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Ever wanted to you use your remote for something other than just front row? Say maybe a Powerpoint presenation or maybe even a remote for Photobooth? Well, now there is a solution!

Remote Buddy, from IOSpirit, does everything you’ve always wanted your remote to do, and includes support for the Nintendo Wii remote as well. Simply create your own controls using the built in action factory, open your favorite app and press away. Me and my sister had a great time playing with it in Photobooth, and it works with most OS X applications including iPhoto, Safari, Virtual Keyboard, Garage Band and loads more.

Pulp Motion allows you to place your photos and movie into pre-made templates, designed and made by professionals. People will think its a video produced in Final Cut Pro. Pulp Motion works seamlessly with iPhoto, iTunes and iMovie, just like all the other iLife applications. There is a choice of 25 themes, but aquafadas the creators of pulp-motion, are trying to make new themes every week. Here is an example of what it can do.

Software that enables you to turn a hard drive into a repair depot is pretty expensive. But this isn’t the idea with SubRosaSoft.com’s Das Boot. Eseentially Das Boot allows you to turn any storage device into a Mac OS X diagnostic, repair, and maintenance tool.

Using Das Boot is very simple and easy enough for even the noobs out there. You select the drive you want to copy your applications and documents to, and Das Boot does everything for you. When you need to boot from your repair drive you will see a special launcher, which gives you full access to all the applications you have installed. Amazingly handy for helping with the neighbors broken Mac.

Cocktail, simply put, is an easy way to tweak your mac to attain its optimum performance. It uses unix commands to change things that in most cases you couldn’t do without the command line. It can do jobs such as clearing caches for your system, by user or browser and of-course, which can be selected individually. Pilot is the scheduler portion of Cocktail which lets you clean your system on action script to make sure that it gets done regularly and efficiently.

Sleep and wake to your iPod with the iH5 iHome. The iHome is one of the only alarm clocks that I know off that wakes you up to your iPod, radio and other input devices. What’s more, it supports all iPods including the new 2nd gen iPod nano’s. The tiny iPod shuffle is supported via the aux input on the rear of the iHome.

How does she sound you ask? The best part is the sound quality is amazingly clear for such a small device, with crystal clear highs and lows. They didn’t skimp on the bass either. No no! Reason8 sound chamber technology minimizes vibration significantly, which means distortion free music all around. It comes with a small remote thats easily used and fits nicely in my pocket to boot. Rock on.

Get yourself up to date and keep your life organized with Ghost Action from Ghost Park Software. Organize your todo’s into diffrent categories according to how you want to operate. You can create multiple tasks and projects, as well as create alerts to tell when they need to be done. If you’re a fan of iCal, you can use Ghost Action with iCal to create the calenders that you have set up in iCal already, and then sync them with your iPod or even your cellphone.

Want to have even more fun with your iSight camera or any kind of image? Take a peep at Dot Matrix, Its a nifty little program that allows you to create funky pop like images. You don’t have to be skilled to use it, my mother could use it. Just take a picture of yourself with your iSight or using a JPG, view, edit and look wonderful with the crazy effects.

There are 150 preset photoart compositions or you can use your own. Check it out, I’m sure you’ll have fun.