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Do you ever find yourself switching between computers, but you need to manually type in a long URL or phrase from one computer to the next? Stuf, from The Escapers, fixes this.

Stuf lets you share your computer’s clipboard with other Macs in your network. You just need to open up Stuf on all of your Macs and select which clipboards you want to share. All shared clipboards will show up on the other computers. If you need some security, you can easily set up a password for your clipboards.

Newsfire, will be coming to the iPhone. This week David Watanabe posted a teaser on his blog. But this teaser was simply a screenshot of an icon. Hopefully we will hear more about this application soon.

We have reviewed Newsfire OS X and we found it to be a great RSS reader. Newsfire OS X is now available for free here.

Have you ever wanted to change a few settings on your Mac, but just can’t find anyway to do it? That’s just what MacPilot is for! MacPilot 3, from Koingo Software, lets you change many different settings on your Mac. It includes tons of different features that you can change with the push of a button, along with some very useful system tools.

Microsoft Windows has always had a taskbar for switching windows. On the bottom of the screen you just click the window you want to quickly switch to it. So why doesn’t Mac OS X have something like this? Now, with Fantasktik, it does.

At this moment there are many RSS readers for Mac. Most of them are even free, but none of them are quite like Headline. Headline is the first application from Doseido Software.

Screen recording can come is useful at many different times. The only problem is that until now most screen recording applications are very complicated. You need to change every little thing before starting the recording. They can also be a bit expensive. Sequence, from app4mac, fixes this. Sequence is very easy to use, and comes at a cheap price too.

There are many image editors available for Mac, but most of them use many palettes, which many people don’t prefer. Recently Iris was released, which is a one-window image editor that looks a lot like Apple’s Aperture. It combines all the elements of a image editor into one clean window.

Last week, at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced the 2008 Apple Design Award winners. The winner for best student project was Squirrel, a new finance management application. Although there are many other financial applications for Mac OS X, Squirrel has a great design which helps make the application very user friendly.

Stickies, included on every Mac, is a great note-taking app. However, it just needs some more features. SketchBox, from omz:software, is just like Stickies, with small colored notes to type on, but with many extra features.

There have been many task management applications lately exclusively for Mac OSX Leopard, but none of them are quite like Dejumble. They are either very simple, like Anxiety, or have large interfaces, like Things. Dejumble is right in the middle — a very powerful application with a simple and small interface.

Dejumble stays in the menu bar. To view your tasks just click the check mark or hit its hotkey. Once the main window is open you can drag it around to detach it from the menu bar icon and have it anywhere on the screen. Dejumble can also has the option to always be open, so you can always view your tasks. The Dejumble window has two main sections: one to view your tasks and one to add a new one. On the top is a search bar to quickly find a certain task.

Quite a few years ago tape recorders were very popular, and they are still used today. TapeDeck is an application designed to look, and be used, like an analog tape recorder. TapeDeck works great for many things, from recording yourself playing an instrument or recording a lecture. Just hit record and the tape starts.

It has been hard to make nice slideshows. Most slideshows are just a bunch of photos thrown into iMovie with the “Ken Burns” effect. But now PulpMotion Advanced, by Aquafadas, allows for an easy way to create beautiful slideshows. PulpMotion Advanced includes 19 themes which allow you to make a perfect slideshow — with a cool look, too. Some of those themes even have different varieties which makes the total number of themes about 50. PulpMotion Advanced doesn’t limit the slideshows to pictures, though; you can even add videos in the mix.

Last week I did a review of Cents, from MacMage. This application was a small, simple application to keep track of what you buy. I was also given 3 licenses to giveaway.

The three winners are: dt, Joe Cool, and John

Thanks for participating! The three lucky winners will receive an email from the developer with their licenses soon. Remember, if you didn’t win Cents is available for $4.99 from MacMage.

Comic Life has been a very popular application, and many people already own it. In 2005 it won an Apple Design Award and then for a while it came pre-installed on certain Macs. A few days ago Plasq released an entire new Comic Life application, Comic Life Magiq. Comic Life Magiq is like a “pro” version of Comic Life, including a whole new user interface and even a slick, easy photo editor.

Last week Times, a new RSS reader was released from Acrylic Apps was released and reviewed by us. We had 3 licenses to giveaway and after many comments, the 3 winners have been randomly selected!

The winners are… Danzomo, Stephane, and tmilovan!

Congratulations to the 3 winners. You will be contacted soon. Thanks to the many people who entered. If you didn’t win you can still purchase Times for $30 CAD on the Acrylic Apps website.