Macspiration 49
Four Great Utilities

This installment of the Download Drawer has four great utilities for the Mac user. They are all free, just like we like them.

1. Flip4Mac, by Telestream

http://www.flip4mac.com

Have you ever visited a website with a movie file you can’t play because it is in Windows Media Format? Or has someone emailed you a file with the .wmv extension? Quicktime won’t play these files. At least, it won’t play these files without Flip4Mac. Flip4Mac is a free download which will allow Quicktime to play these files. It will play them through a Quicktime window, or through your web browser. To make this even better, they just released a universal binary version!

2. Onyx, by Titanium Software
http://www.titanium.free.fr

There are many free maintenance programs out there for the Mac. These programs can fix permissions, run maintenance scripts, and more. My program of choice is Onyx. It is easy to use and has more than the basic permission fixes and maintenance scripts. Too much to explain here in a little paragraph, but you want to make sure you download the right version for your operating system. This is also available as a universal binary.

3. Avery Mac Label Expert, by Avery
http://www.avery.co.uk/uk1/downloads/maclabelexpert.jsp

This may not seem like a must have, but if you have ever tried printing Avery Labels on your computer you need this recently released program by Avery. The program has tons of templates for Avery labels. There are large labels, small labels, round labels, and more. You enter the label number, the template comes on the screen, layout your labels, and print. You might argue that your word processor has this feature. Mine does too. I even have templates for Illustrator. However, nothing has worked as good as this program in having the printed results actually line up with the labels.

This is not a universal binary, but it works fine on Intel machines.

4. PocketMod (not sure of the author)
http://www.pocketmod.com

For those like myself who don’t have a Palm or other digital personal organizer this is for you! PocketMod is a customizable personal organizer. You can use it online, or download a free version. Basically, you fill out the template with the type of pages you want in your PocketMod. There are a bunch of page options to choose from. You can have a calendar, a list, an address book, a storyboard page, even Soduku. Once the template is done, you print, cut and fold. Presto- your own personal organizer on a piece of paper.

Next week- Macspiration 50!