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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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  AppFresh

  AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.

  AppFresh not only gets update information from iusethis.com. If you have an user profile at iusethis.com you can manage it from within AppFresh and control which applications appear in your profile, even automatically. We can only recommend you sign up, it's free and lets you see how many users use a certain application. In AppFresh, the full iusethis.com application page with comments and links to similar apps is always just a click away.

  AppFresh can capture the installed version of an application along with your preferences and application data and store it in a safe place. This way, you're covered in case you decide you liked the last version of an application better. Create as many snapshots as you want to make sure you don't lose anything.

  AppFresh is currently work in progress, and we're not even calling it a beta. Make sure to check our development blog regularly. You are welcome to leave your feedback or suggestions for improvements there.

  
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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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  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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  iChat

  Apple's chat client supporting AOL Instant Messenger and Jabber Instant Messenger clients.

  
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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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  Journler

  Journler is a notebook and entry based information manager. It is simple, it is elegant, it is powerful. Journler is designed to unite text and media in creative endeavor. It offers a place to store your thoughts and ideas while connecting them with media of any kind.

  Journler’s inline media viewer supports audio-video, images, PDFs, WebArchives, websites, email and Address Book contacts. When you’re ready to organize, Journler does entries by date and folder as well tiered folders and smart families with auto-tagging. Journler includes lightning search and on the fly filtering of your entries. There is Spotlight and AppleScript support as well as Mail, iWeb, iPod, and blogging integration. The new Drop Box and JPanel make it easy to get stuff in, while the Lexicon helps you find the relationships between your data.

  Chronicle. Organize. Find. Connect. Journaling is just the beginning.

  
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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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  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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  Activity Monitor

  Activity Monitor is a GUI application included with Mac OS X. It provides graphical representations of your computer's CPU, system memory, disk activity, disk usage, and network processes. This little utility is easy to overlook, but it can help you manage your memory and processing power when running lots of applications. If you prefer to work in the text-only Terminal application instead, you can view much of this information by using the top command.

  
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  Automator

  You can easily automate tasks such as renaming a large group of files, resizing dozens of images to fit an iPhoto slideshow or creating iCal birthday events using Address Book contacts, then repeat those tasks again and again. Simple and easy-to-understand application Actions are the building blocks, so you don't have to write any code. Each Action has all of the options and settings you need. You don't have to work hard to figure out how to make it work.

  
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  Calculator

  Calculator, comes with OS X.

  
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  Chax

  Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable.

  
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  Colloquy

  Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

  
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  Delicious Library

  Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight™, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world. Once your whole library is cataloged, you can find and use your items like never before.

  
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  Dictionary

  Dictionary and thesaurus system application based on The New Oxford American Dictionary. Comes with OS X.

  
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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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  Eavesdrop

  Eavesdrop is an application for listening in on TCP conversations on the network your computer is attached to.

  
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  FacebookSync

  FacebookSync syncs your Apple Address Book with data from your Facebook account. Specifically, it pulls down your friends' names, emails, AIM, mobile phone number, and photo. Adds missing photos, inserts missing information, and adds missing records to your Apple AddressBook. This is great if you use iChat or Bluetooth-sync your AddressBook with your cellphone.

  Note from developer:

  FacebookSync violates Facebook Terms of Use (6/7/2007)

  Facebook contacted me and requested that I stop distribution of FacebookSync since it is in violation of Facebook's Terms of Use. Sorry to all out there who will miss this useful application.

  
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  Fenetres Volantes

  You are not using your windows ? Fenetres Volantes make them fly ! After some idle time that can be set in the System Preferences, the windows take off the screen and flutter in the void. On a mouse move, the windows immediately come back and stuck to their original position.

  
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  Google Earth

  Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more

  Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your

  
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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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  Handbrake

  HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. A Windows port is being worked on.

  
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  Hey Folders!

  Color icons for color labels. Hey Folders! adds colored folder icons to Apple's Finder. Instead of a generic icon, labeled folders show up in the appropriate color.

  
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  iCal Events

  Face the day! Always know what's next in your schedule using iCal Events. iCal Events displays upcoming events from multiple calendars in a beautiful, resizable widget for Dashboard. You can see up to two weeks of upcoming events in the same widget without needing to open iCal.

  
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  Inquisitor

  Inquisitor lets you search the web effortlessly. Search results stream in as you type, letting you easily and instantly refine your search. You might even find the answer before you think you've asked the question.

  
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  iStat menus

  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.

  
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  iStumbler

  iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac.

  
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  iSync

  Apple utility to keep your contacts an calendars in sync between your mac and cellphone/pda

  
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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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  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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  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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  Pax Galaxia

  From the website: "RISK takes to the stars, but this time the armies move by themselves guided by your past orders. A truly unique and fascinating game of stellar conquest."

  
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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:

  • AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
  • MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
  • Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

  
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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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  SafariPlus

  SafariPlus is a plug-in for Safari that lets you manage cookies as well as block Flash and GIF animations. Unlike other plugins, SafariPlus lets you take control of your web browsing experience without having to worry about complicated filtering rules and esoteric settings. SafariPlus is small, simple, and free.

  Requires Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger.

  
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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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  Sol

  Sol is a Dashboard widget that tells you what time sunrise and sunset are, as well as dawn and dusk.

  
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  Stop Dashboard Widget

  A 1-button widget which stops the Dashboard and removes it (and all its widgets) from memory.

  Relaunch the Dashboard afterwards as normal, all widgets will reload.

  
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  Terminal

  Mac OS X's Terminal application.

  
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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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  Transmission

  Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.

  
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  VLC

  VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

  It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

  It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.