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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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  AppTrap

  Uninstalling on Mac OS X; let's solve it once and for all!

  What can be considered the exact opposite of dragging an application to the Applications folder? Opening another application, dragging the unwanted application to that application, clicking a button, clicking another button, quitting? Nope!

  The exact opposite would have to be... dragging the application to the trash. Ah, there you go! This is exactly what AppTrap does. Whenever you drag an application to the trash, a dialog window will pop up, asking if you want to delete the associated system files too. Simple as that.

  AppTrap is a completely free utility for uninstalling applications on Mac OS X.

  
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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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  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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  Azureus

  The reigning heavy-weight BitTorrent champion. There are smaller and prettier Bittorrent clients out there, but none are as feature-complete, and none have Azureus's library of available plugins. The Firefox of BitTorrent clients.

  
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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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  Cashbox

  Cashbox was designed from day one to be a quick and simple to use application for managing personal finances. As it has evolved, it has become more feature packed while keeping with the original goal of simplicity.

  
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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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  Chmox

  Chmox is a OSX viewer for Windows Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files viewer

  
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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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  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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  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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  DashboardStarter

  Starts Dashboard. Intended for use as a login item.

  
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  DashQuit

  Program that lets you quit all processes on Dashboard. Nice if you want to free up some Ram all of a sudden.

  
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  Deep Sleep

  About Deep Sleep
  The default behavior of Mac OS X is to put sleeping computers in “hardware suspend” mode, during which the RAM is still powered on. This widget allows the computer to enter “software suspend” mode. Software suspend is a feature similar to what Windows calls “hibernation:” the computer consumes no power while sleeping, however the wake up process takes more time to complete.

  Hibernation is made possible by the Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.3 update. This operating system version is required.

  Only the computers with “safe sleep” feature are officially supported. For now, the only computers with this feature are the PowerBook HD line of Apple laptops. Please read the included documentation for more information, including the possibilty to use this widget on unsupported computers.

  
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  Dictionary

  Dictionary and thesaurus system application based on The New Oxford American Dictionary. Comes with OS X.

  
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  DownThemAll

  DownThemAll (or just dTa) is a powerful yet easy-to-use Mozilla Firefox extension that adds new advanced download capabilities to your browser. DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images contained in a webpage and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable criteria to get only what you really want. DownThemAll is all you can desire from a download manager: it features an advanced accelerator that increases speed up to 400%, it allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time and, last but not least, it's fully integrated into your favorite browser!

  
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  FireBug

  FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

  Mozilla Public License 1.1

  
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  FMenu

  FMenu is a program for Mac OS X and Facebook that sits in the menu bar (near the clock) and provides notifications about various events. In addition, it provides a menu to easily access common Facebook pages and keeps a count of your messages, pokes, events, friend requests, wall posts, and photo comments. It also features a "Quicklaunch" box which gives you immediate access to your friends' profiles (just start typing a friend's name and it will autocomplete – press enter and go to that friend's profile) and Facebook searches (type a phrase and press enter). Notifications are issued using Growl and can be customized to the user's liking (including turning on/off and customizing display style). They are:

  * A friend updated his profile
  * A friend changed his status
  * A friend wrote a new note
  * Someone wrote on your wall
  * You have new messages
  * You have new pokes
  * You have new friend requests
  * You have new photo comments

  FMenu checks for updates by default every 5 seconds (or at whatever interval you set), but checks for each kind of notification (friend details, friend requests, wall, photo comments, messages, pokes, events) separately. Consequently each particular type of notification is refreshed once every 35 seconds.

  
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  Freemind

  FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java.

  
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  Grapher

  Create 2D and 3D graphs with this lovely full-featured equation grapher.

  
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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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  Hex Fiend

  A very maclike hex editor that is fast, powerful, and elegant.

  
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  iStat Pro

  iStat pro is the ultimate system monitoring widget, consisting of nine sections which can be shown or hidden aswell as customized.

  It features highly detailed information on CPU usage (up to 8 cores), memory usage, hard drive space, network usage, IP addresses, battery usage, wireless keyboard and mouse battery levels, uptime, temperatures, and fan speeds.

  Vertical and Horizontal style skins are available aswell as 7 different color schemes.

  
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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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  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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  MacFUSE

  MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X.
  Examples of file systems that work have been tested (to varying degrees) include sshfs, ntfs-3g (read/write NTFS), ftpfs (read/write FTP), wdfs (WebDAV), cryptofs, encfs, bindfs, unionfs, beaglefs (yes, including the entire Beagle paraphernalia), and so on.

  Get the NTFS driver from here and here are the removal instructions

  
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  MacFusion

  MacFusion is an open source Mac application that allows you to work with files on servers across the internet, as if they were sitting on your computer. Macfusion presents a Volume in Finder, letting you use your favorite Mac applications to work with them. Macfusion works with SSH/SFTP and FTP servers.

  More generally, Macfusion is a front-end to Gogole's MacFUSE software. Macfusion provides a plugin API to enable the creation of plugins for other FUSE filesystems.

  
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  Mail

  Take control of your correspondence with Mac OS X Tiger Mail 2, now featuring Spotlight search technology. Find email instantly and accurately, organize messages using Smart Folders and share, save or view emailed images easily.

  
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  Mail.appetizer

  Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple's Mail and integrates seamlessly. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window. It gives you a brief summary of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention.

  
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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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  Monolingual

  Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space.

  
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  Namely

  Namely is possibly the fastest way to open applications. And unlike some other launchers, it doesn't require any learning.
  You simply activate it using your preferred keyboard shortcut, start typing part of an application's name and see a list of matches as you type. Most of the time, one or two letters are enough. In fact, Namely learns your habits and makes your most-used apps even quicker to access over time. It's basically Spotlight for applications, only much faster, and highly addictive.

  
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  NeoOffice

  NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing, database, and macro functionality) for Mac OS X. It can import, edit, and exchange documents with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.

  NeoOffice is focused on making OpenOffice.org a better Mac OS X citizen, with dozens of standard Mac features not found in OpenOffice.org. NeoOffice does NOT require the X11 windowing system.

  
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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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  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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  PhotoBook

  PhotoBook is a Facebook photo browser. It makes it easy and fun to manage, share, and view your friends' Facebook photos in one intuitive interface.

  Key Features:
  

  • View photos of friends or albums on a single page.
  • Quickly view photos with tags and other information all in the same window.
  • Watch slideshows with amazing transitions.
  • Import photos or entire albums into iPhoto with one click.
  • Filter through photos or albums instantly with as-you-type search.

  
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  Porticus

  Porticus is a Cocoa GUI for the MacPorts package manager. MacPorts provides ready to build open-source software packages modified to compile and run on Mac OS X. The MacPorts project provides a TCL command line tool to manage installation, update and activation of the port packages. Porticus provides a GUI front-end to this tool.

  This release fixes a bug which broke French localisation and includes some other small bug fixes, more details at http://porticus.alittledrop.com.

  
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  Schoolhouse

  With the ability to sort and organize your assignments, exams, and projects quickly and easily Schoolhouse is a must have for any student on-the-go. The power of smart notebooks allow you to interact with your work as simply as your iTunes library. A newly redesigned grading system allows you to chart your scores over the course of the term to keep an outlook as you go. All of this works to ensure you will never be in the dark at the end of the semester.

  
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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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  Skim

  Skim is a free PDF reading and note-taking app for Mac OS X that is designed to make reading research papers and manuals better.

  Just like in Preview, you can search, scan, and zoom through PDFs, but you also get some custom features for your workflow, like:
  - Adding and editing notes
  - Highlighting important text
  - Making "snapshots" for reference
  - Reading in full screen
  - Giving presentations
  and more.

  
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  Smultron

  Smultron is an open-source text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X with many of the features that you need. You can easily work with many documents and select one quickly in a list.

  
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  Sparkle

  Sparkle is a module that developers can stick in their Cocoa applications (five-step install!) to get instant self-update functionality.

  By that, I mean that your app will be able to update itself, not just check for new versions: it'll read the update information from an appcast on your server, download, extract, install, restart, and even offer to show the users release notes before they decide if they want to update.

  
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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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  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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  Vienna

  Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.

  A summary of some of its features:

  • Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts.
  • Simple and intuitive user interface.
  • Built-in tabbed browser.
  • Smart folders for organising related feed articles.
  • Custom article display styles.
  • Three separate reading layouts.
  • Blogging integration.
  • Filter the displayed articles.
  • Manual reordering of the subscription list.
  • Full AppleScript support.
  • Localised into several languages.

  
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  VLC

  VLC media player 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.

  It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

  
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  Xee

  An image browser with more features than Preview.app

  
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  Alliance

  Alliance takes the best from BitTorrent and Direct Connect and creates a decentralized and secure p2p network. It is a private and secure environment to share files and communicate with people you know. Alliance works on Windows, Linux and Mac.

  
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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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  MacPorts

  The DarwinPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X and Darwin)

  There are currently about 3420 completed and usable ports, with more being added on a regular basis. You can track recently added ports by subscribing to the cvs-darwinports-all mailing list.

  
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  sshfs

  SSH File System for MacFUSE (requires MacFUSE Core)

  
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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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  BetterZip Quick Look Generator

  A Quick Look plugin with support for archive formats: ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary.

  
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  Blender

  Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

  
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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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  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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  CocoaMySQL

  CocoaMySQL is a MySQL management (schema and data) app.

  
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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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  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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  Disk Inventory X

  Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".

  If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

  
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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 Hunter

  Dvd Hunter is a free application for Mac that catalogue, sort, and organize your movie collection. Currently only working on Leopard.

  - iTunes like interface
  - New get information using online database
  - list to organize your library
  - self updating smart-list
  - Address book integration
  - iCal integration
  - watch trailer directly in Dvd Hunter
  - automatic update with Sparkle

  
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  Eclipse

  Superb Java IDE, recently released an Intel verison.

  
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  Facebook Exporter for iPhoto

  Tag, caption, and export photos from your iPhoto library directly to Facebook.

  
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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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  Fink

  The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. We modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.

  There are currently over 3000 packages available.

  
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  Fink Commander

  FinkCommander is an open-source, graphical user interface for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools for downloading and installing Unix software.

  
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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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  Flash Player

  Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices. Now as a universal binary.

  
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  Flip4Mac WMV

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

  
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  FreeDMG

  FreeDMG is one of the most powerful and easy to use disk imaging program available for Mac OS X. With this software it is possible to quickly perform disk imaging on the fly. Both the program's window, and the dock icon can be used for drag-and-drop imaging. There many image formats that that can be chosen (UDZO, UDCO, etc.). FreeDMG can make internet enabled disk images for distribution to Macs as well as ISO/Joliet hybrid images for cross-platform delivery. Verbose preferences, and a built-in log window help users hide/display additional information about the imaging process.

  Gain easy access to the many options available for creating and manipulating disk images in Mac OS X with FreeDMG. From the hidden "resize" function of hdiutil to the adjustable compresion levels available for the UDZO format, this software attempts to unveil it all. Users have the option to overwrite exising files, and can choose to quit the program automatically after creating an image on launch. It is possible to encrypt images (password protect) with the click of a button.

  With FreeDMG you can attach beautiful html/rtf software license agreements to disk images. This software is currently the best way to add SLAs to disk images for multi-lingual distribution. The license creation process in FreeDMG prevents character loss for all 2-byte languages.

  
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  Front Row

  The full-screen Front Row media experience — with its intuitive menus, large text, and brilliant graphics — lets you browse the music, photos, and videos on your Mac mini as easily as you browse music on your iPod. The Apple Remote lets you enjoy your media from anywhere in the room, from your desk chair to favorite sofa. Front Row can even play music, photos, and videos saved on other computers in the house, thanks to Bonjour instant networking. So gather your friends and dazzle them with a slideshow of your vacation pics, a home movie, your latest playlist, or a DVD.

  
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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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  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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  GrabFS

  GrabFS is a file system that shows you a live view of the window contents of currently running applications. In a GrabFS volume, folders represent running applications and image files represent instant screenshots ("grabs") of the applications' windows. You simply copy a file or just open it in place, and you have a screenshot. Open it again, and you have a new screenshot!

  rabFS requires Mac OS X "Leopard" and MacFUSE.

  
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  Guitar Chords

  Just pick a note and type of chord. Then watch as the widget displays how to fret that chord on the guitar. Scroll up the neck and see alternate ways of playing that same chord. Next, press the play button and hear what each of these chords sounds like. When you get tired of that, flip the widget around and change the tuning on your guitar. Ever wondered how to play a E-flat augmented chord in Open G tuning? Now you can find out.

  
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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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  Image Capture

  Image Capture is the technology in Mac OS X that transfers images from your digital camera or scanner to your Mac for use in iPhoto or Automator. Gives a little more control than automatically filing within iPhoto, when using the iPhoto importer.

  
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  ImageBurner

  ISO Burner

  
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  Inkscape

  Great Open Source SVG editor!

  
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  Interface Builder

  Interface Builder is an application for designing and testing user interfaces. Developers can use Interface Builder to create user interfaces that follow the Mac OS X human-interface guidelines by dragging user-interface elements from a palette of predefined controls and dropping them into the window or view they are configuring. Interface Builder works closely with Xcode to provide a development experience that facilitates the concurrent but specialized development of an application's user interface and business logic.

  
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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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  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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  iTunesFS

  iTunesFS allows you to mount the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file as a file system, using the excellent MacFUSE (http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/). All playlists are exposed as directories, with their respective entries. Order of tracks within the playlists is maintained by prefixing the tracks with their playlist index.

  
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  Localization Suite

  Localization Suite is composed of three different applications that help developers and localizers translating their software.

  - Localization Manager allows you to create and manage localizations.
  - Localizer is the application localizers use to translate files created with Localization Manager, which are provided by the developer.
  - Locadoc is a tool to bundle the same localized file into one single file (useful for Read Me files, for example)

  
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  MacLibre

  MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X. It's simple, intuitive with applications you need. It brings a new way of software installation on your Mac.

  It's similar to a package manager in Linux

  
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  MacPython

  MacPython is the port of Guido van Rossum's Python high-level object-oriented programming language to the Mac. MacPython is available for Mac OS X but also for Mac OS 9 or earlier.Python is freely distributable and available in source form too.

  
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  MetaX

  MetaX is a meta-data tagger for mp4 files and their derivatives. It uses Atomic Parsley on the back-end to do the tag writing. Tag data can be automatically downloaded from Amazon.com or entered by the user. Cover art can also be retrieved from Yahoo! or the video file itself.

  
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  Miro

  Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player.

  The Mac version of Miro uses Quicktime 7, which is built into the operating system, to play video. In addition, it uses plugins for Quicktime to play even more video types. The Mac version can play MPEG, MP4, MOV, H264, Flash, Xvid, AVI, OGG, and more.

  Previously known as Democracy.

  
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  Nocturne

  Nocturne is (yet another) simple app for switching a computer to night vision mode. It does, however, add a few things. From the creator of Quicksilver.

  
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  Numbers

  Introducing Numbers ’08, the spreadsheet you’ve been waiting for — and already know how to use. Innovative, powerful, and intuitive, Numbers ’08 lets you do everything from setting up your family budget to completing a lab report to creating detailed financial documents.

  
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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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  Parallels Desktop for Mac

  Parallels Desktop for Mac is the first solution for Intel-Macs that give you the flexibility of running Windows on a Mac seamlessly without rebooting. The upgraded 3.0 version delivers 3D Graphics Support to play the hottest games and run the most popular applications, cross OS application & file integration with SmartSelect, control the levels of integration and isolation with Security Manager and bulletproofing your VMs with SnapShots.

  
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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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  Platypus

  Platypus is a powerful developer tool for creating application wrappers around scripts, i.e. for creating MacOS X applications that execute a bundled script. Scripts can thus be run seamlessly from the graphical window environment, making elegant Mac OS X-native applications from scripts.

  
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  Play

  Play is an application for playing and managing audio files.

  Play currently supports playback of FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats.

  For lossless formats such as FLAC and WavPack, and for Ogg Vorbis and specially-tagged MP3 files, Play supports gapless playback allowing sample-accurate audio reproduction.

  Play's powerful searching and organizational features make finding music a snap! Play's integrated browser allows you to easily locate tracks in your library grouped by artist, album, composer, or genre, while smart playlists create unlimited ways to combine your music.

  Need to make changes to your audio files' metadata? No problem! Play has a powerful integrated metadata editor that allows multiple files to be edited at once, even if the files are in different formats.

  Never touch your volume control again! Play supports replay gain, allowing files to play at a constant volume despite inherent differences in their loudness.

  Play is integrated with the official Last.fm client, so you can share your listening habits with everyone. Consider joining the Play Users group!

  Play is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

  
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  Preview

  Apple's built in application that views many photo formats.

  
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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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  Rename xCode Project

  Rename Xcode Project is a small utility that renames Xcode projects.

  
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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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  Secrets

  Secrets is free system preference pane for Leopard only, that allows you to change / customize hidden settings for your system and most applications.

  The website features a comprehensive list of user defaults that you can download.

  NOTE: Secrets is BETA and many of the options can harm your system if used improperly.

  
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  Shiira

  Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.

  
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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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  SMS

  Sending an SMS message just got easier. With this innovative service, you can send free text messages to virtually anyone, anywhere from the convenience of your computer.

  
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  Software for Starving Students (mac)

  Free software for "Starving Student". It is very difficult to get through college-so Softwarefor.org provides a free collection of software for the Mac.

  Acqlite, Adium, Audacity, Bleezer, Blender, BZFlag, Camino, Carbon Copy Cloner, Cashbox, Celestia, ClamXav, Crack Attack!, Enigma, FreeDMG, Freemind, Fugu, Genius, GLtron, HandBrake, ImageBurner, Monolingual, MozoDojo, NeoOffice, NVU, Pac the Man X, Platypus, POV-Ray, Seashore, Schoolhouse, Smultron, Thunderbird, Transmission, TypeTrainer4Mac, VideoLAN Client

  
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  Stickies

  The Mac OS Classic notes for the OS X desktop.

  
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  StuffIt Expander

  Stuffit Expander is a compression and decompression tool with support for a lot of formats.

  
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  Tag

  Creating a website is a tedious business, you experience a never-ending cycle of writing code, making changes and previewing it. Enter Tag, the intuitive XHTML editor with tons of features to keep your eyes on what's important, your code. Tag is the perfect Mac OS X citizen, featuring high quality photo-realistic icons and a ultra-usable interface.

  
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  Tag (Metadata Editor)

  Tag is a metadata editor for FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files from the people that bring you max. Not to be confused with Tag (the html editor).

  
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  Temperature Monitor

  Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions.

  
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  TextEdit

  Text editor, comes with Mac OS X.

  
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  Toast Titanium

  Roxio Toast® 8 sets the standard for burning CDs, DVDs, and now Blu-ray discs on the Mac. Create superior sounding audio CDs with crossfades. Enjoy your TV shows anywhere with exclusive EyeTV burning and TiVoToGo™ transfers to DVD or iPod®. Copy your audio CDs, movies and DVDs. It's your digital life, Toast It!

  Please note that there is no demo available.

  
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  TunesTEXT

  A Dashboard Widget displays lyrics of the song currently playing in iTunes. If you don't have lyrics data, TunesTEXT searches online lyrics databases and download lyrics automatically. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. (Freeware)

  
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  UnaceX

  UnaceX extracts ACE files. It is a grafical interface wrapping the commandline tool MacUnace.

  * UnaceX extracts ACE files.
  * UnaceX supports extraction of encrypted ACE files.

  
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  UnRarX

  UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.

  
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  Virtual Box

  innotek VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

  
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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.

  
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  Widget Update

  Widget Update will scan your Mac for any Widgets you have installed and look for new versions at Apple.com, DashboardWidgets.com, MacUpdate and VersionTracker. You will be presented with a tidy list containing links to the new versions' detail pages. The Widget comes with plenty of features such as Growl support, the ability to ignore updates, mark them as installed, ignore Widgets at all, override version information, being collapsed into a small icon to preserve space and much more.

  
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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.

  
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  XDroplets

  A collection of Applescript droplets to launch your X11 programs from the Finder.

  Minimum Requirements

  Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later (earlier versions are unsupported)
  X11 environment (Apple X11, XDarwin, or OroborOSX)
  Gnome, KDE, and X11 programs (installed via Fink, MacPorts, or manually)

  About the XDroplets Collection

  The XDroplets Collection consists of a bunch of launchers, or "XDroplets", that better integrate X11 programs with the Mac OS X environment. XDroplets provide the following features:

  X11 programs can be launched via the Finder or Dock
  documents can be opened via drag and drop
  X11 automatically gets launched if it is not already open
  Given the extensive range of X11 programs, this set of launchers is by no means comprehensive, but it does cover some of the most common programs for standard X11, KDE, and Gnome distributions. Feel free to contact me if I am missing a launcher for an important program, or to pass along your feedback and thoughts.

  You can make your own droplets via the included XDroplets Factory.