ChronoSync File Sync and Backup

"You choose one folder or volume on the left side of the window and another on the right, select your options, and click Synchronize to copy your data."

http://www.macworld.com/article/2011101/review-chronosync-4-3-5-a-multitalented-file-sync-and-backup-tool.html#tk.nl_mwdaily

Google Email Uploader

Currently this free open source application  is only available for Google Apps-hosted Gmail accounts and not standard Gmail accounts, but what it does is amazing.

"When you launch Google Email Uploader, it displays any Mail, Eudora, or Thunderbird mailboxes it finds in their default locations. You can also manually point the program to messages—in Mail mailboxes, mbox files, or maildir folders—stored elsewhere."

READ: Google Email Uploader gets your old e-mail into Gmail
By Dan Frakes, Macworld.com

ShareTool extends Bonjour over 'net

"Yazsoft’s ShareTool lets you securely share, over the Internet, all the services on a particular computer, as well as all the services that computer can reach on its local network.

...printing, screen sharing, iTunes Sharing, and iPhoto Sharing, as well as third-party services from sources as varied as Skype and BusyCal—if software advertises its services using Bonjour, ShareTool can make them available over the Internet."

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard

READ: ShareTool extends Bonjour over the 'net
by Glenn Fleishman, Macworld.com

Pod to Mac: Transfer Software

"Pod to Mac is an iPod, iPad or iPhone to Mac transfer software that lets users transfer iPhone, iPod Touch and iPod songs, playlists, videos, tv shows and much more to a Mac and into iTunes. Pod to Mac can rip music from all iPods and iPhones works with or without jail-breaking."

Computer Requirements:

    * Mac OSX 10.5, 10.6 or later
    * iTunes 8, 9 or later
    * A USB Connector for the iPod device


iPod Compatibility:
Works with all, iPods, iPhones and iPads including:

    * iPad (all generations)
    * iPhone (all generations)
    * iPod Classic (all generations)
    * iPod Touch (all generations)
    * iPod Shuffle (all generations)
    * iPod Nano (all generations)

This is a great "Crash Recovery Solution"
"If your computer crashed or you just bought a new one, Pod to Mac is the ideal solution to move your music back on to the computer. Simply download, install and click auto-transfer and everything will be back the way it was before."

Pwnage Tool 3.1 is OUT

"The iPhone hacking faithful can now unlock and jailbreak their original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and first-generation iPod Touch devices with the much-awaited PwnageTool 3.1. Unfortunately, the hacking tool does not yet support the iPhone 3GS or the new iPod Touch, but an update is expected soon.

Arriving only a week after Apple released the 3.1 software update for the iPhone and iPod touch, DevTeam has set free Pwnage Tool 3.1. The software allows you to create and install custom firmware packages to jailbreak your Apple device and also use SIM cards from carriers other than AT&T (or the original carrier you purchased your iPhone from).

As usual, a kind reminder that jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod touch is not something that Apple likes you to do and it will void your warranty. But if you know what you are doing (and follow the instructions closely) Pwnage Tool will give you access to the Cydia app store, a place full of apps that allow you to further customize your iPhone and also use many of the apps that Apple rejected from its own app store."

READ: New jailbreaking tool available for some iPhone users
by Daniel Ionescu, PC World

Back Up & Restore Boot Camp

To copy your Mac OS partition use Carbon Copy Cloner, but for Windows partitions you need something else-

FREE Winclone by Two Canoes Software is an app that will clone both Windows XP and Windows Vista, using FAT32 or NTFS, but it requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

Current Apple Support for Boot Camp.

If you are still using Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger with Boot Camp versions 1.2-1.4 read this Apple Support page for expired Boot Camp. These Boot Camp Betas were preview software and the licenses have been expired since October 2007. They still function, but are no longer supported by Apple.

More information in this article in Macworld by Christopher Breen.

File Storage for iPhone & iPod Touch

"DiskAid is a tool for Mac and Windows which enables you
to use your iPhone or iPod Touch as an external Disk.
With DiskAid you can transfer files and folders between your
iPhone or iPod Touch and your Mac & Windows Computer."

No Jailbreak needed. And it's FREE!

Macworld article about DiskAid by Dan Frakes

DiskAid website & FREE download

AntiVirus for Dual-Boot Macs!

Norton™ AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac®
for PowerPC® or Intel® Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher

It includes Norton AntiVirus 2010 for Windows for users who have both Mac OS X and Windows running on their computers.
$69.99 (includes a one-year subscription for virus updates)

READ: Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac debuts
by Peter Cohen, Macworld.com


Don't have a Dual-Boot Mac with Windows installed, but
still want to ensure you are not a carrier of Windows viruses?

Norton™ AntiVirus 11 for Mac®
for PowerPC® or Intel® Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher
$29.99 (includes a one-year subscription for virus updates)

Make Panther More Like Tiger

How To Make Panther More Like Tiger

Print to Mail. Create alias of Apple's Mail, or other email application.
Save to Web Receipts folder. Create folder named Web Receipts folder, and create an alias of it.

Create a folder named PDF Services in your Home folders' Library folder. Place both these aliases in this new folder.

Also add the following software applications;

Konfabulator (FW) OS 10.2+

Pocketlight (FW) 10.3+ Searches mailboxes, calendars, Address Book, files.

QuickDash (FW) 10.1+

SearchLite (FW)

Amnesty (SW) Widget Browser is a utility for Mac OS X Tiger and Panther (10.3.9)

Custom Mac OS X Boot CD

Create a custom Mac OS X Utilities CD
using CharlesSoft's BootCD.



It takes longer to boot than an Install Disc,
but you can add your own utilities, and
it has the Mac OS X Panther Finder and Desktop, yes really-!


Note: BootCD is unsupported, and is not compatible
with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Senuti iPod Transfer FREEware

Transfer songs from your iPod back to your computer!



"Senuti is a simple utility that makes transferring songs from an iPod to your computer quick and easy. It reads information from the iTunesDB file located on your iPod in order to quickly retrieve information on all of the songs on your iPod. Senuti is currently under active development and many features will be added in the future. Please donate to support future development.

Product Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Apple iTunes

Pacifist opens .pkg and More!

"Pacifist 1.6.1 from CharlesSoft is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar file archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them.

This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X.

Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files*, and Pacifist can also examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.

*This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors."

MenuMeters 1.1.1 FREEware

MenuMeters 1.1.1 from Raging Menace is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for the MacOS X Menu Bar!

No more wondering if the computer is "busy", overloaded, or just taking it's time.

This is part of my Top 10 Things to Add to your Mac.

MacJanitor FREE System Utility

If you shut down your Mac at night it's not able to run some important self-maintenance.

"Here is another great utility to run the system's daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts (located at /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly). These scripts are normally run between 3am and 5am, and will not be run if you shut off your Mac at night. But with MacJanitor, you can run these scripts by hand periodically and keep your Mac's system databases from getting too large."

MacJanitor from Brian R. Hill brianhill@mac.com

"Because Mac OS X is based on Unix, it performs several automatic maintenance operations throughout the week. But unlike most Unix machines, most Macs are shutdown at night by their owners, and it's at night that these maintenance functions are performed. MacJanitor essentially lets you run those processes right away so that you can save power at night. In addition to improving performance, MacJanitor gets rid of unnecessary files that clutter your Mac."