Ever since the roundup of 21+ essential iPhone apps with sexy interfaces crashed my hosting server (!), I understand how much people love roundups of well designed apps.

This post is a round up of 50 handpicked Mac apps that have either well designed or have really sexy interfaces or both! They’re not arranged in any order, just random.

I know it’s a giant list to digest, so bookmark this for future reference! Also, leave a comment if you think I have missed out a Mac app of this category.

Pixelmator

[$59 | Website]

Pixelmator is a great alternative to Photoshop, low memory footprint and extremely beautiful.

Tapedeck

[$25 | Website]

TapeDeck is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It’s just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better.

Snowtape

[$29 | Website]

Snowtape lets you listen to radio stations and record them live. And more! Read my review.

Delibar

[$18 | Website]

I have a review for Delibar coming up next week, so stay tuned! Delibar is a full featured Delicious.com Mac client. Delibar focuses on giving Mac OS X users an easy and quick tool for searching, managing and sharing their Delicious bookmarks.

CleanMyMac

[$29.95 lifetime or $14.95 6 month license | Website]

CleanMyMac represents sophisticated all-in-one-suite utility that helps keep your Mac clean and healthy. With just two simple clicks you can delete useless files that basically pile up and waste your valuable disk space.

Swatch

[$4.95 | Website]

Swatch lets you group your colors together in ‘Swatches’ to later be used throughout your project. Working in CSS? Easily copy the hex value to paste right into your stylesheet.

Snippet

[$12.95 | Website]

An unobstrusive snippets management tool for your Mac.

Anxiety

[Donationware | Website]

Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.

Capo

[$49 | Website]

Capo is a musician’s best friend. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played.

Bodega

[Free | Website]

Bodega is like Apple’s App Store, but for Mac! Extremely well designed to say the least.

Blogo

[$25 | Website]

Blogo is a blogging app for Mac that supports Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, Typo, Drupal, Joomla, and Expression Engine. This post is composed speedily with Blogo!

LittleSnapper

[$39 | Website]

LittleSnapper is a screenshot snapping and management app.

Things

[$49.95 | Website]

If you only have budget for only one Mac OS X to-do list tool, look no further than Things. There is also an iPhone app that can sync with Things for Mac

The Hit List

[$49.95 | Website]

Another to-do list tool for Mac, more fancy design, no iPhone app yet.

Notebook

[$49.95 | Website]

More than just an outliner or text processor, NoteBook is idea management software that supports Mac users at every stage of a project, no matter how large or small.

Coverstream

[€14.95| Website]

Control, search and browse music unobstrusive with a coverflow like interface. Gorgeous!

Tangerine

[$24.95 | Website]

Tangerine! lets you easily create playlists of upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. It works by analyzing the BPM and the beat intensity of your music. Spend your time listening to music, not making playlists.

TuneUp

[$29.95 lifetime or $19.95 annual license | Website]

Your music collection is a mess. TuneUp fixes it. Automagically.

Coversutra

[$19.95 | Website]

CoverSutra gives you a handy and attractive way to control iTunes without having to leave your current application.

Notify

[Free | Website]

Notify provides a simple and elegant way of keeping track of what’s in your Gmail inbox. With support for multiple accounts, and a beautiful tabbed user interface, you can’t go wrong with Notify.

Just Notes

[Donationware | Website]

A simple, beautiful and powerful notes app. The nice user interface lets you focus on the important things – taking notes

Postbox

[$39.95 | Website]

Postbox lets you work with email the way you’ve always wanted. Powered by an ultra-fast email engine and a sharp-looking, intuitive interface, Postbox will help you focus, save time, and get more done.

NewsLife

[$14.88 | Website]

NewsLife is the simplest way to stay up-to-date with tons of websites without even having to touch your web browser until you see something you want to read.

Stuf

[£12.99 | Website]

Stuf is a clipboard manager with a beautiful HUD like interface.

Cha-Ching

[Free during beta | Website]

My personal favorite finance management app. Manage your finances quickly and easily with Cha-Ching 2 for the Mac. Quickly create a budget, enter transactions and track spending, all within a beautiful user interface that will make managing your finances a true pleasure.

Awaken

[CAD$15 | Website]

Gently fall asleep with the sleep timer and wake up on time with Awaken.

Fontcase

[$56 | Website]

A beautiful font management app!

DaisyDisk

[$19.95 | Website]

With DaisyDisk you can free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. The program scans any mounted disk and displays it on the sunburst map, where segments mean files and folders, proportionally to their sizes. The map is easy to read and navigate. You can also quickly preview any file and reveal it in Finder to delete.

iStat Menu

[Free | Website]

The most advanced system monitor for Mac, and dare I say the most beautiful.

Dropzone

[$10 | Website]

Dropzone is a Mac application that makes it faster, easier and more fun to get things done on your Mac. Share files and text, launch applications and extend via a powerful ruby based API.

Midnight Inbox

[$35 | Website]

Midnight Inbox helps you work smarter and with less stress, automating your inputs and organizing your tasks, files, and information so that you can always be in control. Collect emails, files, calendar and to-do items and notes automatically. Process all of your collected items into to-do items you can actually do when and where you are able. Organize those to-do items into projects you can track easily. Review your lists, projects, and collections to make sure nothing slips through the cracks. Do everything on your lists with a Zen-like focus.

Picturesque

[$29.95 | Website]

Picturesque is a simple app with a simple goal: to make images more beautiful. Whether you are in web or print, your images can benefit from a touch of Picturesque magic.

Aperture

[$199 | Website]

Aperture 2 delivers streamlined tools for moving photos from capture to output with uncompromising quality.

Lightroom

[$299 | Website]

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 software is essential for today’s digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images — from one shot to an entire shoot. With Lightroom 2, you spend less time in front of the computer and more time behind the lens.

ScreenFlow

[$99 | Website]

Capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer’s audio. Sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time.The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.

Tweetie

[Free (w/ads) $19.95 (no ads) | Website]

Very low memory footprint and pretty Twitter client for Mac! A standalone iPhone app is also available.

Socialite (previously known as Eventbox)

[Not Available Yet | Download Socialite beta 2 from here | Website]

You can manage your social life on Socialite, an all in one social media client where you can tweet, digg, Facebook, Flickr, read RSS feeds, Google Reader, Reddit and more.

Eventbox has been bought over by RealMacSoftware who subsequently renamed the app as Socialite.

Twistori

[$12 | Website]

Twitter visualization app for Mac.

Canary

[Free | Website]

Canary is a Twitter client that is beautifully designed, fun to use and has everything you’ll ever need. Canary’s user interface is slick and straightforward and helps you do what matters most fast and easily. It does more than you would expect it to and the best part: it’s free with no ads.

Delicious Library

[$40 | Website]

Catalog your books, movies, music, software, toys, tools, electronics, & video games

Tags

[$29 | Website]

File tagging app for Mac.

1Password

[$39.95 | Website]

I wonder what I’ll do without 1Password! 1Password can create strong, unique passwords for you, remember them, and restore them, all directly in your web browser.

Propane

[$20 during beta | Website]

A Mac client for users of Campfire. Campfire^™ is a web-based group chat tool from 37signals^®. It’s like Instant Messaging, only better because it’s designed for groups and runs in your web browser.

Espresso

[€59.95 | Website]

Espresso is a web development app by MacRabbit.

CSSEdit

[€29.95 | Website]

Also created by MacRabbit, CSSEdit lets you, as the name suggest, edit CSS!

Coda

[$99 | Website]

My personal favorite for web development! Text editor + file transfer + svn + css + terminal + books + more = whoah.

Billings

[$39.99 | Website]

Billings is an invoicing and time tracking app.

On The Job

[$39.95 | Website]

Similar to Billings, On The Job gets your invoicing job done.

Rapidweaver

[$79 | Website]

Rapidweaver lets you create beautiful websites quickly and easily!

xScope

[$26.95 | Website]

Want to measure stuff on your screen? xScope can help you get the job done.

Flux 2

[£40 | Website] Suggested by Irfan Q

Flux 2 is an extensible web development tool that enables developers to write HTML, CSS, PHP etc. FTP (including SFTP), Local Disk, and MobileMe are all supported in a completely rewritten publishing system.

Textmate

[£40 | Website] Suggested by svenlito

Peeps who uses Textmate stands by Textmate, they must have done something right as one of the most popular tools for developers.

Writeroom

[$24.95 | Website] Suggested by Powitsjj

For people who enjoy the simplicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a distraction free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you’re used to, WriteRoom lets you focus on writing. Also comes with an accompanying iPhone app ($4.99)!

Scrivener

[$39.95 | Website] Suggested by twiedi

Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won’t try to tell you how to write – it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application.

Vinoteka

[€29.90 | Website] Suggested by William

Vinoteka is a brand new wine cellar management software for Mac. Extremely easy and fun to use, Vinoteka offers a realistic interface to manage your bottles (wine, liquors or spirits) recreate your cellar and organize wine tasting sessions. No matter if wine is new for you or if you already are an expert, Vinoteka is here to make your wine experience the best.

Contactizer

[$119 | Website]

Contactizer Pro is an amazing all-in-one solution for managing, sharing and organizing your personal and business information. Contactizer Pro 3.8 makes your business management experience more efficient, productive and inventive. Following the prodigious success of its predecessor, OD4Contact, many users worldwide continue to choose Contactizer Pro for their calendar, organizational and management needs. Contactizer Pro, specifically built for Mac OS X, provides a wealth of powerful PIM features, all through an innovative, elegant and intuitive interface.

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Each time I empty my invites, Google replenish them with more.

Bookmark this post if you want. I will be giving away Google Wave invites to commenters of this thread!

I’ll be updating this post with the number of invites left and the consolidated list of winners’ names.

Even if I run out of invites, I will still send out the invites to the remaining commenters each time I receive a top up from Google.

So keep the comments coming, you’ll be sure to get an invite when Google gives me the top ups.

IMPORTANT: READ THIS

- Please check the winners list to see if you’ve been invited before posting a comment

- Do not type your email address in the comment unless you love spam, type your email in the email field instead

- Again, if you’re wondering why you have not received your invite yet, Google says “Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.”

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Invites Left: 24
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Invitees - 5th Nov 09

1. Ade Chong
2. Martina
3. Yajun
4. Ryan
5. Brenda
6. Rob
7. Michael
8. Tim
9. Henning
10. Caili
11. Alex
12. Evgeny
13. Sid
14. Jimmy
15. Ryan
16. Crash
17. Palma
18. Victor
19. Progress
20. Dorian Grey
21. Sivert Haltbakk Sandvik

Invitees - 9th Nov 09

22. Adam Randall
23. pigouinos
24. Miles
25. Joseph Higgins
26. Boris
27. Joey
28. Mady
29. bro
30. Oliver (already has a Wave account)
31. Nate
32. Eduardo Neves
33. yohannh (already has a Wave account)
34. Xoozlez
35. sifulan

Invitees - 10th Nov 09

36. ca_iphone
37. Bob
38. nniiicc
39. Varun
40. Nicolai
41. JimmyB
42. Alex
43. Barry

Invitees - 26th Nov 09

44. Marcel (already has a Wave account)
45. Brian Kimmel
46. Austinmation
47. Jaimin
48. JakeyBoy (already has a Wave account)
49. Jesse (already has a Wave account)
50. Mickey (already has a Wave account)
51. Todd Jefferson (email account looks like a spam container?)
52. FREIDAMACHOI
53. nniiicc (already has a Wave account)
54. Muku
55. Puls
56. andrea little (already has a Wave account)
57. Kelvin

Invitees - 28th Nov 09

57. Abhigyan Banerjee (already has a Wave account)
58. Shyam (already has a Wave account)
59. mayur
60. Bruno
61. Rohan (already has a Wave account)
62. AlexT (already has a Wave account)
63. Irene  (already has a Wave account)
64. haymoose
65. OGenius
66. Moacyr (already has a Wave account)
67.  Gonzalo
68. Hollowdisclosure
69. Bodi
70. Eugene (already has a Wave account)
71. t5tr

Invitees - 16th Dec 09

57. Chris (already has a Wave account)
58. Fatih
59. Rune
60. John (already has a Wave account)
61. Ken (already has a Wave account)
62. limor84 (already has a Wave account)
63. Axel
64. Oliver Menant (already has a Wave account)

Invitees – 19th Dec 09

65. ryan mathe

Invitees – 12th Jan 10

66. Kei

Invitees – 17th Feb 10

67. Michiel
68. Chris
69. limor (already has a Wave account)
70.  Ryan Farrow
71. Kirk

Invitees – 22th Feb 10

72. santos

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iTunes is a great software to manage and listen to our music, but the experience can be further improved by using additional plugins or apps. These plugins / apps basically extends the functionality of iTunes, enhances iTunes, or both, to satisfy some of the needs that iTunes cannot provide.

Here are 12 plugins / apps that you will find useful when used with iTunes.

Cover Stream

[$20 | Website]

Cover Stream puts coverflow into a HUD window that you can summon with a pre-defined hot key. You can browse your music library and control music easily in that window without having to use iTunes to do that. Cover Stream also integrates with Last.fm flawlessly, scrobbing your music while you listen to them.

CoverSutra

[$20 | Website]

CoverSutra is one of the most mature and popular app to control your iTunes music without switching to iTunes. The app features one of the best user inteface design, using the app is a real pleasure. With CoverSutra, you can search music, see the currently played song’s  album art on your desktop. Integration with Last.fm is also one of the feature.

GimmeSomeTune

[Free | Website]

Truly one of the most essential app to compliment your iTunes. GimmeSomeTune fetches missing coverarts and lyrics in the background while you listen to your music. I have tried many coverart and lyrics fetching apps and I must say this is one that really gets both the job done well. The best part is, it’s free.

Bowtie

[Free | Website]

Designed by Laurent Baumann, also responsible for Fontcase, Bowtie is a beautifully designed free iTunes controller that allows you control your iTunes music unobstrusively. You can also put the now playing song’s coverart on your desktop. Bowtie also features downloadable themes for the CD Cover that houses the coverart which you can start by downloading the themes here.

Tangerine

[$24.95 | Website]

Designed by Potion Factory, also behind The Hit List, Tangerine analyses the tempo of your music and lets you easily create playlists of music grouped by it’s tempo among many other options. Great app if you hate the idea of manually choosing songs for your next workout etc.

Awaken

[$15 | Website]

Awaken lets you play music when you’re sleeping, sleeps your Mac utilizing a sleep timer, and wakes you and your Mac up with your favourite music. You can also use Awaken to alert you about anything else other than waking you up by using the egg timer. Control the alarm and sleep timer with your Apple Remote from across the room while running Awaken in fullscreen mode.

CoverScout

[$40 | Website]

CoverScout scours the internet for coverarts and adds it to your albums. The neat part is that you can edit your coverarts by rotating, cropping, scaling, straightening and even adjusting the color levels of the image.

SongGenie

[$33 | Website]

SongGenie aids you in filling in missing meta datas of your tracks like descriptions, artist names, track names, album names etc, making your iTunes library much more useful and tidy. Written by the same developers from CoverScout, SongGenie integrates with CoverScout by assigning the tasks of adding album arts to your tracks to CoverScout with just one click.

TuneUp

[$29.95 or $19.95 yearly | Website]

UPDATE (Discount for SUBERAPPS readers)

TuneUp is offering a 15% discount promo code for SUBERAPPS readers, just enter SUBERAPPS during checkout, valid till 15 April 09.

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TuneUp cleans your tracks by fixing your mislabeled music and missing coverarts. The app adds a new sidebar to iTunes with all the tools you need to use to clean up your music. The now playing tab displays information about the track and even lets you play the music video of the track right in the sidebar (video fetched from YouTube). TuneUp was really buggy when it first launches late last year due to the overwhelming response but I guess they should have cleared out the kinks by now. Read more about TuneUp in a review written in December last year.

YouControl

[Free | Website]

You Control basically lets you control your iTunes music library via your menubar without switching to iTunes.

DockArt

[Free | Website]

DockArt does a simple but extremely useful job by replacing the default iTunes icon in your dock with the currently playing music’s coverart. When you stop your music, your iTunes icon reverts back to the original one.

AutoRate

[Free | Website]

AutoRate automatically rates your tracks based on how often the track is played and how often each track is skipped. Might not be the most accurate, but a good start if you are not really active in rating your music.

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Once again, if you have any other suggestions for a good iTunes app / plugin, please feel free to comment!

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iPhone apps are extremely useful in our day to day lives, great design and user interfaces enhances our experience and makes us want to use it more, thus solving  day to day problems become whole lots of fun while enhancing productivity. Here are 21 essential iPhone apps that are extremely useful, coupled with visually appealing interfaces. If you have any recommendations please feel free to leave a comment. Enjoy!

Groups

[$2.99 | Website | iTunes]

A highly potential iPhone native “Contacts” app replacement. With groups you can manage your contacts easily, organizing them using drag and drop. Your created groups will synchronize with iPhone’s Contact app. Email groups of people easily with this app, call or SMS anyone easily, all with a very sexy interface.

User Interface

Cha-Ching

[$2.99 (Introductory Price) | Website | iTunes]

Cha-Ching was originally a Mac app (current version 2.0 beta, free until 30 April 09) designed for personal finance management. The highly anticipated iPhone app was only recently released at the App Store. I’ve tried many similar apps of the same genre and this is the best looking one in my opinion.

User Interface

Analytics

[$5.99 | Website | iTunes]

Analytics lets you check your Google Analytics data and reports on the go. At times you might find this app even easier to analyze Google Analytics data than the web app.
User Interface

Ego

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes]

Ego gives you one central location to check your Mint (number of visits), your total number of Twitter followers, Feedburner stats and Google Analytics stats on the go. Very convenient way to streamline the checking of your numbers, or your ego so to speak.
User Interface

Weightbot

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes]

Weightbot is a weight tracking app designed to let you meet your weight losing goal. Set your goal weight, record your weight at any interval (one weight per day max), view your BMI, and see your progress on a beautiful graph.
User Interface

Tweetie

[$2.99 | Website | iTunes]

Tweetie is (in most people’s opinion) the best Twitter iPhone app available on the App Store. The most distinctive difference between Tweetie and the rest of the Twitter apps in the store is it’s extremely smooth scrolling. You can do most major functions like reply, direct message, retweet, Twitpic, Instapaper integration, search, save searches, trends or even look at tweets by nearby tweeple (using the GPS) etc.
User Interface

Tumblr

[Free | Website | iTunes]

If you use Tumblr, you’ll love this app as you’ll be able to update your Tumblr blog easily.  Most often than not I use this app to quickly snap pictures and upload it to my Tumblr.
User Interface

Byline

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes]

Byline is an RSS reader that synchronizes flawlessly with Google Reader. The best and most good looking Google Reader app I’ve found, the plus point of this app is that for every article you marked as favorite, the whole article will be downloaded into Byline so that you can read it offline, good feature if you want to read your favourite articles without having to wait for the article to be downloaded while on your daily commute.
User Interface

Tags

[$2.99 | Website | iTunes]

Tags is a Delicious app that syncs all your bookmarks from your Delicious account. I guess the reason why this app is named “Tags” is because of the unique way your bookmark tags are displayed (as seen from the screenshot). If you’re a Delicious user and there is only one app you can download, make it this one.
User Interface

Satisfaction Remote

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes]

This is an accompanying app for Get Satisfaction users who wants to check discussions on the go. Find companies, products or people, find and read support topics of your favourite apps. Reply or comment on a topic.
User Interface

iStat

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes]

iStat lets you remotely monitor your Mac’s CPU, memory, disks, temperatures, fans, uptime and load averages all from your iPhone. This app also lets you see your iPhone’s stats for memory, disk space, WiFi and Cell IP addresses, uptime & load averages, plus view and email your iPhone’s Unique ID and MAC address. Pinging and traceroute functions are also supported.
User Interface

CompareMe

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes]

This app lets you compare any 2 product’s prices by their quantity, volume, lengths etc. A simple example will be – 3 for $1.75 or 2 for $1.35, which is cheaper? CompareMe will tell you that in a split second. Good for price conscious shoppers, helps me heaps when doing grocery shopping!
User Interface

Tipulator

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes]

Having trouble doing mental calculations on the tips you need to pay on top of the total price of your dinner and how much each of your friends need to pay? Tipulator solves this problem, with a literally “sweet” looking interface.
User Interface

Measures

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes]

Measures lets you convert units like currencies, temperatures, weight, distance etc. What I like about this app is not only the interface and the icon, there is an inline calculator built into the app for calculations while letting you view the converted value during the process. Great when shopping for multiple items at a foreign country.
User Inteface

GuitarToolkit

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes]

GuitarToolkit is packed with a slew of utilities to compliment your guitar playing experience. It includes the most notable guitar tuner (using the iPhone microphone) which proves to be extremely accurate, a metronome, a library of over 1500 chord variations which is highly recommended for beginners learning guitar.
User Inteface

Inquisitor

[Free | Website | iTunes]

The very popular Inquisitor browser plugin now comes to the iPhone. With the same sleek interface, Inquisitor lets you quickly search anything on the web. Keep in mind that the search engine used is a Yahoo search engine, if you’re a staunched Google user you might not be very fond of that. But if you’re a staunched designer, the sexy interface will make up for it.
User Inteface

Flickit

[Free | Website | iTunes]

At last, an iPhone app that lets you upload multiple photos to Flickr! Via a beautiful interface (and can’t believe it’s free!), you can snap a photo or choose your desired photo(s) from your photo library for upload.
User Interface

Night Stand

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes]

Night Stand displays a beautiful, vintage LCD clock on your iPhone or iPod Touch. It sports two variations: flip clock and vintage LCD display. There’s also an alarm clock built into this app.
User Interface

Faces

[$0.99 (Sale for a limited time) | Website | iTunes]

Faces is a visual quick dial application. Calling or SMSing a friend is just a click away upon launching the app, launch time is quite fast I would say. You can also sort contacts into groups so that you can find your desired person to call/SMS more easily. Yes you can find many quick dial apps on the store, but spotting one with a pleasing interface is hard. You can even customize the background by using a picture from your photo library.
User Interface

Classics

[$2.99 (Sale for a limited time) | Website| iTunes]

Classics has one of the best user interface for reading classic tales including Gulliver’s Travel, The Time Machine, Frankenstein, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (illustrated), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, among many other books. Highly recommended for classic tales fans, even if you’re not you might just fall in love with it.
User Interface

Things

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes]

The very popular and extremely useful GTD (Getting Things Done) productivity app deserves a mention here. If you have not heard of Things, this app lets you handle your to-do lists systematically. Also check out the awesome Things Mac app.
User Interface

ConvertBot

[$0.99 | Website| iTunes]

For only 99 cents, you get an awe-inspiring unit converter that converts angles, area, currencies, length, mass, power, pressure, speed, temperature, time, volume etc. One thing to note is that only a couple of currencies are supported, do check if your country is supported at the App Store before buying.
User Interface

Outpost

[$12.99 | Website| iTunes]

I have always wanted to try Basecamp but haven’t found the reason to, but if you are one proud user, you’ll be able to appreciate this native iPhone app for Basecamp. Outpost brings the power of Basecamp to your iPhone or iPod Touch, with comprehensive support for messages, milestones, to-dos, and comments. Outpost is also the first app for Basecamp which offers full offline capabilities.
User Interface

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This post is more for new Mac users, or Mac users who’ve not tried any Mail plugins before and would like to explore better use of Mac OS X native Mail application. Here are 6 of the best Mail plugins I can’t live without.

1 – Mail Act-On 2 ($24.95)

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If you’re an organized Mail user, you’ll most likely have many mail folders setup so that you can sort individual emails into their respective folders. Overtime it makes you counter-productive as you’ll end up with tons of folders sorted into different levels, dragging them into their respective folder becomes a pain as you have to find that particular folder from a whole stack of them. Mail Act-On solves that problem by letting you call up a HUD panel via a hotkey, letting you type the name of the folder and hitting “Enter” to file the email instead. I’ve been using this plugin extensively, $24.95 is worth every dime.

But if you want a free alternative, you can also try MsgFiler. Although the program will nag you to pay $8 within intervals of your use, if you don’t mind the nag, you can use it free forever.

2 – WideMail (Free)

[Link]

Wide screen monitors and laptops are everywhere these days, you’re probably using one, to make full use of the screen estate when using Mail, you’ll be happy to use WideMail plugin. To put it simply, WideMail displays your mail vertically instead of the original horizontal display. This makes reading emails easier.

3 – MailUnread (Free)

[Link]

MailUnread is a menubar plugin that shows you how many unread emails you have in your Mail. So whenever a new mail arrives, you’ll immediately know it. What’s more there’s an option to see a few lines of the new emails before you decide whether it needs your immediate attention.

4 – MiniMail ($9)

[Link]

MiniMail is like a Mini Player for iTunes. Clicking on the “+” sign on the Mail app collapse Mail into a “Mini Player like window”, MiniMail for this instance. You can scroll through unread mails, reply, create a new mail, delete, mark as read, check for new mail etc. Small but powerful plugin. MiniMail works best if you have a dual monitor setup, so that you can place MiniMail on the other monitor while making space for other applications you want to place on that monitor, iCal or iTunes for example.

5 – Mail Appetizer (Free)

[Link]

Mail Appetizer displays a notification window everytime a new email arrives. You can then determine whether the message requires your immediate attention.

6 – Mail Attachment Scanner (Donation)

[Link]

There are times we send out an email saying “Attached is the file.” only to get a reply from the recipient telling you nothing was attached. This can be embarrassing when the recipient is your professional client. Mail Attachment Scanner solves this for you. This plugin scans the email for words like “attached” when you click “Send”, if the plugin can’t find any attachments in the email it’ll prompt you before sending it out. A nifty tool.

If you find or is already using some fantastic Mail plugins please feel free to share it here. :)

7 – Subjectivity (Free)

[Link]

Subjectivity is a simple but helpful plugin that will let you know if you forgot to fill in the subject line of an email you’re sending out.

8 – Mail Widget (Free)

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Mail Widget is a dashboard widget that will check your email periodically (user defined) even if your Mail is not running, complete with growl notification. There is also an option where you can enable a female voice to speak to you eg. “New Mail Has Arrived” when there is a new unread mail in your inbox.

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While looking at the stats, 82% of SUBERAPPS readers are Mac users and a majority are Safari users. Today I’m going to share with you 11 cool and useful plugins to power up your Safari. I’m a Safari user myself and I use almost all of the plugins that are mentioned below:

1 – Safari 140 (Free)

- Post to Twitter from Safari (Link)

The latest of them all. Safari 140 allows you to post to Twitter in less than 3 steps. Lets say you’ve just read an interesting article and wants to tweet about it, all you have to do is to hit Ctrl + T, Safari 140 grabs the title and shortens the link and ready for you to hit the “Post to Twitter” button.

2 – Inquisitor (Free)

- Speeds up your searches (Link)

Basically, Inquisitor shows you search suggestions and keywords as you type on Safari’s search bar skipping you a visit to Google’s page before hitting the page you’re searching for. Search results are displayed elegantly as a drop down.

3 – Glims (Free)

- More options for Safari (Link)

Glims adds a slew of options to customize Safari, proves to be the most useful and comprehensive of all plugins I can find for Safari. You can choose to add thumbnails to Google search results, search suggestions (much like Inquisitor), add favicons to tab labels (much like Firefox), auto closes download windows, keyword search from address bar, remember last session, always open links in new tab, full screen mode, just to name a few important ones.

4 – Stumbi (Donationware $2)

- Stumbleupon plugin for Safari (Link)

Stumbleupon users who uses Safari hate it when Firefox gets all the Stumbleupon love. Thanks to Stumbi, we can “thumbs up”, “thumbs down”, stumble upon websites all by using shortcut keys or the embedded buttons near the address bar.

5 – Delicious Safari ($10)

- Delicious for Safari (Link)

Delicious Safari lets you save websites to Delicious right from Safari, complete with suggested tags to tag your bookmark. There is also a “notes” field to record notes about the bookmark you’re about to send to Delicious. A menu bar item shows you recently bookmarked sites on your Delicious letting you visit them immediately, without having to login to Delicious’s website.

6 – 1Password ($39.95)

- Password / Login Manager (Link)

This is one app / plugin that I can’t live without. You might have already heard of it but if you haven’t, you need to at least try it. This app saves your logins on every login, the next time when you need to login to a specific site, all you need to do is hit a shortcut key Ctrl + , 1Password will login for you. 1Password also lets you manage your wallet items like credit cards, bank account numbers, software licenses, FTPs etc, and comes with an accompanying iPhone app to complete the experience.

7 – TabExposé ($6.30)

- Exposé for Safari Tabs (Link)

You like the native Mac OS X Exposé? What if you can also do that for all your open tabs in Exposé? TabExposé lets you do just that.

8 – Cooliris (Free)

- Browse images on a 3D Wall (Link)

Previously called PicLens, an awesome and fast way to view images rendered on a beautiful 3D wall for images on Flickr, Google Images, Facebook, Friendster, Deviantart, Yahoo images, My Space, PhotoBucket, Picasa Web Albums, Getty Images, YouTube, just to name a few popular ones. Here’s a current full list.

9 – Saft (Shareware $12)

- Feature rich Safari customization plugin (Link)

This plugin, much like Glims (no. 3) in my opinion, gives you a set of customization options to pimp your Safari. Other options not included with Glims includes Ad/Banner blocking with URL pattern matching, block flash animations, block images and plugins, kiosk mode, option to use Aqua Interface, sidebar etc.

10 – SafariStand (Free / Donationware)

- Convenient Sidebar support (Link)

SafariStand plants an optional sidebar on your Safari so that you can navigate and manage your tabs via thumbnails. A Stand Bar to manage your bookmarks, history etc. Stand Search to search your bookmarks and history, with Spotlight integration. This plugin also comes with various other options to customize Safari and the web pages that you visit.

11 – Safari Guardian (Free / Donationware)

- Prevents websites from auto resizing your browser (Link)

I don’t know about you, but personally I hate it when websites automatically resizes my browser using javascript without my consent, it’s annoying when I find myself resizing my Safari back to the original size that I intended. Safari Guardian stops that annoyance. Very simple but thoughtful plugin.

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12 – Safari AdBlock (Free)

- Ad blocking plugin (Link)

Safari AdBlock, as obvious as the name suggest, blocks ads! Simple to use.

13 – Google Gears (Free)

- More features for Safari (Link)

Open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser.

14 – Safari Microformats Plugin (Free)

- Microformats Plugin (Link)

The Safari Microformats plugin notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal. This plugin was inspired by the idea and mockup of Jon Hicks.

15 – Click to Flash (Free)

- Blocks Flash Content (Link)

A webkit plugin to automatically block Flash content.

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If you have any other plugins that wasn’t mentioned here, please feel free to add!

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As you might already know, Google recently gave GTD fans some lovin’ by optimizing Google’s “Tasks” for iPhone and Android. (read more from Google’s Blog)

Wouldn’t it be nice if you can also run Google Tasks on your Mac as a menu bar item with the same sleek interface you see on the iPhone or Android?

If you had read my previous post on the “Fluid” app, you’ll know by now how you can turn web apps into a native desktop app. Using Fluid with Google Tasks means a free GTD native desktop app on your Mac that syncs with the cloud.

Here’s how:

1) Download Fluid app

2) Install and launch Fluid

Type in this URL in the URL field - http://mail.google.com/tasks/iphone

Type any name you want in the Name field.

Create the app!

3) Convert to MenuExtra SSB

Go to the Google Tasks menu after you have successfully created the app, select “Convert to MenuExtra SSB…” to put Google Tasks on your menu bar.

Now you have Google Tasks natively on your Mac as a menu bar item!

By the way, this tip is also possible with other web apps, especially if they have an iPhone optimized version:

Remember The Milk

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Have fun!

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I have just got a new Twitter account set up @suberapps. If you’ve been reading SUBERAPPS, love apps, Mac or iPhone related stuff, I would really love to connect with you.

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Although Apple designed Leopard such that it makes you more productive than ever, eg. quicklook, spotlight, there are still more room for getting more out of your Mac. With the help of third party apps like the following, working on your Mac on a day to day basis becomes faster, you get more done and feel happier. Trust me, saving a bit of time here and there, will save you tons in the long run.

Also, these apps made me realize that by using the keyboard rather than the mouse, you get tasks complete faster.

1 & 2) TextExpander (Mac) & Wide Email (iPhone)

Both softwares work similarly on both platforms, saving you time typing texts both on your Mac and on the go.

They allow you to insert pre-typed long sentences or paragraphs just by typing a few letters. For eg. if you assign “cu” to “See you later!”, typing “cu” will insert “See you later!” into any text fields. With a little bit of imagination, you can use this concept and apply to all areas of your activity on your Mac (Wide Email on iPhone only allows you to expand text for Mail).

I have tried both apps and I must say they increased my productivity tenfold.

TextExpander ($29.95):

Storing snippets and assigning abbreviations

Expands few letters into chunks of texts

A few uses for TextExpander

1) Frequently visited URLs (eg if you love to visit the apple store frequently. “;a” expands to “http://www.apple.com”)
2) Commenting on blogs (eg. “;n” expands to “your full name”, “;e” expands to “yourname@gmail.com”, “;u” expands to “http://www.yourdomain.com”
3) Emails (eg. “lf” expands to “Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks!”)
4) Providing someone with your address (eg. “addr” expands to your full address)
5) If you’re a coder, even better, typing a few letters will insert long snippets of code, speeding up your work

Wide Email on the iPhone ($0.99):

Typing faster in landscape mode

Assigning text shortcuts

All your frequently used texts and their shortcuts

With so many other landscape email typing apps on the App Store, Wide Email have an edge as it lets you type long sentences (which could be cumbersome on the iPhone) by typing a few letters, similar to TextExpander. You can also store drafts for later sending and read or reuse a draft as a template. All these should have been shipped with the iPhone in my

3 & 4) QuickSilver (Launch Apps) & MsgFiler (for Apple Mail)

Why I group both QuickSilver and MsgFiler is because both apps helps you perform daily tasks just by typing a few letters.

QuickSilver (Free)

QuickSilver lets you launch apps quickly, eventually you’ll be able to launch any apps without thinking. That is true after prolonged usage of QuickSilver, you’ll wonder why you ever lived without it. I was skeptical about QuickSilver at first, thinking how much more faster can you launch an app when all your apps are already on the dock, isn’t it just a click and launch affair? But if you agree with me that using your keyboard is faster than using your mouse, then QuickSilver is for you.

Typing a default hot key combination on your keyboard <Ctrl + Space> you’ll launch the QuickSilver screen, for example if you want to launch Safari, quickly type “sa” which is basically the first few letters of the name of that app, when you see Safari’s icon on the screen, hit <Return> and you’ll launch the app. No more looking for that app on your overcrowded dock and attempting to point your mouse to it to launch it.

Other than launching apps, there are also other tricks you can perform with it.

MsgFiler ($8, free to use forever if you don’t mind the occasional nag screen)

If you think dragging your email messages into their respective folders in Mail is the only way to go, you’re wrong. MsgFiler gives you a much faster way to do it.

Select an email item, similar to QuickSilver, type the default hot key combination on your keyboard <Command + 9) to launch MsgFiler window, then type the first few letters of the name of the folder you want to file the email in and hit <Return>.

This saves you from scrolling through and finding the folder that you want the email to be filed, and then dragging the message in. Searching and hiting <return> is faster as with QuickSilver.

5) 1Password (Mac) 1Password (iPhone or Palm)

1Password desktop interface

1Password plugin on Safari

1Password securely remembers your personal details ($39.95 Single License for Desktop, Free for iPhone)
If you ever find yourself tired of filling out forms, entering login details, forgetting passwords, digging through your wallet to find that credit card number to make an online purchase, remembering your bank account number so that you can write it on a cheque, remembering your passport’s date of issue and expiry date when buying an air ticket, remembering FTP logins or software serial numbers etc, 1Password solves this part of your problem.
Not only that, you can also take the same data with you by syncing your iPhone or Palm with your desktop.
One great feature about 1Password is that the app installs a plugin on your web browser so that it saves your login information on any site without having you to manually recording it on the app.
Clicking on the “1P” icon on Safari for example will log you in immediately on any login page (if you have saved the login previously).
Hope you enjoy these apps if you decide to use them!

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