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The best thing I ever did was switch from PC to Mac OSX which seems like eons ago now…   Since then, many other friends and relatives have also switched and have asked me for a list of my favourite free (or low cost) "tools" or "apps" for the Mac that will make their lives easier… This is what I've come up with so far (in no particular order)... RoaringApps Not an App but an extremely useful website wiki to check compatibility for Mac OSX Lion and now iOS 5.  Exceeding useful if you're thinking of upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion Dropbox Everyone knows Dropbox for their amazing file-sharing service. Drag any file into the Dropbox folder and it automatically gets shared. Sign up for a free account and you automatically get 2GB to share with your friends. Set up shared folders and anything you drop will be instantly downloaded by others. Need mobile access to your files? There’s an iPhone app just for that. Th...

With out any doubt I love my SnagIt for Mac! So I was most pleased this morning to learn that Version 1.0 is now available for the Mac… and to celebrate this joyous occasion, the folks at TechSmith have have announced a competition to win great prizes - further details can be found here

What a great day indeed… SnagIt is available on the Mac (beta)… I was alerted to this exciting piece of information via Twitter Tweets from both mrcadman & binrock and Shaan's blog "Between the Lines" OK I'm off to download and install SnagIt - what a great day indeed :)

Yes I know Mac have an inbuilt screen capture utility but I have really missed SnagIt since going to a Mac based system but good news it at hand... happy days are here again :) Snagit for Mac is Coming!