iLoveMacApps.com

The file compression service on your Mac is a bit poor. At best you can select a file or folder to compress and hit a button. That’s about it. Today’s app which I am going to review is called Springy. Its an app designed to help you compress and extract a large number of files on folders. The difference with this app is you get to pick which files you want to extract and compress. Its well built and well designed, and I think this app might be very useful.

We all want to learn a new language, its always good to be able to communicate with someone when you go to a foreign country. The problem is you tend tobuild up a lot of work sheets and information, nearly always in paper form. This means you end up with hundreds of pieces of paper with no real meaning. What you need is the ability to organise these words in an easy to use manner. This is where Keep Your Word comes in. Its an app designed to store and retrieve words when you are learning a new language. It also has some cool learning features to help you learn stuff quicker.

If you have ever used Photoshop or a similar app, you will at one time or another have come across brushes. I was at one point fascinated at collecting every single one I could find (this also expanded to shapes and fonts), I did this in case I ever needed them. Turns out it didn’t, and Iended up using the same brush over and over again, because it was to hard to look through other brushes. This is where a handy tool such as BrushPilot comes in. Its a brush viewer which you can use to preview brushes. Its blazingly fast and in my opinion should come with any new version of Photoshop.

Even though the only direction the stock market is going is down, it can be quite useful to track it, especially if you have stock options. Todays app is called Stox, its a fully fledged program designed to track stock. You can enter different stock, “purchase” stock and watch how the price goes up and down. There is lots of different analytical options including reports and how much you have been making, plus various options such as tracking the quotes.

Mac security is important, especially for laptops. You have invested a lot of money in a system and the last thing you want it to do is walk out the door and never be seen again. Although that really happens, more often than not people like to mess around with your computer usually at work or school. Although it can be hard to keep people from do this sort of thing, you can deter and prevent it by catching the people involved. WatchMac, is an app which monitors your computer for any sudden movements, or incorrect password entries and takes a picture of the culprit.

Every one in a while you need to clean your Mac, this usually helps keep you Mac in tip top shape and it enables you to get the most out of your Mac without doing very much work. Although there are hundreds of free tools which can do this sort of thing, I wanted to try CleanMyMac. It seems a well designed and stylish app which seemed to be getting some attention in the blogosphere. The app is designed to run through various files and folders and decided whether they should be kept, for instance it flags cache and language files you don’t need.