Time for some updates. I usually try and test new apps once a week, and it has been a few weeks since May (my last update). Here are my current favorites I've added in the last few months.
Living Earth HD is the coolest weather app and I now run it on my computer, iPhone, and iPad. It is phenomenal as a weather app in the menu bar and looks amazing!
Boom rocks! Literally. It is software that enhances the loudness and even the quality of your speakers. I have found it to work best on Apple laptops. It turned my 11" Air into something I could actually hear and my 15" Pro Retina into a boom box. This is a gotta have app.
OmniGraphSketcher is another great app from the OmniGroup (makers of OmniGraffle and OmniFocus). It is relatively inexpensive compared to other Omni apps. But it is a basic way to play with graph visualizations. You can plug numbers in and blow your Excel graphs out of the water. I like it for presentation purposes.
Soulver has replaced all of my calculators. I have even stopped using Excel quite as much as I once did. It is like talking to your calculator - so easy! If you do a lot of calculations or need an audit trail of calculations or even want to save a file of calculations, this is a great app.
SketchBook Pro has become my favorite vector drawing program that I use with my Intuos tablet. Painter 12 and Photoshop are definitely better painting programs (both in the $300 territory), but both of those are pixel-based. When I'm sketching something (usually concepts) I like to start with SketchBook because vector imagery can be scaled-up to larger sizes.
DashExpander has been pretty cool for inserting text that is used over and over again. If I were in the dealership, I'd be using this as my email template generator. It is really slick for that. Admittedly, I don't use it enough to have found the desire to pay for it yet. And if I did, I'd probably put my money into TextExpander instead.
CheatSheet has become a daily part of my life. I have it set to show me all shortcut keys in any program I have active when I hold the Command Key down. Really useful! If you've recently or are about to switch from a PC to a Mac, get this app.
Day One has recently been added to my daily regiment. I try to summarize every meeting I've attended into Day One simply to keep track of everything I'm involved in. Day One is a journaling software. It kinda reminds me Tumblr but as a program on your computer that syncs to other devices. So far, I'm really liking it.
Hazel went into my trial run yesterday. It is very slick as it automates a whole lot of system cleaning and folder maintenance. For the people who don't pay much attention to where things are downloaded or have a ton of stuff on their desktop this is an app for you.
For the most part I'm still using most of the apps I already mentioned in this thread. These are just a few more. Maybe one day I'll get around to talking about mobile apps.
