More free Mac software picks

Alarm Clock 2

Wake up every morning to your iTunes playlist without the danger of an app launching it and having a problem/update pending that prevents you getting to work on time.

Alarm Clock 2 also includes Timers (great for a quick 20 minute power nap) and Stopwatches alongside the normal one-off or regular scheduled alarm that will bring both you and your machine out of sleep ready for that early-morning email check.

AP Grapher

If you need to keep an eye on what your WiFi connection is doing AP Grapher can help a little by showing you noise and signal levels over time.

Quick tip: Hold down Alt when going to the normal Apple WiFi menu to see some stats on your current connection.

AppFresh

Keeping your apps up to date can often be a pain and until Apple extend Software Update out to third parties we’ll have to use alternative solutions.

AppFresh is much more reliable than the previous Software Update widget which I was previously using. It still has the odd problem recognizing unusual version numbering such as build numbers and beta’s but otherwise does a pretty good job.

Cyberduck

I’ve been using FireFTP for a while under OS X but as I find myself spending more and more time in Safari and less in Firefox I wanted a standalone FTP client that’s a little better than using the command line or Connect To Server disk-mounting option.

Thankfully Cyberduck comes in to play and apart from not supporting my favorite column-mode and no option to make default connections passive it does the job quite well.

Senuti

There are a number of legal and legitimate reasons for grabbing songs back off your iPod (hard drive crash, removing music from your laptop to make space, overenthusiastic parents and siblings cleaning up your machine…)

Senuti helps save the day by letting you get your tracks back off your iPod and onto your Mac.

SyncMate

I must confess I haven’t had time to try this yet but if you want to syncronize your Windows Mobile phone with your Mac and don’t want to pay up for MissingSync (or pay extra just to get Leopard compatibility, grrr) then SyncMate is your only option although how long it stays free beyond beta remains to be seen.

[)amien