BBEdit: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson BBEdit has long been a go-to text and code editor for web and software developers, writers, and coders. It’s also a great text editor for anyone who needs to manipulate text files by converting, sorting, searching, and replacing. To help you manipulate text, BBEdit has a feature called Text Factories, which is [...]

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Clarify: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson Clarify is a screen capture and editing application with a twist. Designed to create illustrated documents for instructional purposes, Clarify includes editing tools that let you create call-outs, blur sensitive areas of a screen shot, and add text, including step-by-step instructions. You can share Clarify documents through the Clarify-it sharing service or [...]

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Airfoil: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba goes a step beyond Apple’s AirPlay, and creates a truly universal method for streaming audio from just about any source to any Mac, PC, AirPort Extreme, Apple TV, and or iOS device you may have. Airfoil for Mac has two components. The base package, Airfoil, runs on your [...]

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LaunchMagic: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson LaunchMagic from Chronos is a launch manager for the Mac. LaunchMagic looks a great deal like OS X Lion’s Launchpad, that simplistic launch manager that Apple threw together to mimic the way iOS devices access and launch applications. Luckily, Chronos took the time to create a really useful and customizable launch manager. [...]

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BOINC: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is an application that, when running on your Mac, allows you to donate resources on your Mac that you’re not using to research projects around the world. You choose the project; then, when you’re not using your Mac, its computing power is available for the [...]

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SpamSieve: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson SpamSieve from C-Command Software has been the go-to spam filtering system for all of the popular Mac email clients, including Apple Mail, for some years now. What separates SpamSieve from many of the spam filtering systems built into email clients is how simple it is to set up and use. It also [...]

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Smultron 4: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson Smultron is a text editor for the Mac that includes powerful features at a bargain price. Smultron supports syntax coloring in so many different coding and document languages that I have to scroll to see the whole list, even on a 27-inch display; now that’s a lot of options. Smultron also supports [...]

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ProjectDesktops: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson ProjectDesktops is one of the simplest apps I have come across. It allows you to have multiple desktops so you can keep your desktop files and folders organized by project or other categories. Your desktop folder is made up of any files or folders you place on the Mac’s default desktop. ProjectDesktops [...]

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SideWriter: Tom’s Mac Software Pick

by Tom Nelson SideWriter from code529 is a rich text editor, note taker, and organizer, all in one handy application that is always at your beck and call. SideWriter lives just off-screen, either on the left- or right-hand side of your display. Move your mouse to the edge of the display and SideWriter slides out, [...]

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Tom’s Mac Software Picks 2012

by Tom Nelson I finally got around to adding all of my Saturday software picks for 2012 to a nice, easy-to-browse list. With the Tom’s Mac Software Picks 2012 list, you can take a gander at each of my weekly Mac software picks since the beginning of the year. I’ll be updating the list every [...]

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