Essential Mac OS X Applications...
- Acquisition - Gnutella file sharing client
- Adium - Multi-protocol instant messenger client
- Address-o-sync - Sync multiple Macs without .Mac
- Amadeus - Great tool for audio enthusiast
- Audio Hijack Pro - Custom audio output filtering
- Backlight - Menu extra toggles screensaver as your desktop
- BurnX Free - Burn multiple sessions on CD
- Butler - Get more out of Finder
- CandyBar - Change your application and system icons
- Carbon Copy Cloner - Easy-to-use backup/cloning utility
- Chmox - An OS X native CHM file (Compiled HTML/eBook) reader
- Cocktail - Simplifies use of UNIX functions in OS X, and more
- Colloquy - IRC client
- CSSEdit - Visual CSS style editor
- DeepVacuum - Download entire websites
- Default Folder - Expanded functionality in "Save As.." dialogue boxes
- Deja Vu - Schedule regular file backups
- Delicious Library - Catalogue your books, cd's, games, dvd's
- Dimensionizer - Contextual Menu to display an image’s dimensions
- DeskShade - Hide desktop icons, terminal lock, and more
- Desktastic - Doodle on your desktop
- Dock-It - Add multiple multi-fucntion docks
- DragThing - An alternative to the dock
- DV Backup - Use your DV camera as a backup medium
- Evocam - Webcam application with built in web server, FTP, etc.
- FileJuicer - Extract images from Powerpoint, PDF, HTML, and CAB files
- Fink - Unix Ports for X
- Firefox - Open source web browser
- Fugu - An SFTP, SCP and SSH frontend
- Huevos - Customisable search engine helper
- HyperEdit - live previews of HTML and PHP pages
- iBank - Intuitive personal finance manager
- iBiz - Self-employed time billing manager
- iConquer - 1-to-6 player world conquest game
- iPodDisk - Utilize your iPod as an iDisk
- iRooster - Great free alarm clock
- iWipe - Secure disk and file deletion
- iZoom - Crop and resize your photos
- LiteSwitch X - Keyboard application switcher
- Little Snitch - Alerts you of outgoing network connections
- MacJanitor - Great tool for running & rescheduling OS X maintenance tasks
- MacMame - Multi arcade machine emulator
- MacSniffer - View all traffic on a network connection
- MacTheRipper - Go Ahead, Back that DVD up
- MacTracker - Database of all Mac models
- Mac Vim - The aqua version of Vim
- Mail.appetizer - Enhance Mail with this small but handy notification plugin
- Mplayer for OS X - Another great video player
- Net Monitor - Network throughput monitor
- Net Tool Box - Handy tool for the toolkit - for network issues
- NetNewsWire - RSS aggregator (If you're gonna use one, use NetNewsWire)
- Onyx - System tweaks and configuration
- OSXvnc - VNC remote control protocol
- PDF Browser Plugin - Allows web browsers to display PDF files
- Pixen - Pixel graphics editor
- Quicksilver - Application launcher and much more
- RCDefaultApp - Preference pane to set default applications
- Renamer4Mac - Rename files en masse. Useful for digital cameras
- SideTrack trackpad driver - Enhanced trackpad driver for Apple Laptops
- Simon Extreme - Classic Milton Bradley Simon game
- Skype - Uses P2P for phone-over-internet talking
- SubEthaEdit - Use Rendezvous for collaborative editing
- Synergy - Adds iTunes controls to your menu bar
- Transmit - FTP client
- Unison - Usenet newsreader handles messages, files, & media
- Virtue - Virtual desktop manager
- VLC - Play DivX encoded movies (and more).
- VoodooPad - Notepad with many advanced features
- Word Browser Plugin - Allows web browsers to display Word files
- xPad - Notebook/scrapbook supports drag & drop
- XRay - Expanded version of the Finder's "Get Info" window
- xScope - Suite of screen tools for UI designers
What would you add to this list?
I have used the Usenet client/browser Hogwasher for years. It’s full-featured, fast and easy to use. I’m not affiliated with Asar, the publisher/author, but a very happy user. I think it needs to be on more software lists. Here’s the URL:
http://www.asar.com/
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Oh most of the applications are open source and easily downloaded from the internet so this is the good news for the MAC users.
Thanks for these useful apps. It’s really helped me add some cool stuff to my mac!
Thanks for the posts! Will check all of them out.
It allows you to do chapters in your podcast and enhanced podcast. Supports PDF,m4v,mp4 and a few other formats. Deffiently a must for podcasters.
it also manges the .xml file for the podcast feed and it also designs the .xml ready for itunes.
Where’s Dropbox???
Best file-sync app ever!
An e-book(for electronic book also ebook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book.Such documents are usually read on personal computers,or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices.
iRooster is no longer free
Its a nice post regarding law and its values.I think its necessary to each and individual to follow the law and order.
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TagoMan2 tags files, emails, URLs.
Works nicely with Leap or any other OpenMeta compatible app
Renamer4mac seems dead. 404 when I visit that link. It would be useful to see when the list was updated last time.
Check out iCompta for a great, free, personal finance application:
http://www.lyricapps.com/iCompta/
Did someone say “Yojimbo” ?
...A two-day email thread of the most exasperating “customer” experience I’ve ever had on the www:
Submitted by: Lynn
I finally found Yojimbo for Mac OS X 10.4.11 at your site. It was difficult to find.
In trying to register it I could only find the link to purchase version 3.
Is there a price for the old version, how much is it, and where can I purchase a registration should I want to buy it?
Thank you.
Bare Bones Software Sales Department wrote:
Hello Lynn,
Thank you for contacting us.
Yojimbo 3 (the latest version) requires Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later, and we regret that old versions of the software are no longer available for purchase. We’re only making the software available to support existing customers.
I’m sorry we can’t be of assistance with this specific request, but if you have any other questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
Kerry
Sales and Customer Service
Kerry,
Just so I’m sure here….I read your reply to say that I downloaded the software from your site, am using it, am willing to pay you for it, am running OS X 10.4.11 and therefore CAN’T upgrade to your current paid product, had no warning that I would be denied use of your software after I had it downloaded and running—your own download site stating that it requires version 10.4, and that v. 10.4.11 is specifically recommended.“)—and you are now going to not allow me to use it?
I was up all night transferring the contents of my xPad and other files to your product and really beginning to like it. Now I’m told I must allow it to expire?
There is not a hint of such a policy at the download site or in the release notes. I just spent 10 hours converting my files to this software.
Sorry, but this is how your email read. Is this correct?
Hello Lynn,
Thanks for responding, and that is correct; we no longer have licenses for old (discontinued) versions of Yojimbo.
I apologize for any inconvenience. Please observe the notice at the top of the Yojimbo updates page does state that these updates are “... for all registered customers ...“, and I will also advise our web team to make the status of these updates clearer to avoid any further confusion.
Kerry
I call Kerry , explain more to her; she understands and asks me to write another email for her to forward to someone:
Kerry,
Would you please have this case reviewed by someone. Please have them
read my emails…this is causing difficulty for me through no fault of
my own. Circumstance is involved here.
Again, I am offering to pay for a registration. The software is
downloaded, running and I have transferred my files to it, involving
many hours of work.
Thank you,
Lynn
Hello Lynn,
As Kerry has described, Yojimbo 1.5.2 is discontinued and we no longer have any licenses available. Thus, I regret we are not able to assist you in this matter.
Sincerely,
Tom Green
Customer Sales & Service
My reply (excerpts due to space limitations here):
Unbelievable, Tom.
Kerry’s evasiveness on the phone today in regard to not allowing me to communicate with your General Manager, tell me who it is, and not divulging information to put me in touch with them made the outcome of this apparent. One gets the general impression things may be shady at Bare Bones.
What Kerry’s attempted quote from the site says is, in actuality….“recommended for all registered customers” which in no way conveys that others are banned from your product.
A simple statement, “This product is available only to customers who are current users and who have already registered” would have.
What your company has chosen to do here is appalling; stupid—a textbook “Don’t Treat Anyone Like This” for a Marketing 101 class. Someone there (you?) has transformed an eager potential customer into a crusader against your firm.
A single registration code to a single individual who downloaded your software (totally unaware of your policy that “we’re only making the software available to existing customers” because it isn’t clearly stated at the download site), and optimized it to their system for hours…and willing to pay for it.
Answer: No.
Not only have you lost a customer for life because someone there has decided to dig in on this, putting 10-12 hours of my time to waste…
Never have I experienced such a ludicrous “resolution” of an issue by an online store in 15+ years of using the web.
And please—no platitude, corporate gas reply to this stating “reasons.“ There are none. You could have allowed me to purchase a registration.
P.S., Tom…
Your Yojimbo 1.5.2 IS NOT discontinued. I downloaded it from your site and installed it two nights ago. It runs fine.
LYNN
Provided as a cautionary post for your readers.