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It's time again to look at some of my favorite Mac OS X tools. The utilities listed here are in no way replacements for the well known heavy hitters like MS-Office, Quicken, or the Macromedia Suite. However, these tools are incredibly useful and most of them are available for free. Since the last time I reviewed them, ImageWell has improved the most ...
ImageWell 2 #216
ImageWell is the easy way to edit, rotate, crop and resize your image and upload it to your iDisk (.mac account), FTP server or WebDAV server.� No need to launch multiple applications to add text, labels, drop shadows and shapes.� At the click of a button the image is sent and a handy URL is copied to the clipboard. http://www.xtralean.com/IW.html
NetNewsWire 1.0.8
NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS Web news reader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface�similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express�can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news. http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
RBrowserLite 3.3.3<BR>
RBrowserLite provides access to files on the local host as well as remote FTP Servers with an easy-to-use graphical interface. RBrowserLite provides a uniform interface to file transfer and file related operations, greatly simplifying access and use of files on remote systems scattered across the Internet. http://www.rbrowser.com/RBrowserLite/
Tumult HyperEdit 1.0.3
Tumult HyperEdit is a lightweight HTML editor with a preview pane that displays the web page live as you type. HyperEdit breaks the tedious cycle of writing html, saving the file, then reloading and viewing the page in the browser by combining the writing phase with the viewing phase. This clarifies the effects of your changes and speeds up the overall process of making a web page. W3C-based validation will red-underline any mistakes. It uses the same rendering engine found in Safari, so it is not only standards compliant, but also very fast. http://www.tumultco.com/HyperEdit/
SmartCVS 3.0.5
SmartCVS offers the power of CVS in a modern and intuitive user interface and adds cool new features that will make you much more productive than with other CVS clients. http://w
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Moneydance 2004r3 380
Moneydance 2004, the groundbreaking new financial tool is now available for all platforms. Moneydance can be trusted to keep all of your financial information safe, organized, and at your fingertips. After just a few minutes with Moneydance's simple interface and powerful features, you will wonder how you ever got along without it. http://www.moneydance.com/
WireTap 1.0.0
WireTap allows you to record any audio playing through your Mac, saving it to a file for later listening or processing. This allows you to record news from Internet radio stations such as the BBC News, record the audio from your favorite game, etc.
WireTap works using a simple tape recorder-like interface. Simply click the record button, and any audio playing through your Mac will be recorded to disk. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/
muCommander v0.6
muCommander is a cross-platform file manager.
It features a Norton Commander style interface and runs on any operating system that has support for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, Linux, *BSD...). http://www.mucommander.com/
Temperature Monitor 2.1
Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions. http://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.htmlhttp://www.bresink.com/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html
VLC Media Player VideoLAN 0.7.2
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
Thunderbird 0.7.3
Mozilla Thunderbird is not just a mail client, it also includes a fully-integrated Usenet newsgroup reader! It supports all the basic functions, such as subscribing to your favorite newsgroups, downloading headers and messages, offline support and thread watching/ignoring. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/