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Tyler Hall’s great utility to host multiple web sites on a Mac. If you design for the web and use MAMP, use VirtualHostX. Indispensable.
The perfect solution for web designers working on more than one project at a time… With VirtualHostX you can easily create and manage your virtual hosts with just a few clicks.
9WR - VirtualHostX: Utility allows OS X to host multiple virtual domains.
Best looking way yet to browse your iTunes collection using Cover Flow but without using iTunes. The wheel—re-invented. Again. And, again, do all this without interrupting your workflow. Uh huh. Sure. Yes, it’s distracting, but oh so cool.
Control, browse and search you music, without interrupting your workflow. Key features include playlist filter, search filter, integrated songs browser, full screen mode, Last FM, Growl, Apple Remote, Apple-flavored bezels, inbuilt notification system, desktop artwork, global hotkeys, info bar, menu bar item.
9WR - CoverStream: Control iTunes, search music using Cover Flow, full-screen mode.
One of my absolute favorite Mac photo enhancing utilities. If you’re bored by iPhoto and fearful of the dreaded Photoshop learning curve, then try point and click photo effects.
Funtastic Photos is a “non-permanent and easily reversible” photo editor for macintosh computers, with over 50 simple to use 1-Click Styles, an Advanced Effects engine, direct sharing via e-mail, Fun Cards, Cell Phone (inc. iPhone) and popular photo sharing sites (such as flickr, Facebook, Picasa & MobileMe). Funtastic Photos features a creative print layouts system, with awe-inspring projects, including photo mosaics, greeting cards, photo cubes, mini photos books and more.
9WR - Funtastic Photos: One-click, non-destructive photo effects editor, popular online photo sharing.
Let your children use your Mac? Right. Like that will happen, and despite AlphaBaby, a Mac utility which lets children use your Mac without destroying your Mac. Uh huh. Right.
My kids love to play with the computer. Unfortunately, they also have the habit of renaming my hard drive to ‘axlfkaj.’ So, I wrote AlphaBaby so they could safely use the Mac without inflicting too much damage!
Too much damage? What do you expect for free?
9WR - AlphaBaby: Hides Mac screen from children, adds fun keyboard effects.
Free instant messaging utility that works like Apple’s iChat but without the video and audio but with more chat formats.
Connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.
9WR - Adium: Instant message using AOL, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace, GoogleTalk.
Handiest set-it-and-forget utility ever for the Mac. Preference pane that auto inserts text and corrects common typos—on the fly. Kate’s detailed review. New snippet adds auto URL shortening, which is good for email.
TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.
9WR - TextExpander: Auto corrects typos, inserts text with user-defined keystroke combos.
Ultimate simplicity and focus in a writing word processor. A very handy and free application for writers who want to write, not learn to use a word processor.
Bean is lean, fast, and uncluttered. If you get depressed at the thought of firing up MS Word or OpenOffice, try Bean. If you use Text Edit but have to jump through hoops just to get a word count or change the margins, try Bean.
9WR - Bean: Simple writer’s word processor—word count, inspector panel, auto-save.
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