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The perfect utility for Mac newbies. TinkerTool unleashes hidden features and settings in Mac OS X without damaging your system. The TinkerTool System adds even more features.
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system. All preference settings changed by TinkerTool can be reset to Apple’s defaults, or to the state that existed before using the tool. No dangerous background processes are used for TinkerTool’s operation.
9WR - TinkerTool: Utility to open hidden features, settings in Mac OS X.
Minor update of the superb web page, web site building application. RapidWeaver builds sites and web pages using point and click themes and add-on utilities. This is an interim version to work with Snow Leopard.
A next-generation web design application to help you easily create professional looking web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you. RapidWeaver produces valid XHTML & CSS based websites.
Sites start with themes which are usually fully XHTML and CSS validated. Add snippets, Web 2.0 utilities, PHP, all with an unlimited menu system. Cleverly done, worth exploring for smaller sites.
9WR - RapidWeaver: Extensive web site building application; blogs, photo gallery, movies.
Handy Menubar utility which monitors your Mac. Easy to read, unobtrusive, elegant, useful. My recent review of iStat Menus on McSolo.
iStat Menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system. CPU, Memory, Disks, Network, Temperatures, Fans, Bluetooth, Date and Time.
9WR - iStat Menus: Free utility in Menubar to monitor your Mac’s CPU, memory, disk, more.
Unique back up utility creates disk images of important Mac files such as Mail, iCal, Address Book, iPhoto and iTunes libraries, and more. BackityMac doesn’t clone, it backs up specific files. Clever, elegant, handy, affordable, recent version not as dependable as earlier versions. Beware.
BackityMac is the easy solution for backing up your most important files. Simply click one of the presets on the side or add your own files. BackityMac will then make a disk image of those files ready for restore when you need them most.
9WR - BackityMac: Backs up important Mac files to recoverable disk images.
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.
Free utility to run OS X system maintenance, configure hidden features, muck around and customize your Mac. A more detailed review.
Configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and of some of Apple’s own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files.
9WR - OnyX: Enables hidden Mac features probably hidden for a reason.
Remember Apple’s HyperCard? It’s alive and well in SuperCard. What is it? HyperCard was one of the first commercial hypermedia applications prior to the web, which has, among other things, become a worldwide hypermedia system. SuperCard carries the tradition with modern tools.
SuperCard will empower you to create professional quality custom applications, presentations, and multimedia rich projects in the quickest and easiest manner possible.
9WR - SuperCard: HyperCard reincarnated as a hyper presentation tool for OS X.
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