Tuesday, March 12, 2013

0 Live Wallpaper


Mac  -> M-System Utilities -> M-Shareware -> Live Wallpaper


Software Name  : Live Wallpaper
Rating  : 3.5/5
Price  : $0.99
Download/Official Website  : http://squidmelon.com/livewallpaper.html


Overview: 
Live Wallpaper is a beautiful wallpaper application with live clock and weather forecast. It provides a variety of themes which has different layouts and unique styles. Some themes also have beautiful animations.




Main features: 
- Multiple monitors. You can choose to display different themes for each display.
- Edit mode. You can change the position of time, clock, or text to any position.
- When switch between spaces, Live Wallpaper will appear instantly..

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4 iSkysoft Video Editor for Mac

Mac  -> M-Multimedia Tools-> M-Shareware -> iSkysoft Video Editor for Mac



Software Name  : iSkysoft Video Editor for Mac
Rating  : 4.5/5
Price  : $39.95 (Promotion Price)
Download/Official Website  : http://www.iskysoft.com/video-editor-mac.html


Overview:
Turn Your Video into a Masterpiece like Magic. Easily make movies, edit audio, apply effects and share your new movie on YouTube, Facebook, TV, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and more. Supports an array of video/audio/photo formats. Makes it a breeze to edit video including trim, crop, rotate, transition, voiceover, etc. Includes 150 special effects like mosaic blur, tilt-shift, face-off, particle, fire…Directly share video to YouTube or save video to DVD or hard drive.




Main features:

Easy to Use yet Powerful Video Editing Software -  It has every common tool you need to enhance your clips with a few clicks, and professional filter effects and intro/credit clips bring your video to the next level instantly

Edit Videos, Photos and Audio In One Place - Import almost any video for editing, Turn photos into animated slideshows,Add music background and edit audio easily

Personalize Videos with Ease - Drag and drop to arrange clip orders and get handy tools to cut, crop, and rotate your video. Add voiceover and record a video to put all together into one-of-a-kind video.

0 Keyboard Layout and Shortcuts


Mac Lessons - > Introductions -> Keyboard Layout and Shortcuts 

For a new Mac user, there are few symbols that you may need to memories. This is due to most of the application’s shortcut key (combination key) in the menu bar is defined by symbols instead of  showing a full key name. You will always get confused if you are not clear for the symbols. For example: 

Menu

Here are the modifier key symbols you may see in OS X menus:

0 Inpaint


Mac  -> M-Graphic Tools-> M-Shareware -> Inpaint



Software Name  : Inpaint
Rating  : 4/5
Price  : $19.99
Download/Official Website  : http://www.theinpaint.com/



Overview: 
Inpaint will magically fill the selected area with intelligently-generated textures pulled from the surrounding image data. Go to our Tutorials page and see for yourself how easy it is for anyone to do with just a few simple steps.



Main features: 
Repair old photos
Remove watermarks
Erasing Power Lines
Remove unwanted objects
Digital Facial retouching
Remove date stamps

0 iDraw


Mac  -> M-Graphic Tools-> M-Shareware -> iDraw



Software Name  : iDraw
Rating  : 4/5
Price  : $24.99
Download/Official Website  : http://www.indeeo.com/idraw/mac.html




Overview: 
iDraw is a powerful feature-packed vector design and illustration application, available for Mac OS X and iPad. Easily share designs between Mac and iPad. Import and export vector PDF and SVG documents, creating a simple workflow with other applications.




Main features: 
Appearance FX
Apply drop shadows, inner shadows, inner and outer glows to shapes.
Add multiple strokes, fills, and effects to a single object.
Arrange the order of fills, strokes, and effects using drag and drop.

PDF / EPS Import
Import PDF and EPS files as editable vector objects.
Import designs from other vector illustration applications.
Paste vector objects directly from Adobe Illustrator.

Monday, March 11, 2013

0 BookReader


Mac  -> M-Graphic Tools -> M-Shareware -> BookReader


Software Name : BookReader
Rating : 4/5
Price : $9.99
Download/Official Website  : http://macbookreader.com/wp/


Overview: 
BookReader – as you probably surmise – allows you to comfortably read books right on your Mac in a fully customizable layout. It supports all the most common formats:
fb2, ePUB, iBooks (including the new epub3 format with video, animations and interactive content)
html, webarchive (Safari), doc (Microsoft Word), rtf, rtfd ,txt




Main features: 
Natural Two-page Viewing Mode
BookShelf Customizable Database
Text Highlighting and Notes
Table of Contents
Search Function
Bookmarks
Fullscreen Mode
Fully customizable Keyboard Commands
Fully customizable Fonts, Sizes, Colors
Fully customizable Book Background
Fully natural Page-flipping Sound
Automatic Charset Encoding
And more…. 

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0 Flutter


Mac  -> M-Multimedia Tools -> M-Freeware -> Flutter


Software Name  : Flutter
Rating  : 4/5
Price  : Free
Download/Official Website  : https://flutterapp.com/


Overview: 
It uses HAND GESTURES detected via built-in webcam in your device to play, pause and skip songs & videos in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio, MPlayerX (latest version), VLC (latest version), Ecoute, Quicktime, and Keynote.



Main features: 
- Play/Pause your music & videos using simple hand gestures (palm gesture)
- Go to Next Song (thumbs right) or rewind to Previous Song (thumbs left) (Note: First thumbs left gesture takes you to beginning of song. Another thumbs left performed quickly jumps to the previous song)
- Works via your webcam -- no additional hardware necessary
- Works best from 1-6 feet distance from webcam
- Works even when Spotify, iTunes, Rdio, and other apps are playing music/video in the background or are minimized
And more…. 


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0 Write Room


Mac  -> M-System Utilities -> M-Shareware -> Write Room


Software Name  : Write Room
Rating  : 3/5
Price  : $9.99
Download/Official Website  : http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom


Overview: 
WriteRoom is a full screen writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing.



Main features: 
• Fast handling of large documents.
• Live word count, reading time, and more.
• Shift line up, down, left, and right commands.
• Select word, sentence, and paragraph commands.
• Everything you’d expect from a native OS X Lion app.

0 Shuttie


Mac  -> M-System Utilities -> M-Shareware -> Shuttie


Software Name  : Shuttie
Rating  : 3.5/5
Price  : $1.99
Download/Official Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shuttie/id415184888?mt=12


Overview: 
With this App you are able to set the time when you computer will shutdown, restart, sleep or logout you by itself. It's pretty useful when your're watching some movies from your bed, and don't have the remote controller. You don't have to stand up from the bed to shut it down, when the movie ends. Downloading some file? Want to go to sleep? Don't want you mac to be turned on all night long.



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1 DxO Optics Pro 8


Mac  -> M-Graphic Tools -> M-Shareware -> DxO Optics Pro 8


Software Name  : DxO Optics Pro 8
Rating : 3.5/5
Price : $133.53 (Std Editions) ; $268.47 (Elite Editions)
Download/Official Website : http://www.dxo.com/intl/photo/dxo_optics_pro/features



Overview: 
DxO Optics Pro automatically corrects and improves your photos as you open them. Corrections are precisely tailored to your images by taking into account the camera and lens you used. Our thorough knowledge of your equipment allows DxO Optics Pro to provide you with the best tools and the most precise settings for unparalleled sharpness and beauty in your photos.



Main  Features: 
Automatic and tailored corrections 
-Spend more time pursuing your passion
-DxO Optics Pro automatically corrects and improves your photos as you open them. Corrections are precisely tailored to your images by taking into account the camera and lens you used

Rigorous optical corrections
-Surpass the limits of your lenses
- DxO Optics Pro corrects precisely and with an unrivaled level of quality all the optical flaws in your images (RAW and JPEG) such as distortion, vignetting, and chromatic aberrations.

Lens softness
- Sharpen your shots
- With its exclusive Lens softness tool, DxO Optics Pro automatically sharpens photos (RAW and JPG). Image sharpness is improved and homogenized from the center to the photo edges.

Friday, March 8, 2013

0 Growl


Mac  -> M-System Utilities-> M-Shareware -> Growl


Software Name : Growl
Rating : 3.5/5
Price : $3.99
Download/Official Website  : http://growl.info/


Overview: 
The Ultimate Notification System for OS X. Growl is the easiest way to know what's is going on with your applications.

Main features: 
1) When you start up a Growl-enabled application, it will just work. There's no complicated setup; just install Growl once and your apps can start displaying notifications right away.

2) Growl centralizes all your notification preferences into its preferences - you can control them all from one place, and you know exactly how they are going to behave.

3) Keeps working even when you are not. Come back to your mac and review what happened while you were gone with Rollup. Plus get notifications on the go on your iPhone or iPad via Prowl

0 Folx


Mac  -> M-Internet Tools-> M-Freeware -> Folx


Software Name  : Folx
Rating  : 3.5/5
Price  : Got free version and Pro version ($19.95)
Download/Official Website  : http://mac.eltima.com/download-manager.html



Overview: 
Folx is a free download manager for Mac OS X. Its friendly interface will help you take the most of your downloads. It's not overloaded with tons of unnecessary features and is extremely easy to use. All you have to do to download files is click the link in your web browser and Folx will catch it.

By the way, Folx is a 2-in-1 app: you don't need one program for common downloads and other one to download torrents. Folx can handle both as a piece of cake.



Main features:

1) Download with Folx instead of your web browser
2) Forget about the mess by tagging your downloads
3) Send downloaded music and videos to iTunes automatically

0 DropDMG


Mac  -> M-System Utilities-> M-Shareware -> DropDMG


Software Name  : DropDMG
Rating  : 4/5
Price  : $24.00
Download/Official Website  : http://c-command.com/dropdmg/



Overview: 
Create and convert disk images and archives with a simple drag and drop. There are also many other convenient ways to invoke DropDMG.

DropDMG supports all the major formats, including compressed .dmg files, .sparsebundle files, .zip and .tar.gz archives, and hybrid disk images. Zlib disk images and ZIP archives created by DropDMG are smaller than those created by Disk Utility and the Finder.

Configurations let you reuse common collections of settings, and temporary options let you easily make one-off changes. Quickly burn files, folders, disk images, or Mac OS X installers to CD or DVD. Multi-session support lets you add files to an existing CD.



Main features: 
Delivering Software : Create .dmg disk image files, design reusable layouts with Retina-optimized background images and pixel-perfect icon positioning. Add text boxes with custom fonts, styles, shadows, and variables.

Backups, Archival, and Cloning:Disk images preserve Mac-specific metadata: resource forks, Finder labels, creation dates, ownership, extended attributes, etc.Save disk space and network transfer time by compressing your files.

0 Drive Genius


Mac  -> M-System Utilities-> M-Shareware -> Drive Genius


Software Name  : Drive Genius
Rating  : 4/5
Price : $99.00
Download/Official Website  : http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius.php


Overview: 
Drive Genius includes new features such as DrivePulse®, the best way to monitor the overall health of your Mac hard drive, alerting you to possible hard drive issues before they become major problems, RAID Support, Email Notifications, and has enhanced previous features including Defrag, Repartition and Scan.



Main features: 
DrivePulse® - Monitors the overall health of your Mac hard drive, alerting you to possible issues before they become major problems.

Enhanced Defrag - Provides even better defragmentation of your files and even more fragmentation information in a new user interface to help speed up your Mac.

Enhanced Repartition - Add, delete, hide, expand or shrink OS X partitions so you can organize your Mac hard drive more efficiently.

0 Divvy


Mac  -> M-System Utilities-> M-Shareware -> Divvy


Software Name  : Divvy
Rating  : 4/5
Price  : $14.00
Download/Official Website  : http://mizage.com/divvy/



Overview: 
Divvy is an entirely new way of managing your workspace. It allows you to quickly and efficiently “divvy up” your screen into exact portions.

With Divvy, it’s as simple as a single click and drag in the Divvy interface and your window will be resized and moved to a relative portion of the screen. If that seems like too much work, you can go ahead and create as many different shortcuts as you’d like that resize and move your windows.



0 CrossOver



Mac  -> M-System Utilities-> M-Shareware -> CrossOver


Software Name  : CrossOver
Rating  : 3.5/5
Price          : $67.88
Download/Official Website  : http://www.codeweavers.com/products/#cxmac/



Overview: 
CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications and PC games on your Mac. It's easy, affordable, and best of all, there's no Windows license required. Your Windows applications and games integrate seamlessly on your computer; just click and run.

CrossOver is capable of running a wide range of Windows software and games.




The Comparison / Difference between Dual-Booting, Virtual Machine Solutions and CrossOver

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0 NTFS for Mac


Mac  -> M-System Utilities-> M-Shareware -> NTFS for Mac


Software Name  : NTFS for Mac (Paragon)
Rating  : 4.5/5
Price  : $19.95
Download/Official Website : http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/features.html


Overview: 
Using a Mac® is a wonderful experience – until you try to use a NTFS-formatted drive, which includes most Windows® hard drives! Because in order to create, delete or modify any files on Windows NTFS drives you need Paragon NTFS for Mac® - after minutes you won’t remember there ever was a problem. Remove the barriers between NTFS and HFS with ease and confidence!




Main Features:
1) Unprecedented high NTFS performance. The transfer rate is the same as with the native HFS file system!

2) Full read/write access to NTFS. Mac® OS X provides limited support of NTFS, the primary file system of any Windows PC. With Paragon’s NTFS for Mac OS X, you’ll get full read/write access to any version of NTFS under Mac OS X

0 Capture NX 2


Mac  -> M-Graphic Tools-> M-Shareware -> Capture NX 2


Software Name : Capture NX 2
Rating : 4/5
Price : $134.95 (Promotion Price)
Download/Official Website : http://www.capturenx.com/en/index.html


Overview: 
Capture NX 2 is a full-featured non-destructive photo editing program that provides photographers powerful tools to quickly and easily edit their photographs.

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Main Feature: 
1) Color Control Points: Enhancements for hue, brightness and saturation are as simple as placing a Color Control Point on your image, then adjusting the length of the sliders.

2) Auto-Retouch Brush: Capture NX 2 adds an automatic retouch tool to its image editing toolbox allowing users to seamlessly remove blemishes, dust and other distracting elements from photographs while maintaining the integrity of the image.

0 Mac Blu-ray Player


Mac  -> M-Multimedia Tools-> M-Shareware -> Mac Blu-ray Player


Software Name  : Mac Blu-ray Player
Rating  : 4/5
Price  : $39.95 (Promotion price)
Download/Official Website  : http://www.macblurayplayer.com/index.htm



Overview: 
Mac Blu-ray Player is the first universal Blu-ray media player software for Apple Mac in the world. It can play Blu-ray Disc or Blu-ray ISO file on Mac and PC, as well as iOS devices, such as iPhone/iPad/iPod touch (iTouch). It can also play all media formats of movie, video, audio, music and photo.

Main Feature: 
1) The fist Blu-ray plater sofware that can support Mac & PC system
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 2) Splendid Blu-ray/DVD enjoyment
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0 BetterTouchTool


Mac  -> M-System Utilities -> M-Freeware -> BetterTouchTool


Software Name : BetterTouchTool
Rating : 4/5
Price : Free  
Download/Official Website : http://www.bettertouchtool.net/index.html#


Overview: 
BetterTouchTool is a great, feature packed FREE app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad and Magic Trackpad. It also allows you to configure actions for keyboard shortcuts, normal mice and the Apple Remote. In addition to this it has an iOS companion App (BTT Remote) which can also be configured to control your Mac the way you want.
BetterTouchTool includes many goodies, like window snapping or an integrated window switcher

Screen Capture: 
1) Magic Mouse and Trackpad Configurations: 
Fig 1.1

0 Jitouch


Mac  -> M-System Utilities -> M-Shareware -> Jitouch


Software Name  : Jitouch
Rating  : 3.5/5
Price : $6.99
Download/Official Website : http://www.jitouch.com/



Overview: 
Jitouch is a Mac application that expands the set of multi-touch gestures for the new MacBook, the Magic Mouse, and the Magic Trackpad. These thoughtfully designed gestures will enable you to perform frequent tasks more easily such as changing tabs in web browsers, closing windows, minimizing windows, changing spaces, and a lot more.





Main  Features: 
Customizable Actions:
- jitouch lets you customize actions associated with each gesture as you want, whether you'd like to enable, disable, add, edit, or remove gestures, or set different actions for each application.

Character Gestures:
- Character Gestures let you draw an English letter or a simpler gesture to perform any particular action.

Changing Spaces:
- Changing to a neighboring space without using keyboard shortcuts is now possible.