Needful Things: Applications

XMenu

XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar. They give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, and files. XMenu is the ideal addition to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as the switch to stacks makes folders in the Dock unusable for quick access to applications or folders with sub-folders.

Highlights:

No need for configuration
Five predefined folders: Applications, Developer Applications, Home, Documents, and User-Defined
Operates as a menu extra, yet requires no hacks or extensions
Ideal replacment for Dock folders in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

EasyFind

Think Mac OS X's Spotlight could use some help? Download EasyFind, an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight and find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing. EasyFind is especially useful for those tired of slow or impossible indexing, outdated or corrupted indices, or those just looking for features missing in the Finder or Spotlight.

Highlights:

Boolean operators, wildcards, phrases
Immediate searches, no indexing required
Finds invisible files and files inside packages (something Spotlight doesn't do)
Displays the location of each file in a separate column
Provides contextual menus and services
Supports drag-and-drop
Very responsive, thanks to multithreading
Uses very little memory

PhotoStickies

PhotoStickies gives you unique access to your favorite pictures. Use PhotoStickies to put all your favorite pictures on your desktop in the form of floating (even borderless) stickies. You may pull pictures for these stickies from your hard drive, or the Internet. PhotoStickies also displays webcam images live on your desktop, updating them automatically. You can even use PhotoStickies to record web cams for later viewing, or make a web cam your desktop picture.

Highlights:

Displays all image formats supported by Mac OS X
Displays images from your hard drive or the web
Shows images as stickies or as your desktop wallpaper
Edit images using live effects, like transparency or color correction
Record streaming webcam images for later viewing
Discover new places with an Internet-based list of webcams
Can run as a menu extra

ThumbsUp

ThumbsUp is a simple, drag-and-drop utility, designed to create thumbnails for batches of images. It supports any and all image formats supported by Mac OS X and QuickTime (including PDF documents).

Highlights:

Convert and resize images as a batch
Pre-configure desired size, quality, sharpening, and anti-aliasing
Scale images by percentage or maximum size
Can be used as ultra-fast image converter (scaling = 100 percent)
Creates preview pictures ofQuickTime movies

Use ThumbsUp to quickly create thumbnails for use on your website, or for emails restricted by file attachment size limitations.

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