For the remainder of the week, we’ll be running a series of “stocking stuffers,” under-US $100 holiday ideas for Mac users. And for even more gift ideas, check out
MacCentral’s holiday gift guide on Apple’s Web site.
MacCentral readers have sent in lots of software recommendations for this stocking stuffer series. The most suggested items have been:
BBEdit, the venerable HTML and text editor from
Bare Bones Software — and an application that MacCentral News Director, Jim Dalrymple, swears by; Conflict Catcher, a system management tool from
Casady & Greene — and one of the most popular of all utilities for the traditional Mac operating system; MacLinkPlus Deluxe from
DataViz — file translation software for the Mac; PowerTicker, a desktop stock ticker application from
Galleon Software; Retrospect from
Dantz — a popular Mac back-up solution and one that will hopefully come to Mac OS X soon;
Roxio’s Toast 5 Titanium — a tool for CD burning; Spring Cleaning, a collection of more than a dozen separate utilities from
Aladdin Systems that enable users of Mac Classic and Mac OS X to remove unnecessary files from their Mac’s hard drive; Suitcase 10 from
Extensis — a font management tool for Mac Classic and Mac OS X that just squeaks in under the $100 limit; TechTool Pro and Drive 10 — two Mac maintenance tools (the first for Mac Classic, the second for Mac OS X) from
Micromat.