Mac OSX

Today is a new shareware utility that makes it easy to keep an eye on your appointments and to-do items. It even synchronizes with iCal, if you use that on your Mac.

AudialHub is a shareware audio converter from the same company responsible for VisualHub, a shareware video converter I like. I expected to like AudialHub, and I did... for the most part.

Here are my top five most used OSX Apps that are free to download!

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How to edit your photos with entirely free software on a Mac. This article describes a free open source application called "Seashore" which can give you tools found in premium applications like "Photoshop" absolutely free of charge

While AudioRefurb gives you many audio editing features Audacity offers for free, there are reasons to pay the twenty dollar shareware fee.

With Slife, you can keep track of how much time you spend in different programs, even different documents or websites, to more easily find out where all your "free time" went!

With Gluestick, you can make custom folder, document and plugin application with only a few clicks of the button.

Do you have a bunch of untagged videos in MP4 format sitting around your Mac hard drive? Never fear, MetaX is here to make it simple to whip your movie collection into shape.

TwistedWave is a fantastic option for Mac users who want something fast, attractive and easy to use for recording and editing audio.

PhotoEdit is a nice shareware photo editing application for Mac OSX. It could use a bit of updating, but overall it's very nice.

NameChanger does exactly what its name implies. It allows you to change the name of files... a lot of files... all at the same time, and do it easily and quickly to boot!

Bleep Blop (from the same developer that brought you DeskFlickr) is a free utility to quickly and easily change your Mac's default system sounds.

With DiskLibrary, you can quickly and easily catalog all your CDs and DVDs, which makes it a breeze to find all that "stuff" you've backed up for safe keeping.

Licensed is a free registration database utility for Mac OSX that makes it incredibly easy to keep all your registration codes and serial numbers in one place.

Deep Notes hits a home run, in my mind. Not only is this outliner simple, intuitive and full of great features, but it's free as well. What more could you want?

The free utility iWatchTV is great for anyone who loves television shows. It helps you keep track of new episodes, catalog episodes you have on your hard drives, and shows you still need to get.

BdCalendar, for those looking for such a thing, is an extremely powerful, insanely customizable calendar and appointment application for Mac OSX.

Covers is an interesting tool. It searches the web for replacement cover art for your CDs and DVDs. It isn't perfect, but it's a good start.

RapidoResizer is a free image program that resizes, converts and rotates your images. It's pretty good, but a little annoying.

NewsFire is a very nice blog reader, supporting both Atom and RSS feeds, for Mac OSX. It's long been a shareware product, but recently its developer decided to make it freeware, so I took another look.

QuickSnap is a shareware utility that does more than the screen shot options provided by Apple, and costs less than Snapz Pro. What else could you want?

With NOMu, you can start any of the NeoOffice applications with just a single click, or bring up any of your templates, not to mention your recent items.

SpotInside is a free application, designed to be used along with Spotlight, that allows you not just to search your hard drive, but to actually peek inside the results so you don't waste time opening file after file that turned out not to be what you wanted.

MagiCal is a great free product for Mac that puts a clock and a calendar in your Menu Bar, making it incredibly easy to not only see the time, but keep track of your iCal appointments as well.

EasyFind wants to be a replacement for Spotlight, but without all that lengthy indexing. Does it succeed? Sort of. Read on to find out more.

For those of you still wishing for the days when you could access all your applications from one handy menu bar icon, rejoice, for XMenu is here.

Sure, your Mac can already zip and unzip files for emailing and archiving, but with BetterZip, you can do a whole lot more.

PixelWalker is a perfect combination of iPhoto's photo viewing capabilities and Preview's simplicity. And it's free!

Meteo is a little weather applet that lives in the menu bar of your Mac, quietly updating itself throughout the day to show you all kinds of weather information. It's slick, easy to use, and best of all... free!