Free and simple financial software for Mac, Windows, Linux, which uses Java. It’s not pretty, but works very well as a basic utility for budgets, expenses, reports.

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.

9WR - Buddi: Simple, free personal finance utility for budgets, expenses, reports.

Seemingly weekly ever-so-minor minor update to the clever utility for people on the move. Literally. Plans routes with maps, graphs, locations, and calculates distance. Ancient Mac360 review.

TrailRunner is a route planning software for all kinds of long distance sports like running, biking, hiking, inline-skating, skiing and more.

9WR - Trail Runner: Route planning for runners, bikers; maps, diary, exercise plan.

Highly beneficial Mac utility to track and chart depression and mood disorders, causes, trends. Monitors daily health using simple selection criteria. Impressive.

An advanced health and mood diary. Optimism helps you discover your depression triggers, the symptoms that they produce, and based on this knowledge, effective strategies for staying mentally well.

9WR - Optimism: Effective mood diary discovers, tracks, monitors depression triggers, influences.

Handy PDF utility recovers lost passwords, unlocks PDFs, locks PDFs, protects PDF documents from unauthorized access, printing.

PDFKey Pro lets you protect your PDFs in a blink. You can set a password to view the file and a password to restrict printing and copy&pasting of your PDFs. The files created by PDFKey Pro will be identical to the originals and you will be able to open them in any PDF viewer.

9WR - PDFKey Pro: Recovers lost passwords, locks, unlocks PDFs, and restricts access.

Our favorite information manager. Highly intuitive and easier to use than Yojimbo. Love the shelf. Organize files however you like. Holds almost everything.

Together lets you keep everything in one place. Text, documents, images, movies, sounds, web pages and bookmarks can all be dragged to Together for safe keeping, tagged, previewed, collected together in different ways and found again instantly.

9WR - Together: Personal information organizer, stores text, documents, images, movies, whatever.

Update of the not-very-popular but competent and attractive browser from Alexander Clauss. I like the error protocol which identifies sites with crummy HTML. Free and Pro version:

Certainly, iCab has much more features than you can examine in one day. Try it once, and you will see it has addressed all your needs, and iCab can grow with you, to fully meet your personal tastes and preferences -with much wider choices and options than any other browser!

9WR - iCab: Unique web browser, quirky features, granular controls, crazy tabs.

Seemingly weekly update to the best password manager for Mac users. Works with all major Mac browsers, uses OS X’s keychain. Easy to use, handles multiple login ID’s and passwords with ease. Look for the iPhone version which was just released. It’s free. For now. This version of 1Password syncs with 1Password on the iPhone.

Have you ever forgotten a password? 1Password keeps track of all web passwords, automates sign-in, guards from identity theft.

9WR - 1Password: Essential for password management, extra security, easy, automated log-in.

Yet another minor update to application which creates a your family’s tree on a Mac. Reports, graphs, graphics, photos, and GEDCOM compatible. Kate’s more detailed review. These folks think highly of their own software:

A stunning, configurable user interface, animated charts, editable reports and powerful print and export options. Visualize migration of your ancestors over centuries and continents.

9WR - MacFamilyTree: Decent genealogy application manages family tree with photos, reports.

Latest of the many (and frequent; seemingly weekly) updates to Hamrick’s popular scanner tool which works on just under a gazillion scanners, give or take a few. A must-have if you scan.

VueScan is a powerful, easy to use program that works with 750 flatbed and film scanners, on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.

9WR - VueScan: Scanner software with many features, works on nearly everything.

Ken Humbard’s delightfully useful recipe organizer which features an online library of recipes from users, a full screen view, and a wine and spirits manager. Kate’s detailed review.

An easy to use recipe management app focused on four aspects of recipes. Organizing, Sharing, Cooking & Shopping.

9WR - YummySoup: Recipe organizer with online recipe library, wine, spirits manager.

Still the preview release of a highly attractive and capable task manager with project management capability. Reduces complex project and task management to simple, enjoyable process. Highly recommended.

Things is task management solution that helps to organize your tasks in an elegant and intuitive way. Things combines powerful features with simplicity through the use of tags and its intelligent filter bar. A Leopard style source list allows for quick and easy focusing. Together with a beautiful user interface, Things aims at the seemingly impossible: making task management both easy and fun.

9WR - Things: Task, project manager, excellent user interface, many handy features.

Let your Mac help you lose weight by tracking what you eat. Creates diet plans, targets specific weight loss objectives, monitors caloric intake, manages multiple users; complete with extensive food database. Or, just eat more veggies and less junk food, get more exercise. Runs on Mac, Windows, Liinux.

Manage your diet based on firm scientific foundations and proven calorie counting methods made easy through the easy to use and intuitive interface and extensive international food database. Use the diet suggestions provided by the software based on your specific user profile, or follow your own diet plan. Through the diary and extensive food database you quickly learn which foods in your diet provide the most weight gain and which foods you like and can actually eat more of.

9WR - Perfect Diet Tracker: Multiuser diet planner, monitor, calories, track foods in database.

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.

Our favorite Mac screen-capture-to-movie utility now with more power. iShowU HD Pro makes capturing your Mac onscreen actions a breeze. Save your captures as QuickTime movies using one of many presets.

iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from any compatible source.

9WR - iShowU: Screen recorder, many preset options, easy setup, instant recording.

Mini update to the long-awaited update to the popular and aging Mozilla browser. More gaudy, more features, fast page rendering. Worthy competitor to MSIE and Safari.

Web browser that empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations.

9WR - Firefox: Free faster browser, more features, more security, more hype.

Yet another beta version of the Pro and standard versions of the premier diagramming and design application for the Mac. Many tools to create and modify diagrams, export to different formats. Pro version has Vizio support.

OmniGraffle Pro helps you draw beautiful diagrams, family trees, flow charts, org charts, layouts, and (mathematically speaking) any other directed or non-directed graphs, to organize your thoughts, your projects, or even your friends graphically using boxes and lines.

9WR - OmniGraffle: Top Mac diagramming app, styles, tools, exports, Vizio support.

The perfect gift for the truly obsessive compulsive Mac user. Hazel handles every Mac file and folder organization task, automatically. Files, cleans, empties trash, remembers rules (you create them), keeps files and folders tidy. Clever but geeky.

Hazel is your personal housekeeper, organizing and cleaning folders based on rules you define. Hazel can also manage your trash and uninstall your applications.

9WR - Hazel: Unique file, folder organizer; moves, sorts, cleans, empties, uninstalls.

Handy utility which converts Microsoft’s Windows Media Video files (and many others) to more common formats for iTunes, iPod, Macs.

Convert or resize wmv, asf, avi, m4v, mp4, mpg, mpeg, mov, flv, nsv, swf and vob video files so that they can be used with QuickTime Player, Apple TV, iPhone and iPods. EasyWMV has a very simple user interface, supports drag and drop as well as batch processing. EasyWMV can export video to mpeg and mpeg4 formats and can optimize videos for playback on iPod.

9WR - EasyWMV - Convert Windows Media Video for QuickTime, iTunes, iPod, AppleTV.