If you are like me and do presentations or training on a Mac you might like to try out these inexpensive applications to make your sessions rock! These are nice to add to your arsenal of Keynote or PowerPoint.

Mouseposé 2, $14.95 is OS X only tool for anyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest.

Keystroke visualisation lets your audience see the keys you press. This way they will understand your demonstration much better. Very useful for product demos and trainings.

Desktastic, $12.95 lets you take notes, visually demonstrate, draw stupid pictures, and much more!

Chartsmith, $129, Faculty: $99, Students: $65 - charting and graphing application for Mac OS X. Great add-on for Apple’s Keynote if you have a lot of charts to build.

Desktop Curtain, free - displays your favorite desktop picture just in front of your real desktop, so you won’t have to clean up each time you need to take a screenshot. And it’s really easy to control — just control + click (or right-click) on Desktop Curtain’s desktop picture to access its settings or quit.

Desktopple - Pro version is $17 - easily hides all of your Desktop clutter from your menu bar or the touch of a hotkey is all it takes, and those icons simply vanish from view.

Doodim, free - dim the background of the foremost application thereby enhancing its visibility.

FlySketch, $24.95 - When called upon, FlySketch will show its main drawing window above all other windows in the system. Change the transparency of the canvas, and you can trace, draw over, highlight, and capture just about anything that shows up behind FlySketch.

FotoMagico, $49.95 - makes the kind of slideshows that make Ken Burns envious.

Glance, cross-platform, $49 - desktop sharing tool for hosting live web demos, sales presentations.

Highlight, free - puts an invisible drawing sheet on top of whatever is on your screen, and offers basic drawing capabilities.

KeyCastr, free - is a small utility which displays the keys you press in a small floating window. It’s most useful for recorded tutorials and lectures, where the people you are speaking to cannot easily see the keyboard.

Magic Pen, free - simple application that gives you the power of a smart board to draw on top of content dispaling on your screen.

OmniDazzle, $14.95 - highlight certain areas of your screen, create visual effects, and track the location of your mouse pointer.

Paparazzi!, free - takes screenshots of websites which do not fit on one screen, displays a preview and you can save the screenshot to PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or PDF.

PhotoPresenter, $8 - easy-to-use and powerful slideshow viewer. It allows you to quickly present all your pictures and movies, and to create amazing presentations in just a snap.

PinPoint $10 - displays an image around or behind your regular mouse pointer so that you may find it more easily and your audience can see it better in training and presentations.

PiP, free - show video from any webcam on your screen as “Picture in Picture” which is ideal for live presentations, screencast recordings and education.

ProfCast, $59.95 - simple to use tool for recording presentations including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts.

ScribbleScreen, free - presentation tool allowing you to write directly onto your Mac’s screen.

ShowTime, free - how your current desktop to anybody by typing in your ip address into a web browser.

TiffanyScreens - cross-platform, free version and $39 licensed version - share presentations (or any screen content) with your peer group, without requiring a projector using screen sharing.

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