Indie+Relief is not only a great way to help out with the relief efforts in Haiti — it’s also a great list of the huge vari­ety of indie soft­ware avail­able for the Mac. If you’re new to the Mac and haven’t dipped your toe into the huge ocean of great inde­pen­dently devel­oped soft­ware, this is a great place to start.

Buy any of the soft­ware listed today (Jan­u­ary 20th, 2010) and help out the relief efforts in Haiti.

Here’s a few of my picks:

• Acorn is a great alter­na­tive to Pho­to­shop and stands on it’s own as an image editor
• Billings is a great app to do any sort of billing out (free­lancers) in just about any field, not just web/design work.
• Bird­feed is an iPhone Twit­ter client that I’ve heard good things about.
• Deli­cious Library 2 is an amaz­ing cat­a­loguer of your stuff: DVDs, video games, books, toys, etc. It comes with a web cam bar­code scan­ner that is so fun to use.
• Ego is a great look­ing web ana­lyt­ics app for your iPhone that I’m try­ing very hard to resist buying.
• Fetch is one of the bet­ter FTP clients for Mac. If I wasn’t already a card-carrying Trans­mit fan­boy I’d be all over this one.
• iFart Mobile — just kid­ding. I can’t rec­om­mend this one. (What is that smell?)
• Instapa­per Pro for the iPhone. I’m so close to buy­ing this but haven’t used the free ver­sion enough to jus­tify it. Yet.
• Marsedit is a desk­top blog­ging app. If you’d pre­fer to write your blog with­out hav­ing to worry about the inter­net until you’re ready to pub­lish, this one is for you. Haven’t used it in awhile but con­tinue to hear great things about it.
• Nota is a tool for musi­cians, like me, who can’t remem­ber the major-4th chord of the 5th pen­ta­tonic scale when inverted in G-minor 7. Or some­thing like that. Haven’t bought it yet but only just heard about it.
• Post­box is an alter­na­tive to the Mac’s built in Mail pro­gram. I tried this out in Beta and loved the look and feel of it, I just couldn’t bring myself to switch.
• Soul­ver is, accord­ing to Marco, a great cal­cu­la­tor replace­ment for either your iPhone or desk­top calculator.
• Tapedeck is almost worth the $25 just for the user inter­face. It’s a great, sim­ple audio record­ing tool for your Mac.
• Tweetie is my per­sonal favourite iPhone Twit­ter client. Set the bar with ver­sion 1 and raised it again with ver­sion 2.

Any of your favourites that I’ve missed? Leave a com­ment with your feedback!

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