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  Camino

  The Camino Project has worked to create a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs on. The Camino web browser is powerful, secure, and ready to meet the needs of all users while remaining simple and elegant in its design.

  
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  ClamXav

  ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.

  
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  Cyberduck

  Cyberduck is a open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

  
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  Missing Sync for Palm OS

  Your cool Palm OS device needs the best sync software to truly unlock its potential. That software is The Missing Sync for Palm OS. Designed from the ground up to support the latest Palm OS devices and Apple technologies, The Missing Sync for Palm OS provides everything you need to be more productive and keep on top of your day. Read on to see what you're missing without it.

  
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  Smultron

  Smultron is an open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X with many of the features that you need. You can easily work with many documents and select one quickly in a list.

  
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  The Missing Sync for Palm OS

  Your cool Palm OS device needs the best sync software to truly unlock its potential. That software is The Missing Sync for Palm OS. Designed from the ground up to support the latest Palm OS devices and Apple technologies, The Missing Sync for Palm OS provides everything you need to be more productive and keep on top of your day.

  
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  AB Dup Killer

  I had iSync go a little haywire and COPY all of my contacts instead of SYNC them. This happened on three computers, so I had three of each contact. Removing all three hundred by hand would have taken me hours, so I wrote this simple utility to do it for me.

  AB Dup Killer is bare bones simple, folks. It backs up your existing AddressBook database, looks for dups, and removes them. There's not even a log. However, it is FAST, much faster than the only other bloated program I found to do the same thing. And it should be safe and accurate as well. If anything looks wrong, just drag your backed up database to ~/LibraryApplication Support.

  
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  Adobe Reader for Palm OS

  Adobe® Reader® for Palm OS® software lets you view Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on handheld devices running Palm OS. Now take your digital editions, documents, and Adobe Photoshop® Album slide shows from your desktop with you on your Palm OS device.

  Adobe Reader for Palm OS conveniently reflows Adobe PDF text to fit and be easily read on small screens, while preserving graphics and images.

  Adobe Reader for Palm OS includes two components that work together:

  The desktop application (and conduit during HotSync®) runs on your desktop computer. It prepares PDF files for the Palm OS and transports them to the user's handheld device.
  The reader is the Palm OS application that runs on the Palm OS device, designed to accommodate the characteristics of small-screen devices.

  
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  AlienDestroyer

  Destroy / Shred / Erase your sensitive Data forever!..with a simple click of a button.

  "Secure empty Trash" does not permanently erase data, and it can be recovered using various software.

  If you are planning to sell, donate, give away your computer, or if you need to send it for repair, or simply you need to Destroy sensitive and important data forever... Documents, Images, PDF's, Movies, Archives, Folders whatever from your Hard Drive or External Drives and Devices, iPods, Shuffles or similar Devices then, Destroyer X is an indispensable Tool for your Mac OSX, especially because the data deleted after performing "secure empty trash" can be retrieved...

  
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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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  aTypeTrainer4Mac

  aTypeTrainer4Mac is a multilingual typing tutor. It is an advanced version of TypeTrainer4Mac. It can be used with a large variety of system and custom keyboard layouts. External RTF files and webpages can be connected to the application as additional exercises. Each session provides its own run logs in RTF and HTML format. A large variety of features and settings is provided.

  
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  Audacity

  Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.

  
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  BatchRenamer

  Batch renaming and numbering of files, with regular expression find and replace.

  
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  Brightness Control

  Spending the wee hours burning the midnight Mac oil? Has your Mac taken up permanent residence in your master bedroom? Does your significant other grumble and moan about trying to sleep in broad daylight?

  Give your honey a break already. Get Brightness Control, a nifty tool for dimming all your Mac's displays with one slider. Now, you can go to bed and still keep an eye out for that oh-so-important instant message or email you've been waiting on. Without throwing a pillow over your partner's head. Your mate will positively love this gadget.

  
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  BrowserService

  URLs and file paths selected in Services-aware applications can be opened in a specified browser or in the default browser with a keyboard shortcut. BrowserService adds itself to the Services menu, which can be found under the application menu of the current application.

  
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  Butler

  Butler's purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks. Butler lets you arrange these tasks in its fully customizable configuration. You can use it to launch or control various apps with universal triggers and/or keyboard shortcuts.

  
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  CalcService

  A system-wide service to allow calculations in any Cocoa application.

  
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  ClipMenu

  It stores clipboard histories such as plain text, rich texts format, PDF, PICT, and TIFF image. You can access in the menu bar or by using hot key.

  
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  Deep Notes

  Deep Notes is a simple hierarchical note pad. You can use it to outline ideas, make to-do lists, or whatever else might need jotting down in a list, hierarchical or not.
  Its keyboard shorcuts were designed to let you edit, navigate and control your outline without taking your hands off the keyboard, so you don't have to interrupt your creative flow and can get on with typing!

  
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  Dial-A-Font X

  Quickly see how any text looks in every font on your machine. Options to view your text with variations in font size, style (bold, italic), color, and backgroung color. Aoto-scroll through all fonts, or select manually the ones you are interested in. Dial-A-Font X doesn't save your sample text, it reverts to "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.", so don't quit the app until you are done with selecting fonts for that project.

  
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  Doktor Kleanor

  This application helps you to easily solve common problems experienced while running MacOS X 10.4
  Check the boxes that correspond to the problems you are experiencing, and leave the rest to DoktorKleanor!

  
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  Dragonfly

  Straightfoward app used to find hex codes and variations for colors. Also lets you preview text colors on background colors.

  
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  Ejector

  Ejector will add an Eject icon to the Mac OS X menu bar. From it you can eject any removable disks, e.g. an iPod, a CD, a DVD, an USB Key and even a .dmg. You can then safely disconnect them from your mac.

  
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  Europa

  Europa is utility that rounds the corner of the image.
  Required OSX 10.4 Lator.

  
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  ExifRenamer

  ExifRenamer is a tool for renaming digital photos, movie- and audio-clips of almost every camera vendor.
  ExifRenamer is the perfect tool as auto-action for Apples ImageCapture - it can automatically rename the new downloaded pictures without a single mouse click!

  
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  FaithConverter

  Faith Converter converts text between the vernaculars of thirty different religions, encompassing Atheism, Biopsychosocialism, Buddhism, the Cargo Cult, Christianity, Communism, Confucianism, Druidism, Falun Gong, Hinduism, Islam, Juche, Judaism, Keynesianism, Linux, MacEvangelism, Mahanism, Maoism, NIMBYism, Roman, Scientology, Shinto, Sikh, Stalinism, Taoism, Thatcherism, Trotskyism, Unitarian Universalism, Veganism and Voodoo.

  
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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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  FinderPop

  Finderpop improves & extends features in contextual menus.

  "Having finally started using a Mac again in earnest for the first time since I left Apple three-and-a-half years ago, one of the things I really missed was FinderPop. So I began a spare-time project to port it to Carbon (it would probably be more correct to say re-write it for Carbon.)"

  
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  FinderView

  FinderView lets you view pictures or photos instantly. Just click them in your Finder and they will be shown right away. No need to use Preview for quick viewing! FinderView has a slide show option and even more.

  
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  Firefox

  The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

  
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  Flash Player

  Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices. Now as a universal binary.

  
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  Flip4Mac WMV

  Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.

  
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  FolderGlance

  FolderGlance is a small Contextual Menu Plugin for the Finder. When it is installed, it allows you to control-click or right-click on folders to see and open their contents, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels. It also allows numerous features such as previewing and trashing items, all from the contextual menu.

  
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  FolderGlancePrefs

  FolderGlance is a small Contextual Menu Plugin for the Finder. When it is installed, it allows you to control-click or right-click on folders to see and open their contents, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels. FolderGlance also has the following features:

  Adding your own custom folders to the contextual menu, enabling FolderGlance to act as a very versatile launcher
  Moving, copying and making aliases of the currently selected files in a folder you browse to
  Control-free popups: Open the contextual menu without holding down the control-key or using a two-button mouse
  Drag-and-drop of files and folders
  In-menu preview of arbitrary files
  Opening files with an application different than the default by using an "Open with..." menu you can tailor to suit your own taste
  Changing the font size used in contextual menus
  Disable the menu fade effect, for a more speedy menu experience
  Browsing into package contents
  Optional display of custom file and folder icons
  Customizable sorting and customizable display of hidden files and folders
  Trash files directly from the contextual menu by typing Command-Backspace or Command-T
  Localized to Japanese, French, Polish, Italian and Norwegian.
  Universal: Runs on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs!

  
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  Footagehead

  Footagehead is a fast and easy-to-use image browser

  
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  Fractalicious

  Fractogroovalicious is an iTunes visualizer that makes realtime julia fractals which react to your music, mixed with warping feedback.

  
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  Gimp

  Image manipulation app that has many features

  
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  Gimp.app

  Gimp.app is a binary package of Gimp that needs Apple's X11 and not much more.

  Gimp is similar to Adobe Photoshop, except that it's free software.

  
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  Google Maps Plugin

  The Google Maps Plugin enables you lookup your Apple Address Book addresses using Google Maps as well as get directions between your Address Book addresses. At the time this was written, Google Maps supports the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Spain, Italy and France. Google Earth is now supported as of June 15, 2006.

  
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  GrandPerspective

  A small utility application that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space.

  
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  Growl

  Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.

  
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  GrowlCamino

  GrowlCamino is a plugin for the Camino web browser that posts Growl notifications at useful moments. It provides a convenient Growl-based replacement for Camino's Downloads window and popup blocker.

  
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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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  Integrity

  Integrity helps keep links on your website from becoming broken. Feed Integrity your homepage URL and it will follow internal links to find all of your pages, checking each link and reporting the server response code for each.

  
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  iPapers

  Papers is an application that manages many PDF files of articles, whose information can be obtained by PubMed. If you have articles as PDF files whose filenames are PMID.pdf (e.g. 10867176.pdf), you can import the articles into iPapers by drag and drop operation. PMID is the unique ID provided by PubMed. iPapers automatically searches and imports the information of the imported articles from PubMed DB, e.g. name of authors, title, journal name, volume, number, pages and abstract.
  iPapers not only manage the articles with PDF named PMID, but also manage a PDF file which is not listed in PubMed and a reference information without PDF.

  
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  iTool

  iTool is a free multifunction utility for a complete system maintenance, it's easy to use, also for "the first time" users; iTool is built around a tabbed interface that lets you find quickly the wanted task.
  iTool can perform automate processes that will run the chosen tasks, to handle your maintenance tasks with no fuss at all.
  For those who don't want to fiddly with choices, iTool can guide you thru a compact maintenance wizard called <> that will help you troubleshoot problems within your system just with a few steps.

  iTool not only maintains you system healthy, it also lets you tweak hidden functions of you Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) system.

  
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  Jumpcut

  Jumpcut is an application that provides "clipboard buffering" — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history.

  
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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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  KillTheRipper

  KillTheRipper is a handy app that deletes the invisible folder that MacTheRipper puts at the root of you Home folder.

  This invisible folder contains a list of all the DVDs you have ripped, which one could sure do without.

  
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  LargeType

  LargeType is a Mac OS X service that displays any selected text in large type similar to the large type option in Address Book.

  
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  Lynxlet

  Lynxlet is an application for launching the text web browser Lynx in a Terminal window.

  Lynxlet completely encapsulates the lynx executable, libraries, and configuration files - so no compiling or installing is needed. Just download and enjoy.

  Because Lynxlet is a Mac OS X web browser, it can be launched in a similar manner to Safari. For example, drop HTML files on it, or use it to preview from BBEdit or Dreamweaver. You can even make it your default web browser, and all URLs will open in Lynx.

  
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  MacTheRipper

  The DVD ripping tool for OS X.

  
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  MainMenu

  Don't have time to run all the various tools and scripts to keep your Mac running smoothly? MainMenu makes these tasks quick and easy, right from your menu bar.

  Rebuilding your Spotlight library for faster searching, repairing permissions, cleaning caches to improve application performance, and even more advanced settings — such as enabling and disabling the Dashboard — are no more than two clicks away.

  MainMenu is full of powerful maintenance tools to keep your Mac running like new, within a slick, simple interface.

  
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  MaintenanceWidget

  A handy little widget that repairs disk permissions, runs different cron scripts manually, forces the trash to empty and resets the finder, and as of version 1.3 toggles hiding and showing hidden files (like .DS_Store files)

  
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  MarkUp

  Markup is a general purpose HTML utility with two modules: HTML and Color.

  The HTML module is a simple HTML character escaping utility. Since characters like <, >, and & are part of the HTML specification, they should be replaced with their escaped versions to guarantee that they show up in all browsers. The HTML module takes text and replaces all occurrences of <, >, and & with < > and & respectively. This is very useful for writing tutorials in HTML that contain html example code. The HTML module also has the option of replacing all characters, which will replace all characters with their escaped values. This could be used to obfuscate an email address so that a spambot would not pick it up.

  The color module allows the user to select a color from RGB sliders or via the Mac OS color picker and converts it into a hexadecimal value for use in HTML or CSS. It also contains a list of all of the acceptable named html colors. So instead of typing in #000000 for black, a user could just type in black. The color module lists all of the color names that are accepted by recent browsers. The list is searchable and offers a preview of the color. The Color module also offers a unique Auto Copy feature that automatically copies the hex value (or name) of the current color to the clipboard to save time.

  
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  Menu Butler Widget

  Previously known as iAddMenus (once Apple's Featured Download), we bring to you Menu Butler. We magically converted this app to a widget, which allows you to add most menu icons with the click of a mouse.

  Try it out. It'll look nice on your dashboard.

  
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  MenuCalendarClock for iCal

  This app replaces the date and time in your menubar with a fully customizable menu extra that displays an interactive drop-down monthly calendar. Displays calendar events and birthdays (requires registration, or willingness to deal with somewhat frequent nag screens), to do items, and will launch iCal when double clicked. The colors are also configurable. Expensive, but reclaims the valuable menubar space by adding much-needed functionality.

  
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  Mozy

  Mozy is a secure, automatic remote backup service for any PC in any home. It's simple to install and configure. No external hard drive, expensive subscription services, CD's or DVD's to burn. All you need is a broadband connection and you are ready to go!

  
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  MyMind

  MyMind is a combination of an outliner an a mind mapping application. Or a mind mapper with built-in outlining functionality.

  
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  Name Mangler

  If you need to rename several files at once every now and then, this is the application you have always been looking for. Name Mangler is a batch file renamer that supports all common renaming tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.

  Moreover, you can combine all of these using the Advanced renaming mode, which even comes with some extra features, such as conditional statements, nested counters, and more.

  
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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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  NeoOffice

  NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality) for Mac OS X. It can import, edit, and exchange documents with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.

  NeoOffice is focused on making OpenOffice.org a better Mac OS X citizen, with dozens of standard Mac features not found in OpenOffice.org. NeoOffice does NOT require the X11 windowing system.

  
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  NicePlayer

  NicePlayer aims to be a multi-engine player designed for playing movies nicely for a person who likes to watch or present movies on their computer (such as the casual viewer or the video artist). This program features full screen or borderless floating windows, convenient controls for scrubbing or queuing movies, and on the fly playlist creation.

  
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  NuFile

  NuFile(pronounced new-file) is a contextual menu plugin. It adds a new file menu when you right click at a folder(ie: desktop or Finder background). With this menu, you can create an empty file of your favourite type with just two clicks. It's a time saver especially if you have a two-button mouse (ex: Apple's sleeky mighty mouse) or if you use RazzFazz's iScroll2.

  
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  Opera

  Opera makes it quick and simple to find the information you want. With features like tabs, popup blocking, an integrated search field, and the ability to remember the sites your visited in a previous session, you control your browsing experience. Opera blocks viruses, spyware, and phishing web sites, too. All while being shockingly fast!

  
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  OSXplanet

  OSXplanet is a live updated background based on xplanet. It can display a view of the earth on your deskop.

  
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  Paintbrush

  Paintbrush is a Cocoa-based paint program for Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft Paint and the now-defunct MacPaint. The project's ultimate goal is to recreate the basic functionality of Microsoft Paint, which has been noticeably absent from Mac OS X for years. Paintbrush can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF.

  Paintbrush is not yet full-featured, but is very stable and is being actively developed.

  
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  Palm Doc Converter

  Palm Doc Converter can convert electronic books between the Palm Doc format and common text formats (.txt, .rtf, .doc and other) with support for national encodings and Unicode. This way you can read text files from your computer on your Palm with full support for national characters. The application will also enable you to open Palm Doc documents in nearly any text editor which supports filters or services (for example TextEdit) as well as save Palm Doc documents from these applications.

  
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  PDF Browser Plugin

  PDF Browser Plugin turns your web browser into the best PDF viewer available. With the help of PDF Browser Plugin you can view PDF documents directly in your web browser, print them, and save them to disk if you'd like to keep them.

  
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  pearDict

  pearDict is a little tool that helps to conveniently access online dictionaries. Best of all: it's fully integrated into your workflow. Simply select a word in any Cocoa based application, choose the 'Look Up on Web Dictionary' entry from the Services menu and pearDict will find the word for you. Or how about that - simply move the cursor over a word and press a keyboard shortcut - pearDict will magically look up the word online.

  
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  Permanent Eraser

  When you normally delete your files in Mac OS X, the operating system is only forgetting where those particular files are placed, while the data still physically remains on the drive. Beginning with Mac OS 10.3, Apple enhanced its security by introducing the Secure Empty Trash feature, which follows the U.S. DoD pattern of overwriting data seven times.

  Permanent Eraser provides an even stronger level of security by implementing the Gutmann Method. This utility overwrites your data thirty-five times, scrambles the original file name, and truncates the file size to nothing before Permanent Eraser finally unlinks it from the system. Once your data has been erased, it can no longer be read through traditional means.

  Permanent Eraser is free of charge, and the source code is also provided for educational purposes.

  
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  Phoenix Slides

  Phoenix Slides is a fast full-screen slideshow program/image browser, for flipping through folders or disks full of images. Phoenix Slides also does lossless JPEG transformations and can display EXIF data.

  
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  Plain Clip

  Plain Clip is a small application that removes formatting from text which is on the clipboard. It's designed as a faceless application (no GUI), which makes it ideal for triggering it from a hotkey and launcher applications such as Spark, iKey, LaunchBar, QuickSilver or Butler.

  
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  Pref Setter

  This app is used to edit OS X's preference files. Very useful for many things, including enabling options not available via an application's preferences.

  
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  PrefEdit

  PrefEdit is a utility that allows you to inspect and edit all preference settings for Mac OS X applications. The settings are displayed in a browser and can be edited by simple point-and-click operations. You can also do a full-text search on all settings, or clean up unused entries of applications that have been uninstalled.

  PrefEdit can access all preference settings of "well-behaved" Carbon and Cocoa applications. Older Mac applications running in the Classic environment used a totally different system for storing preference settings. The settings of such programs do not appear in PrefEdit.

  
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  Preferential Treatment

  Preferential Treatment will check your preference files (both in your user's preference folder and the system's preference folder) for corruption by using the "plutil" command line tool. If it finds suspect files, it will list the files and allow you to reveal them in the Finder or move them to the trash.

  
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  PrefsMenu

  PrefsMenu is both my smallest, and most popular app. There's not much to it really, it just puts a system wide menu in the right side of the menu bar, allowing easy access to System Preferences. You can choose if the menu should be alphabetical or sorted by group, and you can select between tiny and largish icons, largish looks nicer, tiny fits more on the screen. That's about it, the screenshot bellow explains PM better than this description.

  
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  R-Name

  Simply the best, fastest, and easiest bulk file re-namer ever. Lots of functions, really fast and accurate, previews before renaming, free!

  
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  Reveal

  Reveal is an easy to use, cross platform EXIF and IPTC metadata viewer with limited editing capabilities. Reveal was designed to present as many details about how a photo was taken in a clear and easy to understand format.

  
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  RPG

  RPG is a password generator that addresses the need for random passwords (and other random character strings) of specific lengths and constitutions.

  
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  RSS Menu

  RSS/Atom feed manager that sits in your OS X menubar and loads entries in your default browser.

  
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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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  Sciral Consistency

  Sciral Consistency fills an important niche between the calendar and the to-do list, and lets you track and receive feedback on day-to-day tasks that are repeating yet flexible.

  
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  Seashore

  Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.

  
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  SeeSS

  Every web-developer has these moments when the exact values for a CSS property slip away in the nooks of the brain. Instead of wading through some hefty reference book or Googling it, you can now instantly consult the SeeSS Widget for a quick reference on all CSS1 & CSS2 (and some CSS3) properties with their values, examples, descriptions and other valuable info...

  
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  Service Scrubber

  Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using? With Service Scrubber, you can:

  • restructure the services menu
  • change service keyboard shortcuts
  • disable services

  
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  Skype

  What we've got is a simple bit of software we want to give you. It'll let you make free calls to your friends all over the world. And we don't want any money for it. It's free.

  You could think of us as the big, free Internet telephony company. We prefer to think of ourselves as a big group hug, even a present. Yes! that's it; we're a present; but without the ribbon.

  
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  Sleep Display

  Also available as a widget.

  If you have a beautiful new iMac, you know how nice and bright the screen is. Thing is...sometimes a bright screen isn't what you're going for. Enter this small application. When run, it IMMEDIATELY sleeps just your display so that you can continue running your background jobs. It doesn't permanently affect your energy settings, so when you start working again, your monitor will not sleep immediately.

  
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  Sleep Display (Leopard)

  Apple Mac OS X Leopard has a limitation that the only way to sleep a display or external monitor is with a hot corner. So, when run, this small application will sleep your display instantly. Ideal for iMacs which have no display off button.

  Run it and your display will go off. Move your mouse or press a key and it will come back on.

  
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  SMARTReporter

  SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of ATA hard-drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.-status of your hard-drives. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard-drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems.

  
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  Sound Menu

  Sound Menu allows you to switch your default audio input and output. All available (and only) audio input and output are listed. Support every sound card, USB card, USB audio gadget which is supported by Mac OS X in system preferences. Mute and system sound option are present.

  
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  StuffIt Expander

  Stuffit Expander is a compression and decompression tool with support for a lot of formats.

  
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  SuperDuper!

  SuperDuper can make a full backup, or "clone" — in moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file.

  
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  TextEdit

  Text editor, comes with Mac OS X.

  
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  The Unarchiver

  The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems.

  
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  ThisService

  Lets you turn any command line script or AppleScript into a system service, accessed from the Services menu.

  
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  Tidy Service

  Tidy Service is a simple OS X Service that cleans up markup using the powerful HTML Tidy library originally created by Dave Raggett.

  Tidy Service can be used to clean up HTML markup in any application that supports services by selecting the markup in question and choosing one of Tidy menu items from the Services menu. Currently, there are two processing options: Tidy Markup and Tidy to XHTML. Tidy to XHTML instructs the Tidy engine to generate valid XHTML, while Tidy Markup does not.

  
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  TinkerTool

  TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

  
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  Tofu

  Tofu is a little application to make reading text easier. It reformats text into narrow columns, like in newpapers, so your eye can follow the lines easier. You can jump to any point in your text by simply typing some letters near it (without choosing any command first). There's a system-wide Service so you can, for example, grab some text from a web page. And it lets you use your voice to navigate text, so you can literally sit back and read.

  
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  TypeIt4Me

  It's autotext, Jim, but not as we know it!

  TypeIt4Me expands your abbreviations as you type.

  YES, it's like autotext, BUT TypeIt4Me works in ALL applications, not just one.

  Anytime you enter text in your Mac by typing it at the keyboard, TypeIt4Me can help you do it faster and more accurately.

  First you define a number of abbreviations and the full text entries that they represent, then you watch the Mac expand them on the fly even as you continue typing!

  
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  Ultragroovalicious

  Get Your Groove On
  With its unique eye melting OpenGL 3D effects, Ultragroovalicious explodes the Mac OS X visualizer scene with fresh new styles unlike any before. Psychadelic imagergy from math magic reacting to your music.

  
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  UnicodeChecker

  UnicodeChecker displays information for every code point from the Unicode Standard 5. For a given number, UnicodeChecker will display that character along with its UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings, XHTML entity, Unicode Name, mapping information and much more.

  There are also several text conversion functions available to all applications from the ‘Services’ menu or via AppleScript. So you can convert text to and from XHTML/HTML character entities or have UnicodeChecker escape Unicode characters for use in CSS or other languages.

  
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  VacuumMail

  Gui wrapped around a terminal script, that "vacuums" your Mail.app's Mail folder, thus shrinking the size of your message database and ultimately causing Mail.app to load much faster!

  Included within the download file is also a launchd preference, so that VacuumMail can be invoked automatically for you.

  Read more about this at the developer's website.

  
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  Validator-SAC

  Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X. Validator S.A.C. is a normal Mac OS X application. No installation is required, just put Validator S.A.C. where you need it (hard drive, flash drive, CD-R, etc).

  Validator S.A.C. can validate local files, as well as pages on local web sites. Validate using the stand-alone Favelet, drag and drop files and URLs onto the applicaiton icon, or simply use File > Open. Validate on an airplane or in the subway - no network needed.

  Validator S.A.C. can also be setup as a Web Service, allowing users to validate over the local network.

  
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  Web Developer Extension

  The Web Developer Extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Mozilla Firefox, Flock and Mozilla/Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The extension is highly configurable and contains many powerful features including CSS manipulation, multiple validation options and tools to display information about the current page.

  
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  WebDesk

  A small aplication for MacOS X which uses the Safari webkit to embed a webpage into your desktop. Useful for monitoring a page which changes frequently. You can control transparency & refresh rate.

  See the similar WebDeskTop. http://osx.iusethis.com/app/webdesktop

  
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  WebDesktop

  WebDesktop layers a web browser over your Mac OS X desktop.

  Any standard web page can be displayed. WebDesktop uses WebKit, Apple's HTML rendering engine from Safari, so web pages should appear exactly as they do in Safari, including such advanced features as CSS and Flash. But on your desktop.

  Bringing WebDesktop to the front allows full interaction with the page, including scrolling, navigation, and form input.

  In WebDesktop's preferences, you can specify an automatic refresh interval so that the page on your desktop is reloaded every minute, every 5 minutes, every hour, etc... This is useful for keeping up to date with pages that update frequently.

  Do you have an unusual or cool use for WebDesktop? Email me! I'd love to hear about it.

  Some actual uses, as reported by real-world users:

  • Tracking the orbit of satellites
  • Monitoring servers / network operations center
  • Monitoring stock quotes
  • Keeping an eye on an eBay auction during the last few minutes
  • Staying up-to-the-minute on news
  • Monitoring a live webcam
  • Viewing current TV listings
  • Tracking weather conditions
  • Tracking sports scores

  
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  Word Browser Plugin

  The Word Browser Plugin displays a text only preview of Word documents within your web browser. Not compatible with Internet Explorer.
  Easy to use with plugin toolbar and standard action menu.
  Increase and decrease the font size.
  Save the document from the plugin.
  Saves document URL as Finder comment.
  Printing

  
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  Word Counter

  Word Counter is a Macintosh OS X application that performs a word count and a character count, but it can do much more. It can be used independently or in conjunction with other applications such as TextEdit, Microsoft Word, Pages, TextWrangler, and others.

  Text can be typed, pasted, or dragged into the window. Word Counter can automatically update the count based on a user-defined time interval. It also can perform bulk counts on multiple files and folders simply by dropping them onto the window. Word Counter can count the number of times a particular word appears in a document. It can even create a sortable summary table of all words in the document, with the number of times each word appears and the length of each word.

  Word Counter can handle various file types including plain text (txt, text), rich text (rtf, rtfd), Hypertext Markup Language (htm, html), Microsoft Word (doc), Microsoft Word XML (wordml), and Apple's web archive (webarchive). This program may be useful for writing a manuscript or an abstract with a strict limit on the number of words or characters allowed.

  
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  WordNetX

  WordNet: an online lexical reference system (dictionary and much much more) developed at Princeton University's Cognitive Science Laboratory.
  http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
  WordNetX: Mac interface to WordNet.

  
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  X11

  An implementation of the X Window System that makes it possible to run X11-based applications in Mac OS X. Based on the open source XFree86 project — the most common implementation of X11 — X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X. It includes the full X11R6.6 technology including an X11 window server, Quartz window manager, libraries, and basic utilities such as xterm.

  
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  Xee

  An image browser with more features than Preview.app

  
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  Xfolders

  Xfolders supplements the Finder and it is, thanks to its compatability with Norton Commander, an effective assistant for administrating your files.

  
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  YemuZip

  YemuZip is a simple, no-frills, easy-to-use application for making zip files. YemuZip sports Yellow Mug's signature intuitive user interface, and it is free of charge for personal use.