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.

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.

Seemingly every-other-day and ever-so-teeny-tiny and more minor-than-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.

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.

Yet another PDF utility. Prepares PDF documents for print-shop specifications. Joins PDFs, rearranges, splits, adds and edits hyperlinks.

Now you can print out your manuals, reports, essays, articles, web pages, etc., in a convenient and economic way. You can even create books for languages that read from right to left like Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew.

9WR - PDFClerk Pro: PDF utility joins documents, rearranges pages, adds editing features.

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

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.

Yet another Menubar application and file launcher. Set up categories, icon size, add files. Barely not bad. Developer’s complete description of aLunch:

You can chose to display icons at 32 pixels or 16 pixels. Files and folders can be registered with aLunch as well. Folders will be opened in the Finder. Different categories can be registered by using groups and separators.

9WR - aLunch: Now how many items are in your Mac’s Menubar?

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.

Professional level application to create moving slide shows—movies from digital photos. Easy to use interface, intuitive controls. Pan and zoom across photos, add titles, export to QuickTime movies for use in iMovie.

Photo to Movie enables you to create a movie by zooming and panning over a photo. It presents a simple interface to specify the starting and ending frames and generates full quality QuickTime or DV Stream files (compatible with iMovie).

9WR - Photo to Movie: Makes moving slide show movies from still digital photos.

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.

Our favorite information manager. Highly intuitive and easier to use than Yojimbo. Love the shelf. Organize files however you like. Holds almost everything. Now with auto tagging, nested groups, editing.

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.

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.

Minor update to the popular general purpose maintenance utility. Checks disks, runs system maintenance, clears caches, optimizes network, clears logs, keeps things tidy under the hood.

A scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. Most of Cocktail’s major features are arranged in five basic categories. In addition, a Pilot lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.

9WR - Cocktail: Maintenance utility, Leopard interface tweaks, Pilot for repair, optimization.

Slide show maker for Flash junkies. Takes digital images and produces video and audio slide shows in Flash SWF format, standalone or web presentations.

In just a couple of minutes you can convert a folder full of photos into a stunning slide show with sophisticated transitions and effects.

9WR - SWF ‘n Slide Pro: Makes audio video slide shows in Flash from photos.

Why is something that should be so easy really so hard. Try printing a list of files in a folder using the Mac’s Finder. PrintFinder does well what the Mac doesn’t do well. It prints a list of files in a folder. Not bad for free.

PrintFinder will generate a list containing both a heading and a list of your files… with a real-time preview… export to a file as .txt, .rtf, .pdf, .doc, or .html.

9WR - PrintFinder: Free utility prints list of what’s inside a folder.

Major update to the pricey but increasingly popular way to run Windows or Linux within Mac OS X. Share files between Windows and Mac. Support for Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP3.

Run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side with Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac, without rebooting. Run Mac OS X and Windows at the same time. You can even drag-and-drop files between desktops!

9WR - Parallels Desktop: Runs Windows, Linux with Mac OS X on Intel Macs.

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.

The perfect utility for Mac newbies. TinkerTool unleashes hidden features and settings in Mac OS X without damaging your system.

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.