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Recent mini Reviews


Monday, November 10, 2008

MacCleanse 1.3.2 ∧ 

Excellent tool for obsessive compulsive cleaning of Mac OS X caches and other files. Works on Mac utilities and applications, too, from Adium to iChat, Firefox to QuickTime and a few torrent utilities, too. Cover your tracks.

In only seconds, it can perform over fifty tasks which would take nearly an hour to perform manually. Safely erasing caches, logs, cookies, histories, and more… MacCleanse won’t miss a thing and could reclaim hundreds of megabytes of storage space.

9WR - MacCleanse: Windex for Mac caches, logs, cookies, files which clutter.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Optimism 2.5 ∧ 

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.

Transmission 1.40 ∧ 

Another open source BitTorrent utility for peer-to-peer file transfers, a common euphemism for stealing files over the internet.

Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.

9WR - Transmission: BitTorrent utility, queue, throttle torrents, Growl support, Dock badge.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Alarm Clock Pro 8.5.5 ∧ 

Not just another alarm clock. More of an alarm clock system that does a little of everything whenever you want. Sends text messages and email, plays iTunes music, and does about 127 other things.

Speak or display favorite inspirational quotes randomly throughout the day, or even send them as text messages to your cell phone! Have important reminders, or even birthday cards, e-mailed to contacts. Record laps with the Stopwatch. Track time differences for your investment portfolio. Even use it to help cook dinner by using the timer!

9WR - Alarm Clock Pro: Alarm clock, scheduler, timer alerts, sends messages, plays music.

DrawIt 3.7.3 ∧ 

Nicely done image editing and drawing application features non-destructive editing, multiple layers, live filters, and vector drawing tools all in the same window.

DrawIt includes a large number of ready-to-use and easily customizable special shapes; circles, stars, rounded rectangles and polygons, as well as support for an unlimited number of nested groups, masks and custom overlays. Supports over 100, stackable, nondestructive Core Image filters. Individual properties can be freely edited, regardless how many filters have been applied.

9WR - DrawIt: Bitmap editing, vector drawing tools, multiple layers, filters, masks.

MoveCM 1.0.13 ∧ 

Seemingly weekly update of a useful, feature laden context menu utility to move, copy, alias, and zip files without moving around the Finder, without drag and drop. Very handy for context menu users.

It is a generalization of the Finder’s “Move to Trash“ contextual menu item, you can apply it to any folder you like.

9WR - MoveCM: Right click to move, copy, alias, zip Mac files.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Path Finder 5.0.2 ∧ 

Powerful, feature laden Finder replacement for Mac power users. If you like to customize Finder features, Path Finder is your heaven. Stable, fast, with so many features your eyes will hurt.

Want to move sidebar items such as the Shelf, Volumes list, or Preview pane to any location in the file browser window? Interested in creating a sidebar pane that shows the contents of a specific folder? Want to hide the new Split Preview pane?

9WR - Path Finder: Ultimate customized replacement Finder; tabs, shelves, split Preview pane.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

CleanApp 3.0 ∧ 

Excellent Mac utility that monitors all files installed by other Mac applications and utilities and smart deletes via drag and drop. Highly recommended if you try out many different Mac applications and utilities.

Uninstall, archive, backup and analysis… CleanApp analyzes, archives and removes applications and on your Mac, complete with all relevant files.

9WR - CleanApp: Tracks installed files, uninstalls, archives, removes application, utility files.

Tidy Up! 1.4.7 ∧ 

A handy utility to find duplicate files on your Mac. In the age of large hard drives we usually keep everything. You, know. Just to be sure. Really sure.

With Tidy Up! you can search for duplicate files and packages; by the owner application, content, type, creator, extension, time modified, time created, name, label, visibility and delays. You can also search by the tag, duration and bit installments of MP3 and AAC sound files, search the contents of the iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes, iPod databases and Mail mailboxes, and synchronize deletions with iPhoto, Mail and iTunes.

9WR - Tidy Up!: Finds duplicate files, sorts by application, time modified, more.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

1Password 2.9.4 ∧ 

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.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

MindNode 1.2 ∧ 

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 1.0.3 also available.

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.

VectorDesigner 1.4.6 ∧ 

Poor man’s Fireworks in a friendly package. Cocoa vector-based graphic application loaded with tools, shapes, layers, text along path, filters, effects, scanner integration, and media browser.

VectorDesigner is a vector drawing application designed to be simple, intuitive and powerful to use. It has everything you need to create fancy vector graphics such as posters, brochures, stickers, logos, web graphics, t-shirt and more.

9WR - VectorDesigner: Vector graphics with non-destructive tools, filters, effects, layers, browser.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Renamer4Mac 3.7 ∧ 

Specialized utility 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.

RapidWeaver 4.2 ∧ 

Minor update to the major 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.

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.

A Better Finder Rename 8.0.3 ∧ 

Poor name, weak official description of an indispensable Mac utility. One of our ‘must haves’ for years. Elegant solution to renaming multiple files. Lots of multiple files. Many features. Needs to rename itself.

A Better Finder Rename allows users to quickly rename multiple files. This powerful, yet easy-to-use utility transforms the often tedious and time-consuming task of renaming multiple files into a simple matter of seconds.

9WR - A Better Finder Rename: Context menu utility renames multiple files with few clicks.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

SiteSucker 2.2.3 ∧ 

Indispensable utility to download web sites from the internet. Downloads web pages, photos, images, backgrounds to a local folder on your Mac.

Automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site’s Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press return, and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.

9WR - SiteSucker: Utility downloads complete web sites from internet to Mac.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Things 0.9.6 ∧ 

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.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

EagleFiler 1.4.2 ∧ 

Remarkably useful and elegant personal information manager. Stores and retrieves almost anything; email, snippets, URLs, photos, images, documents, files, whatever. Simple design, highly flexible organization.

EagleFiler makes managing your information easy. It lets you archive and search mail, Web pages, PDF files, word processing documents, images, and more. Use it to collect information from a variety of sources. Browse different types of files using a standard three-pane interface. Organize them into folders and annotate them with tags and notes, or leave everything in one folder and pin-point the information you need using the live search.

9WR - EagleFiler: Personal information manager stores, retrieves files, email, PDFs, photos.

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