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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.

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

PodWorks is a Mac OS X application that compensates for the iPod's only downside: Apple only allows you to copy songs to your iPod. If you have two Macs and want to use your iPod to transfer music from one to the other, or you only store your music and videos on your iPod and need to copy them back onto your hard drive after a disk failure, you are out of luck! This is where PodWorks comes in: it allows you to copy songs and videos from any iPod or iPhone to any Mac running OS X 10.4 or higher.

WattzOn gives you tools to track your energy consumption, compare it to others' and understand its consequences in order to discover how to reduce your role in climate change.

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.

Surveys iTunes for tracks whose files are no longer available (as indicated by a "!" next to their names) and removes them. Any playlists that subsequently contain no tracks will then be deleted. Progress is displayed every 500 tracks.

Unlock your iPod with Senuti, a simple application that allows you to transfer songs from your iPod to your computer.

Curb is designed to facilitate emptying the trash from removable media such as USB Keys.

Moderator is a simple app that does its job well. The app provides you with notifications of how many comments are waiting on your approval both inside the app and also when the app is docked in your taskbar

It's no wonder the majority of Lifehacker readers voted Remember the Milk the best web-based task manager out there. Remember the Milk's got all the best features modern webapps have to offer: email/SMS/IM integration, tagging, advanced search, keyboard shortcuts and even offline access with Google Gears. Chances are you work across several computers and need a single, always-accessible place to consolidate your work, personal, school, and family to-do's.

Have you ever forgotten your Excel workbook or sheet password? Here you can download a FREE Excel add-in that removes/cracks sheet and workbook password protection in Excel®.

JetS3t is a free, open-source Java toolkit and application suite for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Pandora is a GIMP script which helps in stitching together multiple images to make a panorama.

An easy way to find out when everyone is free for your next meeting or event.

The main goal of this plugin is simple -- to improve download speeds for your BitTorrent client. For most P2P applications, the decision regarding which peer to download from is generally arbitrary. When most peers offer good download performance, the ran

Software to View, Create, Edit and Remap Panoramic Images

Flickr Set Manager allows you to automatically create new sets on Flickr based on various criteria such as interestingness, date posted and tags, or even from a random set of photographs.

Afstand meten is een uitbreiding op Google Maps en biedt de mogelijkheid afgelegde routes uit te zetten door middel van 'markers'. Een marker wordt simpel neergezet op de plek waar geklikt wordt op de kaart en kan achteraf ook verplaatst worden (op marker

1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It's main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog.

Gapminder turns boring statistics into something new and interesting, using visualizations and animateions. The Gapminder Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with statistics.

Preloadr is a free service providing image manipulation functions linked with your Flickr account. It is designed to pre-process photos uploaded to Flickr.

"(..) today I've got a rundown of the web-based software that runs Lifehacker's virtual headquarters." - A good overview of online tools to manage a popular multi-person web publication.

A simple way of testing your TFT (flat) screen for dead pixels.

"Photofront aims to fill the gap between Flickr's photo sharing and social networking with a more professional look and feel. Photofront offers the feel of a photography portfolio with the ease of your flickr account." - It does look more professional. Bu

Feed Crier is a newsreader inside your (AOL) instant messaging application. Another interesting integration of an existing app with RSS