Good, now all I have to do is get a Mac

If you love Pinball then you will love this app. Monster Fair is one of the best Pinball games I've seen.



Cost: 2980 Yen (Whatever that may be in your own currency).

http://www.littlewingpinball.com/contents/...f/feature1.html

http://www.springyarchiver.com/index.php

Same dilemma as you, found this and kinda happy

RarMe allows you to create and extract rar files on OS X (it uses the official command line tool from RarLabs, which is shareware). As for a file manager, you can check out XFolders.

Pretty good stuff!

I actually found that Good Vibrations was actually blocking images at both Neowin and deviantART

Yeah same here. Got rid of it again. Too bad, it seemed like such a good solution.

I started to notice that as well. It is updated monthly though, hopefully in a few months a more reliable build will be released.

Yeah who knows, I'll make sure to keep my eye on it once in a while.

any good application (freeware) to watch dvds (other regions too without changing the code) in my Mac?

I believe VLC will let you do that. Otherwise, you could use Mac The Ripper and remove the region encoding from the Disc.

VLC unfortunately doesn't seem to work on intel macs at least for that purpose. i have the latest build and on my macbook purchased in hong kong is not capable of playing australian dvds as the region setting is still set to hong kong's region. i saw this discussed in a number of places.. it seems to be a no go for many people with macbook pros as well. your second recommendation might be the only way to go.

Crosswire has finally seen a 1.0 release. I really like this app, it combines the lightweight Cabos with the elegance of Acquisition.

BTW... What is the application that can hide Dock icons? I'm using Namely and want to hide the Dock icon...

Dock Dodger.

Don't forget Saft, Safari Stand or PithHelmet!

A few more:

Chicken of the VNC (until Leopard comes out which includes VNC support)
Paintbrush (MSPaint/MacPaint alternative)
Stellarium (Fantastic Astronomy app)
Pacifist (extract individual files & folders from pkg, dmg, tar, tgz, tar.gz)

Kickass list - thanks.

Updated the list with brand spankin new software! Added some more categories to clean it up a bit.

Also updated the title to something more...apt.

Cheers Giga. Insanely handy list for new Mac users.

can Audio Hijack Pro edit songs or sounds and not just record sounds?

it's good that office 2008 is on there, it's great and universal!

Anybody got a mirror for the "Mini Battery Status"-Widget?

Freeware:
Safariblock (v2.1) - comparable to Adblock for Mozilla, this new version is great
Klondike Forever - best looking Solitaire ever
LoadInDock - shows CPU load
Textwrangler - free text editor
Wallpaper clocks - shows time & date on the desktop (great!)
Refresh Finder - small utility
muCommander - Norton style file manager
Psst - suppress startup chime
Rapidostart - program launcher
SimplyBurns - small CD/DVD burning suite

Shareware:
Amadeus Pro - great audio editor
Little Secrets - encrypt your private data
Photoline - graphics editor
RAW Developer - for RAW images, supports most cameras
Vector Designer - vector drawing program
Create - layout and web publishing software
Forklift - file manager and FTP client

May I suggest that you put Limewire on the list?

password gorilla
ice clean

Can anyone recommend a freeware alternative to Candybar? I'm looking to apply skins to my dock.

Yes. The DockDoctor comes in handy for that.

Are iContainer files only compatible with CandyBar?

No they work with other programs as well. There is a free alternative to CandyBar for icons that I know support it.

Do you know of any freeware that supports iContainer files?

I'm using LiteIcon to change icons.

According to their site LiteIcon does support iContainer files.

http://www.freemacsoft.net/LiteIcon/index.html

I'm trying to modify the appearance of the Dock, not the icons. When I open an iContainer file with LiteIcon, it tells me 'no icons are recognized by LiteIcon'.

This is the dock.

Anyone?

I might just buy CandyBar, it's only £14. Is it worth it?

^id say yes.

Yeah, I would say its worth it since the new CB integrates all the functions of Pixadex as well and its a great looking app too.

Not sure whether it has already been mentioned, but I just found Xslimmer, and it works great.

can anyone recommend free Mac defragment program? iDefrag costs $35 and demo wouldnt work on large HD.

Letterbox is great.
Gives Mail.app columns:

[itunes controls on the menu bar] just installed this incredible little app for itunes:
You Control: Tunes
Click to view attachment

i've been using this since synergix gave up on me. and this is free!!!!

Their main site has it hosted again.

I'd recommend VirtualBox for free alternative to Parallels or VMWare and it can be seemlessly ran. It crashes at times, but overall a good alternative that's free.

For developers that want a visual diff/merge tool, SourceGear is offering DiffMerge for OS X for free.

Great, thanks!

Anyone know of a good batch picture resizer/renamer for OS X? Kind of like Irfanview for Windows. Thanks.

http://manytricks.com/namemangler/

What about batch resizer? Batch rename isn't totally necessary, more emphasis on the resize part. BUT, it must also do individual resizes as well, preferably with a preview too. iZoom seemed good, if only it would work..

If you have Photoshop, that can do batch operations like that.

Otherwise, use Automator.

http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/ac...ue-entry-id-148

http://www.bioneural.net/2006/05/28/an-aut...batch-resizing/

http://www.ehow.com/how_2101532_images-pho...rogram-mac.html

+1 for Automator to resize pictures..Automator is really powerful.

Which will be a good Winamp like application in Mac for listening to music. I don't really like iTunes tbh

Btw the list is really helpful, i downloaded lots of applications.

Thx a lot guys