FolderGlance modifies the Finder's contextual menus, allowing you to view the contents of folders and files, and perform actions on those items, with a simple right-click.

With FolderGlance installed, right-clicking (or Control-clicking) on a folder in the Finder pops up a contextual menu that includes that folder; mousing to the folder's name shows you a hierarchical list of the folder's contents. Choose an item to ...

Jitouch is a simple program that adds eight new sets of gestures to the Multi-Touch trackpads on recent Apple portables.

Via Jitouch's preferences, you can choose to disable particular gestures if you don't use them or if you find yourself accidentally performing them. (You can temporarily disable all gestures via Jitouch's menu-bar menu.) You can also adjust the force ...

SMART Utility monitors the SMART status of your internal hard drives, warning you if any of them is showing signs of drive failure.

In general, such a warning means you should immediately back up the data on that drive and replace the drive. (Many hard drive and computer manufacturers will replace a drive under warranty based solely on a failed SMART test.) SMART Utility also ...

If you've been frustrated by iCal's limitations or are looking for a scheduling program with a little more oomph, BusyMac's BusyCal may be just what you need.

Familiar interface; syncing between users; nonmodal info panel; flexible calendar views; repeating to do items; snooze button

No write support for CalDAV or Exchange calendars; limited AppleScript support

Indeed, BusyCal looks startlingly similar to iCal, and if you're not paying careful attention, you may forget that you're in a different program. At the same time, BusyCal's take on iCal's user interface sports numerous subtle changes that, taken ...

PTHPasteboard Pro is a utility that provides multiple Clipboards, but it's also a powerful text-processing and -storing program.

Like other such utilities, every time you copy or cut content—text, images, and so on—to the Clipboard, PTHPasteboard Pro automatically adds that content to its own list of Clipboard contents, which the developer calls a pasteboard; you choose how ...

Logic Express 9 packs a load of features into a mid-priced digital audio workstation application. As such it may be today's best musical bargain, albeit a sometimes challenging one.

Includes many key Logic Studio features (Amp Designer, Pedalboard, Flex Time, Varispeed, Drum Replacer); great value

Complex application could offer more help to those moving from GarageBand

Like Logic Studio, Logic Express 9 offers some of Logic Studio's marquee features—the Flex Tool for easily warping audio phrases and individual notes, the Amp Designer and Pedalboard features, which simulate amps, speakers, microphones, and pedal ...

Dictionary Cleaner is a System Preferences pane that lets you edit Mac OS X's custom spell-checking dictionaries.

You can add words to OS X's built-in dictionaries (or, described more accurately, add words to a supplemental custom dictionary that OS X will also reference when checking spelling), by right-clicking on a flagged-as-misspelled word and choosing the ...

Bevy offers an interesting-and, at times, fun-way to access your applications: via a wall of icons that pops up on your command.

Alternatively, you can filter the display by holding down a letter on your keyboard to highlight those programs whose names include that letter capitalized. In other words, holding down the T key will show TextEdit, Time Machine, and Twitterrific, but ...

WetFish Software's App Store Expense Monitor makes it easy to get an estimate of how much you've spent on iPhone apps.

ASEM doesn't access your iTunes Store account directly; rather, it checks the contents of your Mobile Applications folder—the place iTunes stores all your downloaded iPhone apps—and looks up the current cost of each app. It then sums these values to ...

USB Overdrive 3 provides Snow Leopard (as well as Tiger and Leopard) users with customizable, system-level mouse and keyboard control without slowing down your system.

How do you know if a key is supported? When the USB Overdrive preference pane is open, clicking on a button adds it to the list of buttons that you can control. If you click on a button and nothing happens, then USB Overdrive can't handle it. In the ...