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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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  Dasher

  Wouldn't it be neat if Dashboard popped up by itself after a certain amount of system idle time? It will be pretty neat indeed, right after you download and install Dasher, a preference pane that gets your Dash' on automatically.

  
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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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  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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  Quicksilver

  Quicksilver is a tool that lets you open programs, documents, contacts, bookmarks, etc.

  Unlike other launchers it also supports other actions, not just opening, like composing a mail to a person, or browsing the iTunes library directly, etc.

  
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  VMware Fusion

  VMware Fusion is the most seamless way to run Window on your Intel-based Mac. VMware Fusion allows you to run more than 60 ×86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X, without rebooting.

  VMware Fusion is built on VMware's rock-solid and advanced desktop virtualization platform that is used by over four million users today.

  It's mature virtualization platform makes it the only virtualization product for Mac OS X that allows for SMP virtual machines (up to 2 cores assigned to a virtual machine), up to 8 GB of memory in a virtual machine, and allows you to use the full 16 GB available in a Mac Pro.

  You can see a demo on YouTube, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIApJMzGzDQ

  
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  Acorn

  Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind - simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead. Acorn feels right, and won't drain your bank account.

  
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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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  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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  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.

  
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  Amazon MP3 Downloader

  Downloader for the AmazonMP3 service.

  
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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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  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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  Audiobook Maker

  Many websites, such as AudioBooksForFree.com, offer lots of complete audiobooks for free. The only problem is that these books come in many small MP3 files. Audiobook Maker makes joining and converting these audiobook files a breeze. With the simplicity of OS X, you just drag your MP3 files onto Audiobook Maker and click go!

  
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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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  Burn

  Burn is an application to burn most common disks: data disks, audio disks (mp3, audio cd), video disks (VCD, SVCD, DVD-Video, DivX), images and disk copy. Burn makes it easy for everyone to burn.

  
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  Chicken of the VNC

  Chicken of the VNC is a VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you.

  
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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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  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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  DbVisualizer

  DbVisualizer is a feature rich, intuitive and cross platform database tool for developers and DBA's providing a single powerful interface for a variety of databases. DbVisualizer supports simultaneous database connections, it lets you explore and manage database objects, execute SQL queries, visualize information and a lot more.

  
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  disclabel

  With DiscLabel you can create, print, & share CD labels, jewel case inserts, and DVD covers that look truly professional.

  
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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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  Excel

  Organize, analyze and present your data with precision and panache. The new tools in Microsoft® Excel for Mac give you more control over your spreadsheets, and the enhanced charting tools give you more dynamic ways to display your information.

  
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  File Action

  File Action is small, one-trick app that moves files from one place to another automatically to keep your computer organized and clutter free.

  Running through a set of user defined rules at regular intervals, File Action will find misplaced files and automatically move the file to a new home. Its the fastest, easiest and cheapest way to keep yourself organized!

  A nice free alternative to Hazel.

  
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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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  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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  Flip4Mac WMV

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

  
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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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  GimmeSomeTune

  GimmeSomeTune is an iTunes controller with power.

  Here's an excerpt of the features it offers:
  - Automatic Artwork fetching
  - Automatic Lyrics fetching
  - Last.fm (scrobbling) support
  - Hotkeys for controlling nearly every aspect of iTunes
  - Apple Remote Control support
  - Info-window
  - Lyrics window (with editing capabilities)

  A full list of features can be found on the product's website.

  Starting with version 4.1, GimmeSomeTune is Leopard only. Still, version 4.0 has been updated for Tiger to establish compatibility to iTunes 7.7.x - it's available at www.eternalstorms.at/gimmesometune/GimmeSomeTuneTiger.dmg

  GimmeSomeTune is freeware, but the author greatly appreciates donations.

  
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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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  Growl

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

  
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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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  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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  iDVD

  Takes your movies from iMovie and burns them to a DVD.

  
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  iMovie HD

  Riveting performances. Major effects. Inspired directing. Amazing how iMovie has changed the way people look at home movies. Now, with more cinematic tools to offer, iMovie makes you even more comfortable in the director's chair. And the editor's chair. And the special effects guy's chair. And, well, you get the idea. iMovie is the fastest and easiest way to turn home movies into dazzling Hollywood-style hits.

  
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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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  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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  iSync

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

  
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  iTerm

  iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support.

  
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  Jing

  Jing is a screen capture application that allows you to select and capture parts of your screen and save that area as a static picture or even a movie.
  Then you can add arrows, text and box highlights to draw further attention to the area you want to highlight.

  The thing that makes Jing unique is that it has a "share" button, which allows you to share the image or video with a friend by connecting to the free screencast.com image hosting solution. Click share, it uploads your media behind the scenes, and places the link to the screen in your clipboard. You can then email or paste that URL into your chat application for your friends to see.

  
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  KeePassX

  KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachemts and comments in one single database, encrypted either with AES (alias Rijndael) or Twofish encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key

  
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  Limewire

  LimeWire is a file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network. It is open standard software running on an open protocol, free for the public to use. LimeWire allows you to share any file such as .mp3s, .avis, .jpgs, .tiffs, etc. Limewire is written in Java, and will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Sun, and other computing platforms.

  
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  Lingon

  Lingon is a graphical interface for creating launchd configuration files and controlling them through launchctl for Mac OS X. (launchd is a system daemon that is used to run scripts/programs automatically, repeatedly or at certain times.)

  
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  Little Snitch

  Little Snitch is a software firewall that protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!

  Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private data from being sent out without your knowledge. Little Snitch runs inconspicuously in the background and it can also detect network related activity of viruses, trojans and other malware.

  
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  Logitech Harmony Remote Software

  The remote software allows users to update the remote configuration, learn IR commands, and upgrade the remote's firmware.

  Early versions of the remote software were browser based only. Newer versions are Java based, but the software still requires constant internet connectivity to work. The software is compatible with both Windows, and Mac.

  
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  MacVim

  MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X that is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the existing Carbon port of Vim. It has support for:

  * Safari style tabs
  * Multiple windows: use "Application windows" Exposé and Cmd-` to switch between windows
  * Client/server (+clientserver): use the --remote switch and friends to open files; script the server with remote_send() et al.
  * GUI Dialogs: with keyboard shortcuts, no need to use the mouse anymore!
  * Toolbar
  * Font panel: access to all of your fonts, proportional fonts render with fixed advancement
  * Multibyte: with automatic font substitution for wide characters
  * Input methods: use Mac OS X input methods to input non-English languages
  * and more...

  
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  MagiCal

  MagiCal is a FREE menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate either in addition to, or instead of the built in system menu clock.

  
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  MarcoPolo

  MarcoPolo uses fuzzy logic and rule-based matching to make educated guesses as to your current location, and automatically switches to the correct network location. It can match on discoverable Bluetooth devices, attached FireWire devices, assigned IP addresses, attached USB devices and visible WiFi networks, and can trigger various actions such as executing or opening a file, changing your default printer, running a shell script, or toggling your WiFi or Bluetooth.

  
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  Menuet

  Best described as the ultimate companion to iTunes, Menuet adds important missing features and powerful additions. With Menuet installed, you'll be able to use time-saving control methods (hotkeys, menubar controls, and more), enjoy support for Last.fm (a collaborative service for music fans), a sleep timer, album art grabbing and more. Why wait for iTunes 7, 8, or 9 to enjoy these features? Download Menuet today and give it a try: you won't look back.

  
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  Microsoft Entourage

  Mastermind your next project with the tightly integrated, streamlined information management tools in Microsoft® Entourage® 2004 for Mac. It’s the ultimate personal information manager (PIM) that helps you handle e-mail messages, contacts, schedules, notes, documents and more from one central location. And now you can work more easily in a Microsoft Exchange server environment with the new Exchange server support built into Entourage 2004.

  
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  NetNewsWire

  NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface similar to Apple Mail can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.

  
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  Noise

  Generates white or pink noise to provide a serene sonic atmosphere.

  
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  Nomachine NX client

  I qoute from the nomachine website:

  "NoMachine NX is a Terminal Server and Remote Access solution based on a comprising set of enterprise class open source technologies. Thanks to the outstanding compression, session resilience and resource management developed on top of the X-Window system, and the integration with the powerful audio, printing and resource sharing capabilities of the Unix world, NoMachine NX makes it possible to run any graphical application on any operating system across any network connection as if you were sitting in front of your computer."

  
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  OmniFocus

  Task management shouldn’t be your full time job. We’ve built OmniFocus to take a load off your mind by managing your tasks the way that you want, freeing you to focus your attention on the things that matter to you most. Finish that novel. Spend more time with your friends and family. Grow your business. Let us worry about keeping your goals and tasks, both personal and professional, in one ordered, easy to access system that you can depend on.

  
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  OnyX

  OnyX is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel). It allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure the hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock and of some of Apple's own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.

  
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  P4V

  The Perforce Visual Client, P4V, provides a graphical interface on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. It includes a built-in merge feature, as well as Perforce's revision graph and Time-lapse View tools.

  
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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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  PictureSync

  PictureSync is an invaluable utility that simplifies annotating and batch uploading your photographs and video clips to online services--directly from your image-management application or files, whilst preserving metadata. Supported services include Flickr, Fotki, Buzznet, ImageStation, Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, Webshots, and others with import supported from files, IPTC and XMP, iPhoto, iView MediaPro, and Aperture. Free for infrequent use.

  
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  Plaxo

  Plaxo Toolbar for Mac synchronizes your Mac OS X Address Book with your Plaxo Universal Address Book. Wherever you install a Plaxo toolbar, your address book will be consistent and stay up-to-date automatically. You can also access your address book on the web through Plaxo Online.

  
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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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  Remote Desktop Connection

  Remote Desktop Connection Client lets you connect to a Microsoft Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer

  
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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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  Saft

  Saft is a Safari plugin to add features like draggable tabs, full-screen browsing, searchable bookmarks and history, URL shortcuts, kiosk mode and more.

  
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  screen

  Screen creates virtual screen in a single terminal instance. The ability to detach then re-attach a given session makes it unique for mobile users.

  
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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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  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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  SlingPlayer

  SlingPlayer lets you watch and control your Slingbox. The software incorporates the company's SlingStream technology to provide the best possible viewing experience over any network, and you don't have to touch a thing - it just streams as well as your network allows! SlingPlayer is also very easy to use. A simple "TV Window" appears, and inside, voila, there's your TV.

  
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  Star

  Give Your Library Some Shine
  Star allows you quickly rate the current song in iTunes. Whether you prefer to be choosy about your ratings, or if you just want to have some fun your guaranteed to love Star.

  
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  Syncopation

  Syncopation from Sonzea provides a hands-free solution to keep your iTunes® music collection synchronized across multiple computers running Mac OS X. Once installed on two or more Macs, Syncopation goes to work, finding music that is on one computer but not the others, and automatically transfers the songs between them so that they both contain your complete music collection. Leave it running in the background and it will keep your iTunes libraries up-to-date. When you make changes to your song files on one computer, Syncopation updates your other computers with those changes. If you add files to one of your computers, Syncopation replicates the new songs to your other computers, whether they are iTunes Music Store purchases or tracks ripped from your own CD’s. Syncopation works over your Ethernet or wireless network.

  
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  TextExpander

  Previously known as Textpander, TextExpander is a utility that helps you type more efficiently and more accurately. TextExpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations.

  
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  Time Machine

  Time Machine is the breakthrough automatic backup that’s built right into Mac OS X Leopard. It keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac — digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything.

  
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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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  twhirl

  twhirl is a desktop client for the Twitter microblogging service. Most of the features available on the Twitter website are accessible through twhirl, too. Plus, a lot of usability enhancements have been added.

  twhirl is based on the new Adobe AIR platform that allows web development techniques to be used to create desktop applications. It is powered by the Flash-based Flex 3 framework, also from Adobe.

  
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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.