Printing from your iPhone or iPad is easier than you've ever imagined. Run Printopia on your Mac to share its printers to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Add unlimited virtual printers to save print-outs to your Mac as PDF files.

Cloak is a service for your Mac, iPhone, and iPad that keeps you safe from prying eyes on public wi-fi.

Looking for ways to augment Safari 5? These extensions are the most useful we’ve found

MercuryMover reduces the friction you feel when you use your Mac. With MercuryMover, you can move and resize windows on your Mac from the keyboard, positioning them precisely where you want. By shunning the slow and imprecise mouse, MercuryMover empowers you to work faster and play more.

Helicon Focus is a program that creates one completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the focused areas. The program is designed for macrophotography, microphotography and hyperfocal landscape photography to cope with the shallow depth-of-field problem.

ExpanDrive acts just like a USB drive plugged into your Mac. Open, edit, and save files to remote computers from within your favorite programs—even when they are on a server half a world away. ExpanDrive enhances every single application on your computer by transparently connecting it to remote data.

KeePass, the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

It's disappointing that Snow Leopard doesn't promise many major new Finder features, but with the right tweaks and plug-ins, you can make browsing files on your Mac significantly better.

OpenTTD is an Open Source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe

DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. It puts all your documents, folders, and applications just a single click away. Highly flexible, it allows multiple docks, each customised to suit your exact needs.

If you’ve just got yourself a new Mac and totally clueless what to install, this article is for you. If you are looking for alternatives for some applications you are currently using in your Mac, the following list might come in handy too. This week, we’d like to showcase you a list of useful yet free applications you can install for your Mac. Full list after jump.

TextExpander saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently-used text strings and images.

Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.

Organize: Manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had. Edit: Eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more Create: Turn photos into movies, collages, slideshows and more

These are instructions on how to make a duplicate copy of CD or DVD using Mac OS X Leopard Disk Utility.

So, especially for those of you using computers, instead of Windows, here’s some key combos and other built-in helper applications you might not already know about.

A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X

Wordpress Notifier is a freeware application that alerts you when new unapproved comments are posted on your Wordpress blog. It lives in the Mac OS X Status Bar and displays the current unapproved comment count.

MindNode Pro is an elegant and simple-to-use mindmapping application for the Macintosh. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple and intuitive user interface that lets the user focus on expressing and developing ideas. Nearly no time is required to learn the interface.

Does your computer interrupt you at inopportune moments? Does your software distract you when it wants attention? Do you wish that it could help you out with routine tasks at home and work?

Experience the Web, GrApple style, with Firefox: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Firefox + GrApple gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the Web faster and nicer than any browser.

There are two models for selecting multiple items in a list using the keyboard: anchored and unanchored.

Audio Hijack Pro. It’s a piece of software designed to capture audio input and output from your computer, and route it into a file. This is one of those tasks that it does not necessarily occur to you to do—until you play back a video and realize you want to capture a piece of dialogue for a ringtone, for instance, or wish that you could listen to your favorite radio show on your iPod. Or, you want to record a podcast. It doesn’t really matter how it works, but essentially, it wiretaps the system audio stream, which can be split up by application or taken as a whole. Then, it can apply filters to it, and then convert the file (natively, an AIFF) to the format of your choice. Ta-da!

Shelf will look at the current foreground application, and try to figure out if what you’re looking at corresponds to a person in your Address Book. Then it’ll tell you things about them.

A list of Mac OS X screensavers

The latest issue of Mac Life magazine had a cool collection of 30 great Mac apps that “you’ve never heard of.” Well, that wasn’t quite right, but there were several great finds. Considering how many blog readers I get who are Macs, I figured I might share those finds plus a few of my own favorites.

With 8 separate and highly configurable menu extras, iStat menus will let you know exactly what’s going on inside your Mac.

Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.

SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to Mac e-mail clients. It’s quick and easy to control SpamSieve from within your mail client, and you can customize how it interacts with the rest of your message sorting rules. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as it adapts to your mail.

NameChanger is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files. To install just download the zip, open it and drag the app to your Applications Folder.

Syrinx is a fully customizable twitter client designed for Leopard (OS X 10.5+). Syrinx is built from two ideals: efficient workflow and customization.

There are a million things people take for granted when talking about either Lightroom or iPhoto – for starters, that one is a professional tool and the other is a toy. But toys can become quite sophisticated, and professional tools tend to go mainstream as technology matures – plus photography is a field where that distinction is fast blurring, to a point.

Stitcho is a new desktop notification widget for websites, with support for Windows and Mac.

Get-You is a tool for downloading, searching and watching videos from videosites like Youtube, Dailymotion, MyVideo, Clipfish, Yahoo-Video, Google-Video, Myspace-Video and many more!

Heb je net je eerste Mac gekocht? Dan ben je hier aan het juiste adres om hem echt te leren gebruíken. Onderstaande teksten en video's zijn vooral bedoeld als een introductie.

You can’t really turn a Linux system to a Mac, but you definitely can make your Ubuntu Hardy looks like a Mac OSX Leopard.

All lines except the last enable nice readline & bash cursor movement (control + arrow keys and what not) while the last line turns on case insensitivity for tab-completion, enabling you to have folders and files of mixed case characters while not having

Straightforward backup advice

ScreenCastsOnline is your one stop shop for Mac video tutorials to help you get the most out of your Mac.

Trouble with video on the Mac. And thought Mac OS was currently the best operating system for video editing...?

Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.

Tag is a metadata editor for FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files.

Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

Freeware application ted (torrent episode downloader) is like Tivo for BitTorrent, providing an easy-to-use interface for setting up season pass downloads for your favorite television shows.

Simplify your finances with Moneydance, the groundbreaking personal finance manager! Whether you want to organize your finances, manage your budget, track your portfolio, or just automatically balance your checkbook, Moneydance is the solution for you.

A lot of people have been moving to the Mac over the past few years, so a while back I thought I'd jot down a few notes about my experience over the last five years or so.

"Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background."

Neat Image is a filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in photographic images produced by digital cameras and scanners. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, astro) and high-speed (sport, action) photography. It is a tool fo