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Port of the XBox Media Center to OS X. Works with the Apple Remote, making it more elegant than my usual VLC + Sofa Control combination. Looks good.

Command line tool for interrogating and diffing Time Machine backups.

Graphically lovely, and drop-dead simple, audio recording app.

Wine for OS X and Linux especially designed to play graphically-intensive Windows games. The Orange Box and its contents are supported, and Audio-Surf ran OK for me, with some minor resolution-based oddness. Not sure it’s worth $40, though, when I can just reboot to Boot Camp.

I rely on virtual machines for testing Windows code — I cannot fathom how Mac developers can possibly be expected to deliver quality applications without snapshotting and rolling back OS images.

I bought a new laptop drive for my MacBookPro last week, and with SuperDuper, was able to copy my OS X partition and boot off it within hours. The Boot Camp Windows partition, however, stumped me. No amount of disk copying or dd’ing worked.

This tool did. It does all the magick required to successfully copy a Windows partition and tweak the partition table to make Windows boot again. Hurrah!

Got this as part of MacHeist recently, and dismissed it as “pointless eyecandy”. I couldn’t be more wrong — While it is graphically-lovely, it allows for keyboard control of iTunes (including tasks like rating tracks) and is a lower-memory last.fm client than the official last.fm client. Added to my Login Items!

Really rather sweet Mac screencasting software. The post-capture editing tools look handy.

Local private hypertexty wiki note-taking brain-dumping app for OS X. I’ve been using it for a few days now, and really like it.

The excellent TrueCrypt now runs on OS X, as well as Windows and Linux. I’ll definitely be shunting some of my files onto an encrypted thumbdrive later.

Gorgeously-retro 8-bit-esque system icons for OS X.

OS X system-wide plugin that adds color palletes from Adobe’s kuler community to the ColorPicker widget.

Cool prototype application by Tom Insam which monitors your foreground application in OS X, and tries to provide you some context by matching it to someone in your Address Book. It’s early days yet, but decidedly cool (and written in Python)

BusySync 2 will synchronize between Google Calendar and iCal in both directions. Unless Apple announce this exact feature at Macworld, I’ll be buying a copy forthwith.

Interesting looking tool which is a cross between Quicksilver and Terminal.

I’m giving Mac programming a go over the festive break — This seems to be a good (cheap) e-book to get me started with Objective C.

Mega-wicked-simple “getting started with Cocoa” tutorial.

The awesome Peggle is now available for Mac, for anyone who hasn’t yet been caught in its crack-like addiction. And only $10 to register until the end of the year. Well worth it.

OS X’s VNC viewer is possibly my most-used new feature in Leopard. Here’s a handful of tweaks to make it even more awesome.

Control AppleScript from Python. The prospect of using Python to hack on my iTunes library is massively exciting!