Carbon Copy Cloner: Clone, Copy and Backup your data…..tasty!
Carbon Copy Cloner has been around for quite some time now but that has not diminished quite how useful this application can be. Its especially useful for making a completely cloned copy of drive and has got me out of trouble many a time. In its latest iteration it has a simplified interface and really feels like a premium application rather than the freeware that it has always been!
Enjoy.
Dropzone: The Swiss Army Knife of Drag and Drop
Its only when using a PC I realise how significant drag and drop functionality is on a mac and how it is mostly intuitive. However there are times when I wish things could be simpler. Step in Dropzone.
Basically Dropzone lives in your dock and you set up various locations and send-to actions like uploading to Flickr or an FTP Server. Then it simply awaits your dragging and dropping escapades!
Dictionary Cleaner: Remove Added Dictionary Words in Leopard
Hmmmmm….. unusually I have been unable to find a way to remove learned words in the Mac OSX dictionary on Leopard.
Luckily for me there is a free application that adds a new system preference pane to system preferences and allows you to add and delete words en masse…..which is nice.
iprocrastinate – Free project and task management…
Virtue Desktops – When spaces dont quite cut it…
License Keeper – Keep track of your serials…
Punakea – Tag your world…
If your like me, a little bit obsessed with everything being in its right place, then you will like this one.
In a nutshell, Punakea is like an alternative to the finder, you can tag items away to your hearts content, pretty much the same way tagging works on wordpress etc or keywords in iPhoto or Aperture. Then you can sort you stuffage by tag. Oh and its free.
iClockr – Project time tracking for free
Another FREE one. And this one is useful. Its a time tracking application that enables you to break down your tasks by customer or project etc and is nice and simple.
Well worth a try as it has a clean interface and doesn’t get in the way too much.
Slife – Find where those hours go…
This one is quite interesting, if not a little scary!
Slife monitors everything you do on your mac and records how long you spend doing it. Now at first this seems pretty pointless but for all you freelancers out there it could be really useful. One use could be to use it for a few projects that you undertake so you can give your client a better overview of exactly what you did, for how long etc to justify your expenses. It will also be useful for guaging your schedule of charges for your client depending on how laborious each task generally is on average.
Give it a whirl…
Organized – Great Little Widget…Just spelt wrong ;)
Organized or Organised as us Brits would ‘correctly’ spell (some of you aren’t going to like that are you!) is a great widget that displays, notes, to-do’s, clocks, calander etc all in one little place very neat and very very free!
