Tom’s Mac Software Picks

MenuEverywhere is a must-have utility if you use more than one monitor with your Mac. MenuEverywhere places a menu bar on each screen or window, so you no longer have to struggle with mousing from one screen to another, just to access a menu item or two.

This week's software pick from Elegant Chaos represents the company's return to commercial Mac software development. Neu is a simple little tool that allows you to create documents based on templates, directly in the Finder. With Neu, you can create a document exactly where you want it to reside in the Finder, as well as open the application that you will use to work on the document.

iStopMotion 2 from Boinx Software is just the set of creative tools you need to conjure up your own animated shorts (that's movies, not clothing). With iStopMotion, you can capture time-lapse images or take single-frame images to create stop motion animations.

App Tamer from St Clair Software is a must-have utility for mobile professionals who want to increase performance and extend battery run time on their portable Macs.