Need to rip your DVD’s and make backups of your collection, then Handbrake is for you. Actually you should have this on the list of must have apps for your Mac!

Download Handbrake here

Visual guide to handbrake view it here

An excellent resource to test font variations and sizes online ready for your web programming. You can specify a number of fonts on one page to make comparisons with size colour and spacing.

View web site here: Typetester

Excellent article from 43folders for creating and using smart folders in mail.app for the Mac.

View here at Smart Folders

Handy list of free photoshop plugins for Windows and Mac

View list here 101 photoshop

“Minutes is a countdown timer application working on Mac OS X Dashboard” Probably the cleanest and most useful timer widget for a mac, can be linked to iTunes to play a tune at a particular time, also intergrates with Growl for notifications!

Download Minutes here: nitram-nunca.com/downloads/minutes

Have you ever seen those mosiacs that are created using hundreds of images to create another image. Well now you can create those on your mac. This handy little program can create the image of your choice with a batch of photos, either from iPhoto or a selected folder (even google images)!

Download the free program here: homepage.mac.com/knarf/MacOSaiX

VLC media player 0.8.6b – new version has been released. If you never used VLC you should download this program, it can play almost any video file and dvds. Now as a universal binary a must have app for your Mac.

Download here: www.videolan.org

Having made the swicth to a Mac the first thing and probably the only thing that I found hard to get used to was application backgrounds, or lack of. Whenever you are in a program I could see anything behind that was open, and you could at anytime accidentally click out of the document you were working on. Thanks to Think that’s no longer a problem, an easy to use program/utility to get your application backgrounds back!

View here at www.freeverse.com/think

“So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, running queries in Terminal, using a CSS editor, and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we realized. “And much cooler.””

Another quality product from the developers at Panic, maybe now I can finally ditch dreamweaver!

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