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7zX
7zX is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually 7zX compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format, and 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.
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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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Bean
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that features:
- a live word count
- a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
- a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
- an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
- date-stamped backups
- autosaving
- a page layout mode
- an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
- an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
- selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
- a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
- easy to use menus
- remembers cursor position (excluding .text, .html, and .webarchive formats)
- all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
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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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Scrivener
Scrivener is a project management tool for writers that acts like your own little writing shed at the bottom of the garden, where you have cork notice-boards, ring-binders, photos, clippings paperclipped to jottings, notebooks and reams of typewritten pages piling up - along with a secretary who keeps it all in neat piles and uses his speed-reading skills to find what you need as soon as you need it.
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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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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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AdiumBook
AdiumBook is a free Mac OS X bridge application between Adium and Address Book, used to search, manage and keep your contacts in sync.
Manage:
- Add Adium contacts to Address Book.
- Update card's information using Adium data.
- Find an Adium contact in Address Book.
- Find an Address Book contact in Adium.
- Full text search for both applications.
- Listing of contacts grouped by IM service.
- Contacts with no picture.
- Contacts present in Adium but not in Address Book.
- Contacts present in Address Book but not in Adium.
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AirPort Radar
AirPort scanning widget.
From the website:
AirPort Radar is a free and convenient tool for quickly scanning the area for AirPort and other wireless networks. It will work with AirPort cards, MacWireless 11g PC Cards, and 11g PCI cards. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required.
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Album Art Widget
A fast and compact album art and song rating displaying widget. It displays the album cover art of songs playing in iTunes. It can automatically fetch album art from internet sources and save them to iTunes. Additionally, you can jump easily to the iTunes Music Store page of the current playing song or artist, rate your songs with a single click and pause/skip/play songs without opening the iTunes window.
(from software home page)
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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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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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CandyBar
CandyBar is the easiest, quickest and by far, the safest way to customize the icons found in the system and application toolbars of Mac OS X. CandyBar also lets you customize apps, folders, clipping icons, locations and even the OS X Trash icon!
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CocoaWget
CocoaWget is a front-end application for GNU wget.
You can use it to download entire websites or parts of websites for offline viewing.
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coconutBattery
coconutBattery isn't just a tool which shows you only the current charge of your battery - it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your battery had as it left the factory.
You also get information about the battery-loadcycles, the current charger and last but not least information about the age of your Mac.
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coconutWiFi
coconutWiFi displays you a small aqua-bubble at the top of your screen which indicates whether you're in range of a wireless network or not.
The app also tells you if the wireless networks in your range are encrypted or open, so you won't miss the next open wireless network any more.
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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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Dashboard
Dashboard hosts nifty mini-applications called widgets that appear instantly and keep you up to date with timely information from the Internet. View stocks, check weather forecasts, track flights, convert currency and units of measure, even look up businesses in the phone book.
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Desktopia
Desktopia is a customization concept for Mac OS X. Thanks to it’s very simple and unobtrusive interface you will be able to configure desktopia to automatically change your desktop picture based on a specified time of the day.
For example a beautiful sunrise at 7:00AM or a starry sky at 10:00PM. Just drag & drop the pictures that you have chosen on Desktopia’s window, set the time, and voilà! Like they say… “set it, and forget it!”
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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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DynDNS Updater
Updates your dynamic DNS address(es) (DDNS) with your new IP automatically.
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ffmpegX
ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the "hyper fast video and audio encoder", mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support.
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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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Flip4Mac WMV
Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.
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GarageBand
(Comes with iLife bundle on new Mac purchases, no demo avaliable. $79.00 is price of iLife bundle.)
GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create a piece of music. It is developed by Apple Computer for Mac OS X.
The application is not aimed at professional musicians, but it is intended to help amateurs produce music easily. The application comes with 1,000 pre-recorded sampled loops, and 50 sampled or synthesized instruments which can be played using a MIDI keyboard connected to the computer, or using an on-screen keyboard.
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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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Gizmo
Gizmo Project uses your internet connection (broadband or dial-up) to make calls to other computers. With the click of a mouse, you’re connected to friends, family, and colleagues anywhere on earth. It’s just that simple. You talk clearly. For as long as you want. For free.
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GlowWorm FW
Similar to Little Snitch in functionality.
GlowWorm FW Lite is a rule-based network security and monitoring application based on plugin-accessible framework. By defining rules based on a set of connection criteria including the addresses, ports, the relevant endpoint and protocol, as well as a specific application, one can effectively restrict network activity. A free registration code is necessary to use this program.
The developer is also working on a non-Lite shareware full version.
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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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Harmonic
Harmonic always finds the lyrics you want, quickly and easily. You don't have to do a thing. Fire up the widget and play a song from iTunes. Leave it open in Dashboard and each song that plays will have lyrics added to it in the background while you work or play. It's that easy.
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iBackup 2008
iBackup is a powerful, yet very easy to use backup/restore tool for scheduled or manual backups of:
* Files
* Folders
* Application settings (e.g. Firefox, Adobe applications, Google Earth, etc.)
* System preferences like Time, Firewall, Bluetooth, etc.
* System applications like Mail, Address Book, iChat, iTunes, Stickies, etc.
iBackup supports Smart Folders, can create dated backup folders and Burn Folders, can run scripts and more. You can edit these settings and add your own.iBackup can backup to local or network volumes or to WebDAV servers.
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iChat
Apple's chat client supporting AOL Instant Messenger and Jabber Instant Messenger clients.
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iClip lite
Winner of the Apple Design Award for “Best Mac OS X Dashboard Widget”, iClip lite is a multiple clipboard & scrapbook widget featuring stylish graphics and animation by the talented Mac theme artist, Piotr Gajos.
iClip lite is designed to improve your efficiency and productivity for most tasks you do on your computer. It enables you to quickly to store and retrieve snippets of information like text, pictures, Internet addresses, and more in its multiple “clip bins.”
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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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Inkscape
Great Open Source SVG editor!
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IP widget
Small, simple, no-frills widget that can run in multiple copies to display your current internal or external IP and refresh automatically everytime you open Dashboard. Copy IP to clipboard by click.
Choose between Airport, Ethernet, Firewire and your "real" Internet/WAN IP.
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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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iShowU
iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from any compatible source. Ever been in the situation where you wanted to show someone what was going on, but couldn't? Either the person is not right next to you, not around, in another country (the list goes on). Now just record what you're doing and what you want to say, and stick it in an email!
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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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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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LotsaWater
This screensaver renders a fairly realistic water effect over your desktop, showing it distorted through the wavy surface of the water as raindrops fall on the surface.
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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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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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Paparazzi!
Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages.
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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:
Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
These formats when they are inside an AVI:
h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.
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Preview
Apple's built in application that views many photo formats.
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PureFTPd Manager
Do you need more than OSX ftp server ? Virtual users, bandwidth limits, ...
Pure FTPd Manager can do that for you, ad much more !
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Q
Visualization software - can run Windows, Linux and a lot more Systems on your Mac. Q is a feature packed cocoa port of QEMU: Switch fast between guest PCs. Save and restart guest PCs at any stage. Easily exchange Files between Host and Guest. Q makes use of OS X most advanced technologies like openGL, quartz and coreaudio to accelerate your experience with your guest PC.
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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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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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RAR Expander
RAR Expander is a MacOSX program which extracts the files contained in RAR archives. It supports both single and multi-part archives, and has support for password-protected archives as well. It uses the official unRAR library internally so it is fully compatible with archives produced by WinRAR.
RAR Expander also features AppleScript support, and includes a few useful example scripts for expanding multiple archives at once.
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RealPlayer
The Mac OS X version of RealPlayer. Useful for playing RealAudio and RealVideo files.
- Download and play Flash video
- PerfectPlay enabled pausing and seeking within live clips
- Playlist window
- Play RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media, and Flash Video
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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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Senuti
There are many good reasons that someone would have to transfer music from her iPod back to her computer. There are many good ways to do it, too. Senuti is the only alternative that will give you the power and convenience that you need, wrapped in an interface that is extremely easy to use, at a cost that you can't complain about.
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smcFanControl
FanControl lets the user adjust the minimum speed of the built in fans. So you can increase the minimum speed to make your Intel Mac run cooler, as well as monitor temperature and fan speed.
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Sunrise
Sunrise is the open-source browser that based on WebKit framework for Mac. It is light and fast. The concept is to add some convenient functions that have not equipped it with other browsers yet. The same rendering engine as Safari is used.
Great for web developers.
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Tagesschau Wetter Widget
German meteorological data from Tagesschau.de (wind, temperature day/night, forecast, clouds)
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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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Thunderbird
Email, NNTP, RSS reader based on Gecko.
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UnifyCamino
UnifyCamino is a plugin which lets you customize the appearance of the Camino web browser. It changes the colour of the bookmarks toolbar so that it matches the 'unified' toolbar look on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. It can also apply a streamlined look to the tabs and status bar, or apply any custom theme to the whole Camino interface.
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UNO
UNO derives from the Latin word for one and stands for "as one".
UNO is the root of Unity.UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look&feel to every single window on your system (metal or aqua, and already unified windows as well).
On an higher level, UNO's main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look&feel as one.
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WengoPhone
WengoPhone is a cross platform SIP VOIP phone and IM client for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. It is not native Cocoa but based on Qt 4.x and Pidgin, which Adium is based on. The price for calling is cheaper than Skype, and has especially good price to call Europe, as low as 0.008 €. Starting from 2.1.0 WengoPhone can be used as a standard SIP client, which gives users the freedom to choose their own SIP service provider.
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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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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.
