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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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  Gmail+Growl

  Growl is a simple tool that allows applications to send out notifications to your screen. Notifications appear as small windows with a bit of text and an icon. Gmail+Growl works inside of Gmail Notifier to send Growl notifications whenever new mail is received.

  
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  GraphicConverter

  Ever had an image that seemed impossible to open? Struggeled too many times with images without enough info for even the mighty Photoshop?

  GraphicConverter X/Classic is kinda like vlc, only for converting images. Keep it in mind, when running into trouble....

  
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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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  iAlertU

  iAlertU is an alarm system for the MacBook computers. Once it is running, you simply press and hold the "menu" button of the Apple Remote to activate it. Once activated, an alarm sound starts whenver the computer is moved (more triggers are available) and the only way to stop it is to use the same Apple Remote. It also uses the iSight to take snapshots of the "thief".

  
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  Iconverter

  Icon format manipulation tool with batch processing.

  (Note: Homepage link leads to an older version of the program. Use the download link to get the latest version.)

  
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  iEatBrainz

  iEatBrainz is a MusicBrainz client for MacOS X. MusicBrianz is a song/album/artist catalog, that unlike CDDB and friends computes an audio-bound hash for each track, and matches that to the database.

  This is very useful for retagging MP3s.

  
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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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  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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  Menufela

  Menufela is an application enhancer that lets you hide your menubar and/or the spotlight menu item.
  You can also set a hotkey to toggle hiding in case you wouldn't like hiding to be on all the time.

  
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  OmniGraffle

  More than just a silly name, OmniGraffle is a powerful, yet easy to use diagramming and drawing tool. OmniGraffle can help you make amazing graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they're moved, providing stencils full of common symbols for you to drag and drop, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Create flow charts, org charts, network diagrams, family trees, project processes, office layouts - or anything else that can be represented by symbols and lines.

  
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  OurTunes

  This program allows you to download music that people are sharing through iTunes.

  
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  Pixadex

  iPhoto for your icon collection, import and export in many differnt formats. Easily change any icon in the finder with drag and drop. Works together with CandyBar to change your system icons.

  
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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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  SafarIcon

  SafarIcon allows you to change Safari's user interface by installing icons as well as other application resources such as nib files and localization files, and gives you the option to install Brush Metal, Aqua or Unified appearances of both the browser and download windows with optional installation of a New tab button. In addition, it allows you set various hidden, but useful preference settings for Safari that are not accessible to the user through Safari.

  
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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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  SlimBatteryMonitor

  SlimBatteryMonitor is a replacement power gauge for Apple's Mac OS X that tracks both laptop batteries and many UPS batteries. Multiple-battery systems (e.g. older powerbooks) are supported as well. A graphical icon shows the power remaining, and can be accompanied by a text description (battery charge in percent, or time remaining). Colours can indicate whether the system is fully charged, charging or on battery.

  
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  VLC

  VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) 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.

  
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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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  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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  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.

  
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  Blue Coconut

  Blue Coconut is a tool that allows you to copy music from shared iTunes music libraries in a tight, pretty interface.

  
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  ChocoFlop

  ChocoFlop is an image manipulation program based entirely on Apple's new CoreImage technology which takes advantages of the processing power in your GPU (graphics card).

  Main features:
  - Small, Launches in a pair of seconds
  - Real Time non-destructive filters
  - Rich Text Layers
  - Load and opens many image formats
  - Supports layers, layer masks, selections
  - Paint tools with table pressure support
  - HDR (128 bits per pixel)
  - Universal Binary
  - Easy to use for photoshop users
  - Imports many RAW formats thanks to dcraw
  - Save for web: get the best Jpeg / PNG compression on earth!

  Keep in mind, ChocoFlop is beta software.

  Requires OSX 10.4+ or higher.

  The license if free until it reaches a stable status (v version 1.0):
  See this page

  
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  Flip4Mac WMV

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

  
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  FruitMenu

  FruitMenu is a haxie that gives you the ability to customize the Apple Menu and contextual menus. Using a visual editor you can edit the contents of the menus to suit your needs and taste. FruitMenu will also display the contents of the FruitMenu Items folder inside of your Library folder, launch applications and shell scripts from the Apple Menu and contextual menus, to allow easy file navigation and launching.

  
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  gDisk

  gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet.

  
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  GIMPshop

  Modified version of GIMP to make the user interface seem more like photoshop.

  
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  Google Notifier

  The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.

  
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  iPodDisk

  iPodDisk = iPod + iDisk

  Copying music off your iPod has never been so easy.

  Requires Mac OS X 10.4, and MacFUSE 0.2.4.

  
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  Libra

  Libra is a very simple application that allows you to create, use and manage multiple iTunes music libraries. Normally, iTunes has only one library. You create playlists within this unique library and you can have one iPod attached to this library. However, there are many uses for multiple libraries:

  Have music on one or more external drives.
  Use multiple iPods with the same computer account.
  Put music in separate libraries for different purposes.
  Let multiple users have their own library when they share a computer account.

  
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  Lostify

  Lostify is a metadata tagger for MP4 videos. It runs on Mac OS X, and the tags it produces aim to be compatible with iTunes, the iPod video (5G), and Front Row. This means that after you tag a video using Lostify, it will show up in iTunes, iPod and Front Row appropriately as a TV Show, Music Video, etc., with all the episode information, season information, etc. intact.

  
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  LyFox

  LyFOX is an application to watch music videos from yahoo music for the Modern Macintosh, and Linux. LyFOX main goal it just to provide a way for Macintosh users to watch videos.

  
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  MacTheRipper

  The DVD ripping tool for OS X.

  
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  Max

  Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

  
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  OmniOutliner Pro

  OmniOutliner Professional is the deluxe version of OmniOutliner, a flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information.

  
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  OmniWeb

  OmniWeb is a browser for Mac OS X with a unique way of viewing tabs, specific site preferences, and a whole lotta other stuff.

  
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  PandoraMan

  Allows you to load Pandora in a small Cocoa app using WebKit.

  
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  Poisoned

  Poisoned is a file sharing application for Mac OS X. Poisoned may look like your average file sharing application at first glance, but it is so much more. Unlike applications like Limewire or Kazaa that connect to only one file sharing network, Poisoned can connect to several seamlessly. Unlike Kazaa and several other file sharing applications
  Poisoned connects to the FastTrack network (Kazaa, Grokster, iMesh), the Gnutella network (Limewire, Acquisition), and OpenFT.

  
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  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.

  
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  Shapeshifter

  ShapeShifter is a product that lets you change the overall appearance of your Mac using 'themes'. We're not talking about just desktop backgrounds and icons here, we're talking about everything - the look of windows, menus, apps, buttons, absolutely everything. You don't wear the same clothes everyday, your house doesn't look exactly like your neighbor's - why should the computing interface you use everyday be any different. You personalize your physical workspace to suit your tastes and whims, so why not your Mac?

  
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  Solitaire XL

  Solitaire XL is a stunning version of the well known one-person card game, Klondike Solitaire. It builds on the power of Cocoa and OpenGL to provide integrated 3D effects during gameplay.

  
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  TextEdit

  Text editor, comes with Mac OS X.

  
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  VirtueDesktops

  “VirtueDesktops” is a virtual desktop manager for Apple’s Mac OS. It offers features, eye candy and configurable options that no other desktop manager on the mac has added yet. Sadly, VirtueDesktops is no longer under active development. It is based upon the work done by Rich Wareham on DesktopManager (specifically the CGSPrivate headers), which is an alternate open-source virtual desktop application.