AnyBizSoft PDF Converter for Mac is an integrated 6-in-1 solution for converting PDF files into six common document formats: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, EPUB, HTML and Text. With it, Mac users can extract data, or edit PDF contents in Word, rearrange information or calculate data in a PDF table in Excel, create interactive PowerPoint presentations from PDF materials, convert PDF documents into e-books to read on the Apple iPad or other portable readers, repurpose PDF content for publishing online.
(PR Newswire) | Cost: US$69.95 (20% discount for STOPPRESS readers)| Requires: Mac OS X (Windows v. also available)| For further info click here, and see also our full product review

July 27, 2010, Update: From July 26 to August 8, 2010, anyone visiting the AnyBizSoft Facebook page can get a free licence of their AnyBizSoft PDF to Word for Mac, worth $39.95.

myManuals 3.3 from MOApps simplifies the creation of instruction manuals, in HTML, PDF, XML, .doc, RTF or webarchive formats. Features include one-click creation of tables of contents, easy annotations to illustrations, search features, text styles, custom meta tags, custom HTML, autosave, templates, and more.
(Macintouch) | Cost: US$24.95 | Requires: MacOS X 10.5+ | For further info...

Nemetschek has just announced that a Snow Leopard-compatible version of Vectorworks 2009 (Service Pack 5) has now been released. Versions prior to Vectorworks 2009 are not currently planned to be updated to support Mac OS X Snow Leopard (v.10.6).
(Source: Nemetschek Technical Bulletin) | Cost: | Requires: Mac OS X 10.6 | For further info...

Autograph by Ten One Design, does what should have been possible years ago, namely sign your name digitally using your laptop's trackpad. The app resides in the menu bar, can be invoked by a hotkey, and you must sign with your finger – not a stylus. At this stage, it's also limited only to unibody MacBooks using the latest MacOS X version, Snow Leopard. On the plus side, it costs only $7 (free if you buy the company's Pogo Sketch app) and there's a free/trial version with no time limit that adds a watermark to the signature.
(Source: Macworld) | Cost: US$7 | Requires: Unibody MacBook & Mac OS X Snow Leopard | For further info

Wisen Up, from Indian developer Global Delight, is a collection of educational but entertaining information featuring personality quizzes, Ancient cures, Body Language, Medical quotes, Tell me why, Myths, Weird and incurable diseases, Body facts, Types of doctors, Phobias and First aid mistakes. Over 150 cartoons help keep the tone light; users can also share the facts, quiz interpretations and test results on Facebook or via mail.
(Source: MacMegaSite) | Cost: US$1.99 | Requires: iPhone/iPod Touch | For further info...

Created to replace the need to jump from one job site to another, the JobsSearch! app for iPhone or iPod touch (Trabajos! in its Spanish version), you can search for jobs in one interface through hundreds of search engines (including CareerBuilder and Yahoo! Jobs) in twelve countries (USA, UK, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, Australia, India, Mexico, Italy, Ireland, and the Netherlands). Sources include company websites, job boards, newspaper employment clippings, blogs and associations. Drill down by keyword, location, and/or company name, and a perfect tool to find exactly the right job.
The same company – Madrid-based ideallius.com – has also launched LookItUp! (Búscalo! in Spanish) – a single portal accessing hundreds of search engines.
(Source: MacMegaSite) | Cost: US$0.99 | Requires: iPhone, iPod Touch | For further info...

If you're disposing of a hard disk and want to ensure no one can read its contents, ShredIt from Mireth Technology Corp. – now at v. 5.8.7– will shred the data so it can't be recovered. Files, folders, disk free space, previously deleted files, hard drives, external drives, network drives and CD-RWs are all eraseable. Options include government standards compliance and a configurable overwrite pattern. Versions exist for Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8, Mac OS9, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows NT, XP and Vista.
(Source: MacMegaSite) | Cost: US$24.95 | Requires: Mac OS X, Windows | For further info...

For those who needed (or just wanted) to open and edit MS Word or Excel files on their iPhone/iPod touch (iPhone OS 3.0 & up), Documents-to-Go was the only way to go till recently. But now there's Quickoffice Mobile Office, a fullblown suite that Macworld rates as 4 stars. Some caveats: you can open and edit both Word 2003 and Excel 2003 files, but you can only edit the older Office 2003 format, not the newer Office 2007 format (used in Office 2008 for the Mac). Editing tools are many and "deep". Files can be uploaded to a public folder on MobileMe, or emailed via the Quickoffice e-mail address.
The app also opens Powerpoint files, but not OpenOffice ODT files, and "provides the most flexible options for getting files onto the iPhone, whether by mail attachment, through MobileMe, or as an upload from the Mac Safari browser."
(Macworld) | Cost: US$13 | For further info...

The new trend of offering desktop applications at a fraction of their usual price by bundling them in a special limited-time sale is throwing up a new opportunity. The next Mac Sale is due Aug 4th, featuring… – they won't say what, apart from it being ten “all killer, no filler… from committed Mac developers", ranging from programming to graphics, from network utilities to web design. The bundle will be available to buy for two weeks.
To buy, you must register interest at The Mac Sale to register your interest. As extra incentive, registrants are get the chance to win a brand new iPod Touch without any purchase required.
(Source: MacMegaSite) | Cost: US$49.99 | Requires: Mac OS X | For further info...

Hard on the heels of the release of iPhone OS 3.0 with its long-awaited copy-paste facility, CopySend from Thinking Code allows you to copy text, photos or links from your iPhone or iPod touch and send it wirelessly (over a Wi-Fi connection) to your Mac – or vice versa. You can also send a snapshot of anything on your iPhone/iPod touch to your Mac's clipboard, for pasting into any document. Password protection is also possible.
The software consists of two components: CopySend Server (free) installed and running on the Mac, and CopySend ($0.99) on the iPhone/iPod Touch.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: CopySend Server – free; CopySend iPhone/iPod touch $0.99. | Requires: MacOS X 10.5+, iPhone/iPod touch & Wi-Fi connection | For further info...

Schreiben 5.0 from German software house MOApp is a €9 wordprocessor designed to be lean and quick like TextEdit "with a nicer interface", but nevertheless open and save Word .doc, .docx, OpenOffice .odt, RTF and XML. and offer many Word-like features such as word count, drag&drop snippets etc.. The latest version (5.0) is for Intel-based Macs using 10.5; previous versions can run on PPC and 10.4.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: €9 | Requires: MacOS X 10.5+ | For further info...

GlobeJot is an iPhone/iPod touch app that acts as a travel organizer: track flight data, reservations, activities and checklists. Store addresses and coordinates for one-tap viewing within the system Maps and (if you're using an iPhone) for phoning airlines and hotels. The "Dashboard" interface is customizable, and can import information that you input in the online TripIt service.
Use it not only to guide you when you're at your destination, but to plan everything you need before going there – or for multiple other trips that you might have in future.
(Source: Macworld) | Cost: US$8 | For further info...

System Explorer 1.5 is a full-featured system analyzing tool lets you take a sneak peek at everything that's going on in your system, from currently active processes to installed drivers, including network collections, startup applications and Internet Explorer add-ons, if you have any. You can end any active process or delete items from the startup menu, to name a couple of examples. System Explorer can also obtain more information about each process from Google, or check it for viruses with an online anti-virus tool. The latest version includes support for external and internal plugins, filtering support to lists, and new plugin adds security enhancements.
(Source: ZDNet Tech Update) | Cost: Free (registration required) | Requires: Windows | For further info...

PDF Studio from Qoppa Software allows you to carry out a wide range of editing operations to PDF documents without Adobe Acrobat. These include: annotating, scanning-to-pdf, fill PDF forms and saving them locally, changing security, highlighting text and more... It is offered in versions for Macintosh, Linux, Windows (including Vista), and AIX, and is localized for English, French, German, Spanish. (A Mac-only – and slightly cheaper – alternative is PDFpen by SmileOnMyMac Software.)
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$60 | Requires: Mac OS X, Windows, Linux\Unix | For further info... Continued…

BumperCar 2.2 from Freeverse Software is a web browser for children based on the same engine as Apple’s own Safari. Featuring a start page that encourages children to explore a collection of kid-friendly sites, it can be configured to be in a Home, School or Pre-School setting with personalized features appropriate for each location. It also filters out objectionable web content, limits the sharing of personal information, and forces Google to use a "Safe Search" mode. A “Tunnel of Mystery” teleports kids to a random kid-safe site. BumperCar. Parents may add additional controls of their own choosing in the Preferences. Unlike most other browsers, however, it isn’t free – but then, you can’t have everything.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$29.95 | Requires: Mac OS X 10.4+ | For further info...

Sweet Home 3D 1.8 from eTeks is an open-source, Java-based application for drawing the plan of a home, arranging furniture on it, and displaying the results in a 3D view. Doors, windows and items from a built-in catalogue of furniture and fixtures may be dragged in and resized manually after placement. Various textures of wood, tiles and others may be applied to surfaces, and changes in plan are seen immediately in a rendered 3D view plan and realtime walkthroughs are also possible. The quality of rendering is equivalent of most low-cost offerings of the past twenty years, but unlike others, Sweet Home 3D is offered under a GNU/GPL licence.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: Free (donations accepted) | Requires: Mac OS X 10.4+, Linux\Unix, or Windows | For further info...

NeoOffice, the open-source suite based on OpenOffice that allows you to open and save Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), is now out in version 3.0, bringing with it new features and enhancements.
(Source: Macworld) | Cost: Free (donations accepted) | Requires: Mac OS X 10.3+ | For further info... /

Next time you decide to throw out an app that you no longer need, don't just throw it in the Trash – make sure that all its associated preference panes, cache, and other files are discarded as well. We normally use CleanApp for this purpose, but now you can also try the newly-minted Amnesia 1.0 from Koingo Software. It includes a secure delete option, a log of uninstalled files, a backup/restore option for applications and their related files, an option to move rather than delete files, rebuild of the Launch Services database after removing files, and other features.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$9.95 | Requires: Mac OS X 10.4+ | For further info...

GraphicDesignerToolbox 1.0 from Opcoders is a new type of graphics editor for creating textures, web graphics, logos, photos, applying effects to text and to photos. It takes a radically new approach to drawing: instead of conventional drawing tools and layers, it provides adjustable building blocks – over 80 in total – that apply certain effects in serial fashion and which the user tweaks, "much like a modular sound synthesizer." Users can download a free trial copy of unlimited duration, but which is limited to saving projects with 10 building blocks or less.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$39.95 | Requires: Mac OS X 10.4+ | For further info...

If you like Google Sketchup, you'll appreciate Sketchers Studio, which allows you to create 3D animations from your SketchUp models. It comes embedded with Google 3D Warehouse Browser, a timeline view, camera control including zoom, multi-camera switching, three types of effects, export to QuickTime movies, and more. Sketchers Studio is currently $59 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Universal Binary).
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$59 (usually $79) | Requires: MacOS X 10.5+ | For further info...

With many children now boasting their own iPod touch devices, the issue of protective browsing is no longer limited to the desktop computer at home or at school. To ensure they avoid unsavory websites while browsing on the move, parents can now install iWonder Surf. Based on the Safari Web browser.This allows you to filter site traffic, and even find out if your child is surfing the Web during school hours, and view traffic and control Web surfing permissions, or even disable its Web access, from anywhere without having to have physical access to the device.
(Source: iPhone Central) | Cost: US$15 | Requires: iPhone or iPod Touch, iPhone v2.2 software | For further info...

iPresent It from ZappTek converts PowerPoint, PDF, and Keynote presentations into slideshows that can be synced to the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPod Photo and later models. The latest release (v.2.4) adds support for Keynote '09.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$17.95 | Requires: Mac OS X 10.3+, Windows | For further info...

MacFamilyTree 5.4 from Synium Software is a genealogy program that includes an interactive globe for visualization through space and time, a 3D kinship view with fly-through, an animated Family Assistant, support for unlimited relationships between any two people, drag-and-drop from iPhoto, built-in CD/DVD burning, and other features. This release brings new web page design, themes, and workflow for web page export, custom fonts and improved editing for charts, much better coordinates lookup for Virtual Globe, a larger and more detailed locations database, an option to save reports as HTML files, and more.
(Source: Macintouch) | Cost: US$49 | Requires: Mac OS X 10.4+ | For further info...