Personal Favorite Applications for Macintosh

Listed below are some of the applications that I have found particularly useful to me on the Mac. The descriptions are intentionally short. I have provided links, some to a page where I have provided a more complete description (LINK TO MY PAGE), some to the vendor's web page.

• Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
  Photo editing package, less sophisticated than PhotoShop, but much cheaper.
• AppleWorks   LINK TO MY PAGE
  Reasonably complete, though simple, office productivity package
• Backup from .Mac    LINK TO MY PAGE 
  A reasonably complete backup program, able to backup to on-line .Mac account
• ChronoSync    LINK TO MY PAGE
  Like FileSync on Windows PC Nov 26, 2006
• DreamWeaver 8 & CS3
  Excellent website development package.
• Google Earth
  Take a virtual flight over the earth, zoom in on locations of interest.
• IRISPen Express
  Handheld scanner for lines of text, with OCR
• iLife '08
  These tools just keep getting easier to use
• iWorks '08 - Pages, Numbers, Keynote
  Great set of utilities. Numbers is a real paradigm shift in spreadsheets.
• Omni Outliner    LINK TO MY PAGE
  Very powerful outliner - if you aren't using one, maybe you should be. Learn more by clicking the link.
• OpenOffice.org    LINK TO MY PAGE
  A free alternative to Microsoft Office - file read/write compatibility
• Perl - comes with Tiger. Access via Terminal
  Powerful scripting language, ideally suited for text
• ReadIris Pro OCR
  OCR program for Mac - quite accurate, flexible output options
• Retrospect Express BackUp    LINK TO MY PAGE
  Good backup software - packaged with many external hard drives
• SoHo Notes    LINK TO MY PAGE
  Replaces StickyBrain $40
• Stuffit Expander
  Unzips compressed documents
• TextExpander
  Store frequently text strings, automatically paste them into documents via keyboard string or clickable list
• TextWrangler
  Very powerful, free text editor. Many, many features not found in programs like TextEdit.
• Tunnelblick
  Witopia Personal VPN virtual private network to protect wireless communication privacy. $40/year