Mac Pilot will allow you to supercharge your Mac by tweaking more than 225 hidden features.

The application allows you to activate or deactivate features in all of your Mac’s applications, like the Finder, Spotlight or Photo Booth. You can also view the settings for the different volumes mounted on your Mac, set applications to start up at login, manage power usage or lock specific files.

Activating a feature simply is a case of checking a box and luckily, every feature is explained so that you know what you are doing. If there is a feature that you feel is missing you can always suggest it to Koingosw, the developer.

Although Mac Pilot is easy to work with, we recommend using it only if you know what you are doing. It’s very easy to start checking and unchecking features until you’ve forgotten what you’ve changed. Luckily, you can verify the logs in the program to verify all the changes you performed.

If you use Mac Pilot in a responsible way, you’ll be able to tweak features in your Mac and improve how it performs.

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Snapper is an unassuming yet powerful little application to work with your audio files.

The application displays the wave form of any audio file you select and you can play it back to work through the audio, if you’re looking for a specific section. Those of you who have worked with audio files before know how much easier having a wave form allows you to study and edit an audio file.

Snapper seems to be particularly useful to check an audio file quickly before opening it up in Pro Tools. However, you can also use the program to send a file by mail and convert it to any format, such as MP3, WAV or AIFF. You can even convert it into separate L and R files for more precise sound editing.

What really makes Snapper attractive though is the fact that it can handle 50 different popular audio formats.

The only gripes we could have with it is that the interface looks a little outdated, especially for an application that can be run on Leopard, and that, at $79, its a fairly expensive application.

Despite the poor interface, Snapper is an excellent tool to preview any audio file in wave format and convert it to another format.

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In these days of global economic meltdown, keeping tabs on the stock market is more important than ever before.

Stock Spy does exactly that by monitoring the latest business news with the latest stock market fluctuations which, in theory, should give you an accurate readout of the latest stock trends. In reality of course, not all news affects the stock markets and not all news is even necessarily true so the results can be quite erratic.

Stock Spy monitors several stock market RSS feeds and combines them with the latest stock values. It can suggest possible share purchase targets or when to sell, according to the latest market movements. The application can deliver results to your computer via a ticker, which organizes information through symbols and signs according to whether it’s stocks or shares that it’s reporting on.

Stock Spy isn’t going to save you from the credit crunch and some of it’s features seem a little exaggerated by the developers but in these times you need all the help you can get on the stockmarket.

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Makes scrolling more convenient: Super Wheel makes your scroll wheel smoother, faster and more comfortable. Try it! Grab Scroll gives you a Hand tool to easily move any window’s contents. With coasting, just like iPhone! Other features include Universal Scroll Keys that let you scroll from the keyboard, FileMaker Pro and AppleWorks enhancements, and more…

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HistoryHound lets you do a fast keyword search on the entire content of all web pages and RSS feeds you’ve visited recently, plus all those that you’ve bookmarked. It’s a “personal web search.” Just type in a few keywords and HistoryHound gives you a list of pages you’ve viewed recently, ranked by relevance.

Have you ever tried to find something in your browser history or bookmarks, but couldn’t quite remember when or where you saw it? Or perhaps you’ve got your bookmarks meticulously organized, but it takes forever to mouse through the menus to get to something you want? HistoryHound will chase down the page for you – fast!

Powered by Mac OS X’s “SearchKit” search technology for fast searching, HistoryHound scans your browser’s cache, history, and bookmarks periodically to keep its search index up to date. It also includes a built-in browser based on WebKit, the same engine that’s inside Safari, so your search results are rendered quickly and accurately. A number of different options make HistoryHound convenient and fast to use, and the fully-functional demo runs for 30 days with no limitations.

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Most webmail and desktop email clients allow you to forward mail from other accounts into them. Mail Forward tries to give a bit more liberty to users by letting them forward up to 20 different accounts. The application is simple to use: just enter your SMTP details and forwarding address, then enter info for your different email accounts. You can ask the application to delete forwarded messages and set time intervals for when messages are forwarded.

Obviously, Mail Forward will be extremely useful to those that have multiple mail accounts but use a webmail service that does not support forwarding all other services to it. However, if you use Gmail or a good desktop client like Thunderbird or Apple Mail, you won’t really need Mail Forward.

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Lego has to be one of the greatest toys ever invented but the problem I always had is that pieces always used to get lost down the back of the sofa or swallowed by the dog.

There’s no risk of that happening with Lego Digital Designer, a game that lets your imagination run wild in a 3D world of Lego pieces. The 3D working area allows you to place pieces by dragging and dropping them onto the building board and allowing you to pan, zoom and move in any direction you choose. Some of the movements can be a bit sluggish and jerky but generally it works pretty well.

The pieces you want to use are selected from a floating menu which are well organized by category and size. The difference between real life and Lego Digital Designer however is that there is literally no limit to how many block you can use or the designs you can come up with. And if you want to show off, you can upload your design to an online gallery like a big kid – or even more amazing, order your design as the real thing.

If you loved Lego and have a boundless imagination, then Lego Digital Designer will keep you or at least your kids occupied for hours.

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Firefox has firmly routed itself in my Mac as the default browser but what happens if you don’t have regular access to your machine or your on the move?

The simple answer is Portable Firefox which allows you to enjoy your favorite web browser from any Mac whether or not it’s installed and without having to install anything new. Firefox Portable fits on a portable USB stick so you can take it anywhere as long as the Mac your using has a USB slot spare.

There isn’t a great deal of difference between Portable Firefox and the main version but it has been optimized slightly to allow faster browsing, extension compatibility and it includes a more prominent navigation history. Even though it’s portable, it can still store passwords for you so you don’t have to mess around filling them in all the time.

For die hard Firefox fans that simply can’t bear to be aware from their favorite browser, Portable Firefox is the simple solution.

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Microsoft Messenger has been one of the software giant’s huge success stories being used by millions across the globe.

This doesn’t make it the best chat client, but by virtue of the fact that Hotmail (now Windows Live Mail) was so popular, it took off while other IM clients were struggling to make their way. The setup process for Microsoft Messenger for Mac is quite long winded involving 9 stages of agreeing to contracts and signing up for a Windows Live account if you don’t already have one.

However, once you’re in, you’re presented with all the standard options you get in the Windows version. You can see highlighted in blue all your contacts who are online and in red all those that are offline. There are tons of emoticons to choose from which is one of the best things about Microsoft Messenger for Mac and it allows video conferencing which is something that other clients such as Adium still haven’t managed to offer. Microsoft Messenger for Mac does also let you connect to other instant messaging networks such as AIM, ICQ and Yahoo.

Microsoft Messenger for Mac offers everything that the Windows version does although you can’t help feeling that the contacts could have been arranged in a more intelligent way.

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