Tom"s Mac Software Picks 2011
Amadeus Pro: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
Amadeus Pro from HairerSoft may be one of the most often used audio recording and editing applications on the Mac platform, at least by casual and semi-professional recording engineers. Amadeus Pro's capabilities allow you to create single or multi-track recordings, and then use the many editing tools to enhance your creation.More »
Cookie Stumbler: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
Cookie Stumbler isn't just another cookie cleanup utility. Well, it is a browser and Flash cookie cleanup utility, but with enough of a difference to grab your attention. Cookie Stumbler can analyze the cookies stored in your browsers. Not just one browser, but all of your browsers at the same time. Instead of being a browser plug-in, Cookie Stumbler is a stand-alone application that works with most browsers available for the Mac. It also works with Adobe Flash to sort out your Flash cookies.More »
PopChar X: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
PopChar X lets you access all of the special characters available in a particular font, and add any of the characters to a document with just a click or two. You can choose to work with only ASCII, Unicode, or both; the search feature will help you quickly find the special character you need.More »
Simon Free: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
Simon is a site-monitoring tool that you can use to check whether your favorite web site is up, down, or updated. Intended for use by those who operate servers, Simon can let you know that everything is up and running, or that you better get in there and get things fixed pronto.More »
DoublePane: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
DoublePane from 5am Code is a gloriously simple application that rearranges two selected windows to be viewed side by side, using all of the available screen real estate.
I've been doing this for years, having two main applications open, working in both at the same time. But to do this manually, I have to drag the windows around, resize and then reposition them, until they each take up half of my screen. It is a simple process, but it's a time-consuming drag (pardon the pun)More »
Mondo Solitaire: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
Mondo Solitaire from Ambrosia Software packs over 100 solitaire card games into one software application, easily earning the name 'Mondo.' You will find not only the expected games, such as Klondike, Canfield, Freecell, and Gold, but also the unexpected, such as Streets and Alleys, Trefoil, and Yukon.More »
Tembo: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
Tembo, from Houdah Software, is a search tool based around Spotlight, the built-in Mac search system. So, why do you need yet another search system? Because Tembo is much better at organizing search results. It provides a large number of categories to make it easier to view search results, and you can drill down through any category, modifying search parameters as you go.More »
PinPoint: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
PinPoint provides larger pointers, custom pointers, fun pointers, and dynamic pointers that can help you find a little mouse pointer on a big display.
You can use PinPoint to highlight the mouse pointer when you're giving presentations or creating screencasts, as well as configure it to show when mouse clicks occur, a great way to help others follow what you're doingMore »
Smoke: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
Smoke from NeatBerry is a very simple graphics application that lets you draw with a unique brush that seems to push color around as if it were smoke.
The Smoke brush has numerous settings that control how it manipulates colors and lays down its smoky image; from basic choices like color and blends, to the exertion of gravity, speed of color changes, smoothness, and more.More »
DaisyDisk 2: Tom’s Mac Software Picks
DaisyDisk, last year's Readers' Choice Award winner in the system utility category, has recently been updated and has once again made it to my list of software picks.
DaisyDisk is an application that shows how your hard drive's space is being used. DaisyDisk scans your hard drive and displays the results on a color-coded sunburst map that resembles a daisy, with the hard drive as the center. DaisyDisk displays both the hierarchical structure of files and folders, and the relative size of each.More »
