Black Cat Systems, support@blackcatsystems.com, www.blackcatsystems.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2 or later
The Atomic Mac is a periodic table of the elements whose color-coding helps you see the mass, electronegativity, and other relationships among elements. Clicking on an element brings up a window with a host of data such as density and boiling point. The Atomic Mac also contains a wealth of nuclear information about each isotope, including half life, decay mode, and daughter products. X-ray data (fluorescence and binding energies) is also available. A molecular weight calculator makes it easy to find the molecular weight of compounds. A shaded diagram, showing the ranges of physical properties, makes it easy to visualize relationships across the periodic table.
AuctionSieve helps you rapidly filter through the auctions in eBay searches or categories. Especially designed for collectors, the quick, easy-to-use interface helps you exclude the stuff you're not interested in and target items of real value. Save an unlimited number of searches. Combine search results. Sort results instantly. Create an unlimited number of trash words for your searches just by highlighting what you don't want -- no typing involved. Sort auction results by "catch words" to help spot hidden bargains.
Do you live from pay day to pay day? Do you run out of money to pay your monthly bills? When the insurance bill comes once a year, do you wonder where you will find the money? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, this app can help you set up and live by a budget based on the tried and true "envelope" model. With this program you can allocate money in advance to ensure you have funds to pay your bills. You may write checks, make deposits, enter pays, and balance your checkbook. You can see at a glance how much money you have in budget, savings, or investment accounts. You can transfer money between envelopes using simple drag and drop. The powerful search capabilities allow you to find any transaction easily. Budget will print on existing checks using most ink jet printers; it can even print your signature.
Chirp team task management software transforms how you assign, track, and analyze the activities of teams you work with. Chirp is a group “dashboard” used by your entire team to coordinate information about task assignments, status information, and project issues and comments.
Diet Sleuth 4.3.1
shareware
Black Cat Systems, support@blackcatsystems.com, www.blackcatsystems.com
Requirements: Mac OS X or later
Eat your way to better health with the help of this program that will keep track of what foods you eat each day and its nutritional value. It also calculates your calorie intake, fat grams, carbs, sodium, and more.
Digital Alarm Clock 2.5
trial
Coverall Crew, http://macalarmclock.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.1 or later
Digital Alarm Clock is a small desktop app that tells time the 1970s way. Its authentic-looking LED display illuminates your desktop in primary colors -- just like you remember from your old bedside table.
HyperTranscribe 1.0
demo
ResearchWare, www.researchware.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2 or later
HyperTranscribe lets you transcribe nearly any audio or video file. With keyboard shortcuts that keep your fingers close to the "home row," you can transcribe on any Mac without needing a cumbersome foot pedal. Customizable shortcuts let you quickly enter blocks of text in a single keystroke. Media can be played in segments of definable length, with looping and other options to help your transcribing.
Have trouble learning stuff? This full-featured and free flashcard app allows you to test yourself by displaying cards front first, back first, or randomly back or front, and in random order. You supply the content and let the app do the rest. You can even check off those cards that you have down pat, so you learn more efficiently.
Requirements: 350MHz G3 (G4 or G5 recommended), Mac OS 10.2 or later
Powered by MySQL, iList Studio is built on the same engine that powers iList Data personal database software. iList Studio supports all of the single-user features of iList Data, but also creates and administers MySQL databases, making it ideal for collaborative research, workgroups, and Web development.
iOrganize (Mac OS 10.4.x) 6.1.3
shareware
Bruno Blondeau, contact@brunoblondeau.com, http://www.brunoblondeau.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.4.x
iOrganize (Mac OS 10.2.x or 10.3.x) 5.5.5
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2.x or 10.3.x
iOrganize (Mac OS 10.1.x) 4.4.7
Requirements: Mac OS 10.1.x
Stickies can be useful when you need to jot down little bits of info. So can TextEdit. But once you start archiving all of these little notes, how do you really expect to find that one crucial phone number that you wrote down -- somewhere? This app can help. It allows you to store all of your notes, ideas, text extracts, Web links, and other bits of information that you don’t want to file away in Address Book, Safari, or other organizer-type app. It also lets you search through your collection of scraps to find what you need quickly.
LargeType is a Mac OS X service that displays any selected text in large type similar to the large type option in Address Book.
Mellel 2.0.1
trial
RedleX, support@redelers.com, www.redlers.com
Requirements: G3, Mac OS X
Looking for an alternative word processor? Check this one out. Mellel lets you create rich documents with page, paragraph, and character styles, headers and footers, document setup, and more; it supports most of OS X’s advanced technologies including services and spelling; it can import and export files to and from RTF and 7 plain text encoding, including Windows and OS 9 plain text files; and it supports Hebrew and all Roman languages.
NoteBook helps you keep track of photos, emails, graphics, and documents; create project journals, directories, or portfolios; Clip images, e-mails, and news stories; and add formatted, searchable notes. Find anything using NoteBook's patented indexing technology.
Pcalc 3.0.2
shareware
TLA Systems, www.pcalc.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.4.2 or later
PCalc 2 is a new release of the veteran calculator application from 1992. It's a fully featured scientific calculator with support for hexadecimal and binary calculations.
You’ve got Address Book in Mac OS X, but what’ve you got on the Classic side? If you’re in need of an app to manage your contacts, Phonebook does just that. With it you can store names, addresses, company names, multiple phone numbers, notes, and more. Calling up any of your VIPs is as easy as clicking on a letter to find your contact. You can also use it to print addresses on envelopes, dial phone numbers, create your own fields, and more.
PocketMac for Blackberry 3.5
demo
Information Appliance Associates, timg@pocketmac.net, www.pocketmac.net
Requirements: Mac OS 10.3 or later, compatible Blackberry device
PocketMac For BlackBerry seamlessly syncs your Blackberry handheld to your Mac. Install the software on your Mac, configure which options you want enabled (Entourage Calendar, iCal, Tasks, etc.), connect your BlackBerry to your Mac via USB or Serial Cable, and start the sync. That's all that's required.
Requirements: Mac OS 10.1 or later, FileMaker Pro 5.5 or later for network operation
SessionTimer Pro is the ideal time-logging tool for multiple projects. It is immune to system crashes or accidental quitting. Magic? Nope. It just runs whether your Mac is running or not.
Shoebox 1.2
shareware
KavaSoft, info@kavasoft.com, www.kavasoft.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.3 or later
Shoebox is an Mac OS X application for organizing digital photos by content. It uses Knowledge Base technology to learn what's in each of your photos. Shoebox allows you to organize your photos by date, people, places, and things. With Shoebox you can quickly find exactly the photo you want, even if you have a very large collection. Shoebox also lets you surf your photo collection like a Web browser. If you already use iPhoto, importing your photo collection is easy.
TapDex gives you a one-tap access to your Mac OS X Address Book.Tap the customizable hot key and up pops a search window. Start typing and the set of matching entries narrows down in real-time.
TaskTime3 3.6
trial
To The Point Software, contact@ttpsoftware.com, www.ttpsoftware.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.1 or later
TaskTime3 can make tracking time on projects a snap. Generate custom invoices then print, email, or save them. Unlimited clients, unlimited projects for each client.
Textpander 1.2
freeware
Peter Maurer, mail@petermaurer.de, www.petermaurer.de
Requirements: Mac OS 10.3.9
Textpander is a utility that helps you type more efficiently and more accurately. Textpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations.
The Omni Group Software Bundle
demo
The Omni Group, omniweb@omnigroup.com, www.omnigroup.com
Requirements: Mac OS 10.2 or later
This software bundle includes three of The Omni Group’s top titles: OmniOutliner, OmniWeb and OmniGraffle.
TimeNet is a professional invoicing app that just works. It's combines an intuitive and clean Aqua-styled interface with sensible organization and powerful features.
Tinderbox is a personal content management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans. It can help you organize and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs Tinderbox maps your notes as you make them. Build relationships by arranging notes, organizing them with shape and color, and linking them. Tinderbox lets you record ideas quickly and keep them where you'll find them again when you need them.
TopXNotes is a modern note pad for Mac OS X loaded with handy features, including color text, style, font and font size. It also features internal drag and drop from note view to note view, cut/copy/paste and drag and drop to and from external applications, recognition of links (ftp, web, email, other) and the ability to launch them with a single click, an advanced table of contents as a separate window, and more.
An interactive almanac and world clock that displays and compares local times, daylight hours, and moon info for time zones and cities throughout the world. The current time, date, and time zone can be quickly changed.
