Despite all the great reviews Macintosh computers have garnered over the years, we rarely see it stated that Apple’s groundbreaking platform has attracted some of the best designed software on the market today. In fact, we would venture to say that with few exceptions, the Mac has the best possible software for the task at hand.
And that’s from a former Windows user. That’s partly due to the fact that Apple was first on the market with an integrated smartphone solution, pointing the way for Mac developers to create seamless synchronization solutions. Below are my picks for the most ubercool Macintosh software:
1Password
1Password can create strong, unique passwords, organize them, and insert them in web pages using a handy button installed in your web browser. There is a new 4.0 but I am sticking with v3 until I hear that 1Password works better, specifically in the area of capturing name and password for a site, it sometimes fails.
Publisher: Agile Bits
Website: https://agilebits.com/onepassword/mac
Version: 3.8.21
Category: Utility
Price: $49.99
Adobe Creative Suite CS6
Adobe’s Creative Suite includes Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat X Pro. If you’re a designer, you can’t do without these famous tools. Pricey but necessary, and now that Adobe has gone Creative Cloud, CS6 is your last opportunity to own Adobe’s core tools outright. Don’t miss this opportunity!
Publisher: Adobe Systems
Website: <h6>Aperture</h6>
<p>This latest version of Aperture now shares your iPhoto library for greater simplicity in use.</p>
<p>Publisher: Apple Inc. <br />Website: <a href=http://www.ubercool.com/83-macintosh-apps-i-cant-live-without/%22>http://www.apple.com/aperture/
Version: 3.4.4
Category: Photography
Price: $79.99
AppDelete
AppDelete is a great program uninstaller that removes not only applications but also any other associated files that reside anywhere on your Mac.
Publisher: Reggie Ashworth
Website: http://www.reggieashworth.com/
Version: 4.0.6
Category: Utility
Price: $7.99
Balsamic Mockups
Balsamiq Mockups is a cross-platform rapid software prototyping tool that lets a UX designer quickly create a mockup of software screens. One minor quibble: no ready-made icons for folders or documents. The image above shows the author’s concept for a next-generation CRM program, used in a ReadWrite story.
Publisher: Balsamic
Website: http://www.balsamiq.com
Version: 2.2.3
Category: Developer Tools
Price: $79.00
Bento
Bento is a simple database manager with built-in, predesigned forms that also lets you connect to, or edit, records in your Address Book.
Publisher: Filemaker
Website: http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/
Version: 4.1.2
Category: Database
Price: $49.00
Breeze
Breeze is a window management application that is perfect for people who want quickly split-screen a window, or someone like me who needs to quickly replicate a standard windows size for screenshots.
Publisher: Autumn Apps LLC
Website: http://autumnapps.com/breeze/index.html
Version: 1.5.7
Category: Utility
Price: $8.00
BusyCal
BusyCal is far better than the Mountain Lion calendar because it works just like the calendar in Leopard. It can also be shared easily via iCloud or Google.
Publisher: BusyCal LLC
Website: http://www.busymac.com/
Version: 2.0.5
Category: Calendar
Price: $49.99
ChronoSync
Great solution for backing up and synchronizing files with an external hard disk or other storage device.
Publisher: Econ Technologies
Website: http://www.econtechnologies.com/
Version: 4.3.8
Category: Utility
Price: $40.00
Cinch
Gives Mac users a nice Windows 7 feature: Drag a window until the mouse cursor touches either left or right edges of the screen, and the window “”cinches”” into place. Cinch will resize a window to half screen, allowing you to easily compare two windows side-by-side.
Publisher: Irradiated Software
Website: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com
Version: 1.1.1
Category: Utility
Price: $7.00
Cinematica
Need a central place to organize your videos? Cinematica is like iTunes for music or iPhoto for photos, only it can search your collection by technical properties like resolution, aspect ratio, frame rate or video codec.
Publisher: Xeric Design Ltd.
Website: http://www.xericdesign.com/cinematica.php
Version: 1.0.6
Category: Video
Price: $24.95
Clean Text
E-mails, Windows, and, yes, even some sloppy publishers produce files that are filled with funny characters. Use Clean Text to remove unwanted paragraph breaks, tabs, the quote marks in e-mails, etc.
Publisher: Apimac
Website: http://www.apimac.com/mac/cleantext/
Version: 6.8.2
Category: Utility
Price: $14.99
Cobook
Cobook resides in your Mac menu bar and can be called up any time to search, add and edit entries in your Address Book. Simply indispensable.
Publisher: Cobook
Website: http://www.cobookapp.com/
Version: 1.2.7
Category: CRM
Price: Free
Coda
Edit HTML code simply and quickly with this very nice web development tool. Coda lets you simply click on a file name and you can start editing web pages.
Publisher: Panic
Website: http://www.panic.com/coda/
Version: 1.7.5
Category: Developer Tools
Price: $99.00
Daylite
Daylite is becoming my preferred CRM solution. As I noted in my other post, CRM for the Mac, this category was seriously lacking but is seeing a lot of capable new tools being released.
Publisher: Marketcircle Inc.
Website: http://www.marketcircle.com/daylite/
Version: 4.2.2
Category: CRM
Price: $280.00
Direct Mail
Direct Mail is a freemium program that lets you create e-mail messages and send them to lists using either your e-mail account or Direct Mail’s pre-paid e3 delivery service.
Publisher: e3 Software
Website: http://www.directmailmac.com/
Version: 3.5.1
Category: E-mail
Price: Freemium
Drive Genius
Drive Genius is reportedly used by Apple to check storage devices, and can perform a number of functions, including defragging, permission repair and other optimization tasks.
Publisher: Prosoft Engineering Inc
Website: http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius_features.php
Version: 3.2.2
Category: Utility
Price: $99.00
Dropbox
Dropbox lets you save files to the cloud, so you can instantly access them on other computers, your iPhone or your iPad. A must have.
Publisher: Dropbox
Website: http://www.dropbox.com/
Version: 1.6.18
Category: Cloud
Price: Freemium
eMail Extractor
Email Extractor extracts email addresses from text files, which is a great way to build a customer contact list using your mailbox data.
Publisher: Maxprog
Website: http://maxprog.com/
Version: 3.5.1
Category: E-mail
Price: $20.00
eMail Verifier
This email verification tool actually connects to your mail server and checks whether an email address exists or not, and disconnects without sending.
Publisher: Maxprog
Website: http://maxprog.com/
Version: 3.6
Category: E-mail
Price: $30.00
Evernote
Evernote saves notes or web clippings and lets you access them from any platform. Indispensable for people who do a lot of research, like yours truly.
Publisher: Evernote
Website: http://www.evernote.com/
Version: 5.1.3
Category: Cloud
Price: Freemium
Export Address Book
Apple’s Address Book does not let you export contacts by group. Export Address Book does that and a lot more. Totally worth $4, don’t you agree?
Publisher: Stefan Keller
Website: http://www.subclassed.com/
Version: 1.8
Category: CRM
Price: $3.99
ExpressScribe
Need software to transcribe your Sony or Olympus digital voice recordings? Download the freemium ExpressScribe software and you have a good solution.
Publisher: NCH Software
Website: http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html
Version: 5.50
Category: Writing
Price: Freemium
Fantastical
Fantastical has become my go-to calendar program. Yes I use BusyCal too, but I can always access Fantastical from the menu bar when I need it, and its scheduling intelligence is great. It also looks beautiful and there is an iPhone app.
Publisher: Flexibits
Website: http://flexibits.com/fantastical
Version: 1.3.7
Category: Calendar
Price: $19.99
Fetch
Fetch is file transfer utility that is easy of use and supports FTP and SFTP, the most popular file transfer protocols used to manage your web site or blog.
Publisher: Fetch Softworks
Website: http://www.fetchsoftworks.com
Version: 5.7.3
Category: Developer Tools
Price: $29.00
FileMaker Pro 12
FileMaker Pro is fully programmable database design tool that can be used to create custom relational databases that can be deployed in all platforms, Mac, iPhone and iPad. This database listing was originally created in FileMaker.
Publisher: Filemaker
Website: http://www.filemaker.com/
Version: 12.0v4
Category: Database
Price: $299.00
FinalDraft
Want to write a screen play or Broadway book? FinalDraft lets you approach it the right way, seamlessly formatting your script as you type.
Publisher: Final Draft Inc.
Website: http://www.finaldraft.com/
Version: 8.0
Category: Writing
Price: $249.00
FontDoctor
Need to organize and repair your fonts? FontDoctor does this very well.
Publisher: FontGear Inc.
Website: http://fontgear.net/fontdoctor.html
Version: 8.1.3
Category: Utility
Price: $69.99
Free Ruler
Free Ruler is a floating horizontal and vertical ruler that measures on-screen items in pixels, inches, picas,or centimeters. A necessity for web designers.
Publisher: Pascal
Website: http://www.pascal.com/software/freeruler/
Version: 1.7b5
Category: Utility
Price: Free
GarageSale
Now here’s a tool for today’s economy. GarageSale is basically an eBay management tool. Use pre-designed templates to make your old stuff look good and GarageSale manages uploading of the content and seller communication. Slick.
Publisher: iwascoding GmbH
Website: http://www.iwascoding.com/GarageSale/
Version: 6.6.2
Category: E-commerce
Price:
GitHub
If you use GitHub, and what technocrat doesn’t, you already know about this app.
Publisher: GitHub
Website: http://mac.github.com
Version: Drum ‘n’ Rebase (150)
Category: Developer Tools
Price: Free
Google Chrome
Google Chrome has become the most popular browser because it’s frequently updated in the background, lighting fast and easily extensible.
Publisher: Google
Website: http://www.google.com/mac/
Version: 27.0
Category: Browser
Price: Free
Google Earth
Put the world at your fingertips. Fly to any place around the globe and see maps with 3D buildings and street-view terrains. Mindbendingly fun.
Publisher: Google
Website: http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
Version: 7.0.3
Category: Mapping
Price: Free
GoToMeeting
If you produce or attend webinars or online presentations, GoToMeeting is definitely one of the gold standards of the online meeting world. Work with anyone, anywhere, as long as you can afford the monthly $49 entrance fee.
Publisher: Citrix Online LLC
Website: http://www.gotomeeting.com
Version: 5.4
Category: Online Meeting
Price: $49.00
GrandTotal
Create invoices and estimates with a customized design. Automatically attaches a PDF invoice to email for quick sending. Great for consultants.
Publisher: Stefan Frst
Website: http://mediaatelier.com/GrandTotal/
Version: 2.1
Category: Finance
Price: $90.00
iBooks Author
From Apple comes e-books love in the form of iBooks Author, which lets you create sophisticated e-books with video, photo gallery widgets and much more. Download your free copy now.
Publisher: Apple
Website: http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/
Version: 2.0
Category: E-books
Price: Free
Icon Slate
Do you need to design a favicon for your website? Then you must use Icon Slate, which is an easy-to-use tool that generates favicons, including Retina versions.
Publisher: Jeremy Marchand
Website: http://www.kodlian.com/apps/icon-slate/
Version: 3.4
Category: Developer Tools
Price: $4.99
iLivid
Do you want your very own copy of a YouTube video to show off in your presentations? Then you must download the free iLivid app. It’s the only one that works.
Publisher: Bandoo Media Inc.
Website: http://www.ilivid.com
Version: 4.0
Category: Video
Price: Free
iMovie
iMovie lets you edit your camcorder and iPhone movies and organizes them for easy browsing and watching. Totally Apple, totally ubercool.
Publisher: Apple Inc.
Website: http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Version: 9.09
Category: Video
Price: $14.99
iPhoto
iPhoto grabs photos from your digicam, organizes them by event or import date, lets you retouch photos and sends them to your friend’s inbox or mailbox.
Publisher: Apple
Website: http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
Version: 9.4.3
Category: Photography
Price: $14.99
Kaleidoscope
If you code you know how often you have to compare two pieces of code to detect the differences. Kaleidoscope makes this easy and sports a beautiful interface too. Unfortunately, Black Pixel decided to nearly double its price to $70. Not totally ubercool but worth it if you compare files a lot.
Publisher: Black Pixel
Website: http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com
Version: 2.0
Category: Developer Tools
Price: $69.99
Keynote
Keynote was the program that made yours truly switch back to the Mac. It’s that good. Outstanding ease of use and power, makes PPT fans green with envy.
Publisher: Apple
Website: http://www.apple.com/iwork/
Version: 5.3
Category: Presentation
Price: $19.99
Kindle for Mac
Want to read Kindle books on your MacBook? No problem with the free Kindle for Mac app makes, which can now be also downloaded in the App Store.
Publisher: Amazon.com
Website: <h6>LittleSnapper</h6>
<p>Need to take screenshots of entire web pages, i.e. more than is shown on your screen? LittleSnapper not only takes these screenshots but organizes them too.</p>
<p>Publisher: Realmac Software <br />Website: <a href=http://www.ubercool.com/83-macintosh-apps-i-cant-live-without/%22>http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper/
Version: 1.8.3
Category: Design
Price: $39.99
MailSteward
MailSteward archives huge volumes of email by storing them in a database that offers sophisticated searches plus the ability to extract mail addresses.
Publisher: Publog.com
Website: http://www.mailsteward.com/
Version: 9.2
Category: Database
Price: $49.95
Mint QuickView
This Macintosh application is a companion program to the Mint website. It brings the same beautiful graphics to the desktop but adds another nicety: a menu icon that tells you when a bank transaction has occurred. Great tool for organizing your financial life.
Publisher: Intuit Inc.
Website: http://www.mint.com
Version: 2.0.1
Category: Finance
Price: Free
Mountain Tweaks
Mountain Tweaks, and Lion Tweaks, lets you customize and correct certain features in Mac OS X 10.7, many of which are undoubtedly annoying to you. After you download this free app, donate to developer Fredrik Wiker, so he can get a college education.
Publisher: Fredrik Wiker
Website: <h6>Name Mangler</h6>
<p>Need to rename a large set of files, like for instance add their size in pixels to the file name? Name Mangler will do this chore.</p>
<p>Publisher: Many Tricks <br />Website: <a href=http://www.ubercool.com/83-macintosh-apps-i-cant-live-without/%22>http://manytricks.com/namemangler/
Version: 3.1
Category: Utility
Price: $19.99
Numbers
Numbers is the Excel of the Mac. It has much of its power, but some might feel it’s not enough. While Apple needs to update the iWorks suite badly, it’s well worth $20.
Publisher: Apple
Website: http://www.apple.com/iwork/
Version: 2.3
Category: Finance
Price: $19.99
OmniOutliner
OmniOutliner is our favorite tool for creating to-do lists, data lists, or any task that requires outlining. While its unconvential formatting techiques demand a steep learning curve, it does offer many nice features.
Publisher: The Omni Group
Website: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnioutliner/
Version: 3.10.6
Category: Writing
Price: $39.99
OpenOffice
Need a free tool that can open Microsoft Office documents? Look no further, OpenOffice is here to help you word process, spreadsheet and present to your heart’s content.
Publisher: Apache Software Foundation
Website: http://www.openoffice.org
Version: 3.4.1
Category: Productivity
Price: Free
Pages
Pages is the Microsoft Word of the Mac. Like Numbers, Pages has outstanding layout capabilities, as exemplified by its built-in templates. Well worth $20.
Publisher: Apple
Website: http://www.apple.com/iwork/
Version: 4.3
Category: Writing
Price: $19.99
Panorama Sheets
Need to manipulate data? Like join two fields or clean up a database marred by sloppy data entry? Panorama Sheets parses your data fast by doing all its work in RAM.
Publisher: ProVUE Development
Website: http://www.provue.com
Version: 6.0.0
Category: Database
Price: $39.95
Paparazzi
Paparazzi captures screenshots of websites but goes beyond the call of duty by grabbing the entire page, as far as the eye cannot see.
Publisher: Nate Weaver
Website: http://derailer.org/paparazzi/
Version: 0.6.7
Category: Utility
Price: Shareware
Paprika
Manage all your recipes on the Mac and then sync the recipe and shopping list to your iPhone. Paprka is one of the best recipe managers.
Publisher: Hindsight Labs LLC
Website: http://www.paprikaapp.com
Version: 1.4.2
Category: Food
Price: $19.99
Parallels Desktop
Run Windows apps on your Mac in a separate window. Drap and drop text between Mac and Windows applications, all made possible by Parallels. The progress in the field of virtualization is remarkable. Parallels 8.0 is so much easier to use than previous versions.
Publisher: Parallels IP Holdings GmbH
Website: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
Version: 8.0
Category: Virtualization
Price: $79.99
Pixelmator
Need Photoshop but don’t want to pay Adobe any more money? Pixelmator does what you absolutely need: resizing, retouching, layering and more. We have totally fallen in love with the latest version Pixelmator 2.2. Its ease of use, clean interface and very attractive price make Pixelmator a viable alternative to Photoshop.
Publisher: Pixelmator Team Ltd.
Website: http://www.pixelmator.com/
Version: 2.2
Category: Creative
Price: $14.99
Presentation Prompter
Presentation Prompter turns your Mac into a teleprompter, offering full control over display preferences, including scrolling speed and character size.
Publisher: NextForce Software
Website: http://www.nextforcesw.com/presentationprompter.html
Version: 4.3.1
Category: Video
Price: $65.00
QuarkXPress
We created MacWEEK using Quark. It would not have been possible to publish a 50,000-circulation weekly in 1987 on the Mac without it. Enough said.
Publisher: Quark
Website: http://www.quark.com
Version: 8.5
Category: Design
Price: $799.00
Quicken Essentials
Here’s one case where a Windows version still outshines, but if you want balance your checkbook the Mac way, Quicken Essentials is good enough.
Publisher: Intuit
Website: http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/mac-personal-financial-software.jsp
Version: 1.7.4
Category: Finance
Price: $39.99
Reeder
Silvio Rizzi has written the most gorgeous RSS reader bar none. Reeder syncs with Google Reader feeds but showcases articles beautifully and simply.
Publisher: Silvio Rizzi
Website: http://reederapp.com
Version: 1.2
Category: RSS
Price: $9.99
ResizeIt
ResizeIt is a free batch image editor that lets you process a series of images, including scaling, cropping or rotating them, plus optimizing images for the iPad.
Publisher: NSLab
Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/resizeit/id416280139?mt=12
Version: 3.6.0
Category: Utility
Price: Free
Safari
Certain extensions, like ResizeMe, are only available for Safari, so for those with consistent window size capturing needs, Safari is the only way to go. (Chrome has no setting to get rid of its toolbar, which is why all advertising screenshots are taken in Safari.)
Publisher: Apple
Website: http://www.apple.com/safari/
Version: 6.0.4
Category: Browser
Price: Free
Scrivener
I just found the ultimate writing tool: Scrivener. I can’t believe it took me this long to find this amazing writing organizer and thought outliner. Designed for book authors, Scrivener lets you organize your writing and thoughts by folder or sub-folder. It can even attach a document to a document. I have started moving all my writing, wheter for book, site, collateral or anything else into Scrivener. Massively highly recommended for anyone who does any writing, whether for business plan or brochure.
Publisher: Literature & Latte
Website: http://www.literatureandlatte.com
Version: 2.3.1
Category: Writing
Price: $45.00
Search & Replace
Search & Replace is a powerful batch-processing utility that replaces content in text files, renames or trims file names, adds prefixes or suffixes, or changes text to upper and lower case with just one click. It will also provide you with a count of changes, if you like to keep track of stats.
Publisher: Dorian Chapeau
Website: http://search-and-replace.en.softonic.com/mac
Version: 1.8
Category: Utility
Price: $9.14
Skype
Since its launch in August 2003, Skype has reshaped the chat and internet calling market. The Mac version, while radically different from Windows, is pretty nifty.
Publisher: Microsoft
Website: http://www.skype.com/
Version: 6.4
Category: Chat
Price: Free
Smultron
Smultron is no longer updated but I have yet to find a simple text editor that does what it does, which is quick-and-dirty CSS or text editing.
Publisher: Peter Borg/Sourceforge
Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smultron/
Version: 3.6b1
Category: Developer Tools
Price: Free
Snapz Pro X
Mac designers create a lot of user manuals, so taking great screenshots is key. Snapz Pro X works the same way as Apple’s Grab but offers more options.
Publisher: Ambrosia Software Inc.
Website: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/
Version: 2.5.0
Category: Utility
Price: $69.00
Sol Basics Solitaire
If you’re addicted to Solitaire, specifically Spider Solitaire, you will dig Sol Basics. For 10 bucks, you get Sol Basics Solitaire, Spider, Free Cell and Klondike.
Publisher: Smallware LLC
Website: http://www.solbasics.com/order/
Version: 1.2
Category: Entertainment
Price: $9.99
SplashID Safe
We have two password keepers in this list. That’s because SplashID does a better job of organizing, while 1Password is better at inserting. Both could be easier to use.
Publisher: Splash
Website: http://www.splashdata.com/splashid/desktop/
Version: 6.2
Category: Utility
Price: $19.95
Suitcase Fusion 4.0
The bane of dealing with a lot of fonts is that the one you need is not always available. Suitcase Fusion makes it easy to manage a huge font library by turning fonts on and off when needed. Not cheap but definitely worth it.
Publisher: Extensis
Website: http://www.extensis.com/suitcase-fusion-4/
Version: 15.0.5
Category: Utility
Price: $99.95
Text Expander
Here is another program that I wished I had acquired earlier. Text Expander has saved me so much time typing repetitive things like URLs and return addresses, simply amazing. It even handles embedded terms that require further input when you type. Highly recommended.
Publisher: SmileOnMyMac LLC
Website: http://www.smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/index.html
Version: 4.0.5
Category: Utility
Price: $34.95
Things
Things is a well-executed list manager and was one of the first apps that let users synch between Mac and iPhone app ($10), perfect for list checkers.
Publisher: Cultured Code GmbH
Website: http://www.culturedcode.com
Version: 2.2.1
Category: Task Management
Price: $49.99
TimeMachineEditor
While Time Machine is a great backup solution, it has one annoying habit, it backs up all the time, slowing your Mac down. TimeMachineEditor solves that.
Publisher: Time Software
Website: http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/
Version: 2.5.3
Category: Utility
Price: Free
Tune Up
Tune Up will parse your iTunes music library and find song duplicates, cover art and correct information, including artist, track name, album name, etc. While it is not retina-optimized, particularly galling given its $50 price, it does what work well.
Publisher: TuneUp Media Inc.
Website: http://tuneupmedia.com
Version: 2.4.8
Category: Utility
Price: $49.95
TurboTax Home Business
This is great tax preparation software. While you can choose between the online and software version, the software has more features.
Publisher: Intuit
Website: http://turbotax.intuit.com/
Version: 2013
Category: Finance
Price: $74.95
TweetDeck
You have probably arleady heard the bad news. After taking Facebook out of Tweetdeck, Twitter has announced the end of the road for TweetDeck, my preferred Twitter client. So get it while you still can. Perhaps I will make the older version available here, so you can still download what was once the best social media client.
Publisher: Twitter
Website: http://www.tweetdeck.com
Version: 2.7.1
Category: Social Media
Price: Free
UnRarX
Some online repositories like compressing files in a weird format called “”rar”” UnRarX lets you expand these rare rar archives. 
Publisher: Alexander Roshal
Website: http://www.unrarx.com/
Version: 2.2
Category: Utility
Price: Shareware
VLC
This free video player lets you watch videos encoded in formats QuickTime player cannot handle, including MKV, WMC and AVI. As CNET puts it: If you want a player that can be totally customized and configured to suit, and is not only updated frequently but also regularly offers new features and options created by a huge community of programmers and users, the answer is VLC Media Player.
Publisher: Twoflower
Website: http://download.cnet.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-13632_4-10267151.html
Version: 2.0.6
Category: Video
Price: Free
White List
White List will parse your Apple Mail folders and provide stats on e-mail addresses you have communicated with and rank them in order of e-mails sent. An invaluable tool for making sure your e-mail lists contain the people you correspond with frequently.
Publisher: Patrick Stein
Website: <h6>Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate</h6>
<p>Despite the fact that Macs are hugely popular among video pros, you rarely find good info on the best video converter utility. Search no more, we think Wondershare is it.</p>
<p>Publisher: Wondershare <br />Website: <a href=http://www.ubercool.com/83-macintosh-apps-i-cant-live-without/%22>http://www.wondershare.com/mac-video-converter-ultimate/
Version: 3.0.1
Category: Video
Price: $69.00
Xee
Xee is an image browser that lets you turn any folder into a slide show. It will open any format Preview can open, plus a few esoteric ones, like PCX.
Publisher: Dag Agren
Website: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee
Version: 2.2
Category: Photography
Price: Shareware
XMind
XMind is a brainstorming and mind-mapping software program that lets you diagram web site structures or org charts. It’s priced using the freemium model, so no arguments here.
Publisher: XMind Ltd.
Website: www.xmind.net/
Version: 3.2.1
Category: Design
Price: Freemium
Note Regarding Pricing
- Price – All prices are list but promotions are frequently available, as are Amazon.com discounts.
- Free – Means the product is free.
- Freemium – There is a more capable version available or you can avail yourself of paid premium services.
- Shareware – The author would like you to donate money so he/she can survive. Make sure you do if you find the app useful.
Lainie Liberti is a recovering branding expert, who’s career once focused on creating campaigns for green – eco business, non-profits and conscious business. Dazzling clients with her high-energy designs for over 18 years, Lainie lent her artistic talents to businesses that matter. But that was then.
In 2008, after the economy took a turn, Lainie decided to be the change (instead of a victim) and began the process of “lifestyle redesign,” a joint decision between both her and her 11-year-old son, Miro. They sold or gave away all of of their possessions in 2009 and began a life of travel, service, and exploration. Lainie and her son Miro began their open-ended adventure backpacking through Central and South America. They are slow traveling around the globe allowing inspiration to be their compass. The pair is most interested in exploring different cultures, contributing by serving, and connecting with humanity as ‘global citizens.’
Today Lainie considers herself a digital nomad who is living a location independent life. She and her son write and podcast their experiences from the road at Raising Miro on the Road of Life.
