Achieving top rankings in major search engines requires multiple optimization techniques, among which managing your incoming links can be a highly crucial one. Major search engines will improve your Web site rankings during their periodical crawls depending on the number and quality of the sites linking to your domain. Don't worry about tracking and improving those links -- Advanced Link Manager can do it for you.
Chat Transcript Manager 1.0
freeware
Unsanity, unsanity@unsanity.com, www.unsanity.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.3 or later
Chat Transcript Manager will index all of your iChat and Adium X chat transcripts and allow you to find what you need in a snap.
Cyberduck 2.5.2
freeware
David Kocher, dkocher@cyberduck.ch, www.cyberduck.ch
Requirements: Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
Cyberduck is a open-source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL 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.
You simply drop the file you wish to send in FileChute and drag the generated web link to the email you're composing. When your recipient gets the mail, he or she clicks on the link to retrieve the file.
GarageSale 1.9.4
shareware
iwascoding.com, www.iwascoding.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
GarageSale is a client application for the eBay online auction system. It allows Mac OS X users to create auctions quickly using an intuitive Mac-like interface, integrates with iPhoto, and offers WYSIWYG text editing.
iChatUSBCam 2.0.6
trial
ken@ecamm.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.3 or later, iChatAV 2.0 or later
iChatUSBCam is an add-on for iChat AV which allows you to use a USB Webcam for video conferencing. It also enables video conferencing on Macs which otherwise fall below Apple's system requirements for conferencing.
IOXWebcam X 1.1
trial
IOXperts, support@ioxperts.com, www.ioxperts.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2.8 or later, supported USB or FireWire camera, OS X native video application
If you've got an old USB or FireWire Webcam that won't work with your Mac, don't throwit out yet -- try IOXebcam X. This driver supports many cameras that the Mac can't handle on its own.
iTuneMyWalkman 0.8
freeware
Ilari Scheinin, http://ilari.scheinin.fidisk.fi
Requirements: Mac OS X or later, compatible mobile phone or other portable device, iTunes
iTuneMyWalkman is an iTunes script that will help you synchronize the contents of iTunes playlists with your mobile phone or other portable device. The purpose is to make this happen as automatically as possible, almost like it does with an iPod or an iTunes-compatible Motorola phone. The script can automatically detect when you connect your phone.
If you don't like the idea of information possibly being gathered from your computer and being sent to who-knows-where for who-knows-what, Little Snitch helps. When an application tries to establish a network connection, Little Snitch intercepts the attempt and brings up an alert panel giving you all the connection details including the name of the application that initiated the connection. You either choose to allow the connection, to deny it or to add a permanent rule for similar future connections.
If you get and send large volumes of email that you need to archive and access easily, check out MailSteward. If you're running Mac OS X, Panther, or Tiger, and you are using the Mac OS X Mail app, or can export MBOX files from other email clients such as Entourage, then MailSteward can help.
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2 or later, network or Internet connection
File sharing isn't rocket science, but it can be a real pain in the keister. Enter PC-Mac-Net FileShare X Lite, a file-sharing, workgroup-collaboration, and remote-data-synchronization product which operates over LANs and the Internet.
Speed Download 3.0.14
shareware
YazSoft, info@yazsoft.com, www.yazsoft.com
Requirements: G3, Mac OS 10.2.6 or later
Impatient with file downloads? Give this app a whirl. This download manager can improve your file download speeds and maximize your bandwidth -- no matter what type of connection you have or which browser you use.
Watcher'84 1.4
shareware
Bruno Blondeau, contact@brunoblondeau.com, www.brunoblondeau.com
Requirements: Mac OS X or later
Tired of always looking at the same Web sites all day long for updated information? Watcher'84 monitors your list of favorite Web pages and notifies you when something gets updated on one of them. Watcher'84 focuses on the real page content only, bypassing ads, counters, and other unneeded elements which would otherwise trigger unwanted notifications.
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2 or later, Internet connection
Yummy FTP is an FTP/SFTP client that can monitor busy servers or stalled connection and reconnect and resume transfers where they left off. It can also easily traverse firewalls, due to its automatic FTP mode detection system.
