Not every Mac user needs these tools, but for some they are indispensable. All of the utilities listed below are safe, well designed, and perform as advertised. Some are free, some are cheap and some are full commercial products. Our emphasis is on their usefulness for the given task, and they all score high marks by that measure.
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Make a bootable copy of your OS X drive. |
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A nifty backup utility. |
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Make OS X work on officially unsupported Macs. |
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Change a bunch of settings. |
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One of the better alternative dock things. |
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Find out what your Mac is doing behind the scenes. |
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| Add trackpad tricks to your older Mac | |
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Your iBook or iMac can span screens just like the pro Mac models. |
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For batch renaming of files. |
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A powerful screen capture utility that can also record motion. |
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Still the best tool for recovering a corrupted drive. |
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Best tool for comprehensive hardware tests. |
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Recover files even after they have been deleted. |
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Mac OS X memory test utility. |
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A great backup utility. |
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A very cool virtual KVM switch. |
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The best System Statistics utility. |
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Erase sensitive data. |
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Grab that sound file. |
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Free! Control all your sound inputs and outputs. |
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Unleash your Airport Express! |
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The successor to BBEdit Lite. |
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| Get rid of the languages you don't speak. | |
| Get rid of the PowerPC code on your Intel Mac |