Notational Velocity is a Mac desktop app that put simply, speeds up the writing process. With a little investment into how it works, thoughts can be put down in text form almost as fast as you can type. But its real killer use is in combination with DropBox (another service recently given the thumbs-up).

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As a Mac user, one feature I envied during a recent experience with Windows 7 was Aero Snap, which lets you resize windows to full screen or half-screen by dragging an open window to the top or sides of the screen respectively. Well, there’s a shareware app called Cinch that recreates this functionality on the Mac.

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Here’s a fun Mac app that will bring some year-end good news (or bad, depending on how you look at things): App Store Expense Monitor. It analyzes all the iPhone apps you’ve downloaded, lists their price, and adds up the total.

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ClickToFlash is a Safari add-on for that disallows Flash embeds from playing until you click on them.

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InstantShot! is a Mac OS X freeware program that does everything one could expect from a screen capture program and then some. If you find yourself reaching for Apple’s Grab and find it lacking, take the time to download and learn InstantShot! and you’ll never launch Grab again.

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I recently reviewed SuperDocker, a Mac OS X freeware program that lets you change the appearance of the OS X dock using various themes. Reader Mike suggested checking out CandyBar, a shareware program that also allows easy customization of the Dock but is a management solution for all your Mac icons. After a few minutes of using CandyBar, I think it’s a much better program.

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SuperDocker is a Mac OS X app that customizes your Leopard dock using “themes.” It also tweaks miscellaneous settings for the Finder, Dashboard, and Safari progress bar.

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The Netflix / Roku box just arrived, and after a mere half hour of playing with it, I’m blown away. It’s compelling, affordable, and above all, super easy to set up and use. It’s even better than the Apple TV in several ways, and that’s really something coming from me, a clinically diagnosed Apple fan.

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Sorry I haven’t posted much about tech in the past few days – holiday weekend and all. But I will share some ridiculously funny videos that had me laughing uncontrollably a few evenings ago. It’s of some nutty Japanese game show. Basically, contestants must contort their bodies to fit through a hole cut in a huge foam wall headed toward them. If they can’t do it in time, the wall pushes them into a pool of water.

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Here’s a site worth poking around on: How I Spent My Stimulus (check). Pretty much every tax-paying American is getting about $600 bucks from the federal government to spend as they please. The site has pictures and short anecdotes from people of all walks of life describing what they spent their money on and why.

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