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  1Password

  1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and Convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in one secure place provided by Apple's OS X Keychain.

  1Password browser extensions support Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, DEVONagent, NetNewsWire, Netscape Navigator, and Flock. All browser extensions share the data stored in the keychain which means you never need to manually copy your passwords between browsers or from the password manager to a browser ever again!

  1Password has received numerous awards, including 4.5 mice from Macworld magazine, MacLife Editors pick, and was the Pick of Week on MacBreak Weekly by both Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann.

  
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  Bookit

  With all the browsers available for the Mac OS keeping your bookmarks organized can become a real problem. But with Bookit keeping your browsers' bookmarks synchronized is quick and easy. Bookit compares the bookmarks you have and then lets you synchronize the bookmarks that are not in all of your browsers. Finally, Bookit creates identical bookmark files for each browser. If you use more than one browser regularly, give Bookit a try, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

  
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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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  EarthDesk

  EarthDesk replaces your desktop picture with a stunning dynamic image of our planet continuously updating in the background while you work.

  Features:
  Real-time clouds with transparency and moonlight reflection; accurate sun/moon/city lighting; shaded twilight; automatically updates; multi-display support; eleven different projections (including globe) using satellite or political maps.

  
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  Fluid

  Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or (Insert Your Favorite Webapp Here) fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Spreadsheets data in another tab?

  If so, Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your webapp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.

  How does it work?

  Fluid itself is a very small application. When launched, Fluid displays a small window where you specify the URL of a webapp you'd like to run in a Site Specific Browser. Provide an application name, click 'Create' and you'll be prompted to launch the new native Mac app you've just created.

  Use Fluid to run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other webapp as a separate Mac desktop application.

  Anytime you click a link to another site in an SSB, the link is opened in your system default web browser, keeping your SSB dedicated to the original site you've specified.

  
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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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  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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  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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  Mailplane

  You love them both: Your MAC and Gmail, right?

  But they are both from different worlds and aren’t friends, yet. That’s where Mailplane comes in to bring them together: Google Mail’s superb SPAM protection, endless storage and global access – and the friendliness of your Mac.

  Attach files
  Drag 'n' drop your files and folders to Mailplane and watch them being attached to the message and automatically uploaded.

  Send optimized Photos
  Pictures get automatically resized and optimized to reduce the size of your message.

  Instantly send Screenshots
  Need to send a Screenshot? With one click you grab a portion of your screen and attach it to your message.

  Send Pictures from iPhoto
  Mailplane comes with an iPhoto plugin that makes sending picture attachments so easy: select any pictures in iPhoto and then press the email button. That's it.

  Store Passwords in Keychain
  No need to enter passwords every two weeks. Mailplane stores it safely in the Mac keychain and automatically logs you in at startup.

  Download
  Download attachments and then reveal them in Finder. If the attachment is a photo or even a ZIP file containing pictures, then you can directly import them to iPhoto.

  A single license is $25, with family pack licensing being offered for an extra $8

  
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  Snapz Pro X

  Amazing and mature motion-screen capture tool with brilliant features.

  
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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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  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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  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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  Amazon MP3 Downloader

  Downloader for the AmazonMP3 service.

  
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  Caffeine

  Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

  
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  Coda

  So, we code web sites by hand. And one day, it hit us: our web workflow was wonky. We’d have our text editor open, with Transmit open to save files to the server. We’d be previewing in Safari, running queries in Terminal, using a CSS editor, and reading references on the web. “This could be easier,” we realized. “And much cooler.”

  
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  Flip4Mac WMV

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

  
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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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  iScrobbler

  iScrobbler is an iTunes plugin that monitors the songs played on iTunes and creates reports about different users' tastes and how often a certain song or artist is played.

  
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  OmniGraffle Professional

  OmniGraffle Pro helps you draw beautiful diagrams, family trees, flow charts, org charts, layouts, and (mathematically speaking) any other directed or non-directed graphs. We've had people use Graffle to plan plotlines for a story, make an overview of an operating system, show the evolution of computers, and even show how diseases can spread in a closed population. If you want to organize your thoughts, your projects, or even your friends graphically using boxes and lines, OmniGraffle is your tool.

  
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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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  PodWorks

  PodWorks is an application that compensates for the iPod's only downside: Apple only allows you to copy songs to your iPod. If you have two Macs and want to use your iPod to transfer music from one to the other, or you only store your MP3s on your iPod and need to copy them back onto your hard drive after a disk failure, you are out of luck!

  This is where PodWorks comes in: it allows you to copy songs from any Mac iPod to any Mac running OS X (10.3).

  PodWorks has been consistently recommended by Mac authorities, including the Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg.

  
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  PowerMate

  PowerMate functions beautifully as a convenient volume knob and mute button for music listening on your PC or Mac. But that's just the beginning of PowerMate's possibilities. Edit movies just like the pros with PowerMate functioning as your very own Jog/Shuttle wheel. PowerMate makes editing anything from home movies to your next demo a breeze. It even comes preset to work with iMovie, FinalCut Pro and GarageBand right out of the box! In addition, you can quickly and easily program it to execute any Key Command, in any application

  
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  Precipitate

  Precipitate lets you search for and launch your cloud data from within Spotlight or Google Desktop for Mac. It currently supports the following services:

  • Google Bookmarks
  • Google Docs

  Precipitate works by creating files on your machine that are imported by Spotlight, then periodically checking in with the server and updating the local files to reflect any changes. Note that changes may take up to an hour to be visible in local searches.

  Installation and Setup - Open the Precipitate preference pane, and install it either for yourself or for all users. Enter your Google account information into the preference pane, check the box for each service you want to make searchable, then press "Refresh Now" to start the initial import (note that this may take some time, depending on how much data you have). Then just start searching!

  
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  Shelf

  Shelf is an app for MacOS that looks at the current foreground application, and tries to figure out if what you’re looking at corresponds to a person in your Address Book. Then it’ll tell you things about them.

  
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  Terminal

  Mac OS X's Terminal application.