Handpicked Software

BubbleShare Widget is a Dashboard widget that streams the photos you’ve uploaded to the free bubblshare.com photo sharing service on your desktop.
Developer’s website: BubbleShare

Dictionary of Galician, one of the four official languages in Spain.
“Chintófano” is the Galician word with the closest meaning to “widget”. This widget enables searching the “Real Academia Galega” online dictionary from your Dashboard.
What’s New:Version 0.4: Fixed a bug that prevented network access since Mac OS 10.4.3
Developer’s website: Fuco

The Internet Traffic Report Dashboard widget shows you the latest traffic report from www.internettrafficreport.com. This free service provides a graph of the response times (higher peaks mean slower global responses), the global index (higher numbers mean faster Internet), and the current global index trend (rising, falling, or steady). Clicking the widget takes you to www.internettrafficreport.com […]

Aquaduct is an Xbox tunneling application for Mac OS X. Using Aquaduct, you can play Xbox System Link-compatible games over the Internet.
What’s New:Version 1.0b3.1 addresses a server communication issue.
Those of you who have been having trouble logging in with Public Beta 3 will probably not be able to log in successfully with 3.1 right […]

In Nascar Racing 2003, you battle your way to the lead of the pack in the most immersive racing game of
the season! Go bumper-to-bumper against all of your 2003 favorites on all 23
real-life tracks, or draft to gain speed and blow right past them at 200
mph. Take the checkered flag and experience the thrill that […]

Wetris is a tetris-like game with a difference - as the game goes on, the board fills up with water. Can you stop it before it reaches the top? The registered version features a two player mode and you can also submit your high scores to the global high score table.
What’s New:Version 1.0.2 […]

Freeopardy (”free-o-pardy”) lets you host your own Jeopardy-like game for 1 to three players. One can set answers, questions, Final Freeopardy, and the Daily Double location. Currently Double Freeopardy is unavailable. Sounds should be accurate.

A sample Freeopardy document (.txt) is included. Use the Freeopardy Editor to create/modify your game. You should probably run through all […]

Voice mail has come a long way since those cassette answering machines that had a habit of eating your tape (just as you played back the message from your boss), and you probably traded in your old phone/digital answering machine combo for your telephone company’s voice mail a long time ago. But you’re a […]

I reviewed ClamXav back in 2004, but this latest update is a good reminder that everyone should take care to avoid viruses. When I tested it for my last review, my machine was clean, but it found a virus on my Virtual PC disk. You may think you’re safe because you have a Mac, […]

Why fire up Photoshop every time you need to resize a screen capture? If you need to make minor adjustments to your images (resizing, croping, rotating, and much more), ImageWell is lean and fast. Modify your PNG, JPG, or TIFF images and add drop shadows, watermarks, borders, labels, or annotations. Upload your images to […]