2012 Half-Range inventory of the 18 best Mac desktop applications

Recently, the news fan and digital product enthusiast from France and multilingual, Anna Heim, launched a campaign called "What is your favorite Mac desktop app for the first half of 2012?" to her Twitter and Facebook fans. At the end of the discussion, they joined some of the most useful applications that were launched before 2012 but are still popular.

These shortlisted applications are known as Angry Birds spaces, and there are some little-known but practical. Next, please follow the small knitting to see which applications are lucky to be shortlisted for the first half of the 2012 Mac best desktop Applications list:

1. Angry Birds Space

Angry Birds Space was released this March at the same time as iOS, Android, WP7, PSV, and Pc,mac on multiple platforms. Compared to the previous version, not only replaced the new battlefield, at the same time play in the game also has a different, new space background, weightlessness and gravitational physical effects, gorgeous even explosion, super new Bird to join, let you refreshing, big call fun!

2. Snapseed

Snapseed is the best application for your daily photo processing. With this application, you can easily beautify your photos with a touch of your fingertips. With this state-of-the-art digital photo processing software, anyone can easily beautify, transform and share their photos.

In just a year, the number of Snapseed users has reached a huge 9 million, so its finalists are fully deserved.

3. LIMBO

Limbo (Infernal Frontier) is an excellent 2D ink style puzzle game made by Mads Wibroe, which won the 12th session of the Independent Gaming festival, the best visual Arts and Technical Excellence Award, which landed on the Mac at Christmas in 2011.

The game has a memorable special art style, simple operation, carefully designed by the numerous organs and puzzles. The entire game spindle does not have any story elements throughout, not even appear any dialogue, this approach is quite bold. But "LIMBO" focuses on the puzzle-solving process and picture presentation, the ingenious design of puzzles makes you astounding, you will be satisfied with the sense of accomplishment of each puzzle, and the unique aesthetics will create a fascinating atmosphere and arouse your desire to explore the world. Although you will be surprised at the end of the game, or do not understand the meaning of the game to express, Limbo still in the art performance and puzzle design to bring amazing entertainment.

4. Fantastical

Fantastical has a colorful and beautiful interface design style, is definitely the most attractive and convenient calendar you have ever seen on Mac. It helps you plan your trip quickly, and you can even change the order of events, set color classifications for different events, and decide which ones are important to you. In addition, it can be seamlessly synchronized with the ical calendar and iOS reminders.

5. Sparrow

Rated as the best mail client for the MAC platform by the media, Sparrow is a lightweight mail client with "keep things simple and efficient", with its concise UI and conversational mail-reading experience allowing you to navigate through all of your email records in one window, Instead of switching to the Inbox once again to view a single message individually. And it incorporates some of the features of current social networking sites, such as account avatars.

The latest version of Sparrow not only adds support for the POP protocol email account, but also has a large number of feature updates. For example, better unified account navigation, bulk delete spam, drop-down refresh, and so on, and improve the startup time, fixed some bugs.

6. Coda 2

Coda is an HTML and Web page editor widely used by designers and developers in panic. Coda has multi-language support (HTML, PHP, Javascript, CSS, etc.), code automation completion, file management, built-in FTP module and server to maintain file synchronization, built-in SVN support features, is a MAC platform on a rare site development tool.

Panic also launched a new IPad application Diet Coda. Its function is basically similar to Coda 2, just the code Editor running on the IPad. So even if you go out without a computer, using the IPad can easily do a number of coding, recording instantaneous inspiration work.

7. Trickster

If you spend most of your time working on your computer, it's clear that visiting the most recently used applications and files can save you a lot of downtime. From this point of view, Trickster is a good application, and can effectively solve this problem.

Trickster conveniently, you can view all of your latest files and applications and drill down into their categories, such as documents, photos, videos, audio, and downloads. You can even mark the name for later use.

8. Gemini

Gemini in English has Gemini, twins and other meaning, as the name suggests, Gemini is a delete system internal duplicate file retrieval software. Although it takes a while to scan a file, it can save valuable disk space for the computer, which is a little bit of a hassle.

9. Moom

Open a lot of software, it will take a lot of time and a lot of mouse action for the window to drag and activate, to adjust the window position and size, to prevent mutual occlusion. Apple Computer Mac OS X System on the window management applications are many, Moom is one of the more powerful. You can use the mouse, keyboard shortcuts, and other control window location and size, there are rich customization options, the key it also supports multiple monitors.

Favs

Favs is an online RSS application that provides a truly social reading experience through a number of services. If you often use social networking, you must have a large collection of bookmarks or articles, favs can sync unread entries, recommended items, Shared Items, add-Star entries, notes, favorite entries, keep unread entries, and the items you're interested in sharing with your users.

Due.

Due is a reminder and timing application. You can set specific time reminders, repeat reminders with multiple timers, and access a handy schedule management record that stores all of your expired reminders.

Due also provides a set of settings that allow you to customize the sound of reminders, as well as the ability to back up and synchronize your reminders/timer data.

Bettersnaptool

Bettersnaptool is the Mac OS X Window management program, developed and designed by the German developer Andreas Hegenberg. This software allows you to operate the window more easily, and has very powerful customization functions, such as the setting of shortcut keys to achieve rapid window movement.

Skala Preview

Skala Preview is very useful for application developers who work with Macs, which can quickly display the full resolution of the application picture you have on your Mac to the iphone or ipad, color, pixel perfect, no compression, no distortion, preview what it looks like, The final application or website is what it looks like.

Flutter

If you are listening to all kinds of music while you are browsing the Web at the front of your computer, the phone rings and in order to make it easier to pick up the phone, usually we have to struggle to find the pause button to stop the music playing. However, sometimes it may be because of these cumbersome operation and missed the phone. Flutter tries to solve the problem once and for all, and you can easily control the playback of the music by completing an egg gesture in front of the computer's camera.

Found

The file search engine is a search cloud storage or local file for Mac users, and the most attractive part is the ability to quickly and easily find the files you want.

When found runs, a small icon appears above the directory of the Mac computer. Double-click to enter your search request, found began to search the computer local and various network accounts on the file, once the similar requirements file, its search results will also give a graphical preview, so that you can more easily identify the file you are looking for.

Musixmatch

Musixmatch is a song through the lyrics search engine to identify the application of songs, claiming to have the world's largest lyrics database, with the major music distributors Sony ATV, EMI Publishing, Universal Publishing, BMG Rights, Kobalt Music works with Harry Fox agency. The company has recently released Spotify apps, allowing users to search for songs from Spotify's catalog by searching for keywords in their lyrics.

Musixmatch has more than 5 million users worldwide, covering desktops and mobile operating systems (IOS, Android, WP7, Symbian), and provides APIs for third parties to access their databases.

Cobook

Cobook is an "address book" Application of the alternative software, it completely put the "address book" unpleasant place to eliminate, so that the management of contact people become more efficient. First, it synchronizes with the existing Address Book database, so when you start Cobook, all your contacts are already there.

This is just the beginning, and it can do more than that. By associating it with your Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter account, it can import contacts into your social network. If data related to an existing contact is found, it is automatically added to the already contacted person. For example, if you add a Twitter account to an existing contact, Cobook automatically adds the link in that account profile to this contact. This is really too convenient.

Dragondrop

Drangondrop is a very interesting gadget, very useful for users who like to drag with the mouse. After you select a target file, drag the mouse to select the content range to copy, back and forth Flash Mouse, you will come out a gray Dragondrop file registers such a floating window, you will see your selected within the same will appear there, solve the drag and drop files when the inconvenience.

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