TrailRunner (Free).

TrailRunner is a route planning software for all kinds of long distance sports like running, biking, hiking, inline-skating, skiing and more. If you ever asked yourself how long your workout routes are and what route you should choose for this evening — then TrailRunner should be your training-partner. TrailRunner can calculate a route for your desired distance and export directions onto your iPod, giving you a detailed orientation while you are on your way.


Features:

• Plan workout routes and check your pace at checkpoints.
• Import and analyze GPS recordings.
• Plan tours and collect beautiful tracks and trails.
• Load background maps and elevation data.
• Interactively or automatically, for a given distance and with the highest attractiveness.
• Heart Rate Monitors
• Garmin GPS support.
• Google Earth and .Mac support

Get it here.

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ButtonBuilder (Free).

Super fast button creation

ButtonBuilder is the quick and easy way to create awesome buttons for the web, and best of all it's open source and free!

ButtonBuilder ships with over 50 buttons ready to use. Change the size, length, caption and hue of each button at anytime, making it a breeze to create buttons that match your website.

Get it here.

Slopinator (Free).

Slopinator is a free application for OS X, that solves some of the most tedious and boring math equations around, including the following partial list:

Slope
Distance
Midpoint
Area of a triangle
Area of a circle
Area of a pyramid
Circumference of a circle
Surface area of a sphere
Volume of a cylinder
Volume of a cone
Quadratic Formula
Average
Proportions
Acceleration
Force
Momentum

Aquallegro (Free).

Aquallegro is a great way to improve your musical ability. It contains quizzes on various aspects of music, as well as detailed help files with tips and mnemonics. All of the quizzes are scored while in progress, so the user continuously knows how well they're doing, and it is easy to customize Aquallegro so it works the way you want it to. It also contains Administrative features for teachers, making it an excellent tool in any music program.

Current modules:

• Notation: Note Names, Intervals, Solfege, Scales, Beats
• Aural Skills: Intervals, Chords, Scales, Tuning, Note Names
• Keyboard: Notes

Aquallegro is perfect for the comprehensive music student or just for the curious that want to hone their musical skills. With a price of $0, how could one ask for more?

Aquallegro requires Mac OS X v10.4 or later.

Get it here.

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Validator S.A.C. (Free).

Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML / XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X. Validator S.A.C. is a normal Mac OS X application. No installation is required, just put Validator S.A.C. where you need it (hard drive, flash drive, CD-R, etc).

Validator S.A.C. can validate local files, as well as pages on local web sites. Validate using the stand-alone Favelet, drag and drop files and URLs onto the application icon, or simply use File > Open.

Validator S.A.C. can also be setup as a Web Service, allowing users to validate over the local network. See the Advanced Topics section for details.

Get it here.

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The Leopard Cometh (OS X 10.5).

Get your Mac ready for OS X 10.5

If you're an early adapter, you're already in a state of high anticipation for the newest release of the Mac Operating System, OS X 10.5. But it's a major upgrade, and like any big upgrade, there are things you should do before you install the next big cat. Read about them here.

Note: The article suggests that you open each application and check for upgrades individually before Leopard installation. There's no need to do that. Get a copy of AppFresh (Free) and greatly simplify the process.

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Your digital photos need help. There's free help to fix them.

Everybody these days seems to have a digital camera, and go around taking pictures of just about everything. Any you know what? Most of those pictures just aren't that good. There are various reasons why.

Wait, you say. Weren't digital cameras, whether in a cellphone or alone, supposed to make photographers out of anyone? Well of course, but there's still is, and always has been, a difference between a bad photographer and a good one.

So, why do your photos suck? Sometimes the subject just can't be seen well. It's either not enough light, or your subject isn't standing still, or your subject is out of the picture before you deploy your camera. Or worse, your subject is blurred AND not well lit. Strange poses never work, nor does posing in general.

Then there's the backgrounds that don't work. Like the lamp pole growing out of your subject's head. Or the tree branches coming out the side of someone's head. Skin that's the wrong color. And other things too numerous to mention. Don't worry, there's help available, and for free. And, I hate to be the one to tell you, but if you're relying on a cellphone to take good pictures, it just ain't going to happen.

For some photo basics, I recommend this tutorial at idigitalphoto.com. It's short and to the point. And at morguefile.com, there's a more in-depth tutorial with assignments.

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Sweet Home 3D (Free).

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that assists you when rearranging your furniture in your home or apartment.

Layout your room on a house 2D plan, then switch to 3D to preview.

Get it here.

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Quicksilver (Free).

At first glance, Quicksilver is a launcher.

When opened, it will create a catalog of applications and some frequently used folders and documents. Activate it, and you can search for and open anything in its catalog instantly. The search is adaptive, so Quicksilver will recognize which items you are searching for based on previous experience. It also supports abbreviations, so you can type entire words, or just fragments of each. When not in use, Quicksilver vanishes, waiting for the next time you summon it.

Quicksilver's greatest strength, however, is not search. Any item you are able to find, drag, or otherwise pull into its universe is endowed with many potential uses. Hitting <tab> takes you to the action field, where you can use the same adaptive search to select what you would like to do. Among other things, files can be emailed, copied, compressed. Text can be modified, transmitted between programs, or searched for on the web. Some actions even support an indirect object, so you can send an item to a person, move files to another folder, or open files with a specific application.

<== Moving a file.

Quicksilver can be given the ability to understand the data inside of files, allowing you to work with data in new, faster ways. Plug-ins add both new items and new actions, allowing you to run scripts, send instant messages, dial phone numbers, look up words in a dictionary, queue up songs in iTunes party shuffle, and much, much more.

Frequently used commands can be bound to triggers, giving you the ability to execute them immediately by hitting a hot key or using the mouse on a corner or edge of the screen.

Tutorials here.

Download Quicksilver here.

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iHeard.com (Free).

This is not a program. Instead it's an internet website that catalogs and categorizes internet streaming radio.

There's a whole world of streaming internet radio online, and iHeard helps you find it. Search by keyword, category, genre, or country of origin, among others. Results returned with descriptions of the stations. Or try the Most Popular Chart and see what others are listening to.

While you're at it, if your favorite streaming station isn't listed, feel free to submit it to iHeard.

Listen now.

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VoodooPad Lite (Free).

VoodooPad Lite is the free version of VoodooPad for OS X. VoodooPad is like having your own digital junk drawer, where you can jot down notes, web addresses, to-do lists and more.

What is it?

VoodooPad Lite is the free version of VoodooPad. While not as powerful as the real thing, it still gets the job done. It's for those on a tight budget, or who just want to play around with VoodooPad beyond the 15 page limit without committing to it just yet.

Use it to keep notes, save web addresses, and remind yourself of all that non-computer stuff you have to do. VoodooPad Lite features:

• Inline editing and realtime linking of pages.
• Unicode, Rich Text support, and image embedding.
• Auto-complete page opening.
• Save / Export to iPod.
• Tabs.
  

Get it here.

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GarageBuy (Free).

Macintosh EBay Client.

Are you looking for something on eBay but tired of eBay's slow web site? Finally there is a better way! Now you can use a slick, full-featured client application for all of your search and purchasing on eBay. Welcome to GarageBuy.

Searching eBay with ease. Finally, an application that looks the way it should (using the Mac's native interface) to help you find and purchase items on eBay.

GarageBuy can be dowloaded and used at no cost. You can download GarageBuy for free. All that's required is an eBay account and a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

GarageBuy is Universal! You can run GarageBuy natively on your new Intel- and PowerPC-Mac.

Features:

• Make bids and purchase items directly in GarageBuy.
• Gallery Lists
• Saved Searches
• Certified EBay API Client
• Growl support
• Edit searches
• Place bids

and more!

Get it here.

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WorldRadio Widget (Free).

Listen to your favorite webradio with the WRW - WorldRadio Widget.

Supports the most common formats of streaming like asx, asf, wax, mp3, pls, m3u, mov, ram and rm.

The player has ten memory buttons to quickly access your top 10 favorite stations.

The widget currently has built-in almost 400 stations from 20 countries.

Get it here.

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SimpleSynth (Free).

A simple soft synth for Mac OS X that takes input from a connected MIDI device and can play instruments from Soundfonts and DLS files including Apple's default General MIDI sound set. Small but powerful!

Get it here.

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Nodal (Free).

Nodal Version 1.0 Released!

Nodal is a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed by any number of players who play the musical events as they encounter them on the graph. The time taken to travel from one node to another is based on the length of the edges that connect the nodes

Nodal is free software available for Mac OS X based computers.


Working with Nodal

Nodal does not make any sound by itself – it only generates MIDI data. You will need a MIDI synthesiser to hear the output that Nodal is making. Nodal is compatible with any MIDI synthesiser. For simple demonstrations we recommend SimpleSynth.

Nodal will also work with Apple's GarageBand software.

Get it here.

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