Enter Keeper. It’s available in the Mac App Store, and is free. Kind of. You can use the free version, but if you want some of the extra features (such as multiple device synchronisation) then there is a subscription fee. This fee is pretty reasonable (at $9.99 per device per year) and although I’m presently only using the trial version, I will be upgrading when that trial expires.

What does it do?

Keeper provides a secure repository for all your passwords/passphrases/pincodes. It’s primarily designed around website login details, and offers a space for the login URL which is an active hyperlink that when clicked will open your default browser to the page you’ve specified. It doesn’t appear to automatically login for you (which is largely to be expected since each site has their own idea of how login is done). All your passwords are stored in this one application which is protected by a ‘master password’. Whilst the OSX Keychain does the same kind of thing, keychain ONLY works for logins, doesn’t provide the ability to go straight to the site from the app, and doesn’t allow you to store passwords or codes from things that you haven’t previously visited. Meaning you can’t store your mobile phone PIN code in it. But with Keeper you can.

Keeper’s subscription version (of which you’ll get a free 30 day trial when you download the app and sign up) allows the synchronisation of data seamlessly across your various devices. This can be extremely handy if you’re out and about and someone gives you a password in a meeting for example and you only have your iPhone with you. It doesn’t matter, simply enter the details into Keeper on your iPhone and when you get back home they’ll be sync’d to your Mac as well.

The app automatically locks itself after a few minutes of inactivity so that if you inadvertently leave it open in the background there’s minimal danger of you walking away and someone approaching your unlocked computer to grab all your passwords. The data that’s stored on the filesystem is encrypted so that a hacker can’t just look at the data file and get your passwords from outside of the app.

Working on OSX, Windows, Linux, iPhone, Blackberry, Android, iPad, Windows Phone means that just about whichever device and/or operating system you’re working on at the time, there’s a version of Keeper that’ll be syncing your passwords between themselves keeping your passwords easily accessible to you, but not accessible to people who shouldn’t have access to them.

Another feature which I’ve not yet used, but actually looks like quite a useful utility is the username and password generator. Shown as small dice on the right of the relevant box, clicking this will generate a random username or password for you. This would probably be even better if there was a way to automatically supply this information to the website after you’ve clicked on the link, since the usernames and passwords it comes up with, whilst highly secure and unguessable, are also quite hard to type correctly. I suppose though you can always copy and paste – I’m just lazy.

It’s fair to say that the Keeper documentation says that automatic ‘copy and pasting’ of your username and password should occur when you click the link to open a website login page. It doesn’t work for me on OSX Lion (and I’m pretty sure it didn’t on Snow Leopard either).

Finally, if your device is lost or stolen, Keeper will automatically destroy all the data within itself in the event of 5 unsuccessful login attempts. This helps to ensure that if your device should fall into the wrong hands, the new recipient doesn’t get much of a chance to get all your passwords.

Overall, despite the auto launch not adding the usernames and passwords into the relevant boxes when you open a new page, I find this app to be extremely user friendly, and an almost essential part of my every day browsing requirements these days.

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UPDATED REVIEW

I’ve been using this program a while now and have been through a few upgrades and wanted to update this review to reflect the changes.

I like this software as it’s easy to use and its interface suits users with basic computer competency though it also allows for more specific options for advanced users.

The updated version now selects the right video title, which makes it easier for basic users to rip the right title.

All the main formats you could possibly need are provided as options: DVD to MP4, H.264, MOV, FLV, MPEG, M4V, AVI, QT(QuickTime) all with high quality video and audio. The DVD Backup feature allows you to copy a DVD to a single video file with original video quality and 5.1-channels AC3/DTS Dolby audio.

The updated version at the time of writing is 3.4.1 that rips any encrypted DVD to iPhone (including 4S, iPad & iPad2, iPod and iMovie. MacX rips all types of encrypted DVD and copy-protected DVD (removes DVD CSS, region code, RCE, Sony ArccOS, UOPs, Disney, etc).

It now also rips to a slew of popular formats: Rip DVD to MP4, QT, FLV, H.264, MOV, AVI, MP3, MPEG, M4V formats which are compatible with Mac OS popular applications like QuickTime and iTunes, iPhone/iPhone 4S, iPad, iPod, iPod Touch, Apple TV, Android, HTC, Samsung, XOOM, Galaxy Tab, PSP, etc. So you can watch the DVD movie on QuickTime player and portable player devices.

MacX DVD Ripper Pro runs on Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion.

When I first reviewed this software it took me 33 minutes to rip a one hour fifty-five minute DVD to AVI. The quality was excellent. On the standard default settings the file size was 1.4 GB

With the latest 3.4.1 edition it took just 24 minutes to rip a two hour and five minute DVD to AVI the file size was 1.8 GB on the standard default setting.

Features worth highlighting include:

• Extract background music from the video file by importing the DVD file, and select “to Music” button. You will be able to extract the background music as MP3 music file.
• Select your own Preview Snapshot.
• Set the start and finish time to trim the video if desired.
• Advanced users can have better control over how the software outputs video and audio
• The help PDF which answers all the obvious questions as well as allowing you to learn more about the advanced options by explaining what some of the ‘jargon’ terminology means.
• There are also well labelled screenshots that I always think adds to the user manuals helpfulness.
• Digiarty Software, the company behind MacX DVD Ripper offers a 50% discount off all their products for approved charitable organisations, provided they have sufficient proof. This kind of generosity always impresses me about a company’s decency.
• The program comes with free lifetime upgrade service for registered users.

The verdict

While there are many DVD ripping programs available, this program offers all the usual features. The interface is easy to navigate for novice or advanced users. $49.95USD is a fair price for this software considering it includes free lifetime upgrades, a rare incentive in most software packages.

MacX DVD Ripper Pro is also often on sale and sometimes free for the full version especially around the holiday periods including events like Halloween and Thanks Giving. You can’t have lifetime updates for the free versions but its still fair to have a full working version for zero cost.

I also like that it is updated to reflect the changes in portable device medias and added features and improved reliability and speed.

The final thing I like about MacX DVD Ripper Pro is since purchasing a few years ago I have always had excellent technical support from their company even across the holidays.

Additional Info:

There is also now a free version of this software with limited features but you can still back up or rip your DVD including protected copies to MOV, MP4, MPEG, FLV and iTunes. Visit MacX DVD Ripper Mac Free Edition

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The preferences pane, shown to the right, is quite simple and provides the ability to decide which areas MacCleaning Pro will clean old unused files from. The utility can also be configured (as shown with the slider bar at the top of the preferences pane) to alert you when there is less than a certain percentage of disk space remaining. This could perhaps be quite handy, or quite annoying depending on how close to the edge you have to run your disk!

I’m not at all convinced that the emptying of system and user caches is a good thing for performance, but I’m no expert in that field so it may not be a problem. Perhaps people could give me a better idea of that aspect in comments below?

An aspect of cleaning up that would be very useful would be to allow files / log entries newer than a certain date to remain. Or conversely to only delete files that are older than a certain date. When it comes to system logs, it’s fair to say there’s probably an inordinate amount of cruft in my system log and removing most of it occasionally is a useful thing. However, this utility just removes the entire log file, whereas I would like to have been able to keep the last 3 days worth of entries.

The menubar that comes with MacCleaning Pro is a nice touch, although the look and feel doesn’t really match the rest of OSX with the green bar. Having said that, the bar changes colour when you reach the disk threshold so I suspect they chose green to mean ‘OK’. It still looks a bit out of place somehow even with that in mind. Some artistic touch would definitely not go astray there to bring it more into line with other OSX icons and labels in the menu bar. The red highlighting that your disk is running low is good though.

You can see from the image that once again, simplicity is the order of the day. Clicking on the drive icon or the green bar brings up a menu which enables you to Eject All your mounted drives, open the Preferences or run a Fast Clean. We discussed the preferences above, and I’m not sure I see the point of an Eject All but then I don’t use many external disks or mount many DMGs, preferring to clear these up as I go if I do use them at all.

The Fast Clean option is the reason for this programs existence and to be honest, it does what it says on the tin. But if you’re expecting any whizzy bits to go along with this, you won’t find them. It cleans, it gives you a progress bar while it does it and that’s about it. I couldn’t even find anywhere that told me after the fact what actually been deleted. I was also quite concerned that I didn’t get any option to decide which (if any files) should be deleted and which shouldn’t. Though I understand that these options are set through the Preferences pane, I wasn’t brave enough to select the ‘Users Download Folder’ in there because I really didn’t want to lose ALL my downloads – even though there’s probably some junk in there that can now go.

Overall, sadly, the application just seems to be a little unfinished. It’s missing the polish I’m used to with Mac apps. I think that EaseUS have gone for a simplistic approach but perhaps taken that design ethos a little too far. There’s no duplicate file detection for example, which a lot of the other cleaners have (though most don’t make easy to use!). The lack of confirmation of which files to actually delete scares me (and says ‘unfinished’ too) and it would be a useful addition if the application would scan your Applications folder and present you with the ability to delete applications that you no longer use. Of course, that’s pretty straight forward on OSX anyway, so that may be why they haven’t bothered. It would be nice if this app were a ‘work in progress’ and more features were coming shortly – perhaps based on feedback from reviews even. If that’s the case, I’ll update the review to reflect that.

But, it is very simple to use, and it works quickly. It freed up 1.2G of space on my MacBook Pro, which I tend to keep fairly tidy anyway. It does what it says on the tin, nothing more and nothing less.

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This is even more frustrating if you’re on a Mac, because, unless you use the latest Microsoft Office which comes with a Mac version of Outlook, you won’t be able to open these files natively.

Fortunately, there’s TNEF’s Enough which will rescue you. It’s a little free application that you can use to open winmail.dat attachments and get to their contents. I’ve tested it personally and it enabled me to get to an Excel Spreadsheet that had been sent to me by an organisation that refuses to get into the 21st Century with their IT.

Whilst TNEF’s enough does work, and it works well, I find it a little less than intuitive to use. It’s quite possible that the way I would like it to run is not possible given the way Apple can be with their applications, but if it’s possible it’d be nice to have the application operate as a Mac Mail plugin that simply deconstructs the winmail.dat file in situ and doesn’t require me to drag and drop or save the attachment first. It’s a minor thing, and to be honest, I’m just glad I can get at the contents of a winmail.dat at all.

Ideally winmail.dat would die and no-one would need TNEF’s Enough, but until that day comes, if you need to open winmail.dat files, this is an easy to use solution (albeit with a couple of extra clicks that’d be nice not to have) and you can’t argue with the price – it’s free!

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ReviewMacSoftware would like to extend it’s condolences to the Jobs family – the extended family that is the Jobs’ and Apple. I can’t begin to imagine what they’re feeling today. All I can say is, I feel sad today as if I knew Steve personally. He was such a big personality in the IT world, and did so much amazing for the industry, the world will feel a smaller place now without him.

The world has lost a great innovator and forward thinker. I write this article on a MacBook Pro. Steve’s restoration of Mac has saved me (and my wife) countless hours of frustration, head banging, hand wringing and overall stress since we made the switch from PC to Mac. No amount of tribute here can express how grateful we are for that.

RIP Steve Jobs, you will be sorely missed, but never forgotten.

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I’ve also never been a big believer that using Disk Utility to ‘Fix Permissions’ was a necessary thing either – but let me put that one to bed right now. I ran Verify Permissions and discovered that I actually needed to run Verify Disk too. Doing this alone sped up the Mac and seemed to make it more reliable. But by now I had already downloaded MacKeeper and decided to have a look anyway.

The first thing that struck me was how fantastic their support team are. I contacted them about an issue and they had it resolved within minutes. The live chat function being extremely useful for me to get in touch with them, and of course means no expensive international phone calls required.

MacKeeper comes with a raft of features that make it very worth the $38 per Mac (depending on which version you go for) including an innovative anti-theft idea which uses the built in iSight camera of a MacBook Pro to take a picture of a thief and utilising wireless networking location features (if available) to assist with locating the MacBook and enabling you to pass as much info as possible to the police to help recover the laptop. Thankfully I’ve not needed to use this as yet! I don’t normally link to articles on the publishers website, but this one is just a bit too interesting not to. Have a look over here, after you finish the review!

One area that Mac users can often become a little complacent is that of Anti Virus. Everyone who uses PCs recognises that they need to use AV software in order to minimise the likelihood of their banking details being handed over to undesirable people – but most people believe Macs to be invulnerable. That’s a myth. Whilst Macs are considerably more difficult for the average ‘script kiddy’ to compromise, there are still some rogue applications and programmers out there and as Mac becomes more and more popular it’s likely that attempts to release viruses and malware into the mac world will also become more popular. MacKeeper comes with an anti-virus solution and at $38 for a year, that’s already about half price from the windows variants.

Antivirus Scanner in Operation

The anti-virus screen is fairly simplistic, but functional and has everything it needs to have (see screenshot linked to the right). My initial reaction to running a full system scan is that it appears to be insanely slow when compared to Windows antivirus solutions. I suspect it’s doing a fine job, and if you’re running it in the background it doesn’t seem to affect the performance of the machine (which Windows AV Scans can be susceptible to) but at the rate it’s going, it’ll take something like 4 days to scan my whole MacBook. I’m not sure that will be in any way useful so I may seek some feedback from Zeobit on this. Fortunately the antivirus scan continues in the background so you can still use other features of MacKeeper while it’s running.

Undelete Screenshot

Another potentially extremely useful feature of MacKeeper that I really wish I had last week is an Undelete tool. In my particular case, I needed to retrieve a Microsoft Word document that the Autosaver had saved, but because I stupidly said ‘No’ when it asked if I wanted to autorecover after a crash, Word (dutifully and correctly) deleted it. My original document was gone, and so was the autosaved recovery version. If I had’ve had this feature at that time I could’ve easily recovered my Uni assignment instead of re-typing it all!

Using the undelete feature is simple – choose the disk you think your file should be on and press the Start Scan button. MacKeeper will then scan that disk looking for lost files and present you with a tickbox list of the files it finds. It’ll also categorise them, although I’m not sure how accurate this categorisation is. Also, my scan failed with an ‘Unknown error occurred’ but that may be because I was still running the virus scan that I started hours ago. One thing to note here is that you cannot undelete a file to the same disk which seems odd, but not a showstopper. I assume you can plug in a USB key and restore your files to that disk instead though.

There’s a whole slew of other features under the title of Data Control but I’ve not had cause to use any of those as yet. One that I will be investigating (and possibly creating a new review for it, or adding to this one) is the Backup and/or ZeoDisk feature. But for now, I am leaving those alone as I want to move on to some of the other particularly useful features.

Under the Cleaning category – which is why I originally wanted MacKeeper in the first place – is the Binaries Cutter. This is an area of Mac that probably eludes most people because most people really don’t need to know about it. Before I can go into too much detail, some history is necessary. Back in 2006, Apple switched the hardware platform upon which Macintosh was based from PowerPC to Intel. In most areas that doesn’t cause too much of a problem because access to the hardware directly is forbidden by programs and any access to the hardware must go through specific operating system calls. But in one area there is a problem and that’s the machine code (the 0′s and 1′s) are specific to the processor type that a program is compiled for. Basically, PowerPC and Intel speak completely different languages so programs written for one can’t run on the other.

If that confuses you, don’t panic. It simply means that there’s two types of programs available for Macs. The old (legacy) PowerPC version, or the new Intel version. Fortunately, Apple are clever and they realised that people wouldn’t want to have to figure out which type of Mac they have, so they created a system they call ‘Universal Binary’ which essentially means that you have two programs in one for every program you buy. That means a Universal Binary will run on either the old PowerPC architecture or the new Intel architecture. That flexibility comes at a price though. Every universal binary has two sets of machine code stored inside it, and one of them will never ever be used. So if you’re an Intel Mac user, you’ve got all that space that’s been included for PowerPC users.

Binaries Cutter removes the un-needed portions of the Universal Binary, freeing up disk space (and probably, although I’m not entirely sure) making the program launch quicker since there’s less work for the Mac to do now that one of the program translations has been removed.

And on the note of translations, you may or may not know that your Mac comes with various languages installed – and applications themselves may well come with extra language translations stored inside them. This all takes up extra space, so if you can only speak 1 (or two, or even three) languages, you can clean a lot of space up by removing the various other language translations.

There’s a plethora of other useful utilities, such as the Disk Usage utility which shows you where your disk space is being used, the Duplicates Finder which finds duplicate files (surprise!) and allows you to delete the ones you don’t want. I didn’t find that particularly easy to decide how to use. In some ways I’d like it to just delete the duplicate files, but on the other hand, which one does it choose to delete? So I suspect some manual effort is required to go through and check out which ones to delete. But it’s a handy tool.

Another fantastic part of this toolkit is the Update Tracker which looks at the various applications installed on your system and then goes off (somehow) to find the current version available. If your version is older than the latest, MacKeeper will tell you and will also fire up your web browser to go and fetch the latest version! It’s like the App Store but for all the other apps you bought elsewhere. This on it’s own is also worth the $38 fee.

All in all, my skepticism at the value and necessity of MacKeeper has all but vanished. It’s very easy to use, it’s price point is well worth it, and it has cleaned up my Mac hugely, just with the automatic steps. If I could be bothered to go through the more manual stuff I suspect I could improve the disk space and performance of my mac even further. The only downside I found was the speed of the antivirus scan – which really is quite ridiculously slow.

MacKeeper is the app that you never realised you needed, but once you get it, you’ll wonder how your Mac survived without it.

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Then there’s the post processing software. Most people recommend PhotoShop if you can afford it, or perhaps the Gimp if free software is your thing. Both of these just about require a degree in photo image manipulation in order to achieve anything like satisfactory results. I simply don’t bother because playing with either of those packages just ruins my photos and so there’s little point.

But recently I was invited to try VeprIT Photo Sense with a view to putting a review up here. As an amateur photographer who’s trying to learn the finer manipulations I found Photo Sense was extremely easy to use. Indeed, it makes all the decisions for you. But as is the case with software that requires a human eye for validation, it doesn’t always get it right. In the examples I tried, most of them ended up not really being all that improved. Some of them were over lightened and made the people in the photos look like they were having some low blood pressure issues. In some cases the colours were just completely messed up.

Having said that, in some photos it did do quite a good job at improving the colours and even sharpening my poor focussing quality. One of the photos I played with was of a Border Collie and Photo Sense actually made a very good job of improving the photo. The Collie’s coat really shone after the post processing (and in reality it did too) whereas my photo looked dull and washed out. So clearly on some photos it can do a really good job.

It’s very easy to use, simply drag and drop the photos from either your Finder or even from iPhoto and within a few seconds Photo Sense had worked its magic and significantly improved the colours and fleshtones on the photo of my baby.

One mildly annoying oversight of the developers is the lack of support for standard OSX gestures from the Trackpad. For example, you have to click on a -+ bar in order to zoom in and pinching on the Trackpad doesn’t do anything. Three fingered swipes does move the zoomed in image around, I’m not sure whether that’s OSX making that happen or whether it’s Photo Sense. But pinching zoom would definitely seem a logical way of doing things.

If you don’t like the way Photo Sense has manipulated your photo you can adjust the processing options to some degree, but it seems to be very much a switch on or off facility rather than specifying actual changes.

All in all though, for someone who doesn’t want to learn all the different parts of PhotoShop and ends up making a muck up of it (such as me) it’s fair to say that Photo Sense can improve photos for you – and if it can’t then you can just leave the photo alone! It might also be accurate to say that if you use RAW images instead of JPGS (RAWs would have much more editing capacity left in them) then Photo Sense may well make a better job of them too.

For the 22 Euro price tag, Photo Sense is significantly cheaper than PhotoShop and does all the hard yards for you. If you’re an amateur photographer it’s worth a look. They provide a free demo version so you can check that it does what you want before you part with your 22 euros anyway.

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Adium is Instant Messaging software. It connects to the various IM platforms such as MSN/Live Messenger, AIM, Jabber, Yahoo, Facebook (that’s pretty cool), Twitter and a plethora of others, all at once, all within one application. So if you have multiple IM accounts (or even just one, for example at MSN/Live – but you also have a Facebook account) you no longer need separate windows open for each account you want to be logged in to. That can save you some serious amounts of screen real estate, and multiple bouncing dock icons when people want your attention.

It’s easy to setup, just enter the usernames and passwords of the various IM systems you use under the Preferences screen. I don’t recommend setting up Adium for use with Twitter – it’s Twitter support is nasty and I’d recommend using Twitter 2 for Mac by a long way. In a way I’m surprised they chose to opt for Twitter support at all, it’s not really an IM platform after all.

The various screens within Adium are nicely laid out (have a look at the screenshot to the left) and simple to use. You can choose between having all your conversations grouped in one window with tabs at the bottom to switch between them or each having individual windows. Adium supports emoticons, and even has a number of different emoticon collections you can switch between.

The interface itself is skinnable and comes with a number of pre-installed skins. I’m not sure if others are downloadable, I’ve not tried. An example is to the right.

Most IM systems support the concept of a current mood or ‘status’ and Adium will let you set your current status (often known as Availability) to a number of pre-set statuses such as Available, Away, Do Not Disturb or any custom status you choose. Setting the status once updates it across all IM systems you’re logged into if such IM system supports the status. I don’t believe the FaceBook status gets updated with this (which is probably just as well!). Adium also allows you to set your status based on the current music you’re listening to in iTunes which can be pretty cool – so long as you’re not listening to something you don’t want other people to know about!

Adium also supports file transfer across a number of platforms, AIM and MSN seem to be the best supported. Indeed I’ve received files across MSN in the past and so I know it works quite reliably. MSN transfers do all go via the MSN servers though, so sometimes they’re not as quick as they might be. I believe the latest version has made some changes to this, but I’m not entirely sure what those changes are – feel free to let me know in the comments below.

All in all, Adium is one of the best IM clients available (and beats most Windows clients in my opinion). If you use any of the IM systems Adium supports I’d highly recommend it. It’d be nice if it supported webcams for those IM systems that do, and perhaps voice conferencing would be a good feature too – such things are supported by official clients but are quite difficult for open source projects to integrate.

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Part of its success I believe is the simplicity. As a user I don’t care about Apple’s acceptance policies – and to a large degree I really don’t care about the developers at all – so long as the apps are available for my phone, they easy to install, and perhaps biggest of all, I can trust them. And with the Apple App Store I can – I know they won’t be installing spyware, trojans or other malware onto my phone, because every single app is vetted by Apple. So it’s simple, it’s safe, and individual apps are usually extremely affordable.

What does this have to do with Mac Software? Well the Apple Store is now available for Mac – provided your Mac runs Snow Leopard, which is a bit of a downer perhaps. I’ve installed (so far) two apps from the App Store for Mac. The new Twitter client (which I’m sure I’ll review one day here) and a free notetaking app called Evernote (again, probably due for a review here!). The process is just as simple on Mac as it is on the iPhone.

Browse the App Store by category, type, featured apps or a slew of other options. Find software you like, and then just like the iPhone you click ‘Install’ to install it. It downloads and installs with ease.

Which is all well and good if you’re a novice user, or (like me a lot of the time) don’t have the time or inclination to mess around with installers and ensuring that the program you’re downloading and installing is trojan and virus free.

But – as outlined at this article at LifeHacker there’s definitely some downsides to the approach. Most of them have to with the developers again, but they’re valid concerns. I won’t list them here because the article at LifeHacker is really concise and I have to admit, I tend to agree with their concerns.

But – if you like an easy life, check out the App Store. Don’t expect to be able to upgrade your existing software with it – you’ll need to install App Store specific apps to benefit from future upgrades. But it is handy for the free stuff

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Enter gfxCardStatus by Cody Krieger. This nifty little utility does what everyone expected OSX should do for you. It provides the ability to switch between the 9400M or the 9600GT, without logging out, without having to close any of your apps and without losing your workflow. Where were Apple? This is something that should have been provided as a standard feature – but fortunately Cody Krieger has rescued us.

I can’t tell you how great this little application is. It’s simple to install (as most OSX apps are of course) and it does exactly what it says it will, flawlessly on my MacBook Pro. It provides a little menu item up the top of the screen which shows an i for the internal video card (in my case the 9400M – in the case of newer MacBooks I’m led to believe this is an Intel chipset video card?) which when you click it, you get a menu that looks like the one on the right. Pressing the Switch GPUs option will turn your screen blue for a few moments while Cody works his magic and then everything will come back as it was and the menu will now show a small d in place of the i. (I assume that’s for ‘discreet graphics’?).

The preferences screen couldn’t be simpler, but gives you just enough power to do what you need. Power being the operative word here and this again is something that I’m amazed Apple didn’t just build into OSX. Perhaps they were too lazy. I digress, power – with gfxCardStatus you can finally tell your MacBook Pro to run the low power (and less speedy) card when on battery, and the full screaming, juice sucking guzzler when on the wall. Perfect!

If I had to fault the app, the only thing I’d like it to be able to do is hotkey the GPU switching – but really, that’s such a minor issue I’m not going to let it detract me from the overall score of 5/5 for the app.

One feature that would be awesome – though I doubt it’d ever come to pass, would be to be able to set which GPU would be used for certain applications. For example, in my usage scenarios, I just about always want to use the 9400M, except when I’m playing Eve Online or WarZone 2100. If there was a way to automatically switch to the 9600 when I click their icon to start them, that’d just about be the sauce on the awesomeness that is gfxCardStatus.

Our Score, 10 out of 10 for this application – if you’ve a Mac with multiple graphics cards, this is an absolute must have application.

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