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