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Soothing background of melodic tones; digital wind chimes; iTunes-like interface for mood chimes with bells, crystals, violins, and nature sounds. Quirky and cool at the same time.
SonicMood creates a soothing background of melodic tones… polyphonic sounds with stimulating harmonies… to have a relaxing effect.
9WR - SonicMood: Beautiful wind chimes, mood chimes, nature sounds, sensual harmonies.
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.
Major update to the specialized utility that renames large numbers of files with drag, drop, click. Renames file names, converts characters, numbers files. Highly useful, not inexpensive.
Live preview gives instant feedback on new filenames for catching errors and fine-tuning results… Rename with simple text search or with flexible regular expressions.
9WR - Renamer4Mac: Saves time, reduces errors, adds flexibility to file renaming.
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.
Bento is a personal database based on the popular FileMaker Pro. Version 1.x was anemic. Version 2.x was usable. Bento 3 is so new even FileMaker doesn’t know about it. Plenty of templates make Bento useful for nearly any Mac user. The iPhone version syncs to your Mac. See MacUpdate to download the latest version.
Bento organizes all your important information in one place, so you can manage your contacts, coordinate events, track projects, prioritize tasks, and more From contacts and calendars, to projects and events, you can organize just about every type of information you have — all from one place.
9WR - Bento: Personal, powerful database manager with views and templates for any need.
Geeky Mac utility that converts movies to a bunch of formats not handled by Apple’s QuickTime. It ain’t pretty but it works.
Converts movie files to an MPEG2/MPEG1 DVD/SVCD/VCD ready movie format, and exports MPEG1/MPEG2/VRO/VOB/TiVo/Hitachi VOB to QuickTime.
9WR - MPEG2 Works 4: Clever utility for movie conversion nerds, MPEG2 to/from whatever.
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.
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