Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog
Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.
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Part 3, A few of my favorite apps
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This is part three of a series... probably the last part unless I can think of some other favorite applications from small, perhaps under-publicized developers. (There are lots of other great programs out there, but these are ones that I personally tend to use fairly frequently
VueScan
I have a Canon scanner, which is great except for the fact that the drivers don't work on Panther. Canon's tech support is MIA. But VueScan is an application that does that job. The user interface is a little bit clunky, but is actually works! $60/$80
OmniOutliner
I used to use ACTA back in the early days of the Mac, and I used to yearn for a Mac OS X program that was as useful. Finally, after several revisions, OmniOutliner is now my outline processor of choice. A great way to organize tasks. $30
UnicodeChecker
A great utility to browse and search the thousands of Unicode characters installed on your Mac. I find the search capability extremely useful. Even if you aren't a polyglot, it's still handy for finding all sorts of symbols. Want card symbols? It will find you ♠ ♤ ♣ ♧, etc. Musical symbols? How about ♩ ♯ ♬. Currency? How about ₪ ₭ ₰ ₱. free
Peripheral Vision
A very useful utility to indicate visually when you have added or removed hardware to your system, mounted or unmounted volumes, gained or lost network connections, and so on. A subtle transparent display (not unlike when you adjust your brightness or volume from the keyboard) appears for a moment on your screen. Very handy. $7
Coming next: Turkey of the Year Award!