None of the following Mac apps are free, but in my opinion, each is well worth its cost. I have no financial interest in any of the companies behind these apps – I am sharing them simply for the reason that I find them extremely useful in the course of my daily activities.

Flare for Mac

Effortlessly add effects and textures to your photos with Flare, a fast, easy and beautiful darkroom for your Mac.

Phone Amego

Phone Amego lets you use your Mac as a powerful “front end” for your Bluetooth cell phone, your Google Voice account, a VoIP telephone adaptor, and even landlines [connected through a compatible USB modem]. Dial calls directly from your Address Book using whichever phone you choose. Enjoy on-screen Caller ID, call screening, logging, and many other advanced features without touching your phone.

None of the following Mac apps are free, but in my opinion, each is well worth its cost. I have no financial interest in any of the companies behind these apps – I am sharing them simply for the reason that I find them extremely useful in the course of my daily activities.

Things

Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Other todo applications either oversimplify or are too difficult to use. Things instead offers the perfect balance between ease of use and powerful features.

MarsEdit

Browser-based interfaces are slow, clumsy, and require you to be connected to the internet just to use them. Browsers are perfect for reading web content, but not so great for creating it.

If you’re serious about your blog, you need a desktop blog editor. If you’re lucky enough to have a Mac, nothing is more powerful or more elegant than MarsEdit.

Pixelmator

Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.