µTorrent

For ages, µTorrent was only available on Windows, which made converts like me very unhappy indeed.

But luckily, it was recently made available for Macs. "So what makes µTorrent better than all those other torrent clients about?" I'll tell you what! To me, µTorrent just seems so much easier to use than all the other torrent clients about. It's lighter, faster, and comes with an inbuilt option to search through a selection of Torrent sites. Maybe it's the fact that I've become accustomed to it, but using µTorrent just seems natural.

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Paparazzi!

Sometimes, a certain webpage you view is a hankering for a screenshot. But sadly, the screen grab application that comes with OS X, and most other screen grab applications for that matter, only capture what's currently displayed on your display.

Not Paparazzi! Paparazzi is an extremely small app. The file is only 180Kb. It takes a screenshot of an entire webpage. Even the parts that are offscreen. Unlike most other screenshot software, Paparazzi has its own window. You don't select what you want to be grabbed, and then press a button. Instead, you simply enter the URL of the webpage you want to be captured, and then click "Capture". And then, after a momentary pause, the entire website will be ready for you to view. Whenever you want.

You can crop the image to whatever size you want, and also set a minimum size for the screen grab. Paparazzi can also export the file as either a JPG, PDF, PNG or TIFF file.

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Image Tool

Sometimes, all you want to do is resize a photo, but you don't want to open up a large, resource-hogging application like Photoshop or GIMP.

Image Tool is small (Very small. 372Kb) programme that lets you do that, with minimal fuss. You import an image, click the button with the resizing figure you want, save the new picture as either a JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG or BMP, and voila! You have a resized image, in less than a minute.

And if you don't want your image resized by one of the default amounts, you can choose to alter either the height or weight to a desired value, and the entire picture is resized to scale.

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Gimp

Photoshop is so damned expensive. But if you want to touch up a photo or logo to a decent standard, it seems to be the only option. Well here comes an alternative!

Gimp can be used to create graphics and logos, resize and crop photos, alter colours, combine multiple images, remove unwanted image components and convert between different image formats. It can also be used to create basic animations in GIF format.

If you're thinking that Gimp would be nice for a good ol' bit of doodling, think again! You'd be much better off using Paintbrush.

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Paintbrush

Eons ago I begun a search. A search for a simple paint programme. And this morning, I found one.

If you ever want to quickly and simply edit a picture, or just spend a little time doodling, Paintbrush is for you. It is a very lightweight application, and offers a good alternative to Adobe Photoshop when you just want to quickly edit something small.

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