You’ve got a lot of important information sitting on your computer. You’ve got all of your contacts in your Address Book. You have pictures stored in iPhoto. You’ve even got a massive music collection that you’ve archived in iTunes. Unfortunately, you don’t have it with you. With Share, you can get to your data anywhere that there is an internet connection. Share puts a convenient web server on your computer. It can serve important files, stream music, search contacts, take notes, and much more. It even password protects all of this information so that only you and your trusted associates have access. With Share, your data is with you wherever you go. More…

Need a better way to store your bookmarks? Sure, you can file them away in several folders inside your browser but it is inconvenient to group similar bookmarks. If one bookmark needs to be grouped with other bookmarks, it has to be duplicated and put in each folder. What a mess! SiteTagger changes that. With it, you can import bookmarks from your favorite web browser, assign tags to them, and then create collections that group these bookmarks based on their tags. You can also browse the tags inside of SiteTagger, following them like a trail of breadcrumbs until you find the bookmark you need. Give it a try, you won't collect bookmarks the same way again. More...

So your Mac is your digital hub, right? With it, you can browse through a great collection of digital audio with ease, edit digital video and burn it to a DVD with aplomb, and even keep every detail of your life managed by syncronizing your PDA, your cell phone, your Mac, and even your iPod. But can you remember your aunt Edna's number? How about the number for that great pizza delivery place that you loved so much, have you set it to a speed dial slot? Which one? MacDialer is here to help. MacDialer is an easy to use and non-intrusive system menu item that uses your internal modem to make calls directly from your Mac. You'll never have to remember a phone number again! More...

Ever see text like this? "You know **text** like _this_." Did you know that text like that is in a format called setext? You can easily make out that the word "text" is emphasized and "this" is kinda underlined, right? Great, that is what setext is for! It is easy to read by humans, but it is also designed so that computers can read it too. That is what SEAR is for. SEAR reads setext documents and renders them so that they look much nicer than raw text. SEAR also provides an editor that lets you easily create your own setext documents without worrying about the syntax or pretty much anything else. If you regularly read or work with setext, then you'll want to check out SEAR. More...

That status bar looks a bit bare. It could use a little sprucing up. Spotlight is handy. MacDialer is handy. But you could use something a little more general purpose. Perhaps an all purpose calculator, internet search engine, applescript launcher, file creator, hmm? ActionItem provides all this and a bit more. Want to know the best feature? It's absolutely free! More...

Did you know that OS X comes with file compression utilities built in? Sure, if you have 10.3 you can create zip files from right within the Finder, but there are a few other compressions tools available as well. Compress lets you get at those other tools. Using it, you can easily convert files and folders to .tar, .gz, .bz2, and even .zip archives. Compress can also revert these archives back to their original files. Finally, Compress makes it easy with simple drag-and-drop for both operations. More…

Ever burn a roast? You know, sit at your computer, get involved with doing something, lose track of the time, and then realize much too late that your roast is toast. It would be great if there was some application that could count down the time and tell you when something is done, wouldn't it? Sure, you could look at other time-keeping applications, but Countdown puts the time at an easy to see place (in the status bar), is easy to use (with a simple, straightforward interface), and saves you some coin (it's absolutely free). Suddenly your ability to keep time allows you cook the perfect roast, turning you into a domestic icon! Just give FCS a thanks, okay? More...

If you work often in Word or TextEdit or some other styled text editor, you may have at one time needed to convert the document to HTML quickly so that you could show it to someone else. Well, if you are still looking for a quick and easy solution for turning simple styled text into web-standard HTML then RTF2HTML is for you. Just copy, click, and then paste the resulting HTML into an HTML document. More…

Smiley is a small application that makes it easy to add new emoticons to iChat and iChat AV applications. With Smiley, you can add prebuilt emoticon packs or create your own images and add them easily and quickly. You can easily change the image, name, or keys to existing emoticons and share them with friends. Smiley also enables you to import Adium and Proteus emoticon sets. As an open-source application, you can easily change Smiley to meet your needs or to see how to work with authentifying an application. More...

ACTs, SATs, GREs, heck, you may even just want to become more erudite. Whether you want to best a standardized test, increase your word power or just be a deipnosophist, VocabBuilder can help you quickly and easily memorize new words. More…

Applescripting is an wonderful feature of the Mac OS. With it, you can tie together applications and the operating system, automating your Mac. FCS makes several scripts available in hopes that they are of use to others and will inspire them to write their own scripts. Current scripts allow you to put your email onto your iPod to take with you, add functionality to TextWrangler, and convert your iTunes library into an HTML table for use on a web page. All of these scripts can be opened in script editor so that you can look at, change, or learn from the code. Go ahead and try 'em out. You may find them useful. More…