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
- 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
- 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
- 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 - $
- 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
) - 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
- 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
- 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 - $
- 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
- 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 - $
- 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 - $
- 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
- 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
- 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 - $
- 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 - $
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- MarsEdit - powerful blog publishing application - $
- Blogo - blogging tool - $
- Ecto - a feature rich desktop blog publishing client - $
- Folder QL - inspect a folder with Quick Look - Free
- BetterZip QL - inspect a zip file with Quick Look - Free
- Suspicious Package - preview contents of an installer package - Free
- Syntax Highlighting - syntax highlighting with Quick Look - Free
- FLV - preview FLV files - Free
- 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
- 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
- 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
- LittleWing Pinball - great little game for you Pinball addicts - $
- Klondike Forever - smooth and pretty solitaire game - Free
- Mine Swept - mine sweeper for mac - Free
- Quinn - arcade style tetris game - Free
I highly recommend 
). Thanks for the thread. I need to be re-updated with the latest applications for OS X.
Could you add some media players to the list? I mean media players along the lines of iTunes and windows media player which have library functions. I really don't like iTunes and Amarok (my player of choice) isn't for OSX until KDE4 comes out.
