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Using WireTap Studio, you can record the discrete audio output of any application, as well as all system audio, or record audio input from any microphone, line-in, or audio input hardware. If you can hear it, WireTap Studio can record it. Part of the $39 MacHeist bundle

Part of the MacHeist $39 bundle

VPN Tracker 5 includes connection profiles for over 300 tried and tested VPN devices and uses the industry standard IPSec protocol. It is compatible with nearly every IPSec-based VPN gateway on the market.

Judging by this page, Sophos doesn't detect rootkits on Mac OS X

aha - the complement to SSH

Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won't try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

Visage allows you to easily and safely customize the appearance of your Mac.  The preference pane's simple interface contains several tabs, each of which will help you customize a different part of your Mac. You can run screen savers as your desktop background, customize your login panel, personalize system alerts, and more! Visage keeps track of Apple's default settings for every customization, so you can easily switch back to the original settings at any time.

Strangely hidden from the casual user is a spiffy command line utility that allows you to view, configure, and troubleshoot your Mac's wireless connection. It doesn't appear to be well documented, and judging by the obscure location of the command, Apple probably didn't think it would be too useful for the average Mac user. But the hidden command line airport tool is very useful indeed, so here is how to access it, and how you can use it too. The first thing you'll want to do is create a symbolic link to the airport command, because it is situated in a very inconvenient location for quick usage.

Easiest 1-2-3 HowTo on burning disks from ISO-Images on a Mac, trust me :-)

Disc images are a fairly common packaging standard for large software programs. If you want to try out a new Linux distribution, for example, chances are you'll need to download a disc image in ISO format and burn it to a blank CD-ROM or DVD.

Part of the MacHeist $39 bundle

This piece of $15 shareware (US dollars?) comes highly recommended, even though I would hope that future versions of OS X will do many of these things for itself. How often do upgrade licenses need to be purchased?

Kinemac is a 3D Real Time Animation & Presentation Software for Mac OS X (Universal Binary for Mac-PowerPC and Mac-Intel). It allows you to create your own professional 3D Animations with the simplicity of a 2D presentation tool. See the animations in our Gallery. Kinemac plays the animations in real time at full screen and export them to QuickTime movie files or to a series of single still images. For this reason it's the ideal application to create Advertising for TV, trailers for movies, video-clips, instant scrolling messaging to put "on air" in real time, video content for CD, DVD, web sites... Part of the $39 MacHeist bundle

Part of the $39 MacHeist bundle