Alphabetized
AcidSearch AcidSearch is a search enhancement for Safari.
Anacron Mac OS X is underpinned by BSD UN*X; this means that Mac users, system administrators and developers all have access to a wide range of tools conventionally associated with UN*X systems.
AppleJack AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy.
Armadillo Armadillo is a Mac OS X Cocoa application for creating Mac OS X startup items.
BackLight
BatChmod BatChmod is a Cocoa utility written by Renaud Boisjoly for manipulating file and folder privileges in Mac OS X.
BluePhoneMenu Call and text message on your Bluetooth mobile phone... from your Mac.
Butler Butler's purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks. Butler lets you arrange these tasks in its fully customizable configuration.
Bwana A man reader for your browser
Camino Pretty browser
Carbon Copy Cloner Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it.
Check Failed Password Attempts This is a small application that parses the /var/log/secure.log file looking for failed authorization attempts.
CLIX CLIX ('command line interface for OS X') makes it easy to harness the power of Unix.
CocoaDialog is an OS X application that allows the use of common GUI controls such as file selectors, text input, progress bars, yes/no confirmations and more with a command-line application.
CursorZoom A System Preference plugin to control the cursor size
Cyberduck Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.
Desktop Manager an easy to use virtual desktop manager for OS X. I've put it up here in the hope that it will be useful to others.
DesktopCalendar is a little calendar application which changes your desktop into a calendar. It also shows today's date on the Dock or menu bar.
Desktopia is a brand new customization concept for MacOS X: if you are one of those that are always seeking for a new ways to improve the look of your mac then desktopia is the right choice.
dfontifier is an application that can convert Mac OS X-style Datafork TrueType fonts (.dfonts) into ordinary Mac OS 9-style TrueType fonts and vice versa.
Diablotin is a Preference pane which allows you to manage items which have been added to Mac OS X in the Library folders.
DiskSpy is a small program that acts as a software disk LED for Macs running Mac OS X.
DMG Packager allows you to read/write disk image, mount it, copy your files to it, set its window layout, add a background picture, compress it and add a licence agreement, all with a single button-click, without having to type out a single command-line task. The demo only allows you to package 20 disk images and 15 archives.
DockArt Eye-candy for iTunes in Mac OS X
DriveMonitor is a free utility for the Macintosh that allows you to easily view the status of all of the volumes mounted on your desktop.
EasyFind Think Mac OS X's Spotlight could use some help? Download EasyFind, an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight and find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing.
Ejector adds an Eject icon to the Mac OS X menu bar.
FileInfo changes the creator, type, and attributes of files or folders. Just drag files or folders to FileInfo to change them. Add your favorite applications to the default creator and type lists.
FinderIconCM Contextual menu plugin for MacOS X that let's you copy/paste/clear icon from selected items (volumes/folders/files) without opening Finder's Get Info dialog.
Firefox
FirstClassClient offers a unique set of integrated applications and tools that enable businesses and education organizations to create powerful online communities for communication, collaboration, and knowledge sharing.
FixDVD - AppleScript droplet that fixes DVDs to skip FBI warning, previews, etc.
Focus Did you ever wonder what your frontmost application is? You’ve just quit a couple, switched a couple of times with command-tab, and closed a window and now you’re not completely sure if its application was closed as well.
Free Ruler Guess.
FreeMind mind mapper. Features
fseventer graphically traces filesystem events.
Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP). SFTP is similar to FTP, but unlike FTP, the entire session is encrypted, meaning no passwords are sent in cleartext form, and is thus much less vulnerable to third-party interception.
G-Force G-Force is the most dynamic and sophisticated, yet entirely artistic, music visualization available - and it keeps getting better.
GasLight an iTunes Visualizer.
GeekBind give to you the possibility to register some HotKey in order to simplify the moving or others things of window (As on some Unix window manager like FluxBox).
GUI-Tar r is a wrapper application which acts as the front end to the 7za, tar, gzip, bzip2, uncompress, unrar, and unzip UNIX utilities.
HexEdit is a hexadecimal file editor for the Macintosh. The most widely used editor of its kind on the platform, HexEdit can handle file sizes of up to four gigabytes with ease, yet has memory requirements of less than a megabyte (with colour turned off). It can also compare files for similarities or differences.
iCrypt An application that encrypts files...
iBackup supports scheduled backups of files, folders and applications. Further, it uses plugins to backup your settings like the dock, deskop picture, time, firewall, bluetooth and other system preferences.
iHook is a graphical frontend for any commandline executable. It gives scripts a pleasant Aqua face, and allows script writers to provide graphical feedback without having to learn one of the higher APIs available for Mac OS X.
Imagine BootX A soft to change the boot image shown at the beginning of the Mac OS X startup by a custom color image.
iMol is a free molecular visualization application for Mac OS X operating system.
iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa.
KoalaCalc s a free scientific calculator for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9.
LCDTest is a small application to assist in common LCD adjustment tasks by providing test patterns.
LoginWindow Manager can be used to manage several hidden features of the loginwindow application.
LyricAll Displays the lyrics of the current song played in iTunes.
MacJanitor is designed to be used on a periodic basis by Mac OS X users who don't leave their computer on (and awake) 24 hours a day. MacJanitor is provided as freeware as a service to laptop and energy-conscious home users.
Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options.
Maintain1 The main purpose of this program is to provide a simple interface to run shell scripts in the terminal.
MemoryStick You can instantly see how full your RAM is getting.
MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS X.
Meteorologist is a free weather program for OS X.
Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X,
in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space.
Mouse Locator
Mouseposé is an essential tool for everyone 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.
MT-NewsWatcher is a Usenet news client for the Macintosh.
muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager featuring a Norton Commander style interface and running on any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris...)
NeoOffice is a complete office suite that gives MS a run for its money.
NetNewsWire Lite
NewsLife is an easy to use RSS news reader for your Mac.
OnMyCommandCM is a UNIX shell script and AppleScript executor. You can build your own Contextual Menu Item or GUI application.
OnyX It allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and of some of Apple's own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.
OSXplanet is able to generate live images of the earth as well as other planets in the solar system with additional informations such as the current clouds, storms, satellites, volcanos, earthquakes and times and locations of cities.
osxutils s a bundle of powerful Mac-oriented command line utilities for viewing, editing and manipulating file meta-data. The package contains 'lsmac', a popular alternative to the BSD list command, in addition to many other useful tools.
Palm Desktop
Pashua is a tool for creating native Aqua dialog windows for Perl, PHP, Tcl, Python, Ruby, Rexx and shell scripts as well as AppleScript. The GUI elements which can be used for such dialogs include text input fields (single-line and multi-line), checkboxes, radiobuttons, combo boxes, popup menus, open panels or buttons.
PDF Browser Plugin turns your web browser into the best PDF viewer available.
Pixture Studio some hot icons and wallpaperss.
Platypus is a development tool for the Mac OS X operating system.
Preferential Treatment this application will check your preference files (both in your user’s preference folder and the system’s preference folder) for corruption by using the “plutil” command line tool.
ProcessWizard is a menu hack that allows you to access to all the processes of your system (applications, background applications, user processes, non user processes) and to change their priority (Unix nice value).
psync a GUI frontend to psync by David Baker. If you hate terminal but still need what psync (and MacOSX::File) has to offer, go get one!
RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension and file type settings to choose the application when opening a file in Finder, while Safari and other applications use the URL and MIME type settings at other times for content not related to a file (such as an unknown URL protocol, or a media stream).
Senuti is a simple Mac OS X application for transferring songs from your iPod back to your computer.
SharePoints is an application or a preference pane that makes it easy to add and delete share points like in the old Finder.
Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari.
Sidenote tries to catch the “Stickies” spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right). You can use it to take all your daily notes, include images and easily modify text color and font. Sidenote will automatically expand so that you will be able to drag into it any picture, text clipping or pdf file from the finder or your favorite application. Sporting notes auto-saving, you’ll never have to save your notes. Sidenote will handle that for you. You can also print them or export them to rtf.
Sigma Chess Lite is a master strength Macintosh chess program for both OS X and Classic Mac OS.
SilverKeeper is a freeware application from LaCie that automates backups to external storage devices like hard drives, and other removable storage devices that have IDE, ATA/ATAPI, SCSI, USB, or FireWire interfaces.
SizzlingKeys control iTunes with
keyboard shortcuts
from any application.
Skooby Renamer is a utility for renaming files and folders. It has many powerful options for creating and formatting filenames and carrying out renaming operations.
SlashDock is a simple Mac OS X Application that fetches and updates headlines for the lastest postings on ATOM, slashdot-compatible and RSS sites (aka RDF) like BluesNews.com.
SlimBatteryMonitor is a replacement power gauge for Apple's Mac OS X that tracks both laptop batteries and many UPS batteries.
SmallScreenX is an indispensable tool for simulating screens of lower resolutions. It is particularly handy for web design, to ensure websites are usable for users with small screens.
Smell-O-Mints is a Periodic table of the elements for the Macintosh. It's not as full-featured as a lot of other Periodic tables out there, but it's free and looks very nice. Especially if you put it next to the coffee table by the ferns.
Smile adds the data visualization features to Smile, the automation environment by Satimage-Software.
Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful.
SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off.
Sogudi Configure your own shortcuts to search or visit your favorite sites using just a few simple keystrokes in Safari. Sogudi comes with several shortcuts included that allow you to search sites without waiting for their homes to load, saving you time and effort.
Spark A powerful Shortcuts manager that allow you creating and managing Hot Keys to launch applications, open documents, execute AppleScripts, control iTunes
StepMenus NeXTSTEP menus were (and still are) awesome.
SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean text editor.
SuperDuper! is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless.
Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all accessible temperature sensors in Macintosh computers
TerminalColors is a SIMBL plugin that patches Apple's Terminal.app to add a color picker to allow the user to edit the ANSI colors.
TextWrangler At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing text. You can use a text editor for a wide variety of tasks from cleaning up data, to editing configuration files on your Mac or server, to writing HTML or coding.
ThumbsUp is a simple, drag-and-drop utility, designed to create thumbnails for batches of images.
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
Tofu is a novel application to address the common problem that people don't like reading text on the screen.
Tri-BACKUP X Lite is dedicated to the automatic backup of data as well as entire disks. Just create the programmed actions you desire, and let Tri-BACKUP do the work.
Tweak Freak is a nice utility for the Mac.
Unicode Font Info is a font inspection tool designed for Mac OS X.
It includes full support for Unicode 3.2 allowing you to easily navigate huge fonts with tens of thousands of supported glyphs representing most of the languages and scripts in the used in the world.
UnicodeChecker allows you to explore and convert Unicode.
viJournal Lite is a lightweight freeware version of viJournal. It has most of the core journal-keeping functionality of the full version, minus some of the more advanced features.
Virtue is a Desktop Manager.
VLC Media Player
WhatSize is a shareware tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it
WhiteCap is a sleek and sophisticated music visualizer and screensaver that features futuristic, wireframe mesh visuals with dynamic backgrounds and colors.
Xfile is a completely Cocoa and Unix based file manager for the OS X operating system written for professional developers and system/network administrators.
XMenu XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar. They give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, and files.
XShelf enhances drag and drop in MacOS X by letting you "pause" drag and drop operations, as well as have multiple drag and drop operations in flight at once.
Youpi Optimizer is an application which enables you to delete resources localized in unused languages, and then free disk space. You can gain more than 100 MB of free space with a standard Mac OS X installation.
Web Browsing
Mozilla Firefox
The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes,
and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser.
Download
Camino
Based on the same Mozilla foundation as Firefox, Camino is a more native OS X app. Fast and simple.
Download
Video Player / Video Podcasting
Miro
Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than
quicktime). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one.
Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others.
Download
IM - Instant Messaging
Adium
Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a
single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber. Beautiful, themable
interface.
Download
Application Launching
Quicksilver
Quicksilver lets you start applications (and do just about everything)
with a few quick taps of your fingers. Warning: start using Quicksilver
and you won't be able to imagine using a Mac without it.
Download
Software packs
MacLibre
Installs a pack of great open source apps (including many on this) and keeps them updated for you.
Download
Email
Mozilla Thunderbird
Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
Download
Utilities
The Unarchiver
Uncompress RAR, 7zip, tar, and bz2 files on your
Mac. Many new Mac users will be puzzled the first time they download a
RAR file. Do them a favor and download UnRarX for them!
Download
RSS
Vienna
Very nice, native RSS client.
Download
RSSOwl
Solid cross-platform RSS client.
Download
Peer-to-Peer Filesharing
Cabos
A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.
Download
Transmission
Very nice torrent downloader.
Download
Running Windows Software on Macs
Q Emulator
Run Windows programs on your Intel Mac at near native speed. Works on G4 / G5 Macs too, but much slower.
Download
Podcasting
Video Playback
VLC
Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
Download
MPlayer
The interface and buttons are not as nice or as Mac-like in feel, but it may play even more video files than VLC.
Download
Perian
A plugin that allows quicktime to play additional video formats. (Included in Democracy Player.)
Download
iPod Ripping
Senuti
Get music off of your iPod onto any computer.
Download
iPodDisk
Copy music off your iPod in the finder, like a regular disk drive.
Download
DVD Ripping
Handbrake
DVD ripper and MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. Very simple to use.
Download
CD / DVD Burning
Burn
CD and DVD Burner. Burn any video to a disc that plays in your DVD player!
Download
Privacy
Vidalia
This
TOR frontend keeps you anonymous on the web using military-grade techniques. For use with Firefox see:
TorButton.
Download
Word Processing / Office Suites
Bean
Very fast and easy to use word processor. Live word count, autosaving, more.
Download
NeoOffice
Built on OpenOffice.org. Big, full featured suite of
tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with Microsoft
Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
Download
AbiWord
A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
Download
Wifi Scanning
KisMac
The best wireless scanner for Mac. Find wireless access when you're on the go.
Download
Sound Recording
Audacity
Simple sound recording tool.
Download
Graphics, Photo, Publishing
Seashore
Based on Gimp, but doesn't require X11.
Download
Xee
Fast image viewer and image browser.
Download
Gimp.app
Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features (requires X11).
Download
Inkscape
Vector graphics application (requires X11).
Download
Scribus
Desktop publishing. Complicated install, but a nice app.
Download
FTP / SFTP
Cyberduck
Very good all-around ftp program.
Download
OneButton FTP
Simple, fast FTP, with a focus on "advanced queuing".
Download
Fugu
Not as polished as Cyberduck (and only for SFTP) but has a side by side interface showing your files and the remote files.
Download
HTML / Text Editing
Smultron
Text / html editor. Integrates with Cyberduck for editing websites.
Download
Nvu
Visual tool for making websites (WYSIWYG html editor), comparable to Dreamweaver.
Download
IRC
Media Center
Centerstage
Full-screen interface for playing audio, video, and photos. Connect it to your TV.
Download
Note Taking
Freemind
An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.
Download
Personal Finance
Cashbox
Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances.
Download
Buddi
A personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background.
Download
MSN Chat
More Web Browsing
SunriseBrowser
Good webkit-based browser created with special tools for web designers.
Download
Seamonkey
Full-featured Mozilla browser, used to be called 'Mozilla Suite'.
Download
PDF Viewer
Screensaver
Electric Sheep
Immersive, trippy screensaver.
Download
More Filesharing
Tomato Torrent
Download torrents. Nice and simple.
Download
3D Graphics and Modeling
Blender
Powerful 3D Modeling software.
Download
MP3 Management
iEatBrainz
Fills in the correct metadata (title, artist, etc) for MP3s in your collection.
Download
Planetariums and Outer Space
Celestia
Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space).
Download
Stellarium
"Renders realistic skys in realtime." See what you would see if your city wasn't so light-polluted. Used in real planetariums.
Download
Also see: macORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis
Comic Viewer
Dance Dance Revolution
Stepmania
Dance Dance Revolution clone. Can connect to external dance pads.
Download
Games
Cube
Nice first-person shooter.
Download
Marathon: Aleph One
Engine for Bungie's free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play
with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps.
Download
Zombies
3D zombie strategy game.
Download
Armagetron Advanced
3D Tron game.
Download
Battle for Wesnoth
Fantasy / Strategy Game
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del.icio.us Client
Cocoalicious
Let's you easily post to del.icio.us.
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Free File Hosting
CC Publisher
Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader.
Download
Quick Links
Viewers Comic viewer: Comical
Comic viewer: FFView
OpenDocument viewing application: ODF Viewer
RSS and Usenet
RSS Reader: Feed
Cross-platform RSS reader: BlogBridge
RSS video podcast player: I/ON
Usenet Reader: OSXnews
IM, IRC, Chat
Multi-IM: Fire
Powerful IRC client: X-Chat Aqua
Videoconferencing client: XMeeting
PBX / Voip system: Asterisk
Graphics and Art
Draw on a moving canvas: Cosmic Painter
Image editor: Seashore
An artwork scaling calculator: Scaletron!
A Paint-like program designed for pixel-pushers: Pixen
A VRML/X3D Browser: FreeWRL
Video
Realtime Editing and Effects System: Jahshaka
Video transcoder: ffmpegX
MPEG convertor: MPEG Streamclip
Music and Audio
OGG Vorbis encoder (ogg is an open source audio codec): Ogg Drop
Music notation: LilyPond
Play and compose live music: Miraton
Max/MSP style realtime music and multimedia environment: Pd
Manage chords, lyrics, and projection: OpenSong
Wifi / Networking
Discover open wifi networks: iStumbler
A Prism/Prism2 driver 802.11: WirelessDriver
Fast, lightweight VNC client: Chicken of the VNC
VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse: OSXvnc
Utilities
Manage disk space: DiskInventoryX
Book management: Books
CD / DVD Burning: SimplyBurns
Disable sleep on a Mac: InsomniaX
Protect your laptop with a car-alarm style alarm: Multialarm
Remove extra languages from OSX to save disk space: Monolingual
System event notifications: Growl
System performance monitors: MenuMeters
Virtual desktop tool: Desktop Manager
Virus checker: ClamXav
Share mouse and keyboard between 2 or more computers: SynergyKM and Quick Synergy
Check available RAM: Memtest
Monitor CPU, RAM, battery, CPU temp, network, I/O, and more: X Resource Graph
Control your Mac via Bluetooth: Romeo
Writing and Typesetting
Screenplay writing and pre-production support: Celtx
Bibliography manager, BibTeX .bib format: BibDesk
Typesetting - TeX previewer for Mac OS X: TeXShop
Typesetting: iTexMac
Education
Education course management system: Moodle
Student information system: Focus / SIS
Another student information system: Centre
Programming
Development platform: Eclipse
SQL Editor: YourSQL
Math and Engineering
General purpose computer algebra system: Yacas
GNU S language: R
MATLAB style rapid engineering and scientific prototyping / data processing: FreeMat
Proprietary
IM - Instant Messaging
Adium
Why install three separate instant messengers when you can connect to
AIM, MSN, Yahoo and GoogleTalk in a single, beautiful app? Plus it's
100% free and open source. Everybody needs Adium.
Download
Application Launching
Quicksilver
Quicksilver lets you start applications (and do
just about everything) with a few quick taps of your fingers. Warning:
start using Quicksilver and you won't be able to imagine using a Mac
without it.
Download
Auto Update
AppFresh
Keeps all of your Mac applications up-to-date, automatically. Still in beta, but so necessary.
Download
Email
SpamSieve
Anybody who uses "Mail" for Mac needs this. After a
few days of training, SpamSieve will obliterate junk mail and leave
good emails unscathed. Free for 30 days, then worth every penny.
Download
Writing and Office
xPad
For most writing a word processor is overkill. xPad is the perfect
simple alternative. Your notes sit in a sidebar and save automatically
when you quit. Way better than stickies or TextEdit.
Download
Writeroom
A full-screen writing space that eliminates distractions. If you use your Mac for writing, you have to try this.
Download
NeoOffice
NeoOffice is a full-featured, office suite compatible
with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Plus it's 100% free and
open source. Friends don't let friends pay for Microsoft Office.
Download
Reading (e.g. books)
Tofu
Makes reading on your computer much more like reading a book. Drag or
paste text into Tofu and it arranges everything in crisp, classy
columns that scroll side to side (not up and down). Ergonomic reading
for Mac.
Download
Web Browser
Mozilla Firefox
The premier free, open-source browser,
considered by many to be the world's best. Clutch for sites that don't
support Safari. What sets it apart from Safari is the huge universe of
plugins and extensions.
Download
Camino
Based on the same Mozilla foundation as Firefox, Camino is a more native OS X app. Fast and simple.
Download
Software pack
MacLibre
Installs a pack of great open source apps (including many on this) and keeps them updated for you.
Download
Privacy
Vidalia
Rock-solid anonymous web browsing for everyone. This
TOR frontend keeps you anonymous on the web using open source software and military-grade techniques. To use with Firefox see:
TorButton.
Download
Todo Lists
Basecamp
This is web software, but it will become as central to your work
experience as any desktop app. Seriously, Basecamp will make you more
productive and change the way your organization works. Try it!
Webpage
Running Windows Software on Macs
Parallels
Run Windows programs on your computer in their own
window at full speed. You have a top of the line Intel chip; you
deserve it.
Download
Q Emulator
Not as polished as Parallels, but 100% free and open source. Lets you
run Windows on G4 and G5 Macs too (though this will be slow).
Download
Video
Miro
Miro can play any video format (much more than quicktime),
download torrents, permanently save videos from YouTube, and watch
video podcasts. Beautiful interface, 100% free and open source.
Download
VLC
Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Great for playing DVDs too.
Download
Video Ripping / Burning
Burn
Burns to DVD, VCD, and SVCD. Take your downloaded videos and burn them
to disks you can watch on regular DVD players. For VCD and SVCD you
don't even need a DVD burner. Free and open source!
Download
Handbrake
DVD ripper with MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. The simplest way to save DVDs on your computer.
Download
Peer-to-Peer Filesharing
Transmission
A rock solid torrent downloader. 100% free and open source (no annoying nags).
Download
xTorrent
Integrated search makes this an awesome Bittorrent client, and makes you very happy to have a Mac.
Download
Acquisition
Possibly the best, simplest filesharing client ever written. Never be without music.
Download
Graphics and Photo Editing
Seashore
"Photoshop" your photos without buying Photoshop. 100% free and open source, based on the open source image editor "Gimp".
Download
Xee
Fast image viewer and image browser.
Download
iPod Ripping
Senuti
Get music off of your iPod onto any computer.
Download
iPodDisk
Copy music off your iPod in the finder, like a regular disk drive.
Download
Telephone
Skype
Talk with any Skype user for free. Buy some credits and you can call
any number in the world, cheap. Perfect for when your cellphone is out
of batteries... or on the other side of the room, lazy.
Download
Alarm Clock
Aurora
Use your Mac as an alarm clock and wake up to your
favorite music. Wakes from sleep, so no need to leave your computer on
all night.
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Nintendo Emulator
Sixty Force
Trouble finding good games for you Mac? Then turn it into a Nintendo64! MarioKart works great, even on a Powerbook G4.
Download
Nestopia
Kick it old school with this NES emulator for Mac.
Download
Music
Ableton Live
For anyone who ever wanted to make a remix, DJ a
party, or play with beats. A great manual, good tutorials and a super
slick interface make Live so easy to learn. Free demo (hint: use
AudioHijack for saving).
Download
iEatBrainz
iEatBrainz automatically adds the right song, artist, and album info to your iTunes music. No more messy iTunes Library.
Download
Maps
Google Earth
The 3D map of the world that just gets better and better...and creepier. Total must-have.
Download
Wifi Scanning
KisMac
The best wireless scanner for Mac. Find wireless access when you're on the go. 100% free and open source.
Download
RSS Readers
NetNewsWire
The slick integration of tabbed browsing makes this RSS reader our top pick.
Download
Vienna
Very nice, native RSS client. 100% free and open source.
Download
FTP / SFTP
Transmit
The best FTP program for Mac.
Download
Cyberduck
Very good all-around ftp program. 100% free and open source.
Download
Utilities
The Unarchiver
Uncompress RAR, 7zip, tar, and bz2 files on your Mac. Many new Mac
users will be puzzled the first time they download a RAR file. Do them
a favor and download UnRarX for them!
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Colloquy
Great IRC client. 100% free and open source.
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