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Post #1 Jul 4 2007, 03:58


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Feel free to contribute and I'll add them to the categories. Most, if not all of these software should be Universal for PPC and Intel compatibility.

Internet Browsers
  • WebKit - nightly builds of the WebKit engine - Free
  • Firefox - the popular Gecko-based browser - Free
  • Safari - Apple's in-house WebKit browser - Free
  • OmniWeb - Fast WebKit based browser with many extras - Free
  • Shiira - Lite WebKit based brower designed as a Safari alternative - Free
  • Camino - Gecko-based browser designed exclusively for OS X - Free
  • Plainview - full screen WebKit browser - Free
  • Opera - Opera browser for OS X - free
Instant Messaging
  • Adium - Highly customizable multiprotocal instant messenger. - Free
  • MSN Messenger - Microsoft's MSN messenger designed for the mac platform - Free
  • Chax - Heavy featured add-on for iChat. A must-download for iChat users - Free
  • Mercury - an alternative java based MSN client - Free
  • Skype - the popular internet calling software - Free
  • Yahoo Messenger - Yahoo's chat service client - Free
Office/Productivity
  • iWork - Apple's strong attempt at office productivity - $
  • MS Office - Microsoft's Office suite for mac. Now Universal - $
  • Bean - free word processor/rich text editor - Free
  • OpenOffice - feature-filled office suite - Free
  • NeoOffice - free and opensource alternative office suite - Free
  • WriteRoom - for the ADD typist - $
  • Schoolhouse - must-have assignment organizer for students - Free
  • Scrivener - a writer's word processor - $
  • ShoveBox - handy note and information capturing app - $
  • OmniFocus - a professional task-management application (GTD) - $
  • OmniGraffle - excellent flow chart and diagram application - $
  • Journler - powerful organizing and note taking app - $
  • Sidenote - note taking app that sits on the side of your desktop - Free
Graphics/Design
  • Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, etc - $
  • Pixelmator - fast, lean, and stylish image editor - $
  • Gimp - open source image editor renown for its plethora of features - Free
  • Acorn - an easy yet powerful image editor - $
  • DrawIt - one window image editor - $
  • Fontcase - elegant font management - $
  • Pixen - pixel image editor - Free
  • iPalette - quick and easy way to find that perfect color whether in hex or RGB - Free
  • ImageWell - fast and simple image editor - Free
  • Aperture - Apple's professional RAW workflow app for photographers - $
  • Lightroom - Adobe's counter to Aperture for RAW workflow - $
  • GraphicConverter - all around image editor - $
  • Picaresque - quickly customize images to look pretty for the web - $
  • Seashore - open source image editor based on Gimp but in Cocoa - Free
  • LiveQuartz - great simple and free image editor (includes layers etc) - Free
  • Paintbrush - small bitmap editor - Free
  • PhotoLine - image and graphics editing - $
  • Raw Developer - raw image processing $
  • VectorDesigner - intuitive vector drawing application - $
Multimedia
  • VLC - the one stop "play anything" media player - Free
  • Perian - must have component for QT which plays a wide assortment of codecs/containers - Free
  • Bowtie - free and very flexible iTunes controller - Free
  • Flip4Mac - WMV/WMA components for mac - Free
  • Plex - OS X port of XBMC - Free
  • Handbrake - video converter and dvd ripper - Free
  • ffmpegX - open source video and audio encoding tool - Free
  • Xee - fast and free image viewer (animated gifs!) - Free
  • Max - high quality ripper with various codec support including flac, ogg, etc - Free
  • Audio Hijack Pro - record sound streams from almost any source - $
  • PandoraBoy - Pandora as a standalone application - Free
  • MacTheRipper - another alternative DVD ripper - Free
  • MPlayerOSX - the open source media player for OS X - Free
  • Audacity - open source audio editor - Free
  • Senuti - Get songs off your iPod (spell senuti backwards wink.gif ) - Free
  • Cog - a simple iTunes alternative - Free
  • CoverSutra - Control iTunes without touching iTunes with this slick software in your menubar - $
  • Amadeus Pro - powerful audio editor - $
  • Audial Hub - from the makers of Visual Hub, a universal audio converter - $
  • Podcast Maker - speaks for itself - Free
  • Voice Candy - photo booth for your microphone - Free
  • Delicious Library - catalog, browse, and share your books, movies, music, and video games - $
  • iSquint - ipod video conversion made easy - Free
  • Nice Player - great free video player which borrows Quicktimes codecs - Free
  • Exif Viewer - fast and free exif viewer - Free
  • You Control Tunes - access music library and itunes controls from the menubar - Free
Customization
  • Magnifique - theming for 10.5 - Free
  • CandyBar - system wide icon replacement and icon library management - $
  • Dislaperture - brings back rounded corners in Leopard - Free
  • Shapeshifter - theme changer for use with guikits (pre-10.5 only) - $
  • LiteIcon - a free alternative to CandyBar - Free
  • ThemePark - theme creation software for ShapeShifter - Free
  • Uno - system wide unified theme for your mac (pre-10.5) - Free
  • Visage Login - login screen customization - Free
  • Desktopia - wallpaper changer based on the time of the day - Free
FTP
  • Transmit - One of the best FTP clients on the Mac. Excellent UI and software design - $
  • CyberDuck - Fast and free FTP and SFTP client - Free
  • ExpanDrive - simple and quick SFTP/FTP client - $
  • FileZilla - excellent open-source FTP client - Free
  • Flow - pretty, leopard optimized FTP client - $
  • ForkLift - file manager and FTP/SFTP client - $
  • Interarchy - Advanced FTP client supporting many different protocals. - $
  • Fetch - Simple and fast (s)FTP client for OS X. - $
  • CuteFTP - OS X port of CuteFTP for Windows - $
P2P & Downloading
  • Transmission - a free, lightweight BT program. Based on the libtorrent library - Free
  • uTorrent - lightweight and native mac torrenting - Free
  • Azureus - nice large and feature filled BT program written in Java - Free
  • Acquisition - Gnutella client with one of the spiffiest UIs around - $
  • Xtorrent - Fast and slick BT client (by Watanabe) - $
  • Speed Download - download manager for OS X - $
  • BitRocket - free lightweight BT client also based on libtorrent - Free
  • Acqlite - a free, light alternative to Acquisition - Free
  • Cabos - fast and simple Gnutella/limewire client - Free
  • CrossWire - an elegant yet powerful limewire client - Free
Development/Editors
  • Coda - One window web development software made by Panic. Impressive UI that manages to be functional - $
  • Textmate - THE definitive text editor for mac - $
  • BBEdit - professional html and text editor - $
  • SubEthaEdit - a collaborative text editor - $
  • Smultron - a free and open source editor - Free
  • Taco HTML Edit - a free live editing html and php editor - Free
  • TextWrangler - a powerful editor designed for any coding or simple text editing needs - Free
  • CSSEdit - realtime CSS editing never looked so good - $
  • MAMP - MySQL, PHP, and Apache on your local machine - Free
  • XCode - Apple's own tool for developing software for OS X - Free
  • CocoaMySQL - MySQL database frontend - Free
  • Fugu - Nice frontend for SCP with external file editing (edit files "live" on the server over SSH) - Free
  • SSHKeyChain - Manage SSH keys and have them automatically loaded. - Free
  • Locomotive - Ruby on Rails development on your mac - Free
  • RapidWeaver - fast and easy web creation software - $
  • skEdit - text editor for focus on web design and development - $
Maintenance
  • Onyx - all in one system utilities and varoius mac tweaks - Free
  • Mac Pilot - tons of hidden tools and hidden features for your OS - $
  • AppZapper - removes extra preference and config files left over when uninstalling apps - $
  • Appcleaner - free alternative to AppZapper - Free
  • CleanApp - like AppZapper, except it deletes based on application monitoring, rather than keywords - $
  • iDefrag - advanced defragmentation of your hdd - $
  • Hazel - personal housekeeper for your mac - $
  • Tidy Up! - Searches for duplicate files and packages on your mac - $
  • WhatSize - See what's taking up space on your mac - $
  • OmniDiskSweeper - Free alternative to WhatSize - Free
  • Monolingual - Remove unecessary language files which take up space on your hdd - Free
  • Cocktail - general utlity to access system wide tweaks and utilities - $
  • Xslimmer - remove unecessary code from your apps to free up disk space - $
Utility/System
  • PathFinder - a feature-filled Finder replacement - $
  • Hardware Monitor - monitor almost every sensor in your mac - $
  • The Unarchiver - universal unarchiver for zips, rars, etc. - Free
  • TimeMachineScheduler - can change the backup interval of your Time Machine - Free
  • BetterZip - another archiving/extracting utility, similar to windows clients - $
  • 1Password - keep track of all your passwords - $
  • Find File - system searching by file name - Free
  • AppFresh - check to see all your software is up to date! - Free
  • MultiClutch - customize your multi touch trackpad gestures - Free
  • coconutbattery - all the info you need to know about your battery - Free
  • iPartition - intelligent partitioning without destroying data - $
  • UnRarX - expand and restore corrupt rar archives - Free
  • Pacifist - extract individual files & folders from pkg, dmg, tar, tgz, tar.gz - Free
  • TinkerTool - similar to Cocktail which provides additional preference settings for your system - Free
  • BitClamp - trusted strong encryption - $
  • iStats - system monitoring tool - Free
  • SecureFiles - create password protected encrypted disk images - Free
  • SpringyArchiver - a powerful and clean archiver - $
  • Chicken of the VNC - open source VNC client - Free
  • Psst - adjust the volume of the startup chime - Free
  • InsomniaX - disable sleep on your laptop - Free
CD/DVD Burning
  • Burn - light and efficient burner for mac - Free
  • Toast - "do-it-all" burning solution for mac - $
  • SimplyBurns - open source cd/dvd burning - Free
  • LiquidCD - another free cd/dvd burner - Free
Networking
  • Little Snitch - detects any outgoing connections and monitors them - $
  • iStumbler - find wifi access points - Free
  • KisMAC - a network stumbler for OS X - Free
  • PortMap - easy port mapping for your router - Free
  • Lighthouse - dynamic port forwarding utility - $
Misceallenous
  • Quicksilver - must-have extensible app-launcher and data manger - Free
  • Anxiety - an excellent little to-do app which syncs with iCal, leopard only - Free
  • Witch - Switch to different windows, not just different applications, open/close minimized windows - Free
  • Growl - system wide notification system extensible to many different applications - Free
  • WinSwitch - advanced fast user switching with a keyboard shortcut - Free
  • FFView - fast and efficient comic viewer - Free
  • File List - batch file renamer - Free
  • EverSave - autosaves documents in any program - Free
  • Awaken - excellent alarm clock and sleep timer - $
  • Paparazzi - makes full size screenshots of web pages - Free
  • Wallet - keep track of all your serials, passwords, and keys. - $
  • LightMe - instantly switch off your display with a keyboard shortcut - Free
  • Mactracker - detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made - Free
  • Sticky Windows - bring tab browsing to your desktop - $
  • Overflow - Keep your dock organized with this handy application organizer - $
  • Letterbox - Give mail a three vertical column look like Entourage - Free
  • iClip - multiple clipboard and scrap manager - $
  • SiteCrawler - website downloading application - $
  • Stellarium - a fantastic astronomy application, lean too - Free
  • iShowU - record anything from your screen to share with others - $
  • Jing - similar to iShowU but limited to only exporting to .swf, perfect for quick captures - Free
  • pzizz - like to power nap? can't fall asleep? pzizz should do the trick - $
  • Remote Buddy - add extra functionality to your remote - $
  • grabbICON - easily get the application icon without going through the whole package - Free
  • QuickShareIt - a fast and simple upload app - Free
  • Cooliris - previews of search results instead of links in your browser - Free
  • PicLens - online image viewer for sites such as flickr, google images, etc - Free
  • JumpCut - clipboard buffering software - Free
  • CoRD - remote desktop client for Windows servers using the rdp protocol - Free
  • Wallpaper Clocks - shows time/date on desktop - Free
  • LittleSecrets- utility to encrypt private data - $
IRC
  • LimeChat - simple, flexible, and eye pleasing IRC client - Free
  • Colloquy - highly regarded modern IRC client designed to complement OS X in feel and navigation - Free
  • Linkinus - newly developed advanced but clean client - $
  • X-Chat Aqua - feature rich port of the open source X-Chat IRC client - Free
RSS/Atom
  • NetNewsWire - One of the fastest and streamlined aggregators for Mac - Free
  • NewsFire - Created with design in mind. One of the slickest RSS readers - Free
  • Vienna - a fast and free RSS reader - Free
Backup
  • Carbon Copy Cloner - can make exact copies of a disk or selected files/folders - Free
  • SuperDuper - can create fully bootable backups of disks or files - $
  • Time Machine - included in 10.5 Leopard, simple and automated backup - Free
  • iBackup - simple backup utility - Free
Usenet/Newsgroups
  • Unison - Made by Panic so everything is extra smooth when browsing newsgroups - $
  • MT-NewsWatcher - free alternative to Unison - Free
  • Thoth - discontinued but still distributed as shareware - Free
  • Osiris - an add-on to MT-NewsWatcher/Thoth to automate posting - Free
Safari Plugins
  • Inquisitor - spotlight-like searching on Safari! - Free
  • Glims - adds a cocktail of features to Safari - Free
  • PithHelmet - a safari adblocker, make sure to whitelist neowin! - $
  • Saft - a Safari plugin with many extras - $
  • Safari AdBlock - Adblock for safari - Free
  • SafariStand - another Safari extra with loads of features - Free
Blogging
  • MarsEdit - powerful blog publishing application - $
  • Blogo - blogging tool - $
  • Ecto - a feature rich desktop blog publishing client - $
Quick Look Plugins
Menubar Extras
  • CoconutWifi - find open wifi hotspots from your menubar - Free
  • MainMenu - system cleaning and tweaks straight from your menubar - Free
  • MenuMeters - system monitoring and tools in your menubar - Free
  • Menuet - control iTunes through your menubar - $
  • Salling Clicker - control your mac with your phone or handheld computer - $
  • iStat menus - system monitoring in your menubar - Free
Virtualization
  • VMWare Fusion - run virtual machines inside OS X, noted for better performance and features - $
  • Parallels - competitor to VMWare Fusion - $
  • VirtualBox - Sun developed virtualization software - Free
Dashboard Widgets
  • iStat Pro - huge assortment of systems stats in your dashboard - Free
  • CharacterPal - keeps a handy table of easy to forget special characters - Free
  • Minutes - an excellent little timer widget - Free
  • Mini Battery Status - small widget to monitor your battery life with Growl alerts - Free
  • AirPort Radar - airport status showing open/closed networks and signal strength - Free
  • PEMDAS - an advanced calculator widget - Free
  • StopDashboard - stops dashboard with a simple click and restarts with a touch of F12 - Free
  • TV forecast - keeps an eye on all your favorite tv shows for dates and times - Free
  • DockDoctor - Easily switch between a 2D or 3D dock in Leopard - Free
Games
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Post #2 Jul 4 2007, 04:02


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Wow thanks for doing the 2007 update to this! This is seriously a mac users dream. There are a lot of applications in there that I'm tempted to buy but I'm waiting for OS X 10.5 and for applications to support that before I go buying a bunch of programs. Still plently of free ones for me to check out!
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Post #3 Jul 4 2007, 04:06


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Fantastic list, sir! biggrin.gif
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Post #4 Jul 4 2007, 04:14


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Its Back biggrin.gif

Great list thumbs_up.gif I highly recommend Growl!
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Post #5 Jul 4 2007, 04:40


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bitrocket for torrent!

http://www.bitrocket.org/
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Quote - (rajputwarrior @ Jul 4 2007, 14:40) *
bitrocket for torrent!

http://www.bitrocket.org/


I am waiting for uTorrent to hit the Mac Scene, but for now I am loving Transmission
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Post #7 Jul 4 2007, 07:57


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Pidgin as an IM client?
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Post #8 Jul 4 2007, 09:23


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you forgot mercury and skype

mercury http://mercury.to/
skype : http://www.skype.com/

I just can't live without them cry.gif
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Post #9 Jul 4 2007, 11:21


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A really hepful list. I'd add Isquint as well.
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iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X
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Post #10 Jul 4 2007, 12:25


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Very nice list, gonna try a few out that are new to me.
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I use the following and find them very useful on a day-to-day basis (and quick too):
- The Unarchiver: Archive unarchiver (Free)
- Xee: Image viewer (Free)

Some applications which I've tried in the past and I think are worth mentioning:
- Menuet: Menubar iTunes controller ($12.95)
- Remote Buddy: Remote control feature.. extender. It adds a lot of functionality to your remote which would previously had only been used for Frontrow. (19.99 €)
- Acqlite: Free alternative to Acquisition (Free)

Good thing I ran into this thread. I completely forgot about Shiira (I was following development of that until I stopped using OS X) and Vienna (looks better than Endo tongue.gif). Thanks for the thread. I need to be re-updated with the latest applications for OS X.

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You might want to add MT-NewsWatcher under Usenet clients. While it doesn't have the slick interface of Unison, it is free and has some features that Unison doesn't. A good companion to it is Osiris, which automates posting with either it or Thoth (another newsreader that has been discontinued, although it is still distributed as shareware).

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Quote - (PureLegend @ Jul 4 2007, 03:57) *
Pidgin as an IM client?

Adium?
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Post #14 Jul 4 2007, 19:11


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I am waiting for uTorrent to hit the Mac Scene, but for now I am loving Transmission


you aren't the onl one waiting for utorrent...

also for the life of me i can never get acqlite to connect for me.

I use cabos and i love it.
http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/

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Quote - (rajputwarrior @ Jul 4 2007, 15:11) *
you aren't the onl one waiting for utorrent...

also for the life of me i can never get acqlite to connect for me.

I use cabos and i love it.
http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/

Unfortunately, it appears that Acqlite has been discontinued in development. I read some comments and that was what is causing it not to connect. I forgot about Cabos though! That is also a great P2P application.
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