This is part two of a series in which I showcase some of my favorite applications, which all tend to be from small companies. (Do the big ones really need any publicity from weblogs?) Check these out and give 'em a spin.
What a great way to keep up with news and weblogs. I used to have a daily ritual of web sites to visit to see if anything was new, but now I just subscribe to the feeds of my favorite sites and NNW picks up all the new stories for me. I also use NNW to post stories to my weblog. This should be on every Mac user's dock. Congratulations to Brent and team for their 2003 Eddy Award! free (NNW Lite) / $40
A great tool for building up diagrams of all types. The images it generates are very slick (with shadows and such). My only complaint is that there doesn't seem to be a way to select a group of items to drag from a "stencil" to your document. $70/$120 (Pro)
I got tired of finding my desktop littered with PDFs that Safari would download for me; most of the time, I want to see PDFs that I get from the Web right in my browser window. This plug-in allows me to do this. I wish I could search PDFs from the plug-in, but otherwise it's perfect. free
This is handy for occasional use when we don't get a chance to watch a movie that we've rented at home. All it needs is 5 to 10 gigs of free space on your hard drive (not always an easy thing to find!) and you can save the DVD for watching later. free
More to come soon...