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Lifehacker has a nice post of software that there readers have bought this year and has turned into somewhat of a Meme with Marcus Vorwaller, Paul Stamatiou, Glenn Wolseyand, and Ronald Heft, Jr all jumping in too. Since this was my first year with a Mac, I thought it was a great idea to post mine. I think I bought more software for my Macbook this year than I’ve ever bought for the PC combined.

AppZapper - Great for cleaning up Apps and I mess around alot and with my small HD, every megabyte counts. Also nice for extending trials as I can just zap everything but the app and my trial resets.

ComicBookLover - Worth ever penny if you read comics in digital form. One of the reasons I started reading comics again.

Delicious Library - MacHeist bundle. Pretty much bought the MacHeist bundle for this alone. I can scan all my DVDs and Games into this to keep track then export right into GarageSale if I want to sell the stuff on eBay.

Disco - MacHeist bundle. I still prefer LiquidCD to this and dont get any of the eye candy due to the intergraged Intel graphics in my Macbook.

ecto - Best blogging software I’ve used. Bought this for both Mac and PC this year. Still waiting on 3.0 tho

endo - RSS reader from the ecto folks. Don’t really use it anymore due to Google Reader

Export Artwork - Purchased this to make my life easier when I was redoing my Music library. I now use CoverScout to load new album covers.

GarageSale - Great if you do any selling on eBay. Intergras with Delicious Library

iDefrag - Tho the Journaled Mac OS Extended Filesystem is pretty good at keeping stuff defragmented, this keeps everything performing good.

Netflix Freak - Help feed my netflix addiction

Newsfire - MacHeist bundle don’t use it due to using Google Reader

Parallels - Who doesn’t own this

RapidWeaver - MacHeist bundle. No use to me

Tangerine! - Great if you have the iPod+Nike Kit. Make playlists based on BPM.

TextMate - MacHeist bundle - Handy but not too useful for me

Transmit - Cannot live without this. best FTP program I’ve every used

Xslimmer - Awesome to help save any little space I can on my Macbook small HDD

Connect360 - Must have if you have a Xbox360

Shapeshifter - MacHeist bundle. Nice bonus currently using the iTunes 7 skin

Synergy - Bought it when it added support for Last.fm but moved back to iScrobbler

High Priority - Todo list in your Menu bar but I do not use anymore due to using Remember the Milk

FotoMagico - MacHeist bundle

iClip - MacHeist bundle

• 100 Beginner Running Tips � Complete Running Network 100 Tips for beginner runners (tags: running fitness health)
• DailyLit Get books emailed to your daily in small snippets (tags: email books)
• super OS X menubar items Fairly nice list of OS X software that resides in your menubar (tags: osx software menubar)
• WP Blog Installation Action Sheets � thinelectrons.com Workflow for setting up a new Wordpress blog. (tags: wordpress plugins blogging)
• Live Documents - Web-enabling Microsoft Office Share Microsoft Office documents over the web with others (tags: microsoft sharing software office)
• How to remove Logos from your PDA / cell phone with sugar Remove company logos from cellphones and other gadgets (tags: howto logo DIY cellphone)
• Cracked :: 8 Important Lessons Learned from ’80s Cartoons Funny look at life lessons learned from 80s cartoons. (tags: cartoons funny 80s culture)
• Download everything from Microsoft without WGA Check � gHacks tech news Yet Another WGA bypass method for downloading software from microsoft.com (tags: microsoft wga)
• DiggThumbs - Adds Website Screenshot Thumbnails to every listing on digg.com - WebShotsPro.com Adds thumbnails from webshots.com to digg articles. Very nice intergration with digg. (tags: digg firefox extention)
• Photoblog.com New photoblogging site but doesnt seem to offer the features of Flickr or Zooomr (tags: photos blogging)
• digg | River Digg formated for Mobile devices. Take digg on the road with you. (tags: digg mobile)
• SafePasswd - Generate Secure Passwords Genrate randon secure passwords that you will never remember (tags: password security)

• TheoryMail: How do I create �personalized� Daily Del.icio.us Posts?
  Instructions i used to setup this post.
  (tags: wordpress del.icio.us blogging)
• SimpleSeating.com
  Need to setup a seating chart? Me either but if you did, here ya go.
  (tags: seating web)
• ClearCheckbook.com - Totally Free Online Checkbook Balancing
  Balance your checkbook web2.0 style
  (tags: finance checking money)
• motionbox: Videos
  YouTube alternative
  (tags: social video)
• Radar: Welcome
  Social moblogging. Does anyone do that anymore?
  (tags: moblog blogging photo mobile)
• roachfiend.com � ErrorZilla - Useful error pages for Firefox
  Replaced Firefox’s Error pages with useful links and utilities
  (tags: firefox browser extention)
• Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent.com - The Torrent Search Engine
  Clean all-in-one interface for search populate torrent sites
  (tags: torrent download)

Here are some notable software downloads this week.

Firefox 2 beta 2 - Mozilla released beta 2 of Firefox 2.0. Includes new Default theme, Phishing protection and more.
(tags: browser firefox beta)

CrossOver Mac - Wine for Intel Macs. Run Windows apps natively on your Mac without using a VM.
(tags: wine windows osx)

NeoOffice 2.0 Aqua beta 3 - NeoOffice is a OS X native version of OpenOffice 2.0. Does not require X11 to be installed, is a Universal binary and uses Aqua widgets. Nice alternative to Microsoft Office.
(tags: office openoffice mac)

Windows Media Player 11 beta 2 - Beta 2 of the next Windows Media Player. Fixes know issues with beta 1, adds addition stores and integrated Windows Media Connect.
(tags: microsoft wmp11 beta)

Scream - This program will move windows are randomly based on screaming. It uses your computers mic and reacts accordingly.
(tags: windows fun)

Calgoo - Access Google Calendar offline.
(tags: google gcal windows)

This week some links to the newest players on the intratubes.

• Lingr - IRC web2.0 style.

• Loowa - a WhoAreYou clone that matches faces with email addesses.

• Traineo - Social fitness and diet goal tracking. Track workout and diet goals and help stay motivated.

• Sampa - Free DIY webdesign that helps to intergrate media content, add RSS feeds and help design layouts and menus.

Starting every Friday I will listing some of my favorite links, diggs, and bookmarks from the week that I don’t get to blog about. This week I’m going to start off with some links to stuff I’m looking into buying for my Macbook. Mostly cases since I’m in the market for a new one. My current Targus Backpack has served me well over the years but now its just too big to lug around everywhere.

• Timbuk2 Blogger bag - Newly released messenger bag from Timbuk2. I may be ordering this very soon.

• SecurePack Backpack - Backpack that pervents access to the inside whle being worn. Nice idea and holds upto a 17″ notebook but I’m not sure I want another backpack.

• Waterfield Laptop Sleeve - Going to pick up this sleeve regardless of which bag I get. A little extra protection for a reasonable price and can double as a case also.

• Invisible Shield - Full Body shield that protects the top, touchpad, wrist guards, and the bottom of the MacBook. Offers lifetime replacement if ever gets scratched too.

• Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag - Probably won’t get this but this bag is just plan hawt for any tech junkie.