These Are the Best Affordable Applications for Mac
•MyTunesController
MyTunesController is a lightweight menu bar item that provides basic control of iTunes. With MyTunesController, you can pause/play, jump forward to the next song, and jump back to the previous song. In addition, as each new song starts, MyTunesController displays the album cover art for a short time in a corner of your display.More »
•Reference Tracker
Reference Tracker from Malkinware is a handy tool for writers, students, researchers, and anyone else who needs to keep track of referenced material in their documents.
Reference Tracker supports the most often used styles, including Harvard, APA, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian, letting you easily format your reference list to meet your specific needs. But adding a reference list to your documents is the last step; before you can print a reference list, you must create one. Reference Tracker makes the citation process a breeze.More »
•TickerMenu
TickerMenu from The Highly Technical Doohickey Company is, well, a highly technical application. No, it's not. It's a handy and easy-to-use menu bar application that displays stocks you're interested in following. You can have a stock's symbol, current price, day's change, and percentage change appear in the menu bar. And since you can follow many different stocks, TicketMenu will rotate each stock you follow at a given interval. The result is a heads-up view of your favorite stocks and how they're performing.
•SimpleMovieX
SimpleMovieX is a handy video editor for quickly editing or extracting video and audio from your movies. SimpleMovieX can work natively in many popular formats, including mov, mpeg, avi, and mp4. By working natively, you bypass the transcoding process that not only takes a long time to perform, but usually results in loss of quality.More »
•YummySoup! 2
YummySoup! 2 from HungrySeacow Software is the latest version of the popular recipe creation and management program for the Mac. YummySoup! does a lot more than just keep track of your great Aunt Irma's cookie recipes. Its organization skills can keep all of your favorite recipes just a click or two away, and its visual organization and ability to include images will tempt you to try out new recipes or revisit old ones.More »
•Inklet
Inklet from Ten One Design will turn your MacBook or MacBook Pro trackpad into a drawing tablet. When combined with Ten One Design's Pogo Sketch, a capacitive touch stylus, you gain pressure-sensitive drawing capabilities.
Inklet also works with the handwriting recognition built into your Mac. You can use the trackpad surface to jot down notes, as well as create images to go along with your notes.More »
•Delegate
If you sometimes, or maybe that's all the time, feel overwhelmed with tasks, a good to-do list system can be just the helping hand you need. Delegate from app4mac is a to-do list manager that's easy to set up and use. It also has some pretty nifty features.
As its name suggests, it's more than just a to-do list. You can delegate some (or better yet, most or all) tasks to others, whether they're household chores or complex business projects. You can assign priorities and due dates, attach notes, and share a list with multiple individuals through the online Delegate server. You can also purchase your own Delegate server if you want to share Delegate lists in a secure corporate environment.More »
•Peak Express 6
Peak Express 6 from BIAS Inc. is an entry-level audio editing application that puts many professional sound recording applications to shame, especially when you compare the cost. Peak Express 6 is built on the same recording and editing engine used in Peak Pro, BIAS's professional multi-track recording and editing application.
While it lacks many of the advanced features found in Peak Pro, Peak Express retains all of the basic tools you'll need for recording and editing mono or stereo audio tracksMore »
•iStat Menus 3
I admit it. I love utilities that monitor how my Mac is performing. iStat Menus 3 from Bjango installs up to 8 status menus in the Menu Extras area of your Apple menu bar. The available status menus are: CPUs, Memory, Disk Usage, Disk Activities, Network, Sensors, Date & Time, and Battery. You can turn each menu on or off, and customize it to suit your needsMore »
•Jumsoft Goodies
Jumsoft, which has already won two Budget Software Picks, is about to pick up a third. This time, it's the Goodies package, a collection of six free sets of themes and templates for Keynote, Sandvox, Apple Mail, and NumbersMore »
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