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  • Adium

    Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won't look back.

    Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.

  • Adobe Flash

    Flash® Professional 8 is the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content.

  • Adobe Illustrator

    Create sophisticated vector artwork for virtually any medium with Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software. Capture your ideas easily with industry-standard drawing tools, and experiment freely with flexible new color controls. Experience tight integration with other Adobe applications, and let improved performance help speed you through creating extraordinary graphics.

  • Adobe InDesign

    A new standard in professional layout and design

    Join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe® InDesign® CS2 software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign CS2 delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • BBEdit

    It doesn't suck.

    BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit transforms text with high performance.

  • Calculator

    Calculator, comes with OS X.

  • Cyberduck

    Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac. It features an easy to use interface with quickly accessible bookmarks. The outline view of the browser allows to browse large folder structures efficiently and you can quickly preview files with Quick Look. To edit files, a seamless integration with several external editors makes it easy to change content quickly. Both Amazon CloudFront and Cloud Files from Rackspace can be easily configured to distribute your content in the cloud. Many OS X core system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour and the Keychain are supported and a large number of translations makes you feel at home.

  • Final Cut Pro

    The first choice of professional editors, Final Cut Pro delivers high-performance digital nonlinear editing, native support for virtually any video format, and facility-class extensibility and interoperability. Whether you’re working solo or collaborating with a team, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control than ever before.

  • 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.

  • Firefox

    Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.

    Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users: It is now available in more than 70 languages, includes a Private Browsing mode, better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, the ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation, support for native JSON, and web worker threads, support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 < video > and < audio > elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

  • Grab

    Comes with OS X

    Taking pictures of your screen with Grab

    You can use the Grab application to take a picture of all or part of your computer screen. These pictures are often called "screen shots" or "screen captures."

    Open Grab (located in /Applications/Utilities) and choose a command from the Capture menu.
    Selection takes a picture of a part of the screen that you select.

    Window takes a picture of a window you select.

    Screen takes a picture of the entire screen.

    Timed Screen lets you start a timer and activate part of the screen (such as a menu), and then takes a picture of the screen.

    Follow the instructions in the dialog for the command you chose.
    To see information about a screen shot you've taken, such as the size and depth, choose Edit > Inspector.

    To save a screen shot, choose File > Save. Grab saves screen shots as files in TIFF format. You can use the Preview application to view these files and export them to other formats, such as JPEG.

  • Handbrake

    HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

    Supported Sources:

    • Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (unencrypted--protection methods including CSS are not supported internally and must be handled externally with third-party software and libraries), and some .VOB and .TS files
    • Most any multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

    Outputs:

    • File format: MP4 and MKV
    • Video: MPEG-4, H.264, or Theora (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
    • Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 and DTS pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

    Misc features:

    • Chapter selection
    • Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
    • Integrated bitrate calculator
    • Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
    • Grayscale encoding

  • Maya

    Award-winning Autodesk® Maya® software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation and rendering solution that enables leaders in film and television, game development, design visualization, and education to stay ahead of the game.

  • Microsoft Office 2008

    Microsoft® Office v. X for Mac was the first Office productivity suite designed exclusively for Mac OS X. Each edition comes with Microsoft Word X, Microsoft Entourage® X, Microsoft Excel X, and Microsoft PowerPoint® X. Professional Edition also includes Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 for those who work in multi-platform environments.

  • Numbers

    With great-looking templates, easy-to-create formulas, and dynamic tables and charts, spreadsheets suddenly make perfect sense.

  • 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.

  • Preview

    Works with

    AI - Adobe Illustrator Artwork files
    BMP – Windows Bitmap files
    DNG – Digital Negative files
    EPS – Encapsulated PostScript files
    FAX – faxes
    FPX – FlashPix files
    GIF – Graphics Interchange Format files
    HDR – High Dynamic Range Image files
    ICNS – Apple Icon Image files
    ICO – Windows icon files
    JPEG 2000 – JPEG 2000 files
    JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group files
    OpenEXR – OpenEXR files
    PS – Adobe PostScript files (after an automatic conversion to PDF)
    PSD – Adobe Photoshop files
    PICT – QuickDraw image files
    PDF – Portable Document Format files
    PNG – Portable Network Graphics files
    PNTG – MacPaint Bitmap Graphic files
    QTIF – QuickTime image files
    RAD – Radience Scene Description files
    RAW – Raw image files
    SGI – Silicon Graphics Image files
    TGA – TARGA image files
    TIF, TIFF – Tagged Image File Format files
    XBM – X BitMap files

  • Processing

    Processing is a programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities. It was created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook. The software exports Java applets which may be posted on the Internet and shared with other artists and designers.

  • QuarkXPress 8

    QuarkXPress is powerful design and page layout software with an intuitive, versatile interface that lets you combine superior typography with color and pictures to produce dynamic final output for print and Web delivery.

    Version 8 features a new interface, built-in web and Flash authoring tools, enhanced typography control, a Picture Content tool (grab, rotate, and scale images in real-time), enhanced Item and Text Content tools, new Bezier Pen tools, native Illustrator file import, drag-and-drop import of text and pictures, and more.

  • QuickTime Pro

    QuickTime 7 Pro is everything that Apple's backbone media engine is, with features unlocked. Record audio, capture video, convert file formats, and save some web delivered content.

  • StuffIt Expander

    An industry leader, only StuffIt offers newly-patented technology that provides 100% pixel-perfect compression of 24-bit images, including TIFFs, PNGs, BMPs and GIFs. In addition to its award-winning compression technology, StuffIt's fantastic workflow features enable you to work faster and smarter, whether you're using StuffIt to backup important files or send documents over the Internet. Simply click, drag and drop; StuffIt will take care of the rest.

    • Compress and expand archives
    • Super-strong encryption security and password protection
    • Self-healing archive creation protects against data corruption
    • Send and transfer via email, FTP, or MobileMe iDisk

  • Terminal

    Mac OS X's Terminal application.

  • TextWrangler

    TextWrangler is BBEdits little brother. You can code HTML or PHP with it. It has multiple file search, syntax coloring, etc.

  • Transmit

    Transmit is an excellent FTP (file transfer protocol), SFTP, S3 (Amazon.com file hosting) 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.

  • VLC

    VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. The most prominent additions to version 0.8.6 are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, and a full-screen.

  • WacomTablet

    Driver and Control panel for Wacom's Graphire 2 Tablet

  • 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.

  • adobe acrobat

    PDF's

  • iTunes

    iTunes is a free application for Mac and PC. It plays all your digital music and video. It syncs content to your iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. And it’s an entertainment superstore that stays open 24/7.