Mac OS X Software List

[Dance.]

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

[osirisX]

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

[jooface]

yeah, i saw that on the list. but any other? there is only one app for archiving?

and what about file managers? Total (aka Windows) Commander-like file managers for Mac. And what about archivers which integrate to that file managers to use as easily as using TC + WinRAR on Windows (for example Alt+F9 for uncompressing).

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

Same dilemma as you, found this and kinda happy :)

[Southern Patriot]

yeah, i saw that on the list. but any other? there is only one app for archiving?

and what about file managers? Total (aka Windows) Commander-like file managers for Mac. And what about archivers which integrate to that file managers to use as easily as using TC + WinRAR on Windows (for example Alt+F9 for uncompressing).

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.

[.Neo]

Good Vibrations CSS

Basically Good Vibrations CSS is a Safari (Webkit) optimised CSS file which blocks advertisements, frame adverts, Flash adverts etc.

Download Webpage

Pretty good stuff!

[osirisX]

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

[.Neo]

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

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

[temple_treefrog]

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

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.

[.Neo]

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

[perochan]

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

[DrunkenMaster]

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.

[fukachu]

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.

[Quillz]

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...

[osirisX]

Dock Dodger.

[QuarterSwede]

Don't forget Saft, Safari Stand or PithHelmet!

[QuarterSwede]

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)

Edited September 30, 2007 by QuarterSwede

[b0se]

Kickass list - thanks.

[giga Veteran]

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.

[Wannes]

Cheers Giga. Insanely handy list for new Mac users.

[perochan]

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

[rajputwarrior]

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

[Creamy]

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

[skywalker]

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

[DanielZ]

May I suggest that you put Limewire on the list?

[XPTech]

password gorilla

ice clean

Edited February 8, 2008 by XPTech