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UnRarX

BetterZip [$]

Springy [$]

RarMachine [$]

Audio

Bowtie

Ecoute [$]

Vox

Cog

CoverSutra [$]

Nice Player

You Control Tunes [$]

Audio Utilities

Audio Hijack Pro [$]

Max

Audacity

WireTap Studio [$]

XLD

Fission [$]

Soundflower

Senuti [$]

Airfoil [$]

SoundSource

iRip [$]

expod

Amadeus Pro [$]

Podcast Maker [$]

Media Rage [$]

Backup

Carbon Copy Cloner

SuperDuper [$]

Time Machine

iBackup

Backuplist+

Blogging

MarsEdit [$]

Blogo [$]

Ecto [$]

Browser

Chrome

Firefox

Camino

OmniWeb

Opera

CD/DVD Burning

Burn

Toast [$]

SimplyBurns

LiquidCD

Customization

CandyBar [$]

Dislaperture

Aqua Extreme

LiteIcon

Change Desktop

FruitMenu [$]

WindowShade X [$]

Magnifique

Wallpaper Clocks

TerminalColoreopard

Cloud Service

Dropbox

CloudApp

Droplr

Dashboard Widgets

iStat Pro

iStat Nano

CharacterPal

Delivery Status

Minutes

App Update

Organized

Ding

PEMDAS

StopDashboard

TV Forecast

DockDoctor

Design

Adobe Creative Suite [$]

Pixelmator [$]

Gimp

Acorn

xScope [$]

DrawIt [$]

Pixen

iPalette

Picaresque [$]

Seashore

Paintbrush

VectorDesigner [$]

Review [$]

Development

Coda [$]

Textmate [$]

TextWrangler

BBEdit [$]

SubEthaEdit [$]

Snippets [$]

Fraise

CSSEdit [$]

MAMP

Xcode

Sequel Pro

Taco HTML Edit [$]

SSHKeyChain

skEdit [$]

Finance

Moneywell [$]

iBank [$]

Money [$]

CheckBook Pro [$]

FTP

Transmit [$]

CyberDuck

Interarchy [$]

ExpanDrive [$]

FileZilla

Flow [$]

ForkLift [$]

Fetch [$]

Gaming

Steam

LittleWing Pinball [$]

Klondike Forever

Mine Swept

Ambrosia Software [$]

Quinn

Primrose

Cave Story

Digital: A Love Story

Frogatto

iFactor

Nexuiz

Sauerbraten

Sequoia

The Battle for Wesnoth

Bioshock [$]

Black & White 2 [$]

The Deadly Rooms of Death games [$]

Halo:CE [$]

Insectoid [$]

Lux [$]

Pocket Tanks [$]

Prey [$]

Reactive [$]

Spore [$]

IRC

LimeChat

Colloquy

Linkinus [$]

X-Chat Aqua

Launcher

Find Any File

Easy Find

Quicksilver

Alfred

Google Quick Search Box

LaunchBar [$]

Maintenance

Onyx

AppZapper [$]

AppCleaner

GrandPerspective

CleanApp [$]

iDefrag [$]

Hazel [$]

WhatSize [$]

DaisyDisk [$]

OmniDiskSweeper

jDiskReport

Monolingual

Cocktail [$]

Xslimmer [$]

KFC

Camouflage

Menubar Extras

I Love Stars

CoconutWifi

MainMenu [$]

Notify [$]

MenuMeters

Menuet

Salling Clicker [$]

iStat menus

Messaging

Adium

Messenger for Mac

Chax

Trillian

Skype

Yahoo Messenger

Miscellaneous

Witch [$]

Growl

Soulver [$]

Cinch [$]

Google Earth

Kaleidoscope [$]

F.lux

Simple Comic

WinSwitch

Awaken [$]

Delicious Library [$]

CamTwist

Wallet [$]

Mactracker

Prey [$]

Apimac Timer [$]

Letterbox

Freedom

SiteCrawler [$]

Dropzone [$]

Stellarium

Celestia

Remote Buddy [$]

XNJB

Mouse & Trackpad

BetterTouchTool

MagicPrefs

jiTouch

SteerMouse [$]

USB Overdrive [$]

Network

Little Snitch [$]

iStumbler

KisMAC

PortMap

WiFi Scanner

AirRadar [$]

Lighthouse [$]

Office Suite

iWork [$]

Office for Mac [$]

OpenOffice

NeoOffice

P2P & Downloads

Transmission

uTorrent

Vuze

Leech [$]

Acquisition [$]

Speed Download [$]

jDownloader

Acqlite

Cabos

Photography

Aperture [$]

Lightroom [$]

iPhoto

Picasa

Bibble Pro [$]

Raw Photo Processor

Raw Developer [$]

Exif Viewer

GraphicConverter [$]

Productivity

Bean

Notational Velocity

WriteRoom [$]

Schoolhouse [$]

Scrivener [$]

Papers [$]

Taskpaper [$]

OmniWriter

Yojimbo [$]

Calibre

ShoveBox [$]

OmniFocus [$]

Today [$]

Remember

Anxiety

OmniGraffle [$]

Journler [$]

LittleSecrets [$]

Sidenote

Quick Look Plugins

Folder QL

BetterZip QL

Suspicious Package

Syntax Highlighting

FLV

Animated GIF

IPA

AVCHD

RSS/Atom

NetNewsWire

NewsFire

Vienna

Shrook

Safari Extras

Extensions Gallery

ClickToFlash

Glims

SafariStand

Screen Capture

LittleSnapper [$]

Skitch

TinyGrab

SimpleCap

Paparazzi

Snapplr [$]

Snapshot

Screencasting

ScreenFlow [$]

iShowU [$]

Jing

Screenflick [$]

Streaming

PS3 Media Server

Rivet [$]

Playback [$]

Connect360 [$]

MediaLink [$]

iSedora [$]

Twitter

Tweetie

Kiwi [$]

Twitterific [$]

Hibari [$]

TweetDeck

NatsuLion

itsy

Twitt

Echofon [$]

Usenet/Newsgroups

Unison [$]

MT-NewsWatcher

NZBVortex [$]

Thoth

Video

Perian

Handbrake

Windows Media Components

ffmpegX

EyeTV [$]

RipIt [$]

Fairmount

Subler

MetaX

MacTheRipper

Mpeg Streamclip

iMedia Converter [$]

Video Editing

iMovie

Final Cut Express [$]

Final Cut Pro [$]

Media Composer [$]

Premiere Pro [$]

Video Players

VLC

Movist

Plex

MplayerX

MPlayer OS X Extended

Virtualization

VMWare Fusion [$]

Parallels [$]

VirtualBox

VNC & Remote Desktop

Chicken of the VNC

JollysFastVNC [$]

Remote Desktop Connection Client

CoRD

Utility

Secrets

PathFinder [$]

Hardware Monitor [$]

Mac Pilot [$]

TimeMachineEditor

TimeMachineScheduler

1Password [$]

File Juicer [$]

Caffeine

AppFresh [$]

Lockdown

coconutBattery

iPartition [$]

Name Mangler [$]

Pacifist [$]

ClipMenu

JumpCut

TinkerTool

InsomniaX

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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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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 :p). 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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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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iStat Menus from iSlayer would be worth adding to the Menubar Extras section -

iStat menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system.

Take a look at some of the features.

CPU - Monitor cpu usage. 7 display modes, multiple core support.

Memory - Monitor memory usage. 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display.

Disks - Monitor disk usage and activity. 6 display modes, ability to hide disks you dont want to see.

Network - Monitor current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth, ip addresses . Ability to hide disks you dont want to see.

Temps - Monitor the temperature of your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.

Fans - Monitor the fan speeds in your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.

Bluetooth - Control bluetooth status plus monitor the battery level of your Apple wireless keyboard or mouse.

Date & Time - Date + time in your menubar. World clock display lets you see the time in multiple locations around the world.

Link: iStat Menus

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so i finally installed quicksilver and wow i can't beleive it toke me this long to discover how good of a program this is. Anyone got some tips or tricks to tell me about?

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Awesome :cool: 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.

/me bookmarks for when my MBP arrives.

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I think MPlayer/MPlayerOSX should probably be on there as a media player, I prefer it to VLC personally.

I used to use VLC myself until I discovered QuickTime 7 + the Perian plug-in. Now QuickTime can literally play just about every popular codec, from the obvious .mov to even .flv.

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