Weekend Review: This week's software

Each Saturday we feature a review of all the software we've posted about over the past seven days. This week's entry adds two new categories: Open Source and Watch List. The latter is a look at software we've featured that is still in the very early stages of development, but promises to shape up nicely.

Commercial Software

  • McAfee Virus software updated for Tiger
  • ThinkFreeOffice 3 ThinkFree Corporation releases version 3 of their MS Office alternative for the Mac with many new features
  • Filemaker Pro 8 Filemaker releases a major update to its database creation software with many tasty new features
  • Opera Mac browser celebrates its tenth birthday
  • Appleworks How much longer will Apple keep it around?
  • GarageBand Our wishes for Apple's music editing software

Shareware

  • Saft Popular Safari plugin is updated to match Safari updates
  • Cocktail Mac OS X utility receives an update for Tiger

Donationware

  • MailActOn Assign keyboard shortcuts to rules in Mail

Freeware

  • LiveQuartz Free image editor that puts a front end on Tiger's CoreImage functions
  • Clutter Fill your desktop with iTunes album artwork
  • Safari Apple updates its web browser for Panther and Tiger
  • Glider Pro X Classic Mac game gets ported to OS X...and it's free!
  • Factory Build your own LEGO creation in software, then order the physical pieces to build it
  • Gmail Notifier Google's Gmail utility for you toolbar
  • Flickr Uploadr Flickr updates its upload utility for Tiger
  • iSpeak The widget that needs to watch its mouth?

Open Source

Watch List

  • Podcast AV Easily produce enhanced podcasts
  • Sandvox WYSIWYG web editor from the makers of Watson
  • CoverFlow "Flip" through our iTunes albums as if they were physical CD's

 

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