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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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BBEdit
It doesn't suck.
BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit transforms text with high performance.
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Bookdog
Bookdog is the world's premier shepherd and guardian of your bookmarks for the world's premier operating system, Mac OS X. Bookdog can sort, organize, eliminate duplicates, automatically verify, migrate and synchronize bookmarks between Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb and Opera.
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Bookends
Bookends is the reference manager that Mac users have been waiting for: Unicode-savvy, powerful group-based navigation, built-in HTTP server, Internet library searches, automated PubMed searches, and much more.
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Chax
Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable.
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Dictionary
Dictionary and thesaurus system application based on The New Oxford American Dictionary. Comes with OS X.
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EagleFiler
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. Since EagleFiler stores its library in Finder format, you can use it in concert with the other tools in your Mac ecosystem.
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FastScripts
Assign keyboard shortcuts to run or open your scripts, documents, or applications. Global or application-specific contexts are supported.
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Firefox
The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.
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FlySketch
FlySketch is a simple drawing tool for apps that don't have that built in, and a screenshot grabber and screen annotator with useful workflow features.
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iCal
iCal allows you to choose between viewing your schedule by day, week or month. And it's easy to find things on your calendar using iCal's powerful search feature.
iCal helps you organize your schedule by letting you create as many separate calendars as you need.
At the click of a mouse, you can easily subscribe to any number of public calendars available on the Internet.
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iChat
Apple's chat client supporting AOL Instant Messenger and Jabber Instant Messenger clients.
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iData
Used to be Casady & Greene.
I use the freeform database.
It's a great product. You can bring in anything, format, etc.
It's faster and easier than anything else.
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Incubator
An outlining and brainstorming tool for visual thinkers. Text and images can be placed anywhere on multiple worksheets that grow dynamically in all four directions. Elements can then be arranged in elaborate visual hierarchies and, optionally, linked to external documents and web pages.
The software is designed to help people focus on ideas and their underlying relationships, without wasting creative energy on the mechanics of formatting and presentation. Includes Spotlight plug-in. The demo includes an interactive tutorial.
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Jedit X
Jedit is a Cocoa version of the popular text editor in Japan. Supports Unicode, Text Encoding Sniffer, Customizable Syntax Coloring, Fully Customizable Key Bindings, Split Editing Window, Line Numbers Display, Book Marking, Object Embedding (image, Quicktime Movie and files), Sorting etc.
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Keynote
Apple's presentation program. Easy to use, generating drop-dead beautiful presentations of all sorts, from photography portfolios, kiosks, to scientific or business job interviews.
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Mail
Take control of your correspondence with Mac OS X Tiger Mail 2, now featuring Spotlight search technology. Find email instantly and accurately, organize messages using Smart Folders and share, save or view emailed images easily.
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MailTags
The revolutionary enhancement that transforms Apple's Mail into a powerful email organization system. Add metadata tags such as project, keywords, due date, to your email. Create Smart Mailboxes and perform searches for your tags.
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MarsEdit
MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes weblog writing like writing email—with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, an image uploader, and even AppleScript support.
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Mellel
Mellel is one of the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on scholars, writers, technical writing and multilingual word processing
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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office includes a word processing application, a spreadsheet application, a presentation application, and an email application with calendar and organizational tools. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office for Windows.
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Namely
Namely is possibly the fastest way to open applications. And unlike some other launchers, it doesn't require any learning.
You simply activate it using your preferred keyboard shortcut, start typing part of an application's name and see a list of matches as you type. Most of the time, one or two letters are enough. In fact, Namely learns your habits and makes your most-used apps even quicker to access over time. It's basically Spotlight for applications, only much faster, and highly addictive.
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NetBarrier
All Macs connected to the Internet (DSL, cable modem, etc.) are exposed to hackers, vandals and other security risks. Experts estimate that between 85% and 97% of intrusions are never detected.
Intego NetBarrier X4 is the Internet security solution for Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. It offers thorough protection against intrusions coming across the Internet or a local network.
Intego NetBarrier X4 protects your computer from intrusions by constantly filtering all the activity that enters and leaves through the Internet or a network. Intego NetBarrier X4 protects you from thieves, hackers and intruders, and warns you automatically if any suspicious activity occurs.
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NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface similar to Apple Mail can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.
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Nisus Writer Express
Nisus Writer Express is an affordable, feature-complete word processor.
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Office-Bibliothek
Die Standardwerke von Duden und Brockhaus gibt es jetzt für die Betriebssysteme Windows, Mac OS X und Linux mit einer neuen Version der weiterentwickelten Software »Office-Bibliothek«. Diese löst nun vollständig die bisherige »PC-Bibliothek« (für Windows und Mac OS 9) ab. Die aktuelle »Office-Bibliothek« ist schlank programmiert und besticht durch eine grafisch ansprechende, moderne Benutzeroberfläche. Sie ist noch bedienungsfreundlicher als alle Vorversionen oder die »PC-Bibliothek« und erfüllt sämtliche Anforderungen für die schnelle und effiziente Desktop-Suche in elektronischen Wörterbüchern.
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OmniWeb
OmniWeb is a browser for Mac OS X with a unique way of viewing tabs, specific site preferences, and a whole lotta other stuff.
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OpenMenu X
OpenMenu is a utility that allows you to freely customize your contextual menu. You can open documents, applications, AppleScripts, Services Menu Items, and URLs any time you want. OpenMenu also supports the file system browsing. You can browse the file system and open/move files or folders through a contextual menu.
* Executes the Service menu items from the context menu.
* Supports the shortcut key for each menu item.
* Supports the long-press of the mouse button to invoke a contextual menu.
* Compatible with Cocoa applications. OpenMenu X can get the context information from both Carbon and Cocoa applications.
* Also supports the status bar menu.
* Compatible with the System Preferences.
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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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Path Finder
Path Finder is an innovative file browser and manager with powerful tools to make you more productive on Mac OS X.
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PDFpen
Fill out PDF forms and edit PDFs easily with PDFpen. Split, combine, reorder, sign and augment PDFs with text, image overlays & watermarks.
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Personal Backup
Intego Personal Backup X4 offers you a system for backing up and protecting your digital universe. Create a backup procedure and eliminate the risk of losing your data through accidental deletion, malfunction, disk erasure...
Intego Personal Backup X4 includes many features intended to make backing up your data faster and easier. With a wide range of new options, Intego Personal Backup X4 provides you with improved speed and effectiveness.
Intego Personal Backup X4 backs up your files automatically or manually, to removable media (such as recordable CDs or DVDs), to partitions on your hard disk, to network volumes, to an iDisk, to an iPod, to external hard drives (USB ou FireWire) or to disk image files. Intego Personal Backup X4 also restores backups, synchronizes data between two computers (such as a desktop computer and an iBook or PowerBook), and clones your Mac OS X volume.
Backing up files with Intego Personal Backup X4 can be as simple as just dragging and dropping a source folder and a destination folder on the Intego Personal Backup X4 window, then clicking a button. In addition, Intego Personal Backup X4’s advanced mode lets you create your own backup scripts, with just a few clicks, unleashing all the power of Intego Personal Backup X4.
Intego Personal Backup X4 has a full range of backup and restoration features, to protect your data simply and easily.
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QuickTime Player
QuickTime 7 makes the future of video crystal clear with new features including user-friendly controls and pristine H.264 video. Upgrade to QuickTime 7 Pro and capture your own movies, then share them with friends and family via email or .Mac.
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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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S3 Typist
According to the developer's site: "Typist is a handy utility that types text for you. Simply configure Typist with text you type frequently (like a return address, directions, instructions, or letter head). When you're ready to have the text typed for you, just select it from Typist's system-wide menu, or from Typist's popup window."
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Safari
Safari offers you a superior Web experience with outstanding performance. Even the most complex of pages load at breakneck speed. In fact, Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac Web browser. But that's not all. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X to offer you an all-new view of the Web, one that's much easier to use.
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SerialMailer
Lets you send batch emails that are individualized for each recipient. Can import lists from AddressBook or from tab-separated text files.
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Service Scrubber
Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using? With Service Scrubber, you can:
- restructure the services menu
- change service keyboard shortcuts
- disable services
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SmartWrap
- Analyzes and re-wraps your text.
- Works well with International or Unicode text.
- Removes all quote marks (">") from the beginnings of lines.
- Works curiously well on text copied and from Web sites and PDFs!
- Removes unwanted line breaks from within paragraphs.
- Allows you to paste text from e-mails perfectly into your word processor!
- SmartWrap numbered and lettered lists.
- Works great with sparse messages! (Messages that have lots of white space.)
- Set loads of preferences within the SmartWrap Preferences program. These preference affect all SmartWrap modules.
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SpamSieve
SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients. It learns what your spam looks like, so it can block nearly all of it. It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like, so it won't confuse them with spam. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as you train it with more messages. SpamSieve doesn't delete any messages--it only marks them in your e-mail client--so you'll never lose any mail.
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Stickies
The Mac OS Classic notes for the OS X desktop.
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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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VirusBarrier
Intego VirusBarrier X4 is the simple, fast and non-intrusive antivirus security solution for Macintosh computers, by Intego, the leading publisher of personal security software for Macintosh. It offers thorough protection against viruses of all types, coming from infected files or applications, whether on CD-ROMs, DVDs or other removable media, or on files downloaded over the Internet or other types of networks.
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Voodoo Pad
VoodooPad is a new kind of notepad. It's like having your own digital junk drawer where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists... Anything on your mind. VoodooPad automatically links each page together, to form a miniature world wide web, on your desktop! Anybody familiar with the WikiWikiWeb will feel right at home with VoodooPad.
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WordNetX
WordNet: an online lexical reference system (dictionary and much much more) developed at Princeton University's Cognitive Science Laboratory.
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
WordNetX: Mac interface to WordNet.
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WriteRoom
For Mac users who enjoy the simpllicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Yojimbo
Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible.
About me
I use my Mac for correspondence, writing, research, preparing lectures, keeping track of my students, reading the news, listening to music, and just for fun. See onmymac.blogspot.com.
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