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    Mac Gems: Koku is a solid personal-finance app

    FadingRed's Koku makes it easy to track your financial information at your desk or on the go, and to get a summary of your current financial status.
    By Jeffery Battersby 12 years ago
    Mac Gems: Fission 2 is a powerful but easy-to-use audio editor
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    Mac Gems: Fission 2 is a powerful but easy-to-use audio editor

    If you're an audio pro, you've surely got multiple programs with powerful audio-editing features (and, likely, steep learning curves). For the rest of us, Fission makes it easy to perform the most common kinds of audio-file edits, including trimming songs, splicing tracks, editing voice recordings, fading tracks in or out, and creating ringtones.
    By Kirk McElhearn 12 years ago
    Enhance and extend Mail at a discount
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    Enhance and extend Mail at a discount

    We're big fans of third-party software that enhances OS X Mail's features and functions, and for the next week, a number of developers of Gem-worthy Mail add-ons have teamed up to offer some great deals.
    By Dan Frakes 12 years ago
    DeepSleep hibernates your Mac to save power
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    DeepSleep hibernates your Mac to save power

    If you use DeepSleepu2019s Hibernation mode instead of putting it to sleep, your Mac wonu2019t use power or its battery at all, and your open applications and files will still be there when you wake it back up.
    By Leah Yamshon 12 years ago
    Resize Sense converts images to precisely the right size
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    Resize Sense converts images to precisely the right size

    Resize Sense is an all-in-one batch resizer and cropping tool that will save both time and tedious labor in getting one imageu2014or hundreds of imagesu2014to exactly the right size for Web pages, email, and layouts.
    By Jackie Dove 12 years ago
    Record simple screencasts with Screeny
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    Record simple screencasts with Screeny

    Screen sharing and screencasts are a great way to demonstrate how to fix a technical problem or show off a Mac feature, and Screeny is a great tool for basic recording.
    By Serenity Caldwell 12 years ago
    ReFind makes frequently used folders easy to find
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    ReFind makes frequently used folders easy to find

    Developers, designers, audio pros, or anyone who uses a large number of folders will welcome the ability to jump directly to a frequently used folder or file from within any application. ReFind lets you do so without searching or clicking through stacks of open Finder windows.
    By Shelly Brisbin 12 years ago
    LaunchMagic is a well designed app launching utility
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    LaunchMagic is a well designed app launching utility

    LaunchMagic is more of a hybrid app launcher and organizer than merely a standalone launching app. The app has a visual style unlike others in its class, which helps it stand out in the crowded app launcher field.
    By Brendan Wilhide 12 years ago
    Gemini finds and removes your duplicate files
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    Gemini finds and removes your duplicate files

    Gemini digs through your hard drive and dumps duplicate files, spitting out snarky phrases to keep you from getting too bored during the wait.
    By Serenity Caldwell 12 years ago
    Use Shapes to organize and design flow charts
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    Use Shapes to organize and design flow charts

    Shapes lets you draw organizational and flow charts with a variety of shapes, lines, and arrows. It has a beautiful, elegant-looking interface that is supremely Mac-like, with a multi-faceted Inspector that lets you tweak line widths and styles, line and fill colors, text, and even fill a shape with an image.
    By Sharon Zardetto 12 years ago
    Use TrackSift to tidy up your iTunes library
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    Use TrackSift to tidy up your iTunes library

    No matter how hard you try to keep your iTunes library tidy, sooner or later youu2019ll find cobwebs growing in its corners. TrackSift deletes non-existant files, isolates tracks that lack album art, consolidates genres, and more.
    By Nathan Alderman 12 years ago
    Shrink image file sizes with ImageOptim
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    Shrink image file sizes with ImageOptim

    The free utility takes in your PNG, JPEG, and GIF files (including GIF animations) and optimizes them by shrinking their file sizes, often considerably. And it does so without affecting the image quality.
    By Lex Friedman 12 years ago
    Destroy Internet tracking files with PrivacyScan
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    Destroy Internet tracking files with PrivacyScan

    PrivacyScan offers a one-stop way to mitigate common privacy concerns by identifying and destroying Internet files placed on your computer that track your usage and reveal your online activities to others.
    By Jackie Dove 12 years ago
    Apply metadata tags to files with Tagit
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    Apply metadata tags to files with Tagit

    Tagit lets you add metadata tags to files for easy searching, either through Tagit itself or other apps that are compatible with the OpenMeta tagging standard.
    By Dan Miller 12 years ago
    BeQuiet keeps your Mac’s speakers muted
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    BeQuiet keeps your Mac’s speakers muted

    BeQuiet ensures that your Mac's external speakers stay muted, which is especially helpful when working in a quiet environment.
    By Karissa Bell 12 years ago
    SocialFolders keeps track of your cloud data
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    SocialFolders keeps track of your cloud data

    Link your social accounts with the SocialFolders website, and then download the SocialFolders app, which syncs all of your media to a set of folders on your Mac.
    By Blair Hanley Frank 12 years ago
    Typist helps you correct poor typing habits
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    Typist helps you correct poor typing habits

    Typist teaches the basics of touch-typing through a series of lessons. It also includes speed drills and two courses that teach alternative keyboards, including the Dvorak Keyboard and calculator keyboard.
    By Karissa Bell 12 years ago
    Watch your Internet usage with NetUse Monitor
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    Watch your Internet usage with NetUse Monitor

    NetUse Traffic Monitor keeps an eye on your Internet activity, displays it on a graph, and provides alerts to keep you out of the bandwidth poorhouse.
    By Shelly Brisbin 12 years ago
    Use CleanMyMac to free up space
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    Use CleanMyMac to free up space

    CleanMyMac scans your caches, logs, language files, universal binaries, system junk, and trashes & leftovers to get rid of unnecessary files and free up space on your Mac.
    By Karen Freeman 12 years ago
    Use Token for faster access to your iWork docs
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    Use Token for faster access to your iWork docs

    If you frequently use Apple's iBooks Author or iWork apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), Token can make your life slightly easier by giving you faster access to your documents, templates, and scripts.
    By Joe Kissell 12 years ago