Relaunch - Wired Up And Fired Up

If you juggle work all day and find yourself switching from one set of apps to another, you can appreciate Relaunch. The idea is simple: for one project, you need one group of apps... read more at Macworld

Zipeg - Zipeg

Mac OS X offers robust support for uncompressing file archives in a wide variety of formats, but it doesn’t support all archive formats. You also can’t use OS X’s tools to selectively extract files from an archive... read more at Macworld

eBlaster 2009 - SpectorSoft

Let me lay this right out on the table: eBlaster makes me feel very uncomfortable. Don’t get me wrong; I understand the reasons this kind of software is necessary--from creepy Internet stalkers talking to your children in chat rooms, to cheating spouses... read more at Macworld

EagleFiler - C-Command Software

If you find yourself inundated with a huge assortment of documents that are difficult to track, a document organizer application like EagleFiler can help you sort the mess... read more at Macworld

DeskCover - Danicsoft

Many years ago, one of the things that first attracted me to the Mac were its customizable desktop patterns. Walking past the machines in the lab, the unique look to each Mac’s desktop was a definite eye-catcher... read more at Macworld

Prosopagnosia - dessibelle and Graphiclife

If you suffer from prosopagnosia , you literally can’t remember faces. Swedish companies desibelle and GraphicLife have adopted the term as the name for a program that simplifies integrating iPhoto ‘09’s Faces... read more at Macworld

CuteClips - Karsten Kusche

Ever since I covered Jumpcut and PopCopy back in 2006, I’ve been a huge fan of well-designed multiple-Clipboard utilities. These programs store multiple recent contents of the Clipboard, letting you quickly access... read more at Macworld

WakeOnLan - ReadPixel

Every once in a while, I realize there's a great piece of inexpensive software I've never covered in Mac Gems, despite having used it for years. WakeOnLan is one of those products. This nifty utility lets you remotely “wake up” sleeping computers... read more at Macworld

MarcoPolo 2 - David Symonds

Moving between work (and play) locations often involves changing various system settings: wireless networks, printers, and more. MarcoPolo—named for the kids’ call-and-response game of finding other people... read more at Macworld

NetworkLocation - Centrix.ca

If you work in multiple locations, you know that moving between those locations usually involves changing various system settings—wireless networks, printers, and more... read more at Macworld

I Love Stars 3 - Potion Factory

I try to rate all my iTunes music, mainly because ratings are useful for creating Smart Playlists. But it can be a hassle to rate tracks if I'm doing other things while listening. A few great iTunes add-ons—for example, CoverSutra and Synergy... read more at Macworld

CoverScout 3 - Equinux

If you take your digital music seriously, you probably want album art embedded in your music files so you can easily spot specific tracks and albums, as well as use visual interfaces such as Cover Flow in iTunes, on your iPod, and on an Apple TV... read more at Macworld

SongGenie - Equinux

If you’ve got lots of music files with incomplete or missing artist, album, or song tags, and you want to spare yourself the time of figuring out what those tags should be, SongGenie can help tidy up your music library... read more at Macworld

WeatherCal - Bare Bones Software

There are plenty of ways Mac users can get the latest weather forecast. For example, Mac OS X includes its own weather widget for Dashboard, and there are many third-party weather programs out there... read more at Macworld

HardwareGrowler - Growl Team

HardwareGrowler is a simple Growl-enhanced program that, when running—it’s most useful when added to your Login Items in System Preferences—watches your Mac’s FireWire, USB, Bluetooth, and network interfaces... read more at Macworld

LittleSnapper - Realmac Software

Command-Shift-3. Command-Shift-4. Think they're all you need for grabbing the screen on your Mac? Think again. LittleSnapper is Mac OS X's Grab on steroids. A modest app, it's happy to sit in the background... read more at MacUserUK

Livescribe Pulse - Livescribe

When you think of the future, what comes to mind? Hovercraft, jetpacks, and everyone wearing androgynous zippered bodysuits with communicators built into the shoulders? Possibly. But we doubt you’d think of a pen... read more at MacLife

MondoMouse - Atomic Bird

It’s clear from the many comments in the discussion thread for that article that people have strong opinions, pro and con, about Safari 4’s interface. But there’s no denying that by replacing the title bar with the tab bar the way Apple did... read more at Macworld

Plain Clip - Carsten Blüm

One of the simplest Gems I’ve ever covered, all Plain Clip does is strip formatting from text on the Clipboard so that when you later paste that text, it takes on the formatting of the target document... read more at Macworld

Growl - Growl Team

There are many ways programs can try to get your attention in Mac OS X. They can place a small badge on their Dock icon; (annoyingly) bounce that Dock icon; make noise in the background; or even do all of those things at once. But I'm not a fan of any of these approaches... read more at Macworld

Spring Cleaning 10 - SmithMicro Software

Spring Cleaning assembles a bunch of tools for organizing your Mac. Most are specialized, such as searching for a specific file type, and most often you’ll be disposing of unused files afterward. Sometimes the tools are exactly what you need—and simple to boot... read more at MacLife

Dictate - MacSpeech

MacSpeech Dictate is the first speech recognition program for the Mac that offers recognition as good as similar Windows software, such as Nuance’s Dragon NaturallySpeaking. In fact, MacSpeech has licensed Nuance’s acclaimed NaturallySpeaking technology... read more at Macworld

RoadTrip 2.0 - Garmin

Garmin’s Nuvi line of GPS devices offers voice command support and combines visual mapping, turn-by-turn driving directions, reliable hands-free voice commands, and phone dialing. It also offers Mac-based trip planning via the free RoadTrip 2.0.1 software... read more at Macworld

Araxis Merge 2009 - Araxis

Very few applications are in the "save your job" category. Task managers keep you organized; Apple iCal helps you stay on time for meetings. But Araxis Merge 2009, a powerful file comparison utility, can get you out of a tight spot at work. The name is a slight misnomer: its purpose is to check the contents of two files and reveal the differences... read more at Macworld

Path Finder 5.0.2 - CocoaTech

If you find yourself frustrated by some of the Finder’s limitations, you’re not alone. For example, while the Cover Flow mode is interesting, it’d be more useful to me if the bottom section of a Cover Flow window could be switched to icon or column view. And as I noted in my article on Leopard annoyances, you can’t assign custom colors to the Finder’s Labels... read more at Macworld

Tritton AX Micro - Tritton

We hereby give you our permission—even encouragement—to wear a Bluetooth headset. As recently as a couple of years ago, hanging a plastic Star Trek–looking blinky-light device from one ear, just so you could walk around appearing to talk to yourself... read more at MacLife

CoverScout 3 - Equinux

The grid view in iTunes 8 is a practical way to scour your music, but you've probably found significant gaps in your collection's artwork. iTunes' own feature doesn't find everything, so Equinux's alternative art finder, CoverScout, looks further afield to help plug the gaps... read more at MacUserUK

Baseline - Mild Mannered Industries

Baseline offers both graphical and columnar views, along with a unique twist. Like GrandPerspective and WhatSize, you can scan a volume at any time and view the results. In List View, you can sort by name, kind, modification date, size, or size difference (more on the last option in a bit). Column view gives you a hierarchical view of your drive’s contents... read more at Macworld

LoginControl 2.0 - Thoughtful Tree Software

Although Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) offers many improvements over Tiger, it also takes a few small steps backwards. One of those is that you can no longer choose the order in which login items open. (Login items are programs and other items that automatically open when you log in to your account... read more at Macworld

Path Finder 5.0.2 - CocoaTech

If you find yourself frustrated by some of the Finder’s limitations, you’re not alone. For example, while the Cover Flow mode is interesting, it’d be more useful to me if the bottom section of a Cover Flow window could be switched to icon or column view. And as I noted in my article on Leopard annoyances, you can’t assign custom colors to the Finder’s Labels... read more at Macworld

Plex - Plex

Plex, formerly OSXMBC, began life as an open-source media center exclusively for use with original hacked Xboxes. The project was so well received that developers decided to port the application over to Mac OS X and Linux. Today, Plex retains the refined look of the original app... read more at MacLife

Equinux TubeStick Hybrid - Equinux

Turn a Mac into a TV with the TubeStick. This product’s driving concept is great for small spaces, travel, and recording favorite shows, but with the TubeStick, the execution falters. Its recording features are disappointing, limited by weak scheduling options, wasting much of the hardware’s potential... read more at MacLife

BusyMac BusySync - BusyMac

iCal is pretty capable on its own, and it’s convenient to push your calendars to MobileMe so they stay synced with your iPhone or iPod touch. But when you subscribe to others’ calendars, iCal puts them below your own calendars, in a separate Subscribe section... read more at MacLife

Maple 12 - Maplesoft

The latest development comes from Maple, now at version 12. For this update, Maple has chosen to build on its strengths as a pedagogical tool and to strengthen its ties to the engineering and technical-computing arenas... read more at Macworld

Conjure 3 - Conjure Bunny

We had high hopes for this Leopard-only release of Conjure, as we were a bit disappointed by the previous version. The application's developer, Conjure Bunny, hopes it will replace your Desktop with something more 'vibrant'. Indeed, Conjure has been rewritten to make use of Core Animation... read more at MacUserUK

WindowShade X 4.2 - Unsanity

Over the many years we’ve been writing about great low-cost software, one of the most popular products—with both readers and Gems writers—has been Unsanity’s WindowShade X. This “haxie,” as Unsanity calls its system-enhancement utilities... read more at Macworld

Bling! It - Vertus

Bling! It is made specifically for anyone who photographs items to post online. In particular, they’re going after users who sell on sites like eBay; in other words, people who don’t have the budget to hire a professional photographer and who need to get the best possible image online quickly... read more at MacLife

AppleJack 1.5 - The Apotek

As someone who’s written books and many articles on Mac troubleshooting, one of my favorite utilities has long been The Apotek’s AppleJack, a clever utility that lets you perform a number of troubleshooting procedures at startup—without requiring a Mac OS X or third-party CD or DVD... read more at Macworld

Missing Sync for iPhone - Missing Sync

The synchronisation of iPhone data to your Mac provided by iTunes will satisfy most users, however, there are a some desirable features that are missing. Most mystifying is the inability to transfer notes back and forth between the handset and Leopard's Mail application. Missing Sync for iPhone aims to fill this gap by providing synchronisation of notes, SMS and call logs... read more at MacUserUK

MediaLink 1.2 - Nullriver Software

I haven’t taken the Apple TV plunge, but I do stream video to my big-screen TV from my Macintosh. No, I don’t have it connected directly—I use my PlayStation 3 to bridge a connection between the Mac and the TV wirelessly. My secret is a cool piece of utility software called MediaLink, from Nullriver Software... read more at Macworld

Virtual TimeClock Pro 5.6 - Redcort Software

In the digital age, punching a time clock almost seems like an anachronism. Yet many of us still do get paid for the hours we work each week, and if you’re an employer, time is something you need to track to make sure your employees are being compensated properly... read more at Macworld

Microsoft Entourage 2008 - Microsoft

In the four years since the last major version of Microsoft Office, Entourage has probably come under more attack from Apple’s applications than any other member of the Office suite. OS X’s Mail, Address Book, and iCal have all come to offer credible alternatives to Entourage’s core features... read more at Macworld

Conjure 1.2 - Chilton Webb

Conjure doesn't seem to know exactly what it is trying to be. Does it want to replace the desktop as a place to do work, or offer a space for storing and managing notes, links and texts? On the other hand: is it trying to be a personal journal?... read more at MacUserUK/p>

Cocktail 4.0 - Maintain

Cocktail is an apt name for this general system-maintenance application, which has been updated for Leopard. If there's a system task that isn't in Cocktail's extensive feature set, it's probably not worth doing... read more at MacUserUK/p>

MediaCentral 2.6 - Equinux

As its name implies, MediaCentral 2.6.3 is an application that centralizes the media on your Mac in a streamlined, cohesive menu, allowing you to turn your computer into an entertainment center... read more at Macworld/p>

Missing Sync for Windows Mobile 4 - Mark/Space

The latest version of Mark/Space's Windows Mobile sync software adds support for Windows Mobile 6, which is good news for anyone upgrading their handset. We tested it with an HTC Touch and a Windows Mobile 5-based XDA Exec... read more at MacUserUK

ColorVision PrintFix Pro Suite - Colour Confidence

The problem you have with your colour printer or proofer is that it hasn't been profiled, so you can't really trust its output to be all that accurate. What you need is a way to create a profile that can be used whenever you print, and ColorVision has just the product for you in PrintFix Pro 2.0... read more at MacUserUK

MindManager 7 - MindJet

MindManager 7 is a tool for creating mind maps on your Mac. The mind map was invented as a way to liberate note-taking students and professionals from strictly linear organization. Put your main topic in the middle and add layers of subtopics around it with liberal use of colors and images... read more at MacLife

Typinator 2 - Ergonis Software

Typinator is a productivity enhancer that replaces user-defined keystrokes with text. So if you regularly type, say, 'Photoshop' or 'Adobe Illustrator', Typinator will allow you to enter 'ps' or 'ai' instead (or the abbreviation of your choice), and will automatically expand the words... read more at MacUserUK

AppCleaner - Free Mac Soft

If, like us, you can't wait to try out every new application that comes along, your hard drive is probably full of programs and drivers that you no longer need or use. Dragging the main application to the trash is the most common way of getting rid of these, but it doesn't purge all the associated files... read more at MacUserUK

HoudahGeo - Houdah

Can automatically tie GPS information from hardware devices to photos and Google Earth export is a fun way to share photos. While Geophoto is designed primarily as a kind of globe-based album for photos that contain geographical data, HoudahGeo's main role is to give you an easy way to embed this data into photos... read more at MacUserUK

Applists for iPhone - Elias

If you're looking for a site that lets you create your own faux home screens of icons for iPhone Web apps, check out Applists. Just navigate to applists.com on your iPhone. Click the View iPhone Apps bar in the middle of the page, or use the gray navigation buttons at the top to see all the apps available... read more at MacLife