On my never ending quest to discover cool OS X applications I ran across Hear which claims to greatly improve your audio from any application.
It does this with various tools and effects that are easy enough to get the hang of for a beginner.

The interface was very intriguing, so I decided to give it a [...]

Let’s face it, sometimes we all need a little help focusing. Surfing the Internet is too tempting and we just can’t seem to get something done.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve focused on something only to be distracted by a link, IM, Tweet, e-mail etc…
Once I’m off my train of thought it’s hard [...]

What Is Fluid?
Fluid is an awesome relatively new app that is leading the way for SSBs (Site Specific Browsers.) Site Specific Browsers are (name makes it obvious) web browsers that are designed to interact exclusively with a single web site. When you do this you can also build in more functionality for that site than [...]

I have 10 free invites for Evernote. If you’re interested please leave your e-mail address in the comments.

Evernote is a cool new service that allows you to clip information and save it for a later date. This is a simple concept, but it’s executed beautifully.
With Evernote you can keep track of little bits of information [...]

This is just awesome. I was stumbling around Google Code looking for something interesting to write about when I came across blacktree-visor–innocently tagged as a Quake-style terminal.
That line grabbed my intention and I decided to see what Visor was all about.
Visor is an application that attaches the Terminal to the top of your screen for [...]

earthlingsofts‘ Mailboxer is one of the great Mail.app add-ons available for keeping all your emails neat and organized. It takes any list of contacts that you provide it with and magically creates a smart mailbox for each one that includes all emails on your computer that somehow involve them.
Download and run Mailboxer, and you will [...]

One of the greatest things about the greatest RSS reader on the Mac, NetNewsWire, is how many things it can integrate with. It can go hand-in-hand with your blog, your Twitter account, your Del.icio.us account and many others because of its scriptability.
How to use with your blog
If you’re using the latest NetNewsWire you’ve probably noticed [...]

We’re giving away two free copies of Pixelmator. Submit a tip and win! More details at the bottom of this post.
Pixelmator is an extremely quick image editing application for Leopard. It’s similar to Photoshop and GIMP in many aspects, but also has some very unique features that justify the $60 price tag.
For starters, Pixelmator is [...]

Ecto is my favorite blogging editor for the Mac. The WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor is so powerful it sends my blogging productivity through the roof.
Generally I don’t like WYSIWYG editors because they produce nasty HTML. Not Ecto. It creates some of the most beautiful code I’ve ever seen a computer [...]

Afloat 2 is an extremely simple Mac application that lets you keep a window “on top” of all other windows. It adds this option in the Window menu of any Cocoa application.
This is useful when you want to keep an application active, and the app doesn’t already provide the functionality to do this.

Afloat also has [...]