Drawing with a tablet has always been a struggle. Typically, drawing programs (like most software) are designed to be used with a mouse. Tablet support is usually thrown in as an afterthought, under the theory that any pointing device will obey the same principles as a mouse. The result: an experience which only superficially captures the “feel” of a pen, while ignoring the subtle nuances.

Abandoning the traditional mouse-oriented paradigm, TabletDraw is designed from the ground up for use with a drawing tablet - specifically focusing on the realism of the drawing experience. Instead of setting brush thickness based solely on pen pressure, TabletDraw uses a combination of factors including speed and pen pressure to create a realistic pen-and-paper feel.
The bottom line: If you can draw on a piece of paper, you can draw with TabletDraw.

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Editing MP3s just became easier than ever…

No more re-encoding and converting between formats, using several applications. Remove unwanted portions of your MP3 files – without losing any of the quality!

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Meet Knapsack, the personal travel organizer for Mac OS X Leopard. Version 1.1 is the first major update and offers many user-friendly features including map pins with location postcards, a flexible itinerary planner, trip checklists, two-way iCal sync, and professional-looking printed itineraries.

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Apimac Secret Folder is a program that provides an easy and fast way to protect personal documents and avoid them being seen, modified, or erased by other users. It allows users to hide folders and their contents. Files and folders can be added by means of a single click on a choose dialog box or via drag and drop.

The application is really simple to use and can be protected with a password for extra security. Secret Folders is very useful to keep your information away from prying eyes or kids who may accidentally modify or delete your files.

Using a password: The ‘Require Password’ check button lets you protect the application with a password. If this option is selected, at the opening of Apimac Secret Folder a password dialog box will be displayed. To gain access to the application it will be necessary to enter the correct password.

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I record TV programs, then I remove all the commercials in one shot. It’s fast and clean.

With SimpleMovieX, to search the commercials inside the movie is easy. The accurate timeline will do a good job marking the segments to remove. Saving takes only a few minutes thanks to native support of most popular formats.

I have tons of DVDs with music concerts, and I want to split them into songs, then put them in iTunes.

I used Chapters to mark the beginning of each song. All individual songs were then cut apart in one shot with the “Split into movies” function, and after that I just added them to iTunes et voila.

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MailSteward will archive all of your email in a database for easy retrieval. Click on the Archive button and MailSteward will go to work storing copies of all your email text, HTML, attachments, and raw source, into a relational database. MailSteward has a wealth of features for importing, tagging, saving, and exporting, including the ability to export your vital email information in a number of standard data formats.

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The software offers audio playback, MIDI and ASCII import/export, chords diagrams, and a guitar fretboard. Guitar Pro 5 also features scale tools, a digital tuner, speed trainer functionality, and a metronome. The application allows users to create whole scores for guitar, bass, or other stringed instruments in a short period of time, and supports viewing as well as listening to scores in high quality audio.

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DVDpedia is a movie cataloging application for Mac OS X. To save you time and effort, it retrieves all the information from the Internet via keyword or UPC scan, so you have time for more important things, like watching movies.

It’s a big world
DVDpedia lets you retrieve information about your movies (both VHS and DVD) from various sites on the Internet. You have access to all the Amazon sites (US, UK, Germany, Canada, France, Japan) as well as the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDb) and several international DVD sites. To search you can use pretty much any keyword combination - movie title, director, actor, studio, etc. - or if you have a scanner or an iSight just scan the UPC and let DVDpedia do the rest.

As you like it
Set up collections to organize your movies just the way you like. That sounds like too much work? Then use the smart collections and have DVDpedia do it for you. The table view is not your thing? Then display your movies in the cover image view and browse them just like you would in a video store. Or if you like your display with a bit of personality, choose the customizable web view. Have a look at the screenshots to get a taste of the possibilities. borrowed sheet screenshot

Share the love
Your movie collection can say a lot about you. So don’t be shy and let the world know what you have on your shelves. With DVDpedia’s HTML export feature this is easier than ever. Choose the template you like or write your own and put it online. If you have a .Mac account, you will even be able to load the template straight onto your .Mac homepage. Easy as pie. And once your friends see what you have, you can manage the borrowing frenzy with DVDpedia’s Borrowed collection. That way you will always know who took what and when, along with a little reminder when to start nagging your friends to bring the movie back.
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