio’s Easy VHS to DVD. Macworld review.
Transfer video to your Mac from a VCR, DVR, camcorder, or any other analog video device as an iTunes-ready H.264 or MPEG-4 file.
9WR - Elgato Video Capture: Transfer video from VCR to Mac; includes software, hardware.
Elegant utility captures your Mac’s screen and saves as a movie. Records audio and exports movies at different sizes and quality. Not as feature heavy as my favorite, iShowU, but easier to use than the popular SnapzProX. Nicely done.
For software screencasters and software trainers, Screenflick offers the ability to display keyboard commands, and highlights mouse clicks to better communicate which actions are being performed during screen recording.
9WR - ScreenFlick: Captures action on your Mac’s screen, saves as movie.
Best Mac spam filter gets better with age. Incredibly accurate, easily trained, integrates with Apple’s Mail, Microsoft’s Entourage, and Address Book. If email spam bothers you, get SpamSieve.
SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e-mail clients. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within your mail client, and you can customize how it interacts with the rest of your message sorting rules. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as it adapts to your mail.
9WR - SpamSieve: Easily configured Bayesian email spam filter for Mail, Entourage.
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.
You know you need these. It’s what collectors do. Collect the whole set of free video effects for iChat and Photo Booth (Leopard only). Instead of communicating with a clear video image, really screw it up for those on the other side of the camera.
Is your iChat partner getting on your nerves? Talking too much? OMG! Change yourself into a Pong video game and drop the hint that a real conversation, like Pong, is best enjoyed with equal airtime. So much fun it comes with a warning on the label: “May cause compulsion to grow seventies sideburns.”
9WR - CatEye: 24 iChat, Photo Booth video effects—70s deva vu.
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