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December 29, 2004

Yet another OS X app list, with a corresponding thread on MacSlash. Mostly boring, but a few things I hadn't seen before:

  • NetFlix Freak, a full-featured NetFlix application that lets you search and browse the NetFlix catalog, and manipulate your queue, faster than with NF's web site. $15.
  • Vektor, a chess program with some nice annotation and output features. $19.
  • Enigmo, a 3D puzzle game. $20.
  • iPick, a color picker. Free.
  • Unison Usenet newsreader. $25.
  • xScope, screen tools for designers. $15.
  • Cocktail, a GUI frontend for a bunch of system administrative facilities. $15.
  • skEdit, a text editor for web developers. $20.
  • Smultron, a text editor. Open source, written for Mac OS X natively (Cocoa). Free.

Delicious Library ($40) and TextMate ($50) have both had a couple of months to do post-1.0 bugfix releases, they might be worth a second look.