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  Butler

  Butler's purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks. Butler lets you arrange these tasks in its fully customizable configuration. You can use it to launch or control various apps with universal triggers and/or keyboard shortcuts.

  
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  Calorie King

  Their description:
  You can record everything you eat and the exercise you do using our huge food and exercise database, and then track your weight over time. Our personal profiling feature tells you exactly how many calories you need every day to lose, gain or maintain your ideal body weight.

  MY NOTES!
  I started using this app when my doctor called me with my (too high) cholesterol results. I want to avoid having to take a pill to bring the numbers down, so I downloaded this to "show them" that I do indeed "know how to eat healthy".

  I think what shocked me the most was how fast the sodium adds up!

  Now, I think the "BMI" index is "BS", because it doesn't account for whether or not the weight you enter is muscle or fat body mass. (according to BMI index, Brad Pitt is "OBESE").

  *** You can get the software without the other optoins such as forum access and web food diary (blog?) posting.

  
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  Comic Life

  Create your own comics, from your iLife :)

  
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  Compositor

  Compositor is a full featured image editing and image to art application.

  
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  Hazel

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

  Organize your files using a familiar rule interface. Filter on the file's name, type, date, the site or email address it came from and more. And do more than just file. You can set color labels, Spotlight keywords and comments and even archive files. In addition, Hazel can manage your Trash for you, relieving you of having to empty it yourself.

  All this is done automatically in the background allowing you to focus on your real work.

  
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  Letterbox

  Great plugin for Apple mail which optimises the application for widescreen screens (eg Powerbooks, MacBook Pros and Cinema Displays).

  
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  SuperDuper!

  SuperDuper can make a full backup, or "clone" — in moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file.

  
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  7zX

  7zX is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually 7zX compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format, and 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.

  
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  Activity Monitor

  Activity Monitor is a GUI application included with Mac OS X. It provides graphical representations of your computer's CPU, system memory, disk activity, disk usage, and network processes. This little utility is easy to overlook, but it can help you manage your memory and processing power when running lots of applications. If you prefer to work in the text-only Terminal application instead, you can view much of this information by using the top command.

  
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  Address Book

  Address Book provides a flexible and convenient way to store your contact information online. Because Address Book is integrated with Mail, iChat, and other applications, you have to enter information only once to have your contacts available from all these applications.

  
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  Adobe Photoshop Elements

  Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 6 software for Macintosh combines power and simplicity so you can go beyond the basics. Make your photos look their best, share them in creative ways, and easily find and view them. Photoshop Elements also works great with iPhoto.

  
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  Airfoil

  Use Airfoil to send any audio to one AirPort Express, to multiple AirPort Express units in sync, and even to other local Macs! It's your audio — everywhere.

  With Airfoil you can take audio from any application and send to one or many AirPort Express units, as well as other local Macs running Airfoil Speakers, plus your local machine, all in sync! You can "wire" your whole house wirelessly and give your audio wings with Airfoil.

  Use Airfoil for all your wireless audio:

  • Transmit audio from RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, and other media players.
  • Send audio from web-based applications like Pandora, Last.fm, and other to the AirPort Express.
  • You can even stream audio from audio devices like RadioSHARK, XM and Sirius radios, around your house.

  
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  AppFresh

  AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.

  AppFresh not only gets update information from iusethis.com. If you have an user profile at iusethis.com you can manage it from within AppFresh and control which applications appear in your profile, even automatically. We can only recommend you sign up, it's free and lets you see how many users use a certain application. In AppFresh, the full iusethis.com application page with comments and links to similar apps is always just a click away.

  AppFresh can capture the installed version of an application along with your preferences and application data and store it in a safe place. This way, you're covered in case you decide you liked the last version of an application better. Create as many snapshots as you want to make sure you don't lose anything.

  AppFresh is currently work in progress, and we're not even calling it a beta. Make sure to check our development blog regularly. You are welcome to leave your feedback or suggestions for improvements there.

  
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  Art Text

  from the site: "Art Text is an application to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons... The program allows you to easily modify any texts and vector shapes into a fancy graphic."

  Export into TIFF or non-modifyable PDF at whatever resolution you specify.

  includes "pre-designed styles, shapes, icon art images, [and] shading materials."

  You can also save your favorite styles.

  If you were waiting for TypeStyler to return to OS X, you should try this app out.

  
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  ArtRage 2.5

  ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.

  For the professional user, ArtRage also offers multiple Layers for painting, and layered PSD document import and export so you can easily use it alongside your existing tools.

  
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  Attachment Scanner

  Important: PowerPC users see note at bottom.

  Do you ever forget to include an attachment on your emails? It happens to me all the time. By the time I get done writing my email, I forget that I needed to attach something to it before hitting Send. This Mail.app plugin helps avoid that problem. When you send a message, it checks if there's an attachment. If there isn't, and it looks like you've referred to an attachment in the body of your mail (by using a word like attach, attaching, attachment, etc), it gives you a warning. Most of the time, you should never notice that this plugin is running, but in those cases when you do need it....

  Requires Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (10.5) on Intel and Mail.app. There is an older version for Tiger on PowerPC

  
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  Audio Hijack Pro

  With Audio Hijack Pro, you can create enhanced podcasts, with audio from many sources, record streaming radio, record audio chats, save audio from records (LPs), cassette tapes, and other analog sources.

  
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  Bookpedia

  Bookpedia is a book cataloging application. What's on your shelves?

  
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  CharacterPal

  From the website:

  "CharacterPal is a widget that helps you remember how to type any special character. Just put your mouse over a character, and the key combo appears at the bottom. Now you don't have to remember what Option + Shift + K does."

  "CharacterPal 4 allows you to help you use the widget on your Desktop. Just drag CharacterPal while closing Dashboard."

  You could call this the descendant of "Key Caps", part of the Desktop Accessories on the original Macintosh.

  
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  Checkbook

  Keeping tabs on your finances can be a lot of work. You ask yourself, "Where is all my money going?" Your old-fashioned paper check register can't provide the sorting and balancing features you so desperately need, but on the other hand, monster applications like Quicken make you sift through tons of features you don't need and distract you with their financial services ads. You could really use a middle ground - a personal finance manager that excels at the basics but keeps things simple. Thank goodness you found us!

  
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  ClamXav

  ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.

  
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  DiskWarrior

  DiskWarrior uses a different approach to disk directory repair than other programs. DiskWarrior is not a disk repair program in the conventional sense. Instead of patching the original directory, it uses a patent-pending technology to quickly build a new replacement directory using data recovered from the original directory, thereby recovering files and folders that you thought were lost and that no other program could recover.

  
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  Drive Genius

  Drive genius is a wonderful utility app that can perform a multitude of maintenance tasks on a harddrive. It can scan for bad blocks (a feature difficult to find), repair directory damage, defragement, edit sectors, and non-destructively repartition. Absolutely critical for someone trying to support Macs as bad blocks on drives can cause all sorts of issues.

  
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  EasyBatchPhoto

  EasyBatchPhoto can perform these batch operations:

  - convert images from one format to another
  - compress images
  - resize images
  - add watermark image

  EasyBatchPhoto is multi-threaded for fast, responsive operations. It also has a constant memory foot-print so you can dump hundreds on images on it, pop it into the background and continue to use your Mac while it works away in the background.

  
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  EasyCrop

  Have you ever needed to crop and size a photo for email, web or the Address Book? Sure there’re lots of ways to do this, but none as easy and hassle-free as EasyCrop.

  Simply drop an image (from practically any source) into EasyCrop. Next, draw a crop box around the area you want to crop and make other adjustments with the intuitive controls. And when you’re happy with the result, simply drag it off to your email or other application. Voila!

  
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  FileChute

  How many times have you tried to email a large file only to have it bounced? If you need to send files too big for email and wish there's an easy way to do it, your wish has come true.

  FileChute makes sending files easy. Just drag a file and drop it on FileChute. FileChute puts the file on your .Mac account (or a server of your choice) and generates a web link for retrieving the file all in one step. Next drag the generated link into your email and you're set to go. And since what you're sending is just a link, your recipients can retrieve the file from a Mac, a PC or any other platform.

  
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  GraphicConverter

  Ever had an image that seemed impossible to open? Struggeled too many times with images without enough info for even the mighty Photoshop?

  GraphicConverter X/Classic is kinda like vlc, only for converting images. Keep it in mind, when running into trouble....

  
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  Growl

  Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.

  
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  iBank

  An intuitive full-featured personal and small business financial manager built exclusively for Mac OS X.

  
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  iShowU

  iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from any compatible source. Ever been in the situation where you wanted to show someone what was going on, but couldn't? Either the person is not right next to you, not around, in another country (the list goes on). Now just record what you're doing and what you want to say, and stick it in an email!

  
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  Isolator

  Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.

  Isolator is similar to, but not the same as Think and Backdrop. The difference is that it works exactly how I want it to. Maybe you'll like it too.

  
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  Lab Tick

  Have you ever been annoyed by the fact that you could not turn on your PowerBook's or MacBook Pro's keyboard illumination in daylight? If so, here's your solution. Lab Tick gives you total control over the backlit keyboard.

  
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  Mail Act-On

  Plug-in to Apple's mail.app to attach keystrokes to mail rules.

  
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  MailFollowup

  Adds a "Followup" items to the Message and contextual menus (and optionally a toolbar button) of Apple's Mail application that allows you to compose (and then send) a quoted version of the original message to all of the original recipients, keeping the To, Cc and Bcc addresses exactly as they appeared in the original message.

  
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  MailSteward

  MailSteward will archive all of your email in a database for easy retrieval. Click on the Store Email button and MailSteward will go to work storing copies of all your email text, HTML, attachments, and raw source, into a relational database file. MailSteward has a wealth of features for importing, tagging, saving, and exporting, including the ability to export your vital email information to a number of standard data formats.

  
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  MenuCalendarClock for iCal

  This app replaces the date and time in your menubar with a fully customizable menu extra that displays an interactive drop-down monthly calendar. Displays calendar events and birthdays (requires registration, or willingness to deal with somewhat frequent nag screens), to do items, and will launch iCal when double clicked. The colors are also configurable. Expensive, but reclaims the valuable menubar space by adding much-needed functionality.

  
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  MenuShade

  This application does one thing very well: it dims the menu bar that is at the top of the OS X screen.

  
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  Ocean Waves

  Ocean Waves generates a simulated sound of ocean waves. Unlike the recorded sound of real ocean waves, it does not repeat for hours.

  
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  Opera

  Opera makes it quick and simple to find the information you want. With features like tabs, popup blocking, an integrated search field, and the ability to remember the sites your visited in a previous session, you control your browsing experience. Opera blocks viruses, spyware, and phishing web sites, too. All while being shockingly fast!

  
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  Pando

  Pando is free software that lets you send and receive files and folders of any size* with your existing email account.

  *Beta currently limited to 1GB per email.

  
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  PDFLab

  PDFLab lets you split and join PDF documents as well as insert images and blank pages.

  
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  Perian

  Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.

  With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:
  Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
  MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
  These formats when they are inside an AVI:
  h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.

  
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  PhotoPresenter

  Present quickly and easily all your pictures and movies with PhotoPresenter. Choose your preferred slideshow style among several amazing themes and view any image and movie — either from both your iPhoto and Aperture libraries or from anywhere else, such as from a CD.

  Have you ever been upset by the fact that movies you capture with your digital camera just can't be viewed as easily as still pictures? Or just looking for a simple software with which you can view the pictures you stored on a CD — of course without having to first copy the content on your local drive?

  PhotoPresenter is just what you need! It combines a real ease of use with gorgeous looking slideshows, and let you go straight to what you want: to amaze your friends with what you capture with your digital camera!

  
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  PixelStick

  PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen. Excellent for designers or anyone who wants to measure a distance on their screen in any window or application!.
   
  PixelStick uses a Cartesian coordinate system like the OS X co-ordinate system. This means that the origin (pixel 0,0) is at the lower left corner of the screen. However, OS X deals mainly in points, whereas PixelStick is all about pixels. A point has no width and resides between pixels.

  
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  PrintFinder

  PrintFinder helps you to print a Finder folder list.

  
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  Quinn

  Quinn is an arcade-style tetromino puzzle game written and designed specifically for Mac OS X. It features a clean, elegant user interface, beautiful graphics, and smooth, subtle animations for fluid gameplay. Instead of reinventing the game with yet another variation of the rules, the goal of Quinn is to combine the simplicity of the original idea with the genuine Mac experience for perfect user enjoyment. There’s everything you might expect—including a two-player mode, network play with Bonjour support, an online server list and highscore database, and five different multiplayer rules.

  
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  RealPlayer

  The Mac OS X version of RealPlayer. Useful for playing RealAudio and RealVideo files.

  • Download and play Flash video
  • PerfectPlay enabled pausing and seeking within live clips
  • Playlist window
  • Play RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media, and Flash Video

  
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  ReceiptWallet

  Do you have a pile of unorganized receipts? Are your receipts stuffed into a folder? Have you ever tried to find an old receipt and spent hours? If so, then ReceiptWallet is the answer to your problems!

  
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  Skype

  What we've got is a simple bit of software we want to give you. It'll let you make free calls to your friends all over the world. And we don't want any money for it. It's free.

  You could think of us as the big, free Internet telephony company. We prefer to think of ourselves as a big group hug, even a present. Yes! that's it; we're a present; but without the ribbon.

  
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  Smart Crash Reports

  Smart Crash Reports is an enhancement for the Apple's CrashReporter application. It allows 3rd party developers to register their products in manner so if the eligible application crashes, the crash log is sent to the developer as well as Apple. This greatly enhances the user experience of the OS, and allows developers to receive crashes and improve their software in a timely manner.

  
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  SpaceControl

  What is SpaceControl? What does it do?

  SpaceControl is designed to be simple. Download the application, unpack the file and drag the application (the one with the hard disk icon) to your Applications folder. Launch SpaceControl. A text will appear in your menu bar showing how much free space there are available on your startup disk. Klick on the menu item and submenus will apere, showing information about all disks or volumes mounted on your desktop. If you want SpaceControl to start everytime you log on to your Mac you can choose that option in the Preference window. You can also make some choises about how you want the menu item to appear.

  What will SpaceControl do if I run out of free space on my startup disk?

  SpaceControl will warn you when the free space available on your startup disk goes below the choosen limit. You can change the limit at which you get a warning, in the Preference windows. When you break that limit, SpaceControl will warn you by changing the color of it’s text in the menu and also put up a messagebox to warn you.

  
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  SpotInside

  SpotInside searches txt, rtd, rtfd, doc and PDF documents and shows preview their contents with keywords highlighted.

  
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  Spotlaser

  This app is handy if spotlight won't do.
  In the case of having to find files according to specific arguments (specific location, filetype, including, exluding, etc.)

  A good addition to your Mac System you might want to check out.

  
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  SWF & FLV Player

  SWF & FLV Player (formerly SWF Movie Player) is a free and smart Flash movie player. It is the only stand-alone application for Mac OS that is able to playback SWF and FLV files with plenty of bonus features. It provides handy movie controls, that let you play, rewind, fast-forward and playback movie files frame-by-frame.
  SWF & FLV Player will browse any web addresses to discover and save all SWF files it uses. If any SWF file requires external resources (it may open and play other SWF or FLV files, load images, etc) SWF & FLV Player will inform you about it and offer to download all the external resources required as well.

  SWF & FLV Player also lets you create and manage playlists - play FLV and SWF files randomly or one by one, repeat one item or the whole playlist, save playlists so you can load your favorite movie collection later. With our SWF & FLV Player you can zoom in the movie to see the specific part of it, fit to current window size or restore to original one. Moreover, you can set playback quality (useful for low-end or heavy-loaded systems), manage Flash security policy, check SWF/FLV file's comprehensive information and lots more.

  
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  TabletDraw

  TabletDraw is a drawing application designed specifically for use with a tablet. Instead of setting brush thickness based solely on pen pressure, TabletDraw uses a combination of factors including speed and pen pressure to create a realistic pen-and-paper feel.

  Other features include ink mode (colouring without overwriting existing lines) and seal canvas for later reworking.

  
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  TinkerTool

  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.

  
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  TinkerTool System

  "TinkerTool System is a professional all-in-one maintenance tool for the Macintosh platform. It allows you to change advanced operating system settings and offers a wide variety of maintenance features. It strictly complies with the software guidelines for Mac OS X, and also uses Apple's official instructions and recommendations for the resolution of certain system problems.

  "TinkerTool System is very different from other maintenance applications because it never uses any scripts and is fully integrated into the security architecture of Mac OS X. . . ." [from developer's website]

  
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  Tiny alarm

  TinyAlarm is, as the name suggests, a tiny alarm clock for your menubar. It will play your chosen alert at some time in the near future. All of the configuration is done using the status menu item. Clicking around should reveal all there is to know about TinyAlarm.

  
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  TubeTV

  Got an Apple TV and want more content for it? Wish you could watch YouTube on your TV?

  TubeTV is a new freeware program for Mac OS X Tiger and above which enables you to search for and save Google Video and YouTube videos in a format suitable for playback on your Apple TV or video capable iPod.

  
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  Tux Paint

  Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children (kids ages 3 and up). It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program. It provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative.

  
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  VectoRaster

  A graphics utility for creating vector-based raster patterns from bitmap images. The raster patterns and point shapes can be freely configured to produce different styles. The resulting rasters can then either be exported to an EPS, PDF or TIFF-file or simply copied into most graphics software.

  
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  VersionTracker Pro

  Software Update for all your 3rd party applications. VersionTracker Pro automatically monitors the software inventory and version status for your Macs.

  
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  Vine Server

  Vine Server for OS X (formerly OSXvnc)

  Vine Server is a full featured VNC server for Mac OS X providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using Vine Viewer or any other VNC client. Vine Server offers a rich and unique feature set among Mac OS X VNC servers including:

  * Flexible port assignment for multiple VNC servers on a single computer
  * System servers that run independently of user accounts
  * Outstanding clipboard sharing; Exchange of rich text, images, files and applications when used with Vine Viewer

  
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  Vine Viewer

  Vine Viewer is a feature-rich and well supported VNC viewer. Some feature highlights of Vine Viewer include:

  * Remote screen capture
  * QuickTime movie recording
  * Secure connections through SSH
  * Viewer window scaling

  Plus, when Vine Viewer is used with Vine Server a further unique benefit includes

  * Rich clipboard support, including copy and past file exchange.

  
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  VisualHub

  Converting a bunch of AVI files to a DVD shouldn't require a Computer Science degree.
  Getting movies from your digital camera to your iPod shouldn't take hours.
  Wading through a sea of video formats shouldn't pull you under.

  VisualHub bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards, and people that just want to get the job done - just what you would expect from the Mac.

  
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  VLC

  VLC media player 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.

  It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

  
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  WeatherDock

  WeatherDock displays weather information based on xml-feeds supplied by weather.com®. It displays textual weather information as well as icon-based. Next to the current conditions it contains 10 day forecasts with 2 day-part's weather information.