Features include:

• Easily control VLC from your sofa!
• Full browsing control on your computer (select any file on your computer to play)
• Stop, Play and Pause
• Full DVD controls
• Control volume, position, next track and previous track
• Turn fullscreen on and off
• Control subtitles, aspect ratio, audio track and delays
• Use the picker control for fine control of volume and position
• View the playlist and play files from it
• Easily access external drives
• Use landscape mode for more control and customize with skins
• Automatically looks for VLC players in your local network

Download and learn more about VLC Remote 5.0 Here!

Up first, Tylerc’s Chromifox.  Chromifox, as you may have guested from the name, is a coat of Chrome for Firefox.  It is a very clean and professional theme that is super intuitive and very nice to look at. If you haven’t given Chrome a try yet, this theme may perk your intrest. (also, give tylerc’s other theme Camifox a try if you dig Camino’s theme.)

Secondly, we have gigeher’s Purity. It’s simple and straight forward design make for a great clutter-free interface. It’s white design with light accents of blue make it a very stylish choice. This theme is still in beta but it is fully functional.

Rounding up the list is Spewboy’s Strata40. Inspired by Firefox 4, this theme is very reminiscent of the default Firefox theme but improvements have been made and it definitely trumps what is shipping with as the default now.

1. DaisyDisk (OS X) – With DaisyDisk you can free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. The program scans any mounted disk and displays it on the sunburst map. More…
2. Helios (iPhone/iPod) – Designed as an aid to Cinematographers and Stills Photographers working in natural light, Helios is essential to anyone who needs to plan a day around the constantly changing character of sunlight. More…
3. Papaya (OS X) – In my experience, Papaya has been the easiest way for me to turn my Mac into a dedicated file sharing hub. Papaya acts as a web server, sharing files through the HTTP protocol. This means that anyone with a web browser can download your files — no special software is needed on the receiving end. Files added to your library are served from wherever they’re located on your computer, so there’s no need to place them in certain folders. And since they’re all served from your own computer, there’s also no need to upload your files to any intermediary server. More…

“Satellite Flybys” turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into an indispensable, field-tested satellite watching tool. It tells you when spacecraft are about to appear (with a countdown clock!) and which direction you should face!

Features:

• A one week look-ahead schedule of flybys
• Active flyby alerts. Your phone will ring and prompt you to launch the app when a series of interesting flybys is in the offing.
• A flyby countdown clock. This really fun feature helps you know *exactly* when to look.
• Pictures and detailed information on each tracked object.
• Night vision mode. Watch the countdown clock and read more about the satellite flying overhead–without spoiling your night vision.

Sound interesting? You can pick up the app at over at Apple’s app store for $2.99

“Mailroom is the ultimate iPhone-Gmail integration suite, making native use of the Gmail iPhone web interface for both standard Gmail accounts and Google Apps for Business accounts. Mailroom integrates Gmail directly with native iPhone functionality including viewing attachments, local iPhone contact lists, etc.” - DaveMartorana.com (Developer)

One of Mailroom’s best features is the “TrueNew” new message count, which shows both actual new messages and unread messages in a split badge. Multiple account support works smoothly with both Gmail and Google Apps. In terms of UI, Mailroom is built on the Gmail web interface, so you can do anything with it that you can do with Gmail: folders, labels, stars and more. Plus, you get one of Mail.app’s best features: swiping a message to delete it.

Download and learn more about Mailroom here.

( Click here to learn more about Foursquare )

FoursquareX is an OS X version of the mobile foursquare app. Developed by Eric Butler and utilizing Snow Leopard’s Core Location service, FoursquareX is a perfect example of a great port. Slightly enhanced features and beautiful OS integration make using this app nothing less than fun and intuitive.

It’s functional and free so why not give it a try today! -

FoursquareX ( Requires OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard )

OS integration is being greatly improved as well. OS X improvements include a complete rewrite in cocoa which means a unified toolbar, native buttons, scrollbar, and multi-touch gestures as well as Growl integration.

• Opera’s core rendering engine has also been updated in 10.5 this upcoming version utilizes Presto 2.5 which features the most complete CSS 2.1 implementation (it even supports visibility: collapse which was missing until now), it also has the latest support for many of the new CSS3 and HTML5 properties.

• Opera 10.5 also includes a new graphics library, Vega,  which can be hardware accelerated for even faster page rendering. Vega was specially designed just for Opera and supports all platforms, phones to TVs and desktop computers alike.

What you’re downloading today is a feature-incomplete and likely unstable development build. Please handle with care! You can learn more about Vega and everything else that is new in Opera 10.5 by visiting the Opera blog.

You can download the Opera 10.5 pre-alpha here.

It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks, taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures to functions like Middle Click , Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons , Spaces , Expose, Dashboard etc.

MagicPrefs is an application meant to run in the background all the time hence it has no interface elements to get in the way and it uses less than 1% CPU and is optimized for a minimal impact on the system performance.

Requires: OS X 10.5+

Learn more about MagicPrefs here

Download MagicPrefs here