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Sometimes you want to do a little task that really has to be run on Windows or there's no alternative software for Mac, but you don't want to reboot into Bootcamp to do it. And you want to keep Bootcamp, since it lets you run Windows to its potential. Well, VirtualBox can certainly help you ! It's a great piece of freeware that I recently fell in love with.

"IceClean is a powerful System Maintenance and Optimization Tool using only UNIX built-in System Tasks to help your Mac stay healty and to keep it running smoothly. Version 3.0 is now completely renewed in Scripting and Cocoa Interface for help you in faster and useful Tasks Managing of All Unix Power."

SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. It's the perfect complement to Time Machine under Leopard, Snow Leopard, and Lion, allowing you to store a bootable backup alongside your Time Machine volume-and it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!

"As Apple products grow in popularity, they're increasingly attractive targets to the bad guys. Just check out the short history of Mac malware 1982-2011 to see what the hackers are up to. "

"AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps ... Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button."

"What use VideoSpec? You need to know parameters of your video (format, encoding, bitrate) to convert it"

"These are instructions on how to find the codecs used, as well as the other specifications, of a video file using your Mac and VideoSpec (Windows users can do the same using GSpot). "