Voila is a first of its kind Image Capturing and Annotating tool on the Mac platform. It allows you to capture anything or everything on your desktop and in the way you decide Shape your imagination by annotating and adding effects to the image. Share your creative output for productivity or for fun.

Apart from these, you have a Menu Capture, Fullscreen Capture, Object Capture, Rectangular Capture and a Timed Capture as well. The ability to have multiple screen capture options along with the capability to use them in a variety of combinations with a good blend of Annotations and Special Effects, makes Voila very unique and different from the rest of the tools out in the market.

Now that you have given life to your idea, you can Print it or share it with your friends and colleagues via Mail or iPhoto. You can also export the images to PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF, GIF, BMP formats and upload to Blogs and Websites for the rest of the world.

Voila can be used by Executives, Researchers, Consultants to make intuitive business presentations, Teachers to enhance their teaching abilities, Students to make their assignments more appealing, Bloggers and Writers to enrich their articles with meaningful images, Designers and Artists to make attractive art work.

The beta version is currently free, though the FAQ states that Voila will indeed become a commercial application.

uTorrent has finally been officially announced after the leakage of pre-release alpha version of a Mac. The popular Bittorrent client for Windows was being anticipated to embrace Mac for quite some time. 

Compared to the Windows version, however, the newly-released version is missing certain features, including an RSS downloader. Rumors of a Mac uTorrent release first surfaced in June of 2007, with an alpha version leaked back in September.

The beta software for Macs is now available to download for free, though uTorrent warns the it may contain serious bugs.

Download the beta version of Mac uTorrent.

Uninstalling programs on a Mac is definitely a breeze but it leaves behind configuration files which are not easy to delete so a third party application is a nice idea. You can manually delete the configuration files if you know the file type but many people prefer the uninstallers in Windows which remove data from registry and keep the system clean.

Following are few third party uninstallers you might want to try before dragging that program from Applications folder to Trash.

1. AppCleaner is free macware which clean all the unwanted files along with the uninstallation of a particular software. It is also as easy as dragging and dropping and it also keeps history of all the files hich have been deleted or uninstalled. AppCleaner also saves your favorite applications from accidental uninstallation.
2. AppDelete does the same thing as AppCleaner but is more simple in its approach. It knows only one thing and that is uninstalling the leftovers along with the application. AppDelete finds the related files and delete it leaving your system clean.
3. AppTrap is another freeware which works in the background and keeps your system free from any unrelated file without you having to do anything. It is pretty straightforward in its function and does not boast of unnecessary features but the only worry with this uninstaller is that you never know what files are being deleted since it works in background.

Sequence is a great new affordable software that your can use to take screenshots and screencasts on your mac. This software has unique ability to paint on the screen. You can also paint while you want to take the screenshot or screencast. Apart from that you can even paint this during a recording.

You can choose the size and color of the brush stroke. Screen shots are very easy to take. Just align the box around the area of interest and click the scissors icon. A snap will go and then a window to name and save the screenshot appears. For screen shots you can set it for fullscreen, free selection and  fixed size (custom settings are allowed).

Sequence has many other cool features, all the options in the menu bar you can choose from many different destinations. This software can automatically send your photo to the chosen place like iPhoto, email and iChat. You can also upload your file to your MobileMe iDisk or your personal website.

It is very easy to use and only costs $19. You can try out a demo and purchase Sequence at the app4mac website.

Free utility maker Dock Spaces can let you create and swap between up to five customizable Docks on your Leopard Mac OS X.

That doesn’t mean that Dock Spaces does not swap out your Dock every time you change Spaces. Instead, it swaps Dock content through your menu bar on demand. It is very suitable for creating different task specific Docks.

Check your more features:

• Have Up To 5 Different Docks
• Lock The Dock
• Set Bouncing Parameters
• Switch From/To 3D/2D
• Set The Total Number Of Docks
• Open At Login
• Software Update And Growl Support
• Much More

Download here

Being a geek has no privilege in a way that you still have to memorize all the passwords and log into your accounts at different sites. We all have dozens of accounts on different websites and it’s not easy to remember them all while it’s not safe to use the same password in all accounts.

A password management utility called 1Password can certainly help because it completely frees you from the headache of remembering passwords. This application stores all the passwords and then auto-fills and auto-submits when you visit a particular site where you already have an account. It can also create a strong password for you when you sign up on some website.

The strength of passwords can not be doubted and here is an example of one password straight from the company’s website:

1. 8AdEc7mbOKDbtj9ck7VG1MpaLzO7IA0un6h3kEyCgl5hZ2hF79iQ3QoGQdWdc6FuKp
2. 8sqm1aLC3S3QiyU4fhcqPuY40QYD3VSLtfCo0VBcztYfiBTRsIuNj85yP5Lj
3. omJNk0NwAa0qushbmGG5WUUJcg7sN2

Such passwords can only be tracked if the hacker is using some keylogger but 1Password rules out this possibility because no key is being punched here. There would obviously be a problem when you try to surf from other Mac computer but this smart utility can further store copy of passwords on their server as part of their web service so that you are never deprived of networking while you move. You can access its web service from most web browsers.The application can also be installed on hand-held Palm phones.

All of this is good but it’s not a freeware so you’ll have to shell out $ 34.95 for one license. So, if you can not bear the burden of managing your passwords then it’s an investment.

One of the major difference between a man and a computer is that machines have solid memory while ours is not that perfect. So the possibility of losing your passwords is more of a side-effect of being a human rather than anything else.

You can’t do anything about your human existence but help is at hand in case you have lost/forgotten your Mac password. There is an application in Mac OS X called Keychain Access which stores all kinds of passwords such as Wi Fi network, websites, mail, ftp etc.

For example if you have a bookmarked a site in Transmit FTP application with a password stored in the same and you want to retrieve it you can go to Keychain Access search for the name of the server you are interested in.

Now you may select the right key and get info with Apple(Cmd)-I. Now you will need to click the Show password switch which will prompt you for your admin password. Once you typed it in, the password for that specific key will now be visible.

One of the most enchanting new feature on Mac OS X Leopard was how Apple also now enabled to change the visual appearance of your Mac’s main application launcher, the Dock. It is exciting for all Leopard users, as they have more control on the way Dock is now controlled.

It is fun and useful as it lets you customize, including tweaking Dock images and controlling what the Dock looks like. Numerous different apps have sprung up to make Dock switching easier, One of the useful and popular one is called Dock Library.

Dock Library is a free download from Dative Studios. According to them the Dock Library is an application that takes the headache out of managing styles for your Leopard dock. Once you have Dock Library downloaded and installed, it’s very very easy to switch between different Dock themes and to manage them.

Among the 2008 Apple Design Award winners, the best student project winner chosen was Squirrel, a new finance management application. However, there are many other financial applications for Mac OS X, Squirrel has a great design which helps make the application very user friendly.

Squirrel has an intuitive design and displays maximized usability features, the application window can display your transactions for a chosen account. When you insert a new transaction a bar slides up from the bottom so you can easily edit your transaction.

It also enables tags so you can easily organize them. On the top half of the window you can view a graph of your transactions. If you hover your mouse over any part of the graph you can see the date and the amount in your account at that time.

You can also select to view only incoming or outgoing transactions with the buttons at the top. If you set a URL for your bank you can also view the website by click the Netbanking icon in the top right. You can add different accounts and edit your tags and categories in the preferences section.

If you purchase Squirrel now, or before it releases version 1.0 you can get it for $11 with free updates until version 2.0. Once Squirrel does reach version 1 it will be available for $38. You can download a trial and purchase Squirrel at the application’s website.