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Clarify makes it easy to create annotated images and how-to documents
Clarify simplifies the process of making how-to documents and annotated images. It's great for professional use, but it's also useful for explaining a procedure to your remote relatives.Mac Gems
Snapseed brings its iOS photo-editing tools to the Mac
Snapseed on the Mac is an impressive photo-editing program that stays true to its successful iOS predecessor.
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Yoink offers a shelf for temporarily stashing files and content
Yoink offers a shelf for temporarily stashing files and content, making it easier to move your stuff between documents, folders, and drives.Mac Gems
Chronicle helps you track your bills, and looks great doing so
Chronicle is one of the slickest finance apps available for the Mac. Itu2019s easy to use and easy on the eyes, and itu2019s worthy of a spot on anyoneu2019s Dock.Mac Gems
Promising Prospect: Clipboard Cleaner automatically strips formatting from the clipboard
Clipboard Cleaner is a simple utility that strips all formatting from the contents of the clipboard, either automatically or on command.Mac Gems
Marked excels at previewing Markdown and HTML documents
If you write in Markdown, Marked is a stellar add-on for previewing and analyzing your documents.Mac Gems
PopClip brings iOS-like text-editing options to Mac OS X
PopClip will appeal to both iOS fans and Mac traditionalists by making text-editing and -processing commands more accessible.Mac Gems
Favorite Mac Gems of 2011
We've given you the Eddy Awards and App Gems Awards. It's time for recognizing our favorite Mac Gems of 2011.Mac Gems
iA Writer is a solid no-distraction writing tool
If iA Writer's minimalism agrees with you, you may find that it frees your mind to do what the best writing tools are designed for: writing.Mac Gems
Piezo records other apps’ audio easily
Piezo is an attractive and easy-to-use app for recording audio from other Mac programs.Mac Gems
Snapheal removes unwanted objects from photos, and more
Macphun's Snapheal lets you easily erase undesired objects from your photographs, while also offering some basic photo-editing tools.Mac Gems
FX Photo Studio offers a plethora of effects for photo tweaking
Though it's not perfect, FX Photo Studio offers a jaw-dropping number of effects to apply to your photographs.Mac Gems
Break Time reminds you to take five
Sitting in front of your computer all day can be wearing. BreakTime reminds you to take frequent breaks.Mac Gems
Gems for a Steal, Redux
A new Mac software bundle offers a number of Mac Gems favorites, as well as other titles, for a bargain of a price.Mac Gems
Inpaint makes it easy to remove objects from your photos
For those without the Photoshop chops to remove unwanted objects and blemishes from photos, Inpaint offers a simple alternative.Mac Gems
NetSpot helps you optimize your Wi-Fi networks
NetSpot is a remarkable aid in laying out even a small-home Wi-Fi network, using a Mac laptop as your wireless-survey tool.Mac Gems
Gem Update: Printopia 2.1.5 offers major improvements to a Gems favorite
Ecamm Network took one of our favorite utilities, Printopia, and made it even better. Printopia still lets you print to any Mac-shared printer from your iOS devices, but it now lets you "print" to Mac applications and PDF Workflows, password-protect your virtual printers, and even print from other Macs.Mac Gems
PandaBar is a nifty Pandora client for Mac
PandaBar is a nifty menu-bar player for the Pandora streaming-music service.Mac Gems
Day One is a polished journaling tool
Bloom Built has put together a polished journaling tool for storing your personal thoughts and experiences.Mac Gems
Tunesque lets you search all of Apple’s media stores at once
Tunesque makes it easier to find Apple-hawked media by consolidating searches of all Apple's media stores in a single interface.Mac Gems
Jettison automatically unmounts volumes when your Mac sleeps
Jettison lets you unmount external volumes by just closing your MacBook's lid (or putting your desktop Mac to sleep). When you hear Jettison's confirmation sound, it's safe to unplug and go.Mac Gems
iNet is a must-have for network monitoring and troubleshooting
iNet offers an easy-to-use summary of information, beautifully presented, about your network and the devices on it.Mac Gems
FreeSpace lets you monitor and manage your drives
FreeSpace is a handy menu-bar utility for keeping an eye on your free drive space, as well as for quickly accessing and unmounting volumes.Mac Gems
QuickCal makes it easy to add to and view your calendars
Looking for an easier way to add events and tasks to your calendars, and to get a quick overview of your schedule? QuickCal is an inexpensive solution.Mac Gems
Gems Revisited: Fantastical 1.1 and Moom 2.3.1
Since we originally reviewed Fantastical and Moom, these Mac Gems have seen significant updates that warrant another look, as well as new ratings.Mac Gems
gfxCardStatus 2.1
With gfxCardStatus, you can see when your dual-video-card-equipped MacBook Pro uses each GPU. You can even force the laptop to use integrated graphics when you're trying to conserve battery power.Mac Gems
Promising Prospect: RestoreMeNot
RestoreMeNot lets you disable Lion's Resume feature for particular applications, leaving it active for the rest.Mac Gems
Sidekick 4.0.3
Between recognizing where you're at and letting you manually change groups of settings, Sidekick avoids most of the tedium of adapting your Mac to your current location.Mac Gems
Reeder for Mac 1.1.2
Reeder for Mac is a breath of fresh air in the crowded market for Google Reader and RSS clients, offering a healthy dose of features polished up with an interface that shows the program's iOS roots.Mac Gems
Color Splash Studio 1.0
Selectively removing color from an image can create stunning results. Color Splash Studio focuses on such selective desaturation, and it does that job incredibly well.Mac Gems
Analog 1.0
Analog, a Mac app, lets you easily create low-fi versions of your photographs using beautiful effects.Mac Gems
Smarts 1.0 for iTunes
Smarts helps you manage iTunes's smart playlists by letting you create playlist templates, archive infrequently used smart playlists, and export smart playlists in an iTunes-compatible format.Mac Gems
Padlock 1.0.1
Padlock lets you lock your Mac's screen, either by putting the display to sleep or by starting the screensaver, using the keyboard.Mac Gems
Take Five 1.1.2
If you need to temporarily pause your music listening, Take Five resumes playback automatically, avoiding the all-too-common realization that you've been listening to nothing because you forgot to press Play again. It also provides a useful informational display for identifying tracks.Mac Gems
Promising Prospect: Yoink 1.0
Yoink gives you a temporary place to stash files you want to move between folders, workspaces, or even full-screen apps.Mac Gems
Lion Tweaks 1.3 lets you tweak hidden Lion settings
Lion Tweaks gathers a slew of hidden settings for tweaking Lion in a single window that lets you make those changes by clicking a few buttons.Mac Gems
Lidpop 1.0.2
Lidpop gives your MacBook a bit of personality by playing your favorite sounds when it sleeps and wakes. Trust us: It's fun.Mac Gems
GrowlVoice 1.6.1 brings notifications to Google Voice
GrowlVoice marries the power of Google Voice with the low profile of the Growl notification system framework, notifying you whenever you miss a text, miss a call, or get a voicemail.Mac Gems
Tree offers a unique approach to outlining
Tree offers a unique approach to outlining by offering both vertical and horizontal organization.Mac Gems
Launchpad-Control 1.3
Launchpad-Control doesn't solve all of Launchpad's problems, but by letting you exclude apps you never want to see in Launchpad, it at least makes Launchpad a bit more usable.Mac Gems
Scroll Reverser 1.4.2
Scroll Reverser lets you reverse Lion's scrolling by the type of device (trackpad, mouse, or tablet), as well as for just horizontal or just vertical scrolling.Mac Gems
Shortcuts 1.2
If you want more options for creating keyboard shortcuts than Mac OS X provides on its own, but you don't need a complex macro utility, Shortcuts is for you.Mac Gems
Sparrow 1.3.1
Light and fleet, the mail app dubbed Sparrow lives up to its name. Free from extraneous features, Sparrow does nothing but Gmail and IMAP email in an efficient and elegant fashion.Mac Gems
Todo for Mac manages and syncs your tasks
If your task-management needs are somewhere in between complex project management and simple lists, Todo is a fine Mac program that syncs with standout iOS apps.Mac Gems
ImageXY makes resizing images quick and easy
If you need to edit or process your images, you'll want a full-featured image editor such as Acorn or Photoshop. But for frequent resizing tasks, ImageXY is quick to launch, easy to use, and fast to finish.Mac Gems
CleanHaven Pro makes it easy to clean up messy text
There are a number of other programs that offer more options for cleaning up messy text, but CleanHaven Pro is as easy to use as they come.Mac Gems
Shade Control 1.1
Bare-bones $3 Mac application for quickly switching between two screen-brightness settings.Mac Gems
Space Gremlin 1.2
Space Gremlin 1.2 is a a swift, excellent file management tool that gives you analytical data about your hard drive and facilitates a number of simple actions. Itu2019s easy to use, attractive to look at, informative, and best of all, it just works.Mac Gems
Task Till Dawn 1.6
Task Till Dawn is Java-based freeware that will launch applications, open files, run shell scripts; if you can double click on it in the Finder, Task Till Dawn will open it for you on whatever schedule you set, and scheduling is what this application is all about.Mac Gems