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Superb weather monitoring utility now with weather alerts; includes warnings, advisories, weather radar screen, in addition to long range forecasts.
Wx can be configured to track weather conditions, watches/warnings/advisories, live radar, and forecast information for up to 20 U.S. locations, and it can download up to 20 weather maps or images.
9WR - Wx: Weather utility features current conditions, warnings, alerts, live radar.
Network utility to monitor, well, uh, your Mac’s network. Combined traffic log, calculator, reports, and stopwatch with seven graph types.
Graphs network activity of local and remote computers. Records traffic activity. Calculate total traffic between dates. Measures traffic speed. Highly customizable.
9WR - Net Monitor: Monitors and graphs performance of local and remote Macs.
Because you can never have enough tools to tinker on your Mac, there’s MacPilot. A huge list of utility functions, features, fun tweaks for the Mac geek hiding inside.
Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations with the click of a button! Optimize your network for broadband connectivity, completely customize Apple File Sharing, perform essential maintenance without having to remember mind boggling acronyms.
9WR - MacPilot: Geeky utility tweaks Mac, opens hidden features, cleans caches.
Stunning views of the earth, our solar system, and thousands of stars. Explore the universe in three dimensions. Visually brilliant. Runs on Mac, Windows, Linux (Alexis’ review on Mac360).
Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
9WR - Celestia: Amazing three dimensional views of earth, solar system, galaxy.
Another classy and ultra simple way to fax and email documents. If you can print it, you can fax or send it just as easily. Very handy.
PageSender presents a fully-functional email or fax envelope when you print - just fill in the envelope, click “Print”, and your document is on its way. Send and receive documents using your fax modem or send via any of the popular fax-by-email services.
9WR - PageSender: Easy way to fax, email documents, handles multiple recipients.
Popular writer’s tool. If there’s a book inside you waiting to get out, try Jer’s Novel Writer. Elegant but with plenty of useful writing features.
Jer’s Novel Writer is a relatively simple word processor with extra features to support large creative writing projects. This program is all about momentum, and reducing the number of things that break the flow when I am writing. Jer’s Novel Writer is designed to help me keep writing when the creative juices are flowing, and then find all the things I need to go over again when I am more in a nitty-gritty mood.
9WR - Jer’s Novel Writer: Writer’s tool; margin notes, auto outlining, full screen, database.
Update of Photoshop wannabe with attractive interface, buckets of tools, filters, effects, including advanced color correction tools. Well done.
Pixelmator is a layer-based image editor. You can quickly create layers from your photos, other pictures, from selections… allows you to blend layers, change their opacity, create clipping masks or even add layer masks to hide some portions of layer.
9WR - Pixelmator: Mini Photoshop with tools, filters, effects, layers, color correction.
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