HeliumLift is a revamp of Jaden Geller's floating browser window, Helium. It helps you watch media, browse the web, and do much more while you stay productive. Your content will never fall behind your other windows even as you switch tasks. HeliumLift supports a customizable translucency mode that allows you to see your content and your work simultaneously, without intercepting mouse clicks when it's translucent. You have the ability to click, drag, and scroll behind your floating content. It even works in full screen apps.
21 Mac Apps similar to HeliumLift Productivity General
SafeGuard LM
Professional license management software for your C/C++, Java and Python applications running on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X, Solaris and Ubuntu. Full feature based licenses with version control. Lockable to several ID types such as the MAC address, IP address, Volume Serial Number, Hostname, Username, Country code, Mac OS X Serial number in addition to your own vendor hostid which can be anything you choose. In addition to a comprehensive floating license manager to manage all you concurrent license requrements. The floating license server runs on a single machine, a network or over the internet. Per-seat licensing makes it easy for you to sell your software affordably to a small customer as well as large customer and everyone in between. There are two Java applications included. The first is SafeGuardUser which is for the end-user to obtain the desired ID and to manage their licenses by being able to add, remove, test and display their current license configuration. The second application is SafeGuardManager which you use to generate your customer licenses and keep track of your customer database including company and contact information. The software developer kit includes all the functionality of both these applications so you can easily imbed this functionality into your own existing customer database and installation programs.
What's new in this version:
floating licenses, product activation server
What's new in this version:
floating licenses, product activation server
Quick Search Box
The application makes it easier to search for information on your computer, as well as the web. Don't waste your time opening way too many folders just to launch an application you would like to run. Do it quicker right from this floating window conveniently located on your desktop.
Capture Me
Capture Me is a flexible screen capture and recording utility for Mac OS X which features a floating capture window, several saving options, and resize ability.
To use the program, drag and resize the floating window to cover the area you want to capture. Then click in the window to capture the screenshot. You can resize it, copy it to the clipboard, and save it in a variety of formats and locations. Its behavior is customizable with respect to what happens after a capture. A newly added movie recording mode now allows up to a one minute long QuickTime movie (no sound) to be produced.
To use the program, drag and resize the floating window to cover the area you want to capture. Then click in the window to capture the screenshot. You can resize it, copy it to the clipboard, and save it in a variety of formats and locations. Its behavior is customizable with respect to what happens after a capture. A newly added movie recording mode now allows up to a one minute long QuickTime movie (no sound) to be produced.
µTorrent (uTorrent)
μTorrent is a freeware, closed source BitTorrent client. As of today, it is the second most widely used program of its kind in the world, lagging behind its less well-known Chinese counterpart Xunlei, but still miles ahead of the BitTorrent client №3, Vuze, in terms of user numbers.
μTorrent is a relative newcomer among the BitTorrent clients: it has been around since 2005, whereas the BitTorrent protocol itself was introduced in 2001. The program is currently owned by BitTorrent Inc., the world's leading peer-to-peer protocol company. Quite curiously, the San-Francisco based corporation adopted thought μTorrent to be efficient enough to acquire it from Ludvig Strigeus, the program's initial developer, and use it as the primary code source for the original BitTorrent client.
The reasons behind the acquisition of μTorrent are quite understandable, as the program's install file for Mac has the microscopic size of 2.5 Mb, which makes μTorrent the most compact available BitTorrent client for the Apple's platform. Just to get the idea of how small the program is: the install file of Vuze has the size of 8.7 Mb. The compactness of μTorrent is accounted for its extreme laconicism; its developers avoided the use of many standard libraries for peer-to-peer protocols, like C++ and iostream, and created their own ones instead. That's why the program gets downloaded and installed in a matter of mere seconds.
However, the little size is not the only thing μTorrent could get kudos for; the downloading features of the program work flawlessly and smoothly as well, while its memory use can be called nothing but ridiculously tiny. The feature array stretches from the traditional torrent downloads to the RSS feeds support, including the protocol encryption, a plug-in system (since the version 2.2), and a web-interface to the boss key feature, allowing you to hide and unhide the program to and from the system tray just hitting a hotkey.
Version 3.0 installation does not feature the notorious Conduit bar that used to install the eponymous bar along itself and changed the browser home page. Most likely, BitTorrent Inc., facing a sharp decrease in the user numbers, decided that the game wasn't worth the candle and just gave up on spreading adware.
Another positive moment is that its Mac UI is way more user-friendly than the Widnows one. The last interface design revamp made μTorrent a bit less comprehensible on the PC platform (although this point can be just subjective), whereas the Mac version can boast the considerable lucidity and shows greater overall reservedness, which contributes to its clarity.
All in all, μTorrent is a powerful and yet compact BitTorrent tool, allowing you to easily manage your down- and uploads and at the same time does not challenge your CPU capacity. Getting it onto your machine once will most likely make this program your torrent client of choice.
μTorrent is a relative newcomer among the BitTorrent clients: it has been around since 2005, whereas the BitTorrent protocol itself was introduced in 2001. The program is currently owned by BitTorrent Inc., the world's leading peer-to-peer protocol company. Quite curiously, the San-Francisco based corporation adopted thought μTorrent to be efficient enough to acquire it from Ludvig Strigeus, the program's initial developer, and use it as the primary code source for the original BitTorrent client.
The reasons behind the acquisition of μTorrent are quite understandable, as the program's install file for Mac has the microscopic size of 2.5 Mb, which makes μTorrent the most compact available BitTorrent client for the Apple's platform. Just to get the idea of how small the program is: the install file of Vuze has the size of 8.7 Mb. The compactness of μTorrent is accounted for its extreme laconicism; its developers avoided the use of many standard libraries for peer-to-peer protocols, like C++ and iostream, and created their own ones instead. That's why the program gets downloaded and installed in a matter of mere seconds.
However, the little size is not the only thing μTorrent could get kudos for; the downloading features of the program work flawlessly and smoothly as well, while its memory use can be called nothing but ridiculously tiny. The feature array stretches from the traditional torrent downloads to the RSS feeds support, including the protocol encryption, a plug-in system (since the version 2.2), and a web-interface to the boss key feature, allowing you to hide and unhide the program to and from the system tray just hitting a hotkey.
Version 3.0 installation does not feature the notorious Conduit bar that used to install the eponymous bar along itself and changed the browser home page. Most likely, BitTorrent Inc., facing a sharp decrease in the user numbers, decided that the game wasn't worth the candle and just gave up on spreading adware.
Another positive moment is that its Mac UI is way more user-friendly than the Widnows one. The last interface design revamp made μTorrent a bit less comprehensible on the PC platform (although this point can be just subjective), whereas the Mac version can boast the considerable lucidity and shows greater overall reservedness, which contributes to its clarity.
All in all, μTorrent is a powerful and yet compact BitTorrent tool, allowing you to easily manage your down- and uploads and at the same time does not challenge your CPU capacity. Getting it onto your machine once will most likely make this program your torrent client of choice.
Cooking Dash 3: Thrills and Spills
Control Flo and friends once again, this time as teenagers on their first adventure. Develop a theme park restaurant into a profitable business by serving customers in a timely manner and earning money for developing the establishment. Complete multiple missions.
SA Color Finesse 3 UI
Work with media projects imported from third-party applications like Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro by managing the visual media files and accessing their color settings. The utility supports high-end editing tools with the 32-bit floating-point color space customization options.
FileGuard
FileGuard 10.6's safes are not only secure; they are also portable. You can store safes on file servers or external disks and you can keep them on your home or office Mac with no risk of anyone opening them. You can even send FileGuard 10.6 safes to friends, family or colleagues, and they can access files contained in those safes, as long as they have the password, even if they don't have FileGuard 10.6 software.
Adobe Widget Browser
The Adobe Widget Browser is an Adobe AIR application that lets you preview and configure widgets using a visual interface. The Widget Browser solves the problem of having to work with confusing or obscure CSS and JavaScript by providing designers with a tool for editing widget properties to suit their needs.
The Archive Browser
Browse, preview, and extract the content of different types of archives. Handle common formats like ZIP, RAR, 7-ZIP, TAR, Gzip and Bzip2, as well as older formats like StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ, and ARC. Additionally, process ISO, BIN, MDF, NRG and CDI, many Windows self-extracting EXE files, etc.
Free Download Manager
It's the fastest and most elegant tool that allows you to download files from the Internet up to 10 times faster. It's a unique all-in-one tool.
FDM includes a BitTorrent client and Download Manager. It can be integrated into your browser, then FDM will monitor and catch links from your browser interface directly into FDM downloads list. FDM can download any kind of data you want: torrents, videos, audio tracks, images, ISO files, etc. Downloads of different types (music / videos / documents / pictures) can be automatically distributed to different folders. For example, all videos (including YouTube videos) will be stored in one folder. You can also add tags to downloads and then filter downloads by tags, so, it will be much easier to find a particular download on the downloads list. A special notification will let you know when the download is completed.
FDM includes a BitTorrent client and Download Manager. It can be integrated into your browser, then FDM will monitor and catch links from your browser interface directly into FDM downloads list. FDM can download any kind of data you want: torrents, videos, audio tracks, images, ISO files, etc. Downloads of different types (music / videos / documents / pictures) can be automatically distributed to different folders. For example, all videos (including YouTube videos) will be stored in one folder. You can also add tags to downloads and then filter downloads by tags, so, it will be much easier to find a particular download on the downloads list. A special notification will let you know when the download is completed.
Focus: Add Depth and Tilt-Shift to Your Photos
This tool allows you to see the frontmost application as an icon in a floating window. This saves you time as you do not need to browse through the menu to figure out if you can continue working with this program or you have to switch to another one.
AirDoc Sender
Air Doc is the ultimate solution for transferring documents, movies, songs, etc to your iPad/iPhone. New on iOS: share files between iPhones/iPads using an on-the-go bluetooth connection.
LIVE PREVIEW:
Just drag a graphic file into the Live Preview area on the Mac - every time you save your graphic, the preview on the iPad or iPhone will be updated immediately.
Works for psd (Photoshop), ai (Illustrator), jpeg, png, pdf and even HTML files.
FILE SOLUTION
Simply drag & drop your files into the Air Doc App (get it for free in the Mac App Store) and they will open up immediately on your iPad or iPhone.
WEB ACCESS
Access your files from any operating system (OSX or Windows) using your browser. Even stream movies directly from your iOS device to your browser (works out of the box for OSX clients, other operating systems may need additional plugins or codecs).
No cloud or internet access needed - no data leaves your local network if you don't want it to.
Transferred documents can be opened with any supported App on your iOS device (eg in Pages or Numbers)
Use Air Doc to replace your Mac's secondary display with your iPad - enhanced by the touch capabilities of your iOS device, but without the need to install any drivers.
Simply drag movies and songs to your iOS device to view them offline - even stream to your AppleTV using AirPlay.
The Air Doc Viewer App for your iPhone/iPad is available in the App Store.
NETWORK
From Mac to iOS: all your devices must have access to the same LAN (or WLAN) - no additional network configuration is needed.
From iOS to iOS: no network configuration needed at all. Just enable bluetooth.
FEATURES
- transfer files between devices using bluetooth
- import or export images from camera or photo library
- Live Preview: every time you save your graphic, the preview on the device will be updated
- transfer files to your iOS device, simply by drag&drop
- upload your files to iCloud and have them available anywhere
- upload and download files using your web browser
- exchange files using iTunes file sharing (using USB cable)
- send and display a screenshot to your iOS device with one click or by hotkey (Cmd-Alt-S)
- send and display the current clipboard with one click or by hotkey (Cmd-Alt-V)
- supported document formats: pdf, doc, xls, pages, numbers, txt, rtf - anything QuickLook can show
- supported multimedia formats: m4v, m4a, mp3 - anything iOS can play
- Air Doc for iOS is an universal app, runs on iPhone and iPad
- stores your last uploads for access when offline
- zero configuration network support (Bonjour)
LIVE PREVIEW:
Just drag a graphic file into the Live Preview area on the Mac - every time you save your graphic, the preview on the iPad or iPhone will be updated immediately.
Works for psd (Photoshop), ai (Illustrator), jpeg, png, pdf and even HTML files.
FILE SOLUTION
Simply drag & drop your files into the Air Doc App (get it for free in the Mac App Store) and they will open up immediately on your iPad or iPhone.
WEB ACCESS
Access your files from any operating system (OSX or Windows) using your browser. Even stream movies directly from your iOS device to your browser (works out of the box for OSX clients, other operating systems may need additional plugins or codecs).
No cloud or internet access needed - no data leaves your local network if you don't want it to.
Transferred documents can be opened with any supported App on your iOS device (eg in Pages or Numbers)
Use Air Doc to replace your Mac's secondary display with your iPad - enhanced by the touch capabilities of your iOS device, but without the need to install any drivers.
Simply drag movies and songs to your iOS device to view them offline - even stream to your AppleTV using AirPlay.
The Air Doc Viewer App for your iPhone/iPad is available in the App Store.
NETWORK
From Mac to iOS: all your devices must have access to the same LAN (or WLAN) - no additional network configuration is needed.
From iOS to iOS: no network configuration needed at all. Just enable bluetooth.
FEATURES
- transfer files between devices using bluetooth
- import or export images from camera or photo library
- Live Preview: every time you save your graphic, the preview on the device will be updated
- transfer files to your iOS device, simply by drag&drop
- upload your files to iCloud and have them available anywhere
- upload and download files using your web browser
- exchange files using iTunes file sharing (using USB cable)
- send and display a screenshot to your iOS device with one click or by hotkey (Cmd-Alt-S)
- send and display the current clipboard with one click or by hotkey (Cmd-Alt-V)
- supported document formats: pdf, doc, xls, pages, numbers, txt, rtf - anything QuickLook can show
- supported multimedia formats: m4v, m4a, mp3 - anything iOS can play
- Air Doc for iOS is an universal app, runs on iPhone and iPad
- stores your last uploads for access when offline
- zero configuration network support (Bonjour)
Adware Zap
Adware Zap & Browser Privacy Cleaner restores your browser back to its full health by removing unwanted extensions, cookies, caches, and resetting your browser Preferences. To fully restore your browser, all cookies, extensions and caches will be removed. By default, browser bookmarks and internet history are not removed, but in the App Settings you can customize what to remove.
SketchBook Express
SketchBook Express is a very good free painting and drawing application. It is an app that is much more complete than, lets say Paint, but less complete than Photoshop. It can be used to create beautiful drawings and graphics if you have the right set of skills. The application certainly provides all the tools that you need. There is support for layers, a vast number of brushes that you can use, undo and redo, and many more features.
EditRocket
EditRocket is intended to help application developers who need to create, edit, debug and navigate source code. In this respect, the application is ideal not only for creating applications but websites as well. In addition, it can be used to edit any kind of text.