Want to put a picture of that special someone on your desktop, but don't want to scare off the rest of the department? Photo Desktop allows you to put as many photos on your desktop how and where you want it.

Instead of deciding which photo you want to use as your desktop today, you can clutter your desktop with a lot of small photographs, on top of your desktop, but below the desktop contents, leaving the desktop fully functional.

Features:

• Works behind the desktop
• Drag-'n-drop capabilities
• Multi-monitor support
• Unobtrusive
• You can browse in your iPhoto library
• Universal, build for PowerPC and Intel processors

Download Photo Desktop 2.2.2 in Softonic

When editing, converting and even managing images on a Mac, the obvious choice can tend to be to use iPhoto, Aperture or Lightroom. GraphicConverter X is not as much in the limelight even though it proves to be a more than worthy alternative.

GraphicConverter X comes with two browsing views, which let you dig in deep in folders and find your pictures. The application can also convert pictures into any of the popular image formats out there. The interface itself is well structured and streamlines your workflow.

Although you may not find as many editing tools as in Aperture or Ligtroom, GraphicConverter X comes with a very wide list of filters and effects that you can place onto your pictures. These are all accessible from the menu bar.

GraphicConverter X probably lacks more advanced web and sharing features as you can only really send pictures by mail and create a rather basic HTML catalog. Considering that sharing pictures online is more and more common I would have liked to see more choices in this sense.

Thanks to a great interface, powerful and accessible features, GraphicConverter X is a solid photo application for managing, converting and editing your pictures.

Download GraphicConverter X 6.1.5 in Softonic

Cha-Ching is a fun and easy to use money manager, done Mac OS X style. A tag based database lets you organize and search for your incoming and outgoing transactions your way. With Cha-Ching, you can also organize pending transactions, so you can keep track of the the cash you owe the electric company as well as the cash others might owe you–and with iCal integration, you'll never forget a payment. Cha-Ching also offers fun little doodads you may have not expected–you can keep a photo inventory of your purchased items for insurance and tax purposes, or just for fun.

Download Cha-Ching 2.0b6 in Softonic

QuickScale excels at scaling your pictures to different formats and sizes via a single click, providing an easy way to make thumbnails for your website, for example. QuickScale also allows you to export these pictures to a ready-for-upload html photo-album via a single click (again). QuickScale can read all formats supported by your Mac OS, and export to jpg, gif, tiff and more.

Download Quickscale 3.6.8.1 in Softonic

DVD Snap can take snapshots of any movie playing in your Mac DVD Player. Because it's built specifically for this, it's much easier to use than a traditional screen capture application. Just configure the program, launch the Mac DVD Player and then take your shots. You can grab one image or decide to create a sequence, by setting the time interval. DVD Snap can bet set from 0.5 to 600 seconds intervals.

The application stores and numbers your shots, making them easy to find and exports to a number of image formats, including JPEG, PNG or GIF. The program window is very discreet and can be resized so it doesn't obstruct you when playing back the DVD.

DVD Snap works flawlessly with the Mac DVD Player, a huge plus but also it's only true limitation. We would have loved to see it being associated to any other media player and not just to DVDs, as you may want to take shots from other movie formats. That said you're sure to get an excellent image quality from a DVD.

DVD Snap allows to take unique or sequential shots from movies played in the Mac DVD Player. A discreet program with good settings.

Download DVD Snap 2.1.0 in Softonic

Photo Grabbr lets you get hold of photos found on Flickr. Know of a user who takes great pictures, or a Flickr group that you really like? Photo Grabbr can download their pictures for you.

Once you open the app, just select your search criteria from the drop down menu, then type either the user name, ID or group name. Photo Grabbr is a little slow at searching, but once found it will bring up a list of all photosets. Just check the ones you wish to have and press the download buttons. This can take a bit of time, as Photo Grabbr isn't the quickest of downloaders, and some photosets may contain a lot of pictures. Make sure you've configured your preferences right so you know where the photos are being saved. Once done, they're all yours! Just make sure the Flickr user allows you to make use of them.

Photo Grabbr will not allow you to download videos from Flickr, which are only a very recent addition to the photo site. Hopefully later versions of the program will.

Although a little slow, Photo Grabbr makes downloading any photoset from Flickr a snap.

Download Photo Grabbr 1.3 in Softonic

For me, the feature which best sums up the PlayStation's impressive multimedia capabilities is its membership of the DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance). This means that the PS3 can communicate and share content with a large number of other networked devices. And although Apple aren't members of the DLNA, several companies have been working to enable streaming of multimedia content from Macs to the PS3. Nullriver's MediaLink is the newest kid on the block.

MediaLink works in a similar way to its competitors, acting as a file server which allows you to stream multimedia files, including your iTunes and iPhoto libraries across your home network. Your PS3 detects the server, connects and the shared content shows up in the XMB (PS3 menu).

When compared with its competitors, notably Elgato's EyeConnect, MediaLink performs very well. I experienced no cuts in transmission or delays, and I was impressed to see better handling of iTunes artwork as well as video previews. Some DivX files which worked with other media servers weren't detected by MediaLink, which was disappointing. I think this was due to the files having the '.divx' format and I expect that this issue will fixed in time. That said, video playback generally works without issues, though image quality was not always as good as when using EyeConnect.

Browsing photo and music libraries is a breeze with MediaLink, though there are some interesting differences with competitors in the way that it presents the iTunes library. I noticed that EyeConnect always displays the iTunes library exactly as iTunes would (select an artist, then an album and you'll see tracks by that artist which feature on that album), while MediaLink seems to use a different indexing system (select an artist and then an album and you'll see all the tracks on that album, irrespective of artist) - this suggests that MediaLink is building its own index of files rather than relying on your iTunes library file.

MediaLink is a robust, reliable media server option for sharing content from your Mac to your PS3, and compares well to other apps in its class. Recommended.

Download MediaLink 1.59 in Softonic

Sandvox makes creating web sites fun and easy for anyone.

The colorful and friendly interface is ideally suited for beginners who want to learn how to make websites or simply want to post audio, video or photos in an easy way. You luckily won't start from scratch, as Sandvox offers more than 40 original and very diverse designs to choose from. Thanks to drag and drop and live text editing, you can create a good looking website in seconds. Use pagelets to structure your site in different sections.

Sandvox might sound like a web editing tool for beginners, but advanced users will also find it interesting. First of all, you can edit raw html to fine tune the site to your liking. The Pro edition also lets you add e-commerce elements, Flash and GoogleWebmaster tools.

To beginners, the most frightening process of web editing is probably uploading the site to the net. However, Sandvox helps you with a detailed setup to publish on the net. Similarly, sharing photos, audio or videos is as easy as pie.

With Sandvox anybody can create great looking websites and post photos, videos and audio on the internet in a snap.

Download Sandvox 1.5 in Softonic

The name says it all about Facebook Exporter for iPhoto. This application lets you work straight from your iPhoto library and decide which photos you'll share with your friends on your Facebook account.

All you need to do is select the photos you want to share and click on 'Export' in your iPhoto menu. In the Facebook Exporter window you'll first have to log in to your Facebook account, then select whether to create a new album or add the photos to an existing one.

What I liked in Facebook Exporter is that you can easily add captions to your pictures and tag friends. To do this just move the little square onto a person in the photo and type in their name.

Once your pictures are ready all it takes is to press the 'Export' button. You'll still have to open up your Facebook account though as the uploaded photos will only be set as pending, until you approve of them in your account. A good way of ensuring the right photos are uploading yet it makes the processing a little longer.

Facebook Exporter for iPhoto makes it easy to upload your favorite pictures onto your Facebook account.

Download Facebook Exporter for iPhoto 1.0.5 in Softonic

Managing files with the Finder in Mac OS X is pretty damn good in my opinion (certainly better than Windows) although that's not to say it can't be improved.

File Sheriff aims to do this by making file management easier and quicker than normal. For instance, it allows you to easily generate icon previews, rename your MP3 files based on their ID3 tags, batch-apply file attributes, edit hidden file options, amongst many other functions.

One of the simplest tasks it will help you with is renaming. File Sheriff is especially useful when it comes to renaming MP3 files that have not been labeled correctly. File Sheriff can automatically rename MP3s based on their ID3 tags (basically the name that appears in iTunes) so that the file name corresponds with the tag. In addition, it's excellent for finding and replacing files and folders which have been labeled wrongly or have gone missing (although Spotlight is as good as anything out there where this is concerned in my opinion).

In addition to all this, File Sheriff also allows you to create your own icons - you can take images and use them to represent your video, photo and other related files. The editor isn't exactly extensive but it allows basic icons to be made.

File Sheriff is an excellent tool for those Mac users who feel that Mac OS doesn't go far enough in helping them manage files.

Download File Sheriff 1.2 in Softonic

FFXporter is a little add on for iPhoto with which you can quickly export your photos to Flickr.

Now the Flickr Uploadr is usually the weapon of choice to upload and send your photos onto the Flickr online service. Yet with FFXporter you can export them to Flickr straight from iPhoto. Once the plugin is installed and you've selected the photos to upload to the web, click export from the iPhoto menu bar and choose the FFXporter tab. You'll have to enter your login username and password for Flicrk.

Although not as advanced as Flickr Uploadr, it lets you adjust a number of settings like the safety level, who can see your pics, content type, size and whether or not to hide from public areas. Once you're done setting up, just click export to send them to Flickr. This can take some time if you've selected a lot of photos.

You can organize photos by photosets, but unfortunately FFXporter only lets you tag photos with rating. In this sense, you'll probably have to enter Flickr anyways to add tags to all your newly uploaded photos.

Despite limited tagging features, FFXporter is a simple little plugin to upload all your pics from iPhoto to Flickr.

Download FFXporter 0.4.2 in Softonic

Cooliris delivers an immersive, full-screen experience for viewing images on the web. If you have an online photo account and if you use iPhoto and Safari, or if you enjoy photography, his is the program for you.

Currently Supported Sites:

• Flickr
• Photobucket
• Facebook
• Google Image Search
• Yahoo Image Search
• Ask.com Image Search

The free Cooliris plug-in enables you to:

• View photos in full screen with a single click
• Glide between photos from within full screen mode
• Play a slideshow of image search results and photo albums
• Browse online photos with your Apple® remote

Download CoolIris 1.8.0.4273 in Softonic

The Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin lets you send your pictures from your iPhoto library straight to your Flickr account. A number of similar applications have popped up all around, filling in a missing feature in the iPhoto application.

So what would make you choose Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin over another similar app? First of all it's free, and very simple to install. Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin is accessible from the Export section in iPhoto. You can start using it as soon as you are logged in.

Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin lets you set the typical restrictions, such as whether to show to only family or friends. You can also set the safety level and content type. An added security measure is to hide pics from public areas.

Note that Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin also lets you restrict image size in case you need. Your photos can be placed in existing photosets or new ones. Although you can tag your rating I didn't find an option to type in your own tags.

Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin is a solid program to send your photos from your library to your Flickr account.

Download Free Flickr eXporter iPhoto Plugin 0.4.1 in Softonic

Hydra makes HDR photography accessible to anyone.

Thought it was difficult to create HDR snaps without an expensive SLR camera? Simply looking for a simple tool to do some tone-mapping? The newly released Hydra allows you to take up to four photos of different exposure and match them to create impressive HDR snaps.

Drag and drop your pictures onto the screen and select the matching function from the drop down pane on the right. If you've taken all pictures with a tripod you can match them automatically. For most cases we suggest doing it manually though. You'll have to select different points on one of the pictures and with the zoomed preview screens at the bottom adjust all images until they're perfectly aligned. This can be a little tricky.

Once you've matched your pictures it's time to blend them. Hydra does this particularly well. Thanks to a little histogram view and sliders you can adjust your HDR image until it has all the shadows, light and detail that you're looking for. When that's done you can export your image to the Hydra format or Jpeg.

Hydra is very intuitive to use and has a very sleek, dark grey Leopard interface. The major downside though is that it only takes up to four photos, when you'll probably want at least five images to produce an excellent HDR photo. In all, we really hope that the good people at Creaceed also offer up Hydra as a Photoshop plugin, where it would probably be much more useful than as a standalone application.

Hydra is an intuitive tool to create HDR images out of images of four different exposures. Recommended if you want to learn tone mapping.

Download Hydra 1.6.1 in Softonic

Feel like cropping pictures? iZoom gets the job done. This little application lets you adjust a photo and focus on a specific area, to then crop out what you don't want.

iZoom comes with almost a dozen preset sizes, which for most people will be just what they need. These go from iPod Photo to thumbnail, desktop background or email portrait. Select one of the presets, load in your photo and adjust it. All you then need to do is crop.

You can also create your own custom cropping profile thanks to the size and quality tools at the bottom left.

These, and that is my general gripe with the program, are fairly limited. iZoom lets you crop photos but nothing more. The editing features are restricted and there aren't any more settings you can play on.

The applications is slightly limited, yet iZoom makes for a quick cropping tool.

Download iZoom in Softonic

Most multimedia publishing programs only allow you to publish one type of format be it photos, video or audio - Gallery Designer allows you to publish all 3 at once and does all the HTML coding for you.

Everything is explained and taken step by step until your gallery is online with no further effort required on your part. To get going, first of all you're asked which image files you want to upload. Secondly, you're asked what title you want to give the album and the layout parameters - how big, what style etc. Then, you simply click "Build" and the software whizzes into action building a perfect HTML gallery, complete with thumbnails, for publishing on the net.

Once ready, you are given detailed control over exactly how you want the gallery to look such as by changing the thumbnails to full image size, the titles, layout gallery style, border colors etc. If you see another gallery online that you like developed using Gallery Designer, you can even borrow that template or alternatively, design your own.

With support for for a wide range of video and photo formats and even support for text files, Gallery Designer takes the pain out of coding your own online gallery.

Download Gallery Designer 1.0.9 in Softonic

Slideshows are one of the best ways to add colour and life to a photo collection no matter what the subject matter.

Slideshow Magic is aimed at both home users and business professionals who want to impress friends or colleagues with their photo slideshow creations. Best of all, it doesn't require the viewer to have the program installed as all slideshows can be saved in any QuickTime compatible format.

The easy to use interface is somewhat like that of a video editor allowing you to add music or audio tracks either for the whole slideshow or just specific segments. You can add some impressive transitions and titles much in the same way as you do with Windows Movie Maker for example. The program also features a useful guide to help you get your photos online or burnt to DVD. However, unfortunately the program doesn't provide either it's own webspace or burner for uploading and saving photos. For uploading, you'll need an FTP client and web host and for burning, a third party burner such as Nero.

In addition, although it's a cross platform application, sharing with other platforms requires some form of network solution between clients (although this needn't be something complicated - a program like MSN Live Messenger is enough

Slideshow Magic is a relatively cheap but powerful way to get your photos either online or burnt to DVD.

Download Slideshow Magic 5.0.5 in Softonic

Geotagging is easily one of the more exciting recent technologies that we can work with. Thanks to the latitude and longitude data of your photos you can place them on a map.

Maperture is a nifty Aperture plugin which gives you geotagging features in Google Maps. It will automatically place pictures that already have the necessary EXIF data. For other pictures, all you need to do is select them, then find their location in Google maps and place a little tag there. If the tag is moved around then latitude and longitude information is automatically updated.

Google Maps is very efficient in some areas, like North America and Europe, and lesser in others. You might not always be able to locate precisely some pictures.

The plugin is easy to install and access from the Aperture menu.

Maperture is an innovative plugin to place your pictures from Aperture into Google Maps.

Download Maperture 1.0 in Softonic

iMedia makes it easier to browse all your media from one simple interface. The application can show your photos, videos, music and bookmarks found in your Mac's folders. The top of the interface shows the different folders, which you can open up via a drop down arrow to reveal subfolders. The main part shows a preview of all files in a folder. We quite like the sliding bar, which allows you to easily zoom in and out of files. You can also drag and drop any file that you wish to see in iMedia Browser.

We found that iMedia cleverly manages to unite all media files under one interface. And yet, we sometimes felt that browsing movies or music in the application was not all intuitive. For some file types it just seems more natural to browse from separate applications like iTunes for music. Because iMedia fits all your media files in one place, it can feel a bit cluttered. However some people will find this much more useful to browse through their files quickly and get preview of what is on their Mac.

All in all, iMedia Browser is a useful program to view all your media files from one place.

Download iMedia Browser 1.1.1 in Softonic

Vector drawing is almost an art in itself, and something that takes time to master. VectorDesigner is a good program both for those looking to learn all about and others who already have some experience with the technique.

VectorDesigner offers a simple, multi-windowed interface from which you can use all sorts of tools and shapes like rectangles, stars, polygons or bezier creations. Boolean tools offered by the program are easy to work with and let you combine your different shapes in all sorts of ways. Vector drawing is perfect for creating posters, stickers, t-shirts...anything onto which you can apply a design. VectorDesigner takes this into account and lets you constrain text to any shape.

The program includes many filters and compositions, however some effects will only work if you're running Mac OS X 10.5. One element we did enjoy was the Flickr browser tool, by which you can find images in the photo sharing site.

VectorDesigner gives anybody the chance to work with vector drawings and create great looking designs thanks to powerful tools and effects.

Download VectorDesigner 1.4.2 in Softonic