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Anxiety
Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.
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Bean
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that features:
- a live word count
- a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
- a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
- an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
- date-stamped backups
- autosaving
- a page layout mode
- an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
- an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
- selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
- a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
- easy to use menus
- remembers cursor position (excluding .text, .html, and .webarchive formats)
- all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
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Cover Stream
Control, browse and search you music, without interrupting your workflow. Cover Stream presents you with iTunes Cover Flow view in a floating, stylish window right on your Desktop, for quick and easy access from any application.
Key features include playlist filter, search filter, integrated songs browser, full screen mode, Last FM, Growl, Apple Remote, Apple-flavored bezels, inbuilt notification system, desktop artwork, global hotkeys, info bar, menu bar item, and much more!
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CSSEdit
Quite simply put, CSSEdit will save your sanity when editing style sheets. Its intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful editing features will make you deliver beautiful standards-based sites in no time!
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Desktopia
Desktopia is a customization concept for Mac OS X. Thanks to it’s very simple and unobtrusive interface you will be able to configure desktopia to automatically change your desktop picture based on a specified time of the day.
For example a beautiful sunrise at 7:00AM or a starry sky at 10:00PM. Just drag & drop the pictures that you have chosen on Desktopia’s window, set the time, and voilà! Like they say… “set it, and forget it!”
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DrawIt
DrawIt is an easy-to-use, powerful image editing and drawing application designed for the Mac. It features entirely non-destructive editing, live filters, powerful vector tools, a standard collection of basic shapes and also a clear and intuitive interface.
For Version 3.4, the interface has been given a major upgrade. DrawIt now makes extensive use of Leopard-only features and it shows. No part of the interface has been left untouched; Filters have been given a major overhaul and now look even better, and besides the standard layer-list, there's now a nice grid-view showing beautiful previews of individual layers and groups. Besides interface changes the Vector tool has also improved, allowing you to place points on a sub-pixel level.
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iChat
Apple's chat client supporting AOL Instant Messenger and Jabber Instant Messenger clients.
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Mail
Take control of your correspondence with Mac OS X Tiger Mail 2, now featuring Spotlight search technology. Find email instantly and accurately, organize messages using Smart Folders and share, save or view emailed images easily.
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Namely
Namely is possibly the fastest way to open applications. And unlike some other launchers, it doesn't require any learning.
You simply activate it using your preferred keyboard shortcut, start typing part of an application's name and see a list of matches as you type. Most of the time, one or two letters are enough. In fact, Namely learns your habits and makes your most-used apps even quicker to access over time. It's basically Spotlight for applications, only much faster, and highly addictive.
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Palantir
Palantir tries to guess the kind of file you drag and drop on it. Since it doesn't use the name or the HFS attributes of the files to do its job, it is particularly useful to guess the type of a file which have not been correctly named or typed. Palantir is in fact a graphical user interface to the 'file' command line utility.
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Sidenote
Sidenote is an advanced note taking utility. Designed to be a central piece of your digital life. It'll hide in the edge of your screen and be available whenever you need it. It's a powerfull, full featured, yet very easy to use sticky replacement.
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Smart Scroll
Smart Scroll (formerly Smart Scroll X) offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling:
- Super Scroll makes your scroll wheel or trackpad smoother, faster and more comfortable. And it lets you reverse scrolling on the Mac to match your iPhone. Try it!
- Grab Scroll gives you a Hand tool to easily move (and "throw"!) any window's contents.
Other features include Universal Scroll Keys that let you scroll from the keyboard, FileMaker Pro and AppleWorks enhancements, and more.
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Stomp
Got Video? Get Stomp!
Stomp started its life as an idea to be the ultimate video recompressor, and ended up something so much more powerful than that. YouTube, Google Video, iMovie… The list goes on and Video is a huge part of your online life. Ever tried to email a movie clip to Grandma? What, it’s 400mb for a short clip of your cat playing the piano? Well, that’s no fun at all (the file size, not the cat). Enter Stomp, where size does matter.
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Textmate
TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.
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yFlicks
yFlicks is a movie player based on Mac OS X's QuickTime Framework. But it's much more than that: yFlicks comprises a wide range of functionality, which previously required a slew of task-specific applications.
Most importantly, you can watch your movies just like you used to do with QuickTime Player. But in addition to that, yFlicks offers the ability to play videos in fullscreen mode, organize your videos in groups, search them, rate them, and browse them in preview mode.
Furthermore, you can easily download YouTube/Google/MyVideo videos, view them as flash videos (requires the excellent free Perian codec), and export them to other movie formats — e.g., for viewing them on your iPod.
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Zooom/2
Zooom provides users the ability to work with any application window using shortcuts for moving, resizing and zooming - which increases your productivity because it's much easier to focus on what you really want to be doing!
Instead of having to exactly pick out the grow-area (bottom right) of a window for example, you can resize any window by clicking anywhere inside it*.
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DrawIt Lite
DrawIt Lite is an easy-to-use, free and powerful image editing and drawing application designed for the Mac. DrawIt Lite has a few limitations compared to its bigger brother but has the same powerful vector tools, standard shapes, bitmap editing, non-destructive filters and Layer Blending.
Out of the box, DrawIt includes a large number of ready-to-use and easily customizable special shapes; circles, stars, rounded rectangles and polygons, as well as support for an unlimited number of nested groups, masks and custom overlays. DrawIt supports over 50, stackable, nondestructive Core Image filters. Individual properties can be freely edited, regardless how many filters have been applied. Filter properties can be readjusted and/or reordered at any time; the original object is never discarded.
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Address Book
Address Book provides a flexible and convenient way to store your contact information online. Because Address Book is integrated with Mail, iChat, and other applications, you have to enter information only once to have your contacts available from all these applications.
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Adobe Photoshop
The essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.
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aLunch
aLunch is a highly customizable application launcher which can be accessed from your menu bar and from a hot key activated launcher window as well.
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note: all recent versions are compatible with both os x 10.4 & 10.5. an older version for users still under os x 10.3 can be obtained through this link: http://mactips-lib.net/cgi-bin/lime/lime.cgi?085
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Apple Backup
Backup software that comes with a subscription to Apple's .mac service.
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AppZapper
Everybody loves the drag and drop nature of OS X. Drag an app into your applications folder, and it's installed. You'd think it would be that easy to delete an app - just a matter of dragging it to the trash. But it's not. Applications install preferences, caches, and other support files throughout your computer that take up space and generate clutter. Deleting these by hand every time you delete an app is a pain.
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BurnAgain FS
BurnAgain FS lets you change the content of your recordable media using the Finder. With BurnAgain FS you can mount your data CD or DVD like a harddisk volume and add files, remove files, even edit and change files. Then simply click "close" to burn your changes to the media.
You can do this multiple times with CDR, CDRW, DVD+RW and DVD-RW, without erasing, until the disk is full.
And you can even change the title of your disk prior to each burn.Disks burned with BurnAgain FS are readable without additional software on all platforms. BurnAgain FS automatically preserves your special Mac file attributes (resource forks) as well.
BurnAgain FS requires 10.5 or later and an Apple supported cd/dvd writer.
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CandyBar
CandyBar is the easiest, quickest and by far, the safest way to customize the icons found in the system and application toolbars of Mac OS X. CandyBar also lets you customize apps, folders, clipping icons, locations and even the OS X Trash icon!
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Console
Console allows you to examine the messages logged by your system and software.
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Dashcode
Ever wish you could make your very own Dashboard widget? A handy RSS feed of your favorite blog, maybe. Or a miniature photocast of your iPhoto library. Something uniquely useful, uniquely you. Say hello to Dashcode. Now you can get a widget up and running in minutes, even if you’ve never written a line of code in your life.
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Delivery Status
Can't wait for your packages to arrive? Don't waste your time checking the site constantly, just open this all-in-one delivery tracker and enter your order number or tracking number. The status will update automatically for you, and even count down the days! It also works with Growl to give you pop-up message, email notifications, and more, whenever your package status changes. If you have more than one order, just open another copy of the widget so you can keep an eye on them all at once!
Delivery Status lets you track your deliveries from:
- Adobe.com (US and Canada)
- Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.de, Amazon.at, and Amazon.fr
- Apple.com (including all international stores)
- Aramex
- Canada Post (Postes Canada)
- DHL (US and Germany)
- DPD
- FedEx and FedEx SmartPost
- GLS Germany
- Google Checkout
- Japan Post (EMS, Yu-Pack, Registered Mail, and Morning 10 Overnight Mail)
- Nintendo (US and Canada)
- Parcelforce
- Purolator
- Royal Mail
- Poste Italiane (Paccocelere1, Paccocelere3, Postacelere1, PaccocelereMaxi, and PaccocelereInternazionale), thanks to Claudio Procida of Emeraldion Lodge
- Posten (Norway)
- Posten (Sweden)
- TNT
- UPS and UPS Mail Innovations
- USPS (United States Postal Service)
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Disk Utility
Manage disks easily. Use Disk Utility to repair disks, erase them, create disk images, and much more.
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DVD Player
If you have an Apple-supplied DVD-ROM drive installed in your computer you can use the Apple DVD Player application to play DVD-Video discs. DVD Player 4.6 lets you play DVD Studio Pro 4 authored HD DVDs from discs and hard drives.
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Evernote
Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere.
- Create notes containing text and audio
- Find printed and handwritten text within images
- Clip application and web content directly into Evernote
- Synchronize with the Evernote Service and access all notes, even ones taken using other clients
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Finder
Your home on the Mac, Finder gives you lots of options for locating, displaying and organizing all your files and folders. From the power of Spotlight search technology to the flexibility of customizable item views, Mac OS X Finder truly shows your Mac at a glance.
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Font Book
Font Book is a powerful tool for managing fonts and font collections on Mac OS X
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iCal
iCal allows you to choose between viewing your schedule by day, week or month. And it's easy to find things on your calendar using iCal's powerful search feature.
iCal helps you organize your schedule by letting you create as many separate calendars as you need.
At the click of a mouse, you can easily subscribe to any number of public calendars available on the Internet.
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icns2icon
Makes '.icns' file contents visible in the Finder
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iPhoto
Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos you’ve been taking. Have fun with them. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse - so you can get the most out of even the biggest collection.
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iShowU
iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from any compatible source. Ever been in the situation where you wanted to show someone what was going on, but couldn't? Either the person is not right next to you, not around, in another country (the list goes on). Now just record what you're doing and what you want to say, and stick it in an email!
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iTunes
Download iTunes 7 and make yourself at home. Buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Play everything on your Mac or PC. Then sync it to your iPod and bring it along. Anywhere.
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Keychain Access
The Keychain stores all your information to use encrypted disk images and to log onto file servers, FTP servers and Web servers. Mac OS X automatically adds your .Mac account information to your Keychain. When you log in to Mac OS X, the system opens your Keychain. You don't have to enter your user name and passwords to access this data. You can set Mac OS X to lock your Keychain when the system sleeps or is inactive for a time. The system will ask you for your password the next time you try to access secure data. Other users on the system cannot access your Keychain or its data.
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Keynote
Apple's presentation program. Easy to use, generating drop-dead beautiful presentations of all sorts, from photography portfolios, kiosks, to scientific or business job interviews.
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LaunchBar
LaunchBar is an award winning productivity utility that provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your iTunes library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name.
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Mail.appetizer
Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple's Mail and integrates seamlessly. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window. It gives you a brief summary of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention.
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Mojo
Mojo (formerly known as Maestro) is a new way to share music. With just two clicks, you are ready to browse, play, and download music from other Mojo users on the Internet and local network.
Select a user to share with, and Mojo opens a browsing window. Songs you already have in your library are grayed out. Also, protected songs display in red. Check the checkbox next to the songs you wish to download. When your selection is complete, click one button and you're done. All the songs you have selected will be automatically downloaded and added to your iTunes library.
If manually choosing the music is too much work, try using the playlist subscriptions. Choose any playlist to subscribe to, and Mojo will automatically download and update the latest changes to that playlist anytime the other user is online.
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Numbers
Introducing Numbers ’08, the spreadsheet you’ve been waiting for — and already know how to use. Innovative, powerful, and intuitive, Numbers ’08 lets you do everything from setting up your family budget to completing a lab report to creating detailed financial documents.
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Pages
Apple's word processing/page layout software. Easy to use and relatively inexpensive (includes the excellent "Keynote" program in the price). Might not replace Word or InDesign but is terrific for making academic posters for conferences.
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Perian
Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.
With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:
Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
These formats when they are inside an AVI:
h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.
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Photo Booth
Photo Booth allows you to take images of yourself and friends using the built in iSight camera on your Mac, and changes the images with effects. This comes on all Macs with iSights.
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Preview
Apple's built in application that views many photo formats.
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QuickTime Player
QuickTime 7 makes the future of video crystal clear with new features including user-friendly controls and pristine H.264 video. Upgrade to QuickTime 7 Pro and capture your own movies, then share them with friends and family via email or .Mac.
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Safari
Safari offers you a superior Web experience with outstanding performance. Even the most complex of pages load at breakneck speed. In fact, Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac Web browser. But that's not all. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X to offer you an all-new view of the Web, one that's much easier to use.
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Skim
Skim is a free PDF reading and note-taking app for Mac OS X that is designed to make reading research papers and manuals better.
Just like in Preview, you can search, scan, and zoom through PDFs, but you also get some custom features for your workflow, like:
- Adding and editing notes
- Highlighting important text
- Making "snapshots" for reference
- Reading in full screen
- Giving presentations
and more.
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SmartBackup
Be smart - backup different.
SmartBackup is the ideal application to perform all kinds of daily backups to harddrives, network sharepoints, webDAV, usb sticks, iPods etc.
From a smart efficient document backup to a full bootable backup of MacOSX - SmartBackup is very easy to set up and straightforward. The tool supports the use of Spotlights "saved searches" as backup items or to define exclusion which makes creating dynamic backups (all protected iTunes files, all documents changed this week, etc) very simple. SmartBackup optionally archives deleted or changed items during each backup and keeps them sorted in an archive folder.
SmartBackup supports handling of multiple backup sets and can be automated using iCal, Automator or for the unix pros using it´t commandline mode and shellscripts.Features:
- powerful built-in sync engine
- straightforward interface
- backup presets
- backup/exclude saved searches
- archiving of changed/deleted files
- bootable backups
- multiple backup sets
- preserves important metadata
- schedulable with iCal or Automator
- commandline mode
- built in restoreLocalisations:
- English
- GermanSystem Requirements:
native on Intel or PPC Macs ("universal binary")
requires MacOSX 10.4 or later.
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Synergy
Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause; as well as providing you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune. Synergy can even automatically download and display the cover of the currently playing album. The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes, or access its Dock menu.
Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar. It provides you with ultimate control over iTunes even while you're working in other applications. The Synergy global menu provides you with quick access to recently played tracks and playlists, and the floater displays album covers and provides information whenever a new track starts playing.
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Terminal
Mac OS X's Terminal application.
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Transmit
Transmit is an excellent FTP (file transfer protocol), SFTP, and iDisk/WebDAV client that allows you to upload, download, and delete files over the internet. With the most Mac-like interface available, Transmit makes FTP as simple, fun, and easy as it can possibly be.
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VisualHub
Converting a bunch of AVI files to a DVD shouldn't require a Computer Science degree.
Getting movies from your digital camera to your iPod shouldn't take hours.
Wading through a sea of video formats shouldn't pull you under.VisualHub bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards, and people that just want to get the job done - just what you would expect from the Mac.
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Wallet
Wallet is the easiest way to store and organize your passwords, serial numbers, credit cards, and other important information.
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Xcode
Xcode is Apple Computer's integrated development environment for Mac OS X. It includes all the tools you need to create, debug, and optimize your own Universal applications, targeting both Intel and PowerPC platforms. At the heart of Xcode is a graphical workbench that tightly integrates a syntax-highlighting text editor, a robust build control system, a debugger, and the powerful GCC compiler capable of targeting both Intel and PowerPC regardless of host platform.
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Xtorrent
New bittorrent client from the guy who wrote Inquisitor and Newsfire. It has a slick ui, and is based on libtransmission, originally from the Transmission Bittorrent client.
