Productivity

yWriter

If you ever had trouble writing and organizing your novel, you might need some helping hand. yWriter is an easy to use software that helps you organize your writing according to scenes and chapters. It allows you to work on specific points of your novel to easily achieve your goal. yWriter was written by Simon Haynes, a writer and programmer, to help him with his needs as an author. The program is continually being expanded as he takes in comments and suggestions from fellow novelists.

FET

Were you unhappy with your organizational efforts this year? Have you promised to rectify this when the New Year comes? ‘FET’ helps to ensure that this promise does not become as empty as the one you made last year... or the year before that. This form of freeware is a timetable generator and it applies to people who attend school, high-school or university. Teachers will benefit from this program as well. FET ensures that every organizational detail is recorded neatly and remembered.

Shrook

Need your daily dose of news? Then you need a reliable rss reader like Shrook to help you out. This program is not just easy to use but it also contains plenty of interesting features that you will not find anywhere else in other readers built for Mac. If you have been having trouble looking for the right news reader, then this is one program that needs to be in your computer.

TaskMate

Need help organizing tasks? TaskMate can help you organize your daily tasks and make sure that you have a productive time throughout the day. The program itself is quite small and will easily attach to any portion of the main screen. TaskMate can remind you of things that you need to do for the day; tick the activities off once you are done and move on to the next one.

OpenSong

OpenSong is a simple but very useful software for managing lyrics, chords, lead sheets as well as presenting them during performances or gatherings. Perfect for musicians; this music managing software is available as a free download online. The program works for a variety of systems including Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX; giving the user great flexibility and convenience when it comes to presenting their music to a crowd or group.

iZoom

Managing a photo blog or a sketch blog can be a real pain if you don't have the right tools to manipulate, resize or crop your photos easily. One great software that can help you out with this problem especially if you are a Mac user is iZoom. This simple image resizing and cropping tool can easily take your images and resize it according to your specifics. It's the perfect companion for those who love to post pictures online.

Infrarecorder

Although some people might think that the days of the CD/DVD is going South, there are still in fact plenty of people who use these shiny little round plastics for various purposes. If you need help setting up a special mix CD or simply need to save data on CD/DVD, then Infrarecorder can help you out with that. This is one open source software that you can count on when it comes to most of your burning needs.

Tofu

Got no plans of trading in your Macbook for a Kindle? Then you might want to get Tofu on your Mac to help you read your favorite e-books much easier. Tofu is a great application that helps you read a novel on your Mac as if you were reading an actual book. Most people hate the thought of reading a book on the computer screen; this little application helps to solve this problem. It helps make reading long reports, e-books or other long written material online so much easier.

Scaletron!

Need something to help you find out whether you are shrinking or enlarging a drawing properly? Then use Scaletron! This small and simple software for Mac works like an electronic version of the old graphic arts proportion wheel. It is perfect for figuring out the proper sizing for artworks, documents, and almost anything else you can think of. One of the best mini softwares that artists, photographers, pre-press gurus or web designers can have in their arsenal.