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  AbiWord

  AbiWord is a great slim Open Source word processor available under the GPL. It has the ability to read and write to many formats including Word, OpenDocment, etc.

  
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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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  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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  ByteController

  ByteController is a small user interface utility for controlling iTunes. ByteController gives you three buttons in your menu bar: Previous Song, Next Song and Play/Pause.

  
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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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  Cave Story ( どうくつ / Doukutsu )

  This is one of those few true greats in freeware games. At first glance, it's a standard platformer. Go a bit deeper, though, and you'll find a complex storyline, impressive pixel animation, and at times shockingly difficult without being impossible.
  Some games are hard because they're poorly designed; this one is hard because it's EXCELLENTLY designed.

  There's jumping, shooting, multiple weapons and upgrades, uniquely designed levels, and some fantastic bosses. Most anyone who's played it will tell you that it's one of the best games out there. Give it a try, and see if you agree.

  
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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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  Filelight

  Mac Filelight is a clone of the KDE Filelight utility. It provides a pretty and user-friendly interface for discovering what's taking up all your disk space.

  
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  Final Cut Pro

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

  
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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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  Hardware Growler

  This is a little app hidden in the extras folder of the growl disk image. It notifies you of any hardware events, like when you plug in your mouse. On top of that it also notifies you of wireless network connections and when you acquire an IP, very usefull when on the road, using open wifi networks and wanting to know when you are connected.

  To download, download the GROWL package and look into the Extras folder.

  
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  iFreeMem

  iFreeMem... Free system memory for better application performance. A quick and easy alternative to either a reboot or RAM upgrade to get defragmented free memory.

  If you are in the middle of using an application and the system becomes unresponsive for several seconds it could be the memory manager organising free memory for your application to use. IFreeMem clears Inactive memory to help your applications avoid the performance hit you get when running low on Free memory. You could think of it like a RAM upgrade.

  Especially useful for users of memory hungry applications, i.e.:

  • Musicians
  • DJ's
  • Graphic Designers
  • Final Cut Pro users
  • Photographers
  • Scientists
  • Parallels Desktop users

  Rejuvenates old Machines and optimizes new machines.

  
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  iScrobbler

  iScrobbler is an iTunes plugin that monitors the songs played on iTunes and creates reports about different users' tastes and how often a certain song or artist is played.

  
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  Lynx Text Web Browser

  Classic command-line text browser. Comes with OS X installer package and shell script to start the browser in the terminal

  
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  MenuCalendarClock for iCal

  This app replaces the date and time in your menubar with a fully customizable menu extra that displays an interactive drop-down monthly calendar. Displays calendar events and birthdays (requires registration, or willingness to deal with somewhat frequent nag screens), to do items, and will launch iCal when double clicked. The colors are also configurable. Expensive, but reclaims the valuable menubar space by adding much-needed functionality.

  
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  Minuteur

  Minuteur is an egg timer and a stopwatch. The intention was to have a timer which is simple and immediate in use. Minuteur is also very flexible and extremely configurable. Particular attention has been paid to the ergonomics of the programme. The basic functionality of Minuteur is intuitive enough to be used right from the start.

  
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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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  Notational Velocity

  Notational Velocity is an application that stores and retrieves notes

  
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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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  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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  scplugin

  SCPlugin integrates Subversion into the Mac OS X finder.

  
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  screen

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

  
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  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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  SIDPLAY

  SIDPLAY is a Commodore 64 music player. It emulates the sound chip and other internals of the Commodore 64 home computer to play back music that was originally written on it.

  
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  sixtyforce

  sixtyforce is an emulator that runs Nintendo 64 games. It does this by dynamically translating the code that a Nintendo 64 uses into something your Mac understands. Nearly every part of a Nintendo 64 has been painstakingly recreated entirely out of software to pull off such an amazing feat.

  
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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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  Snes9X

  SNES emulator.

  
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  Soulver

  After 30 years of the pocket style calculator interface it is time for an evolution to something far more elegant and efficient.

  Suppose you wanted to see or edit previous calculations or calculate a number to a colossal degree of accuracy? A typical pocket style calculator such as the hundreds of software calculators like Apple's default calculator are unable to do this elegantly.

  Soulver strives to wean you off physical calculators and into the 21st century in which, employing the full power of Mac OS X, so much more is possible...

  
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  sshfs

  SSH File System for MacFUSE (requires MacFUSE Core)

  
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  Terminal

  Mac OS X's Terminal application.

  
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  Tofu

  Tofu is a little application to make reading text easier. It reformats text into narrow columns, like in newpapers, so your eye can follow the lines easier. You can jump to any point in your text by simply typing some letters near it (without choosing any command first). There's a system-wide Service so you can, for example, grab some text from a web page. And it lets you use your voice to navigate text, so you can literally sit back and read.

  
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  Wings 3D

  Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

  It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures, but there will be improvements in those features before Wings goes 1.0.

  There is no support in Wings for doing animations.

  
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  SubEthaEdit

  SubEthaEdit is a powerful and lean text editor. And it's the only collaborative one you can actually use. By combining the ease of Bonjour with the world's best text collaboration engine, it makes working together not only possible but even fun

  
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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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  AppleJack

  AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. With AppleJack you can troubleshoot a computer even if you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.

  
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  AppleWorks

  Applications for word processing, spreadsheet, drawing, painting, presentation, database. An Apple product, hasn't been updated in some time (and apparently won't be). However, you can't beat it for simplicity and ease of use. I prefer it to MS Office.

  
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  Assignment Planner

  Assignment Planner is an application which allows you to keep track of homework assignments for a number of different courses. It includes features that allow you to display only those assignments that are yet to be completed, add information to all your assignments, courses and textbooks for reference, filter assignments by their type, color code assignments by a number of different criteria, and much more. Assignment Planner is a simple and easy-to-use application thats great for college or high school students.

  
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  Audio Overload

  Audio Overload is a music player which allows you to listen to video game music in twenty-six different formats. If you've got .NSF or .SPC Nintendo music files, you need this.

  
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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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  BitTorrent

  The BitTorrent client enables a user to search for files in the .Torrent (pronounced "dot torrent") format and download them. The current client enables a host of features including multiple parallel downloads. The client also intermediates peering between itself, source file servers ("trackers") and other clients, thereby yielding great distribution efficiencies. The client also enables users to create and share torrent files.

  
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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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  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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  Bonjour Browser

  Bonjour Browser is a utility that lets you browse all the Bonjour services on your local network and any wide-area bonjour networks you have enabled. Shows full details about any given service, and comes with a list of known service names.

  
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  Boycott Advance

  Boycott Advance is designed to run home brew Gameboy Advance software, and to that end it works well.

  
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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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  Butler

  Butler's purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks. Butler lets you arrange these tasks in its fully customizable configuration. You can use it to launch or control various apps with universal triggers and/or keyboard shortcuts.

  
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  Bwana

  Bwana is an application that lets you load man pages in a browser. It offers link to other man pages, an index of all man pages and most importantly color coding.

  
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  Calculator

  Calculator, comes with OS X.

  
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  CaminoSession

  CaminoSession is obsolete and is no longer available.

  
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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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  Celestia

  The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Like Google Earth for the entire known universe. Fun, impressive and educational.

  
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  Cha-Ching

  Cha-Ching is a fun and easy to use money manager, done Mac OS X style. A tag based database lets you organize and search for your incoming and outgoing transactions your way. With Cha-Ching, you can also organize pending transactions, so you can keep track of the the cash you owe the electric company as well as the cash others might owe you–and with iCal integration, you'll never forget a payment. Cha-Ching also offers fun little doodads you may have not expected–you can keep a photo inventory of your purchased items for insurance and tax purposes, or just for fun. There is also iSight integration to take pictures of your goods for insurance or tax purposes. You can create "Smart Drawers" to filter through your library of transactions by title, keywords, amount and more.

  
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  Chicken of the VNC

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

  
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  Colloquy

  Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

  
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  Dictionary

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

  
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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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  DrawIt

  DrawIt is an easy-to-use, powerful image editing and drawing application designed for the Mac. It features entirely non-destructive editing, live filters, powerful vector tools, a standard collection of basic shapes and also a clear and intuitive interface.

  For Version 3.4, the interface has been given a major upgrade. DrawIt now makes extensive use of Leopard-only features and it shows. No part of the interface has been left untouched; Filters have been given a major overhaul and now look even better, and besides the standard layer-list, there's now a nice grid-view showing beautiful previews of individual layers and groups. Besides interface changes the Vector tool has also improved, allowing you to place points on a sub-pixel level.

  
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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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  DVD Studio Pro

  Showcase your HD content in HD resolution with DVD Studio Pro 4. Distributed network encoding allows you to quickly convert your source materials to a wide range of industry formats. Create professional-quality DVDs right away, developing more sophisticated commercial projects as your expertise grows.

  
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  EarthDesk

  EarthDesk replaces your desktop picture with a stunning dynamic image of our planet continuously updating in the background while you work.

  Features:
  Real-time clouds with transparency and moonlight reflection; accurate sun/moon/city lighting; shaded twilight; automatically updates; multi-display support; eleven different projections (including globe) using satellite or political maps.

  
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  Electric Sheep

  Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep".

  
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  Enigmo 2

  Enigmo 2 is a 3D puzzle game where the player constructs mechanisms to direct flowing water, plasma and laser beams so that they can reach their final destination. Along the way, the player must toggle switches, deactivate force-fields, use magneto-spheres to attract charged particles, and perform many other feats of Newtonian physics.

  
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  FFView

  FFView is a fast OpenGL-powered picture viewer a la ACDsee (2.x). It is aimed at letting you read manga or other comics onscreen (windowed & fullscreen mode). Features include fast prefetching, smooth panning, voice commands, 2-page mode, a magnifying lens, the ability to browse pictures inside archives (.rar/.cbr, .zip/.cbz/, .pdf) and sticky per-picture options. It reads EXIF tags and is scriptable.

  
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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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  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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  Firefox

  The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

  
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  Flip4Mac WMV

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

  
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  Font Book

  Font Book is a powerful tool for managing fonts and font collections on Mac OS X

  
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  Frenzic

  A fast-paced, addictive game that makes Tetris look like child's play.

  
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  Front Row Enabler

  Front Row Enabler allows any Mac running OS X 10.4.5 or later to install and run Apple's Front Row.

  
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  Frozen-Bubble

  Frozen Bubble is a popular free puzzle game. User controls a small canon, shooting bubbles and tries to hit other bubbles so to create groups of 3 or more bubbles of the same color. Whenever this is accomplished these bubbles go away. The purpose of the game is to eliminate all bubbles from stage.

  
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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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  GeekTool

  "GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Tiger to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows)."

  The Linux kids have been doing this forever. Widgets are neat, but they don't have the tty non-anti-aliased grittiness of Geektool scripts.

  
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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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  Gmail Browser

  Gmail Browser is a web browser that is dedicated to running Gmail (and Google calendar). It's an enhanced version of WebMail.app. The enhancements are:

  • correctly handles attachments
  • correctly handles mailto: links if you set it as the default mail program
  • printing support
  • 'delete all spam' button works
  • ability to change homepage
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  Why? Well, for me, reading email is usually a work activity, while web browsing is mostly play. And so, when I check my email, I easily get distracted by other web sites. Separating Gmail from the rest of the internet helps me concentrate.

  An experimental version, available on the web page, uses the latest versions of WebKit for better mail, docs and spreadsheets support (including rich text email composition).

  
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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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  GNU Wget

  GNU Wget is a free, powerful command line tool for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easily.

  You can also get a pre-compiled package of Wget and other command line UNIX tools at: http://rudix.org/

  
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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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  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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  Grab

  Comes with OS X

  Taking pictures of your screen with Grab

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

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

  Window takes a picture of a window you select.

  Screen takes a picture of the entire screen.

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

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

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

  
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  GrandPerspective

  A small utility application that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space.

  
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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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  GrowlCamino

  GrowlCamino is a plugin for the Camino web browser that posts Growl notifications at useful moments. It provides a convenient Growl-based replacement for Camino's Downloads window and popup blocker.

  
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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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  Inkscape

  Great Open Source SVG editor!

  
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  Instant 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.

  
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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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  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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  irssi

  Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. It's the most used console irc program these days, and with good reason.

  
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  Isolator

  Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.

  Isolator is similar to, but not the same as Think and Backdrop. The difference is that it works exactly how I want it to. Maybe you'll like it too.

  
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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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  iSync

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

  
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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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  KiGB

  KiGB sets new standards for emulator compatibility, with every single released GB and GBC title having been tested as perfectly compatible as of the latest release. What else is there to say?

  
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  KisMAC

  KisMAC is a free, open source network stumbler that operates in passive mode, allowing the program to run completely invisibly without sending any probe requests (unlike active scanners).

  In addition to standard stumbler logging and graphing features, KisMAC reveals cloaked SSIDs and can perform deauthentication, packet injection, and several other attacks against WEP/WPA encrypted packets. GPS mapping is also included.

  KisMAC is the only stumbler to support Apple's Airport Extreme card in passive mode. It is also compatible with original Airport cards and several third party cards (see website).

  
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  Last.fm

  Last.fm player streams music from Last.fm, based on your music profile.

  The source code is available under a GPL license.

  
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  Limewire

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

  
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  Mac Pilot

  Scared of the terminal or can't be bothered to remember those commands to customize your system the way you want? Mac Pilot is your digital savior. Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations with the click of a button!

  
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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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  MacMAME

  MacMAME is an emulator whose sole purpose is to emulate the inner workings of arcade game machines. It does this by fooling the original program code, contained in ROM chips, into thinking they are running inside the real machine when in reality they are running on your Mac.

  
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  MacTheRipper

  The DVD ripping tool for OS X.

  
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  MegaManEffect

  The MegaManEffect is an application that emulates an effect seen in the classic NES game Mega Man 2. When you launch an OS X application, the screen goes dark, stars sweep the night sky and your application’s icon is presented in a blue letter box bar with a cheesy 8-bit music introduction.

  
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  MemoryCell

  MemoryCell is a MenuExtra for OS X that provides a quick overview on the memory (RAM) being used by each of your applications. With MemoryCell, you can monitor the memory usage of the foreground application, using this knowledge to restart anything that's started to bog down your system.

  
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  MenuMeters

  MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. You can choose each of the monitors you want to show in the menubar.

  
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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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  MoreCamino

  MoreCamino is a free preference pane for Camino which creates a user interface for some of Camino's hidden preferences. MoreCamino provides Find-As-You-Type preferences, expanded content control preferences, view source preferences, and downloading preferences. MoreCamino also allows you to search the web directly from the URL (location) bar.

  MoreCamino requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher. MoreCamino requires Camino 1.0.2 or higher, but certain preferences will be disabled unless used with a recent nightly build.

  
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  Mupen64

  Mupen64 is a Nintendo 64 emulator desgined to be multi-OS. It has been developped on/for Linux originally but the emulator has already been ported succesfully on Windows and MacOSX for example. Actually the program can be easily ported on all OS supported by the SDL library.

  
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  Name Mangler

  If you need to rename several files at once every now and then, this is the application you have always been looking for. Name Mangler is a batch file renamer that supports all common renaming tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.

  Moreover, you can combine all of these using the Advanced renaming mode, which even comes with some extra features, such as conditional statements, nested counters, and more.

  
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  Nestopia

  Great little Nintendo emulator.

  
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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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  Noise

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

  
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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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  Opera

  Opera makes it quick and simple to find the information you want. With features like tabs, popup blocking, an integrated search field, and the ability to remember the sites your visited in a previous session, you control your browsing experience. Opera blocks viruses, spyware, and phishing web sites, too. All while being shockingly fast!

  
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  OSXvnc

  OSXvnc is a full featured VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using any VNC client.

  
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  OurTunes

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

  
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  Pacifist

  Pacifist 2.5.2 is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar file archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them. This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X. Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files*, and Pacifist can also examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.

  
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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:

  • AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
  • MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
  • Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

  
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  Plain Clip

  Plain Clip is a small application that removes formatting from text which is on the clipboard. It's designed as a faceless application (no GUI), which makes it ideal for triggering it from a hotkey and launcher applications such as Spark, iKey, LaunchBar, QuickSilver or Butler.

  
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  Preview

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

  
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  Punakea

  Punakea is a little app trying to help you cope with the day-to-day struggle of managing your files. Designed to complement Spotlight, it allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder's folder structure.

  
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  QuickEffect

  QuickEffect is a small, free and easy to use application you can use to add multiple CoreImage filters to your images with a single click.

  
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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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  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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  RCDefaultApp

  RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension and file type settings to choose the application when opening a file in Finder, while Safari and other applications use the URL and MIME type settings at other times for content not related to a file (such as an unknown URL protocol, or a media stream).

  
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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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  safeThis

  safeThis! The quick effective solution for creating customized Encrypted Disk Images! Have all your sensitive data stored in encrypted disk images... safeThis uses the AES 128Bit encryption engine that is implemented in Mac OS X™ NEW! Added option for deleting folders and files using the Peter Gutmann's 35pass algorithm! Can also be used to create encrypted Images of folders!

  
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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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  Script Editor

  The heart of AppleScript is the Script Editor application. This venerable utility for script editing and composition has been totally re-written to become a native Mac OS X application with a long list of new features and improvement.

  
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  ScummVM

  ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

  
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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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  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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  SketchFighter 4000 Alpha

  SketchFighter 4000 Alpha redefines "retro" by bringing together the imaginative pen and paper sketches from your youth with a killer resolution independent OpenGL graphics engine. SketchFighter also boasts a unique synthesis of exploration and action game play, which has you alternately blasting cute little lady bugs into oblivion and then puzzling your way through the hand-drawn challenges presented to you. Still haven't had enough yet? SketchFighter also has a level editor that lets you create your own battlegrounds, allowing you to release your inner creativity to create levels for yourself and others to enjoy.

  
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  Sloth

  Sloth is a slick front-end for 'lsof', which tell you which process is using which volume. Very handy for the times when you can't eject a disk and you don't know why.

  
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  Smultron better icons

  An installer to get new look for Smultron. New icons & toolbar. See the screenshot.

  
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  SoundSource

  SoundSource is a tiny tool for OS X enabling you to switch your audio input and output sources with a single click. And with the System setting, you can transfer system beeps to a secondary audio source so you won't be disturbed.