If you have a Pixelpost powered photoblog, you can use this handy little application to simply drag and drop photos straight to your site. You should think at this as our gift to you so enjoy it.

If you work with photos often, this application has the potential to save you some time.

It allows you to quickly manipulate pictures and then upload them to a .mac account, ftp server, or other types of servers.

Added upgrades include:

- Batch Image Processing (and batch upload)
- Multiple images on the Canvas
- More Draw Objects, Shapes, and Line Styles
- Gradient Patterns for Draw Objects and Backgrounds
- Templates for Saving Edit Attributes
- Custom Canvas Sizing

Changes Meter will keep an eye on any URL and let you know if the content on that page changes.

You know that we are big fans of using RSS feeds to keep up with websites. But not all sites offer feeds. With Changes Meter, you can enter any url and you’ll be notified if the page changes.

You can use the incredibly useful menu bar icon or you can keep an eye in the roster window.

Textmate is a popular and powerful text editor (not free) for which you can download a variety of plugins. Blogmate (free) is among the most functional of these plugins, allowing you to write and edit blog posts from within Textmate. It’s tested to work with WordPress blogs, but should work with any blog that allows XML-RPC publishing. If composing blog posts in a text box isn’t cutting it for you, try Blogmate.

One of the most convenient sites on the web is TinyURL.com. This site allows you you shrink a long url to a small one so that it is easier to email or post. TinyURL Service makes it even easier to use.

Once you have this service installed, you can select a URL in an email or document, run the service, and the long URL will be replaced with a “tiny” one.

If you are going to take the time to run a site you’ll want to be sure it all gets kept up nicely. You’ve got to watch out for broken links and moved pages. Integrity will help you out. Feed it your home page address (url) and Integrity will follow all of your internal links to find your pages, checking the server response code for all internal and external links found.

So take some time and check out your site. Just be ready in case you have some site-maintenance work ahead of you.

Gallery AV creates great-looking, customizable Flash photo and video galleries. Simply drag and drop your photos and videos onto the creator. Then you can put the result on your server and show off your photos. It’s very useful and easy to use when you want to put up some photos for friends and family.

They offer a nice batch of sample galleries to see what this program is capable of doing.

This app is probably best described by the reader that sent it in. Joe writes:

Forgedit (www.forgedit.com). At first glance, Forgedit is a standard old text editor without that many features.

But….lo and behold, this obscure program is (I believe) the FIRST and ONLY [free] Mac text editor to offer tabbed editing in the style of a web browser (the tabs are actual tabs, not a list in a drawer).

I know a lot of us text editor junkies out there have been looking for tabbed text editing for quite some time. Here’s the answer. And it’s free!

(I’ve heard from some readers that there are other free options for tabs in a text editor. That’s fantabstic!)

If the built in screen capture ability of Mac OS X just doesn’t do it for you, Copernicus has some great options. It’s great for taking many screenshots.

In addition, you can record short movies with this app. “A special feature allows you to save directly to RAM, increasing movie framerates significantly for shorter movies. This is great to demonstrate a simple action to a friend or colleague.”

(If you want to see the other options for capturing your screen to a movie, see my review here.)

TabStop does just one thing. It warns you if you are going to close a Safari window that has more than one tab open. No more accidentally quitting a browser that has a hundred great articles open and ready to read.

If you have tabbed browsing enable in Safari, you will appreciate this app.