Handpicked Software

Here’s one that didn’t make my list of the 18 Best Free Menu Bar Apps for OS X. MenuTemperature displays your CPU temperature in the menu bar in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
Universal. Sören Kuklau

The price came down as I predicted it would, but I still haven’t been ready to spend $300 bucks for Aperture, even though I’ve been dying to play with it. Finally, Apple is offering a free, fully-functional, 30-day test drive.
Via TUAW. Apple

You may not have given much thought to the right side of the Apple menu bar, or maybe you think Dashboard widgets have usurped the humble Menu Extra (menu bar app). But there are still plenty of useful goodies available to fill in all that empty space. How many apps can you fit in [...]

My favorite maintenance utility for the Mac, MainMenu puts a variety of essential tools and scripts in your menu bar where everything you need is no more than a couple of clicks away. Its simple interface has been gussied up, and it’s now compatible with OS X 10.4.8 and a Universal Binary.
Santa Software [...]

Inquisitor is like Spotlight for Safari, beautiful and gleaming, with autocompletion and a handful of options. Best of all, it’s now free.
David Watanabe

Adobe released a beta of Soundbooth, its new audio program aimed at creative professionals. Adobe hopes to give Apple’s SoundTrack Pro a run for the money. Glitch: it’s for Windows and Intel-based Macs only.
Adobe Labs

Numerous Mac applications attempt to pick up where Address Book and iCal leave off, but nothing I know of comes close to Daylite. Whether you’re a solo web designer or a small business that needs to share calendars and contacts—even track resources like meeting rooms—with up to 50 users over a network, Daylite Productivity [...]

The Journey to Wild Divine is a brilliant idea: couple a biofeedback device that monitors perspiration and heart rate with a beautifully rendered three-dimensional world where you encounter guides and mentors, learn breathing and meditation techniques, and perform virtual psychokinetic feats—such as juggling balls, opening doors, and building bridges. And while The Journey to [...]

I don’t watch television, but this slick new HBO Widget offers up a selection of free teasers and trailers, as well as the complete schedule for HBO and Cinemax channels. Watch clips from Bill Maher and Inside the NFL, interviews with the cast of the Sopranos, previews of documentaries and special features, and The [...]

If you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere and don’t already know about Sudoku , I recommend skipping over this post. Sudoku is seriously addicting. Originating in Japan, this innocent looking game—a kind of crossword puzzle composed of numbers—is fast becoming ubiquitous in the States, appearing in newspapers and displayed prominently in bookstores.
The game [...]