If you spend any significant metre in front of your Mac , it ’s a jolly safe wager that you do — then you probably have at least one or two small applications that you use constantly to improve your productiveness . Senior writer Dan Frakes keep tabs on low - cost Mac software and indite the “ 50 Mac Gems ” article in the September 2005 egress . In this podcast , he explains how he pluck them and excuse some of his favorites gems .

If you spend any important time in front of your Mac — and if you read Macworld — it ’s a pretty secure stakes that you do — then you probably have at least one or two small software that you use constantly to improve your productiveness , break up out people of color , check the conditions or mayhap even monitor your Netflix queue .

Senior writer Dan Frakes keep tab on low - cost Mac software for both his Mac Gems Weblog and his monthly column in Macworld . In the September 2005 number , Dan picked an assortment of 50 software gemstone for our cover story ; in this podcast , he explains how he pick them and what some of his favorite are . I ’ve got a few favorite software system bargain of my own , which I utter about in this 15 - minute podcast .

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