Checking your web site position is a very time consuming task. Advanced Web Ranking is able to query over 200 search engines and quickly find out if you're moving up or down in the rankings, or if your site is listed at all. It will track the progress of your rankings over time and display that information in an easy to read and understand graphical and tabular reports. It can help you check not just the position of your website but the position of your competitors' web sites as well. Advanced Web Ranking has the ability to generate and email reports after an update was finished. Couple that with the Scheduled Updates ability, and you will be able to turn on your computer in the morning and find reports on your websites ranks waiting for you in your Inbox.
Concierge 1.3.5 shareware
Borrowed Time, Inc., info@bti.net, http://www.bti.net
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later, Safari 1.2 or later
Concierge is a bookmark assistant for Safari. Concierge is merely an assistant, not a replacement for Safari's bookmark management scheme. Instead, Concierge acts more like an easily-accessible bookmark scratchpad. Web bookmarks, email links, Address Book cards, and Finder file/folder links are stored and managed in a drawer attached to either side of Safari's browser window. Safari's bookmarks and history items are also accessible in Concierge's drawer, with on-the-fly searching available to quickly find those buried links.
JiWire Portable Hotspot Locator 1.0 freeware
JiWire, Inc., http://www.jiwire.com
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
JiWire's Portable Hotspot Locator provides mobile professionals with an easy-to-use software application to find Wi-Fi access points (i.e. 'hotspots') around the world. Laptop-toting business travelers can search for hotspots by Country, State, City, Zip Code, Location Type (Cafes, Hotels, Airports...), or by specific Wireless Internet Service Provider. Once a desired location is found, users who have a live Internet connection can get maps and driving directions from JiWire's website.
JunkMatcher 1.5.5 freeware
Benjamin Han, benhdj@cs.cmu.edu, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~benhdj
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Hate spam? Tell it goodbye! This effective spam filter uses powerful regular expressions, IP queries against multiple blacklists (such as SpamCop.net), email property matching, HTML final rendering matching, and more to keep your Mail in-box junkmail-free. The app can be added to Mail.app as a rule to be used in conjunction with Mail’s built-in junk filter. You can even report spam to SpamCop.net directly from the log window.
LiveDictionary is a Safari extension that adds fast, convenient dictionary lookups to the web. Once installed, it becomes a transparent part of Safari; point to a word with the mouse cursor, and its definition or translation appears in a popup window. LiveDictionary offers a wide array of dictionaries for technical terms, general language, and bilingual usage.
MarsEdit is a weblog editor for Mac OS X that makes writing for a weblog like writing an email with spell-checking, drafts, multiple windows, and even AppleScript support. It works with various weblog systems, including Blosxom, Conversant, Manila, Movable Type, Radio UserLand, TypePad, and WordPress.
RapidWeaver is a next-generation web design application to help you easily create professional looking web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you.
Rumpus 4.1.2 demo
Maxum Development Corp., info@maxum.com, http://www.maxum.com
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Rumpus is the professional, easy-to-use, high-performance FTP server for Mac OS and Mac OS X. Key features include built-in, easy to administer user accounts, integrated Web file transfers, file upload notification, extensive security options, blazing performance, and more.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X 10.3 recommended.
WebDesign gives you full control over your web site code, design and structure allowing you to develop fast, efficient and the most compatible code possible. WebDesign supports HTML 4, XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, PHP, ASP, Javascript, XML, VBSCript and more.
Wirecast 2.0 demo
Vara Software, http://www.varasoftware.com
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later, Quartz Extreme compatible graphics card.
Wirecast is a unique webcasting application. It offers support for multiple webcams (including iSight), 3D graphics, over 20 built-in professional broadcast quality titles themes, a simple interface, and video effects, Keynote integration, multiple layers, multiple broadcast support, broadcast archiving, and AppleScript support.
Requirements: Web server (Apache recommended), PHP version 4.1 or greater, MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog.
