Photolighting is a great digital photo enhancer software. The cost is $39.95, and you can download a free 30 day trial. It performs many functions such as retrieving and organizing photos, but I find the photo editing feature extremely valuable and easy to use. I always have a problem with back lighting in photographs.

This software offers a one click fix for adding a flash, correcting backlighting, enhancing color, red eye correction, cloning, and more. When you compare the cost to Adobe Element or Photoshop, the $39.95 for this program is a very good deal.

A quick list of my favorite free Mac downloads.

• Last.fm – The best social music network, expand your music sense by receiving recommendations based on your music taste.
• Screenshot Plus Widget – I use this daily, several different functions of the standard screen grab built into osx.
• Amazon Album Art – Fast and easy and accurate way to update your iTunes album art, one album at a time.
• VLC Player – Who wants to fork over $40 for QT Pro? not me! VLC does it all! Cross-platform media player and streaming server
• Linotype Font Explorer – It’s like iTunes for your fonts! Sort group, manage, expand etc.
• Firefox Developer Toolbar – Great app for web developers, intuitive and handy for even the novice web developer.

Plogue Bidule is a modular sound design environment.

It acts as a host for audio and MIDI plugins, as well as providing numerous building blocks of its own to help you create and sculpt sound. Bidule works on Windows and Mac OSX (both PowerPC and Intel), and hosts Audio Units and VST plugins. What really sets Bidule apart from the myriad other hosts is its ability to connect modules in any way imaginable: any plugin can be connected to as many others as you want, and Bidule will automatically mix and amplify the signal. You can connect a module’s output to its own input for feedback, split a stereo signal to two separate effects chains (or 10!), monitor audio levels and recombine everything and send it to a multi-track recording module to record your music direct to hard disk. Musicians looking to add some unique flavor to their sound will definitely find what they’re looking for. Bidule is also designed to work with MIDI, from distributing MIDI signals from several hardware controllers to multiple synths, to creating entire musical scores based on mathematic principles. The possibilities are so great, that Bidule can be a little daunting at times. But, thankfully, and in stark contrast to some other software, Bidule makes it easy to get started playing music without having to build everything from the ground up. Many tutorial groups are included to guide the user through basic connections, and some pretty weird ones are thrown in there for good measure!

One of the best aspects about Adobe InDesign is how easy it is to create nice, professional looking forms with ease.

However, the problem comes if you want the forms to be interactive (i.e., you want the user to actually be able to type into the form instead of printing it out and supplying hand written answers). Luckily, making interactive forms is easier than you may think! First, you will need to create your form using Adobe InDesign.

Design the form exactly how you would like it. Use the frame tool to draw empty rectangles where you want your user to be able to input information. Next, save your file as a PDF. Next, open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Professional. Now you need to add interactive boxes to your document. To start doing this, go to Forms > Create New Form… and follow the prompts. You will then get the forms toolbar added to your screen. That toolbar allows you to create input boxes on your interactive form. Finally, resave your document. You now have a PDF file that is interactive. Your users will be able to type in their information and print it out.

If you are frustrated about not being able to access any Flash based site from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, here is a good news for you.

CloudBrowse by AlwaysOn Technologies, Inc. is a wonderful software application that enables you to browse through flash based sites using your iDevices. Many iDevice users find it annoying that they cannot access or see majority of websites because Apple does not provide support for Adobe flash due to security concerns.

Now you can enjoy all flash based sites using CloudBrowse as it uses a remote server to process flash based sites and shows the resultant content in a format that is supported by your iDevices. One thing to remember is that, it makes browsing a tad slower, so you may find playing online games on your iPhone a bit sluggish.

If you are looking for a database development tool that has all of the bells and whistles for a low price then you need to consider TOAD by Quest Software.

This program is ideal for DBA, analyst, even the business power user because it is so easy to use and comprehensive. TOAD stays current with frequent updating by the vendor and Quest also allows free downloading for personal use. The thing I like most about TOAD is that it is multi-platform capable. Quest has a TOAD program for all of the major database platforms which allows you to learn one program for any platform you are administrating. I also like the query designer which uses helpers that auto load field names in your SQL and conditionals in your WHERE clauses. The connection wizard makes connecting to anything a breeze. No third party ODBC drivers or API’s required. I’ve use TOAD with MySQL, Oracle, and MS SQL Server. This tool blows any vendor supplied software away.