Christmas Wallpaper Clocks (Free).

Decorate your Mac desktop for Christmas with these unique Christmas wallpaper clocks. Keep time on your desktop precisely and stylishly. The download includes the Wallpaper Clocks application, as well as 9 different clocks in WCZ format.

Download it here.

More wallpaper clocks here.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Mac Goodies!

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Xinema (Free).

Xinema was created due to the lack of full screen playing functionality in Apple's QuickTime Player. It's designed to be an easy solution to this problem. Instead of purchasing QuickTime Pro for $30, you can get this feature for free with Xinema. Xinema provides a floating controller for pausing, fast-forwarding and adjusting the sound volume.

To play a movie, simply drag it from the Finder, drop it on Xinema, and click the Play button.

Get it here.

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Caffeine (Free).

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

Get it here.

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Celestia Add-Ons (Free).

Last Friday, I featured Celestia, a free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. But there's way more that can be done with Celestia.

Welcome to Celestia Motherlode.

The Celestia Motherlode is a repository for various addons like textures, models or celestial objects for Celestia. Celestia is a free, interactive (real-time), 3D astronomy program. It doesn't just show you the sky as it can be seen from earth as most planetarium software does, but allows you to move to and view the universe from any point between the planets and the stars. The Celestia Motherlode hosts over 10 GB of Celestia addons by various creators, which extend or change the way Celestia renders the universe.

Get Celestia add-ons here.

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Juice (Free).

Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are scheduled? Juice lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere. Really.

If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere.

Get Juiced here.

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Pixen (Free).

Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it's Free!

Layers allow you to take control of your image's composition and encapsulate its components for efficient editing. Keep shading separate from colors; keep hair separate from the rest of a character's head. And Pixen's the only pixel editor that'll let you do it.

Read more and download here.

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Celestia (Free).

Welcome to Celestia.

... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

Get it here.

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xDrive (Free).

Need more remote backup space than that offered by Mozy? (See November 28th entry). xDrive gives you that. xDrive offers a full 5GB of free offsite backup space. xDrive is not as Mac friendly as Mozy and does not use special software on the Mac; instead you backup to xDrive using your web browser. But if your main goal is to get important documents backed up offsite even if it's not in a user friendly manner, xDrive more than fits the bill.

Sign up here.

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Paparazzi (Free).

Paparazzi is a webpage screen shot capture utility with a difference. Instead of capturing just what you see on the screen, it lets you get a screen shot of the whole webpage. No longer do you need to take a screen shot, scroll down, take another screen shot. Paparazzi captures the whole page, even the parts you can't see.

Get it here.

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Adium (Free).

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services. No longer do you need multiple chat clients. Adium does it all.

Supported services

• AOL Instant Messenger (Including ICQ and .Mac)
• Jabber (Including Google Talk and LiveJournal)
• MSN Messenger
• Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan)
• Bonjour (Compatible with iChat)
• MySpace IM
• Gadu-Gadu
• Novell Groupwise
• QQ
• Lotus Sametime

Get it here.

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Mozy (Free).

Mozy is a secure remote backup service for you Mac. Here's how it works...

1. Sign up for an account.
Create a MozyHome user account which will allow you to download MozyHome software. It's quick, easy and our step-by-step instructions will guide you through the process.

2. Download and install software.
MozyHome downloads in just seconds, and the installation is simple and fast.

3. Select files to be backed up.
Simply check the boxes next to the backup sets, or types of files you want to back up, and MozyHome does the rest. In addition to selecting files by backup sets, you also have the option of selecting specific files and directories.

Mozy features:

• 2GB Of Free Secure Storage (Need more? UNLIMITED Storage only $4.95 A Month)
• Open/locked file support
• 128-bit SSL encryption
• 448-bit blowfish encryption
• automatic scheduling
• new and changed file detection
• support for Apple Mail
• block-level incremental backup

More information, and sign up here.

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TV Forecast Widget (Free).

If you've ever missed an episode of your favorite TV show, tuned in only to find that it wasn't airing or are just looking for a TV guide personalized to your taste, then look no further than TV Forecast.

TV Forecast helps you to keep an eye on all of your favorite TV shows by keeping them together in one place: on the dashboard.

Information at a glance

Stay posted on the next episode of your favorite TV shows with TV Forecast.

Want to know more about a TV show or an upcoming episode? Click on its name to launch the relevant TV.com page in your browser.

Leopard support.

Get it here.

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TED (Free).

What is TED? TED is the Torrent Episode Downloader.

Missed an episode of your favorite TV show? Never fear, with TED, the Torrent Episode Downloader, finding it couldn't be easier.

TED can find episodes of any TV show you like to watch. Just add your favorite shows to TED and he will search for the newest episodes and downloads them for you. TED uses bittorrent and RSS technology to get you the newest episodes as fast as possible!

There are two downloads. First download TED here.

Once installed, download the show definitions. Go to Help -> Software Updates -> Check for new show definitions.

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Celtx (Free).

Celtx is the world's first fully integrated solution for media pre-production and collaboration. It replaces old fashioned 'paper, pen & binder' media creation with a digital approach to writing and organizing that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.

Celtx has 5 dedicated industry standard editors for writing:

• Screenplays
• AV scripts, including Documentaries, Advertisements and Music Videos
• Audio Plays, including Radio Plays and Podcasts
• Theatre Plays (International and US standard)
• Plain Text

Utilizing the following industry standards:

• Start with an Idea
• Choose your Editor
• Organize with Index Cards
• Collaborate with Others
• Produce a Breakdown
• Storyboard your Project
• Schedule your Production

Access Secure Web Services is also offered.

Find a review here.

Download it here.

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iBackup (Free).

Leopard has Time Machine. But what if you're not ready for Leopard yet?

iBackup is a simple to use backup/restore utility.

iBackup supports scheduled backups of files, folders and applications. Further, it uses plugins to backup your settings like the dock, deskop picture, time, firewall, bluetooth and other system preferences. It is also able to backup Application Settings.

You can add, delete and edit these plugins.

Get it here.

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jEdit (Free).

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

Some of jEdit's features include:

• Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
• Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Dozens of macros and plugins available.
• Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature.
• Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages.
• Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
• Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
• Word wrap.
• Highly configurable and customizable.
• Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor. See the Features page for a full list.

Get it here.

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VectorMagic website (Free).

VectorMagic converts bitmap images to vector art - it's an online auto-tracer.

Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you.



Vector art is useful because it allows you to scale an image without making it blurry or pixelated.

Try it here.

Check Off (Free).

Check Off is a to-do list that sits in your menu bar. Simply click the check mark and your personal to-do list will drop down.

Features

• Easily accessible from the Mac OS X Menu Bar.
• Allows creation of groups of items.
• Each item can have its own note for more information.
• Finder-like Labels.
• iPod Synchronization so you can take your tasks on-the-go (iPod must support notes feature).

Requirements

Mac OS X Leopard is the only supported OS for this application. It may still work with Tiger and Panther, but I don’t have the resources to maintain a version for multiple operating systems at this time.

Check Off 3.5 and above are Universal Binaries for Intel and PowerPC Macs

Get the Leopard compatible version here.

For those of you still running OS X 10.4 (like I am), go here for version 3.6. (Halfway down the page, file size 446k).

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Freecell Card Game (Free).

What's freecell?

Freecell is a solitaire card game in which almost any deal can be won, if you have enough skill. The card table consists of four free cells (top left), four stacks (top right), and eight columns (bottom).

A shuffled deck of cards is dealt face up into eight columns. Your goal is to move all of the cards from the columns to the stacks. The stacks must be made in rank order, starting with aces, then twos, threes, and so on.

Cards may be moved between columns, within some rules. You can only move one card onto another which has the next rank up, and the cards must be of opposite color. For example, you can move the five of hearts onto the six of clubs.

Finally, cards may be moved to and from the free cells at the top left. Each free cell can hold one card at a time. Empty columns act like free cells, too.

Get it here.

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Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard Guided Tour.

Not sure if you want to upgrade to Leopard just yet?

Apple has just released a guided video walk-through tour of OS X 10.5 Leopard. Find out more and decide.

Please note system requirements, and note that Leopard no longer supports Classic mode.

Please Click Here To View.

The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions of all Time.

Who would have thunk?

Analysts and wannabe prognosticators are paid to look into their crystal balls and predict the future, so it's not surprising they get it so wrong, so often. What's surprising is that they sometimes get to right. That said, let's look at some of the Apple predictions that have turned out so wrong.

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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Amazon Album Art Widget (Free).

The Amazon Album Art widget makes filling in the gaps in your iTunes album art collection a breeze. Search for album art from Amazon's comprehensive catalogue, then import it into iTunes with the click of a button.

Get it here.

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Sizzling Keys (Free).

SizzlingKeys

Have you ever wished you could control iTunes without leaving your current app? SizzlingKeys lets you do just that - and more - in an intuitive and unobtrusive way.

Control iTunes. Whether it's to pause the player, adjust the volume, skip a track or rate a song, you can do all that and more with simple customizable keystrokes. That's not all. You can even search your iTunes Library or Playlists with a simple keystroke, all without switching to iTunes!


See what's playing. Why bring up iTunes just to see what's playing? SizzlingKeys features a floating window that shows you the current track info. Place it anywhere you wish on the screen by simply dragging it.

Easy setup. Having all the features you can imagine is useless if the app is difficult and confusing to use. That's why we make ease-of-use our top priority. Customizing SizzlingKeys cannot be easier.

Extras. SizzlingKeys even throws in a couple of hot keys for controlling system services like Sleep and Fast User Switching. While these functions have nothing to do with iTunes, they come in extremely handy for many users.

Still not convinced? VersionTracker users rated SizzlingKeys an average of 4.9 stars. SizzlingKeys is free of charge (the $5 Pro edition gives you a few more features, but most functions are available in the free edition). It is easy to install and, in the unlikely case that you don't like it, uninstall.

Download your copy here.

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ProVoc (Free).

ProVoc is a free and easy-to-use vocabulary trainer and memorization program that will help you quickly learn and efficiently train your vocabulary. Behind its simple and user-friendly interface, ProVoc offers a rich variety of unique features that will greatly help you improve your knowledge of any foreign language or technical terminology.

ProVoc has the ability to print to index cards and an iPod interface. The developer's site offers training plug-ins to numerous foreign languages and scientific fields.

Get it here.

Get foreign language and scientific plug-ins here.

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SnapNDrag (Free).

Screen Capture made easy.

Effortless Screen Capture

SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off.

For example, to email a screenshot, you would drag the screenshot from SnapNDrag to the Mail application. It is that simple. No hard-to-remember key combinations, no file conversion to deal with, no file dialog boxes to navigate, no temporary files to erase later on.

Multiple Formats

Supports PNG and TIFF for times when image quality cannot be compromised. Or use JPEG with adjustable quality for smaller file sizes.

Get it here.

Firefox 2 (Free).

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.

• Enjoy a Better Web Experience - Firefox 2 delivers helpful new features to make your online experience more productive.


• Stay Secure on the Web - Firefox continues to lead the way in online security, and now includes active protection from online scams to keep you safer.


• Personalize Your Browser - Choose from over a thousand useful add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox to make it your own.

Get it here.

Also available. The Firefox Ebay Edition and the Firefox Campus Edition. Both available at the above link.

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Delivery Status 3.7 (Free).

Can’t wait for your packages to arrive? Don’t waste your time checking the site constantly, just open this all-in-one delivery tracker and enter your order number or tracking number. The status will update automatically for you, and even count down the days! It also works with Growl to give you pop-up message, email notifications, and more, whenever your package status changes. If you have more than one order, just open another copy of the widget so you can keep an eye on them all at once!

Delivery Status lets you track your deliveries from:

• Adobe.com (US and Canada)
• Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.de, Amazon.at, and Amazon.fr
• Apple.com (including all international stores)
• Aramex
• Canada Post (Postes Canada)
• DHL (US and Germany)
• DPD
• FedEx and FedEx SmartPost
• Google Checkout
• Nintendo (US and Canada)
• Purolator
• Royal Mail
• TNT
• UPS and UPS Mail Innovations
• USPS (United States Postal Service)

Delivery Status offers all of these great features:

• Get automatic notifications, including pop-up alerts and email messages, with Growl (you must download and install Growl to use this feature)
• Track multiple deliveries—just click the + button to open another widget!
• Click the item name to view other shipments in the order
• Click the logo to open the order details page in your browser
• Click the “updated” text to refresh the status manually
• Click the magnifying glass or drag the right side of the widget to choose from various sizes, including a space saving icon view
• Hover over a preference or item name for more information
• Amazon passwords can be stored securely in your keychain (or not saved at all if you prefer)
• Automatically checks for updates when necessary
• Now in English, German (translated by Jennifer Brehm), Japanese (translated by Justin McPeak), French (translated by Thierry Di Lenarda), Dutch (translated by Tim Van Damme), and Italian (translated by Ivano Brignoli)
• Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later is required. Previously known as Apple Order Status and Order Status for Amazon and Apple.

Get it here.

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Mail Followup (Free).

Have you ever wanted to resend a message to a recipient or a group with an additional comment or additional information? In other words, to follow up on the original message you sent? And didn't want to have to fool around with increasing and decreasing indents or moving around email addresses between the to, cc, and bcc fields? Then MailFollowup is an excellent free plugin for Apple Mail, to do just that for you.

Get it here.

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Carbon Copy Cloner (Free).

In its simplest form, CCC will clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. This is very useful if, for example, your laptop is damaged and you must send it in for repair.

CCC can also be used to perform regular backups of your data. When you select a source disk in CCC, you are presented with the contents of that disk (hidden items too). Simply uncheck the items that you do not want to backup, and CCC will provide ample indication what will and will not be copied. Select a target disk to which you would like to backup, then press the clone button.

The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling -- you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer. CCC includes that functionality, and takes it even further.

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Pencil (Free).

Pencil is traditional animation software for Mac OS X. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

User Manual here.

Download it here.

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Apple.com Discounts Widget (Free).

Each day a number of discounted products from Apple.com's online store are temporarily made available on a first come, first served basis. Apple-Discounts.com displays these current-selling "hot deals" in an updated, convenient and easy-to-read format, saving Apple shoppers both time and money.

Now you can have ALL the Apple.com store bargains delivered to your desktop!

Download it now.

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Futurismo Zugakousaku - Screensavers For OS X (Free).

35 Quartz compositions that make wonderful additions to your screensaver collection.

To install as screensavers:

• Click on the image you like on the main page.
• View the sample QuickTime movie.
• If you like it - Click On The Download SRC File on the left.
• File will unzip when completed.
• Move the .QTZ file into the ~/Library/Screen Savers folder (you may have to create it).
• Open up the Screen Saver settings in System Preferences and select.

Main page here.

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Gawker (Free).

Let your computer do the gawking.

Gawker is an application for Mac OS X that creates time-lapse movies using a webcam. Images from your camera can be shared, allowing other users to record your image stream. Streams can also be combined to create a time-lapse movie with up to four locations side-by-side.

So, what does this really do? Examples here.

Download it here.

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The Ultimate Travel Widget (Free).

Travel Widgets presents the "Ultimate Travel Widget". Now you can book your Hotels, Air, Cruises, Hotel and Air Packages all in one widget. No more clutter of 3 or 4 widgets to fill up your Dashboard. The Ultimate Travel widget utilizes World Choice Travel, a Travelocity company, so you can book with confidence. Air fares are compares with 28 sites. Hotels from over 20,000 locations and every cruise line can be search for reservations. The 4 tab interfaces allows you to toggle quickly from section to section. World wide travel and many currencies supported. Download the Ultimate Travel Widgets today and start traveling right from your dashboard.

Get it here.

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NFL Football Widget (Free).

About Football Widget

Keep an eye on your favorite NFL football team - all the information you need in one single widget. The widget shows week by week schedules (game times are converted to your local time zone) with results and standings. Mousing over a game that has concluded (or is currently in progress) shows the quarter by quarter breakdown of scores as well as game leaders (or current drive and last play information for games in progress).

Get it here.

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Camouflage (Free).

Camouflage is a application for OS X that allows you to hide all of your desktop icons, leaving nothing but wallpaper.

Camouflage Features:

• Finder Integration
• Multiple Monitor Support
• Toggle to Show & Hide Icons
• Works With most Desktop Managers

Get it here.

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SafariPlus (Free).

Use SafariPlus to manage cookies, block Flash ads, and stop animations in Safari.

SafariPlus is a plug-in for Safari that lets you manage cookies as well as block Flash and GIF animations. Unlike other plugins, SafariPlus lets you take control of your web browsing experience without having to worry about complicated filtering rules and esoteric settings. SafariPlus is small and simple. Best of all, it's free.

Get it here.

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Sharpshooter (Free).

Sharpshooter is a small application which aids the management of screenshots. When you take a screenshot on Mac OS X with Command-Shift-3 (or with another variation) Sharpshooter shows a window where you may review the picture and choose what to do with it.

You can either rename it from its default name to something more descriptive, move the screenshot to the Trash, or cancel the operation keeping the screenshot as it is.

Sharpshooter is a background agent application so you may want to add it as a login item to always have it running in the background. You can control Sharpshooter through the menu status item on the right side of the menu bar.

Get it here.

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Cyberduck (Free).

Cyberduck is a free FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

What is FTP? FTP or File Transfer Protocol is used to transfer data from one computer to another over the Internet, or through a network.

Get it here.

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Bean (Free).

From the developer's website:

Bean is a small, simple word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), with many niceties added to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is powered by the same text engine as Apple's Text Edit, but it adds live word count and the ability to adjust printed margins. Lots of other features too. MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean's niche.

Bean is not a replacement for MS Word. It does not do footnotes or hierarchical styles. Further, it is only partially compatible with MS Word's .doc format. Bean is also not a competitor for AbiWord, which is a full-featured word processor. Don't even try to compare the two...apples and oranges.

Get it here.

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SmartMines (Free).

SmartMines is a minesweeper game for Mac OS X (Tiger and above) with a couple of features that makes it stand out when compared with other minesweeper games:

• "Smart clicks" that makes it easy to both mark and uncover with single button mice.


• The window is resizable so actually hitting the square you want will not be the greatest challenge.


• Custom minefields where you can vary the number of squares and mines.

Plus, did I mention it's free?

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Mac Excel Expander (Free).

From the developer's site:

Mac Excel Expander is a very powerful Automation Toolbox for Microsoft Excel for Mac. It adds 79 automation utilities and 113 new worksheet formulas into Mac Excel. The tools substantially extend Mac Excel’s functionality and add much intelligence to automate everyday complex spreadsheet tasks.

With Mac Excel Expander, you can perform impossible data crunching operations and achieve improved work efficiency that no one can achieve.

Get it here.

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LinkABoo (Shareware).

Today's Mac Goody is not free software, but I'm mentioning it because it performs a useful function I've been unable to find elsewhere.

Have you ever wanted to create in a document a hyperlink to a specific email message in Apple Mail? Unfortunately, there is no built-in way to do this. Enter LinkABoo. LinkABoo allows you to create a hyperlink in many types of documents to specific email messages. No longer do you need to search your email by subject, sender, or contents. Just click a link to take you to your message.

Note: LinkABoo only works with Apple Mail, and only in OS X 10.4. From an email from the developer, it can be used in MS Office and NeoOffice, but a workaround is needed. Contact the developer for more information.

Get it here.

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Cashbox (Free).

Cashbox is a personal finance application for Mac OS X.

Find Quicken just too overwhelming? Too many features you have no use for? Try Cashbox. Cashbox was designed to be a quick and simple to use application for managing personal finances. As it has evolved, it has become more feature packed while keeping with the original goal of simplicity. It's no Quicken, but it was never meant to be.

More information here.

Download it here.

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