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"&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;MacDraft Pro 6.2 is a 2D drafting app that has a long history of association with the Mac. In the early days of the Mac, MacDraw was the basic drawing app for the Mac, and MacDraft was the professional version used for architecture and CAD. MacDraft is still with us after all these years, and still provides a very good 2D CAD drawing app.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Enpass is a password manager for the Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop; it&amp;amp;#39;s also available for most popular mobile platforms. Enpass keeps track of your login, password, banking, and credit card data, securely storing the information locally on your Mac in an AES-256 bit encrypted vault, yet providing easy access to you for your use.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;App Tamer gives you control over every app and process running on your Mac. You can designate how much CPU time each is allowed to use, and control what happens when an app moves from being the front most window to being covered up by other apps.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;With App Tamer, you can also extend battery performance and help keep your Mac running cooler on hot summer days.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;BetterTouchTool provides the ability to make use of additional gestures for your multi-touch pointing devices. Going well beyond what Apple provides, BetterTouchTool comes with a large number of predefined gestures and actions you can make use of; it also allows you to create custom gestures to meet your needs.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Corel Painter 2017 is one of the leading painting applications for the Mac. If you work in the digital media arts, Painter can provide all of the painting tools you&amp;amp;#39;ll need to work in illustration, manga, comic art, graphic novels, fine art, and concept art.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;AppDelete is a universal application uninstaller for the Mac that doesn&amp;amp;#39;t rely on using background processes to monitor app installation. AppDelete can uninstall any app, preference pane, widget, plugin, and even screensaver from your Mac. AppDelete can also be used to find orphaned files left behind from apps you have previously deleted.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;System Monitor is a great way to keep track of your Mac\u2019s overall performance. You can monitor CPU, network, and drive performance, keep an eye on internal temperatures and fan speed, or see what app is using up all your memory.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Zen Pinball 2 is very possibly the best pinball game engine available for the Mac. With over 50 pinball tables available, including the free Sorcerer\u2019s Lair, there is no reason why you shouldn\u2019t give Zen Pinball 2 a try.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;How fast is that new drive you just hooked up to your Mac? While drive manufacturers may provide accurate performance information, they don&amp;amp;#39;t provide any context. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test is a free benchmarking tool that provides a quick look at overall drive performance, on your own system.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Wunderlist is a task manager that can easily keep track of all the tasks and chores that may sometimes leave you feeling overwhelmed. Wunderlist apps are available for just about any device, including Macs, iOS, Android, Windows, and Kindle Fire, as well as directly on the web, so you can keep track of tasks, as well as edit or update them, from just about anywhere.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Parallels Desktop 11 for Mac is a virtualization app for the Mac that allows you to run multiple operating systems concurrently on your Mac; no need to reboot when changing from one OS to another. As long as you have enough RAM, you can run as many operating systems as you wish.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;GraphicConverter 10 is the latest version of the popular image processor from Lemke Software. GraphicConverter has been providing advanced image file conversion and image processing for Mac users since 1992, and the latest version is a must-have.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;HoudahSpot is a remarkable search system for the Mac that works with Spotlight and provides the ability to create complex search filters to better find the exact file you&amp;amp;#39;re looking for.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;TableEdit is a free spreadsheet app for the Mac. It provides all the basic tools and features you would expect in a spreadsheet application. It also supports importing and exporting Excel and .CSV files.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Hazel is an automation tool for the Mac that allows you to build complex workflows for the Finder. With Hazel, you can monitor the contents of one or more folders, and perform specific actions based on trigger events that occur within the monitored folder.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;MacCheck is a free troubleshooting and testing app from Micromat that can find basic problems with your Mac\u2019s hardware.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Radio Silence is a firewall for the Mac that can prevent apps from phoning home behind your back. Radio Silence uses a simple block list; no complex rules or distractions. Simply add an app to the block list, and you&amp;amp;#39;re done.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;BusyContacts may be the best contact manager available for the Mac. It&amp;amp;#39;s not perfect, but it offers more features and functions than Apple&amp;amp;#39;s Contacts app, which is a bit too basic for my taste. I especially like the Activities list in BusyContacts, and how it&amp;amp;#39;s able to display all recent activity that involves a selected contact.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Vivaldi is the modern desktop browser for power users. With an amazing ability to be customized, and a vast selection of features and capabilities, Vivaldi should be part of your Mac\u2019s browser options.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;The Nik Collection from Google is a free suite of image editors that can give your photos that professional touch. You&amp;amp;#39;ll find seven top-notch tools in the Nik Collection.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Airfoil 5 is an audio streaming app for the Mac that allows you to send sound and music from your Mac to just about any remote device on your network. With Airfoil, you can stream iTunes, or the sound from any open app, to any AirPlay device, any Bluetooth audio device, or any Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android device you have.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;F.lux offers the ability to adjust the color temperature of your Mac\u2019s display over the course of the day, mimicking the types of color changes seen at sunrise, sunset, during the daytime, and during the nighttime.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;F.lux\u2019s developers say that by adjusting the blue spectrum being emitted by your display, you can help encourage better sleeping patterns.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;TinkerTool is an easy-to-use utility for accessing hidden system preferences in OS X. With TinkerTool, you can perform many of the complex Terminal tricks we write about, just by checking a box in a preference window.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Lyn is an image browser that you can use for managing your photos or images. It is very fast, and allows you to use your own custom image library based on folder structures you create.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Lyn includes metadata editors, an image editor, and a map view for images that contain GPS data.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Data Rescue One is a complete data recovery service contained on a flash drive or external hard drive (depending on the model you choose). With the simplicity of a few clicks, you can easily recover lost files or the entire data from a failing drive.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac is the only anti-malware/adware app I recommend for the Mac. It works well, can detect all known Mac malware and adware, and uses a signature file custom-created for the Mac. It\u2019s lightweight, putting no performance burden on the Mac, and is by far the fastest scanner I have ever seen.\u00A0&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Screenium hits the sweet spot for Mac screen recording and screencast creation apps. With an easy-to-use interface, a full-featured editor, and many recording options and templates available, Screenium will have you finishing up your first screencast in record time.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Geekbench from Primate Labs is a versatile cross-platform benchmarking tool that you can use to measure and compare your Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android device&amp;amp;#39;s performance.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Acorn 5 is an amazing image editor for the Mac that performs like an expensive editing app, such as Photoshop, but for an extremely low cost. Acorn is easy to use, with an interface that you can quickly understand. It brings all of its editing tools directly to you, without having to search and search and search\u2026&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;1Password 6 from AgileBits is a password manager for the Mac OS, Windows, iOS, and Android devices. Besides keeping your passwords and login information safe, 1Password can sync its data with other devices you use, ensuring easy and safe access to all of your login data.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Loopback allows you to route audio between various Mac apps or audio devices. You can create complex audio routing to meet just about any sound need you may have on your Mac.\u200B&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;PhotoBulk from Eltima Software is an image batch processor specializing in adding watermarks, resizing images, optimizing images for file size, or basic file renaming. It performs these services quite well, at a reasonable price point.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Fantastical 2 is a calendaring app that can easily replace the Mac\u2019s built-in calendar app. It works with iCloud, Google, and Yahoo calendars, and supports Handoff with Fantastical for iOS.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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