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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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Adobe InDesign
A new standard in professional layout and design
Join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe® InDesign® CS2 software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign CS2 delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.
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DiskWarrior
DiskWarrior uses a different approach to disk directory repair than other programs. DiskWarrior is not a disk repair program in the conventional sense. Instead of patching the original directory, it uses a patent-pending technology to quickly build a new replacement directory using data recovered from the original directory, thereby recovering files and folders that you thought were lost and that no other program could recover.
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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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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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Keyboard Maestro
Keyboard Maestro is a productivity enhancer with three main functions, allowing you to design your own macro shortcuts and activate them at any time, navigate through running applications and open windows with Program Switcher, and work with an unlimited number of clipboards using Clipboard Switcher.
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LoginWindow Manager
LoginWindow Manager can be used to manage several hidden features of the loginwindow application.
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Zooom/2
Zooom provides users the ability to work with any application window using shortcuts for moving, resizing and zooming - which increases your productivity because it's much easier to focus on what you really want to be doing!
Instead of having to exactly pick out the grow-area (bottom right) of a window for example, you can resize any window by clicking anywhere inside it*.
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Acrobat Pro
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software is the advanced way to create, control, and deliver more secure, high-quality Adobe PDF documents. Assemble electronic or paper files — even Web sites, engineering drawings, and e-mail — into reliable PDF documents that are easy to share with others using free Adobe Reader 7.0 software.
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Adobe Illustrator
Create sophisticated vector artwork for virtually any medium with Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software. Capture your ideas easily with industry-standard drawing tools, and experiment freely with flexible new color controls. Experience tight integration with other Adobe applications, and let improved performance help speed you through creating extraordinary graphics.
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Adobe Photoshop
The essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.
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AppFresh
AppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X. It provides a central place to control the software updates available to your Mac, integrating most popular and most common update checking technologies such as Apple Software Update, Sparkle, Microsoft AutoUpdate and osx.iusethis.com. We want you to spend your time using your applications, not keeping them up to date!
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 applicationsit contains, even automatically. Using your iusethis profile also enables you to install applications you don't have on your computer. This comes in handy when you need to reinstall your computer and want your basic set of applications installed. Using AppFresh and an up to date iusethis profile makes this an easy task.
AppFresh is still work in progress, so please help us making it better. Contact us or check back at our development blog.
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Apple Backup
Backup software that comes with a subscription to Apple's .mac service.
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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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Art Directors Toolkit
Art Directors Toolkit for OS X (licensed version) now ships standard on all PowerMac Art Directors Toolkit (ADT) is a time-saving tool that helps designers get the information they're looking for quickly. ADT has evolved with the direction of designers and production artists alike. By combining a multitude of features, this program integrates well with today's industry-standard applications.
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Art Text
from the site: "Art Text is an application to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons... The program allows you to easily modify any texts and vector shapes into a fancy graphic."
Export into TIFF or non-modifyable PDF at whatever resolution you specify.
includes "pre-designed styles, shapes, icon art images, [and] shading materials."
You can also save your favorite styles.
If you were waiting for TypeStyler to return to OS X, you should try this app out.
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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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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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CDfinder
CDFinder is the advanced disk cataloger application for the Apple Macintosh, to help you organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of your digital media assets. The Search Is Over!
CDFinder catalogs your photos, audio files, or any other data files.
If you work in a large network, or alone, CDFinder will quickly find your files.
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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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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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Color Schemer Studio
Color Schemer Studio is a professional color matching application for anyone from hobbyists to advanced professionals.
Work with a dynamic visual color wheel, instantly explore harmony relationships and even let Color Schemer Studio intelligently suggest color schemes for you.
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Compare Folders
"Compare Folders is a powerful utility designed to compare two folders and tell you which files are the same, which are new, and which have been modified."
Perhaps you've noticed or become victim to a "feature" of Finder: when copying or moving folders from one location to another, if a folder with the same name already exists, its contents are obliterated by the replacement.
This is especially disconcerting for "switchers" as the default Windows method is to merge and only overwrite duplicate files after prompting.
With Compare Folders you can quickly identify duplicate files, unique files (missing from one side), and close matches. The results are recursive, and files can be inspected or copied to a target folder in batch or singularly.
There is no "quick-sync" button to automatically synchronize the two folders and query on conflicts, but it is far and away a time saver compared to Finder.
The demo is limited to 9 compare operations, and offers integration with .Mac (iDisk), Growl and Path Finder. Folder presets can be saved, and results can be exported as text.
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CoolirisPreviews
Site's description: "Cooliris Previews is a free browser add-on that lets you preview links without clicking or leaving your current page. Now you can browse the web more effciently than ever!"
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Default Folder X
Recently rated 5 mice by MacUser UK and 4.5 mice by Macworld, Default Folder X attaches a toolbar to the right side of the Open and Save dialogs in any OS X-native application. The toolbar gives you fast access to various folders and commands. You just click on the buttons to go to your favorite and recently used folders, manage the folders and files shown in the list, and make changes to your settings.
Default Folder also fixes a number of problems in Open and Save dialogs, "rebounding" back to the last selected file, putting the path listing back in the top menu, and correcting bugs in scrolling column views.
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DejaMenu
DejaMenu will display the current application's main menu as a context menu when a key combination is pressed.
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discWelderBRONZE
Basic DVD-Audio authoring. Surround and high-resolution audio on DVD-Audio recordable media. Import of all Linear PCM formats supported in the DVD-Audio specification.
Uses copy protection.
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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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Drive Genius
Since its introduction at Macworld San Francisco back in 2005, Drive Genius from Prosoft Engineering has become THE industry standard disk utility for the Mac platform. Directory Repair, Disk Defrag and Repartition-on-the-fly are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius. In a head to head review vs the competition, Drive Genius was named “Labs Winner” as the best tool in its class*. Whether you’re a novice home user, professional computer technician or anything in between, Drive Genius from Prosoft Engineering is the best tool to maintain, manage and optimize your hard drive.
Traditionally, hard drive maintenance and management has been difficult, time-consuming and confusing. In many cases people skip these critical activities - sometimes leading to disaster. Thankfully, Drive Genius makes these tedious tasks painless, fast, and easy. From performance tuning to disaster prevention, Drive Genius provides all the tools needed to take control of your hard drive, and your digital life.
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FileMaker Pro
A powerful database tool for rapid application development. Works on Windows and the Mac, plays well with others and can do almost anything. Superb support available from other developers, including plug-in support and online fora.
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FinderPop
Finderpop improves & extends features in contextual menus.
"Having finally started using a Mac again in earnest for the first time since I left Apple three-and-a-half years ago, one of the things I really missed was FinderPop. So I began a spare-time project to port it to Carbon (it would probably be more correct to say re-write it for Carbon.)"
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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 Vista
Font Vista allows you to create font catalogs without having to load the fonts into the OS first.
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FontExplorer X
FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software. After several relatively sad years for all font users who were looking for a professional font manager, Linotype is pleased to fill the gap with the new FontExplorer X. Font management has never been so simple, and font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are now more fun than ever. FontExplorer X gives computer users all the font functions they could need, and lets them decide how deeply they wish to dive into various font themes.
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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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Growl
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
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iCab
iCab is an alternative web browser. It supports HTML 4, image filtering, cookie filtering, bookmarks, java and javascript support, search modes, importing of web archives from Explorer, download manager, and more.
Features include:
- Advertising banner filtering
- Kiosk mode
- Error protocol (Smiley)
- Portable web archives
- Download Manager
- Link Manager
- Souce code manager
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Inquisitor
Inquisitor lets you search the web effortlessly. Search results stream in as you type, letting you easily and instantly refine your search. You might even find the answer before you think you've asked the question.
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iPhoto
Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos you’ve been taking. Have fun with them. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse - so you can get the most out of even the biggest collection.
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iStat 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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iSwipe
Multi-protocol file search, download and sharing tool for the Mac (supports Hotline, OpenNapster, Gnutella, FTP, Carracho, ShadowFT, iTunesNet, FastTrack, OpenFT, eDonkey, BitTorrent and Ares)
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Leap
A combination Spotlight, Bridge, Finder, and more. With the Finder on Leopard you can find that you have over 10,000 images. Leap shows you all of them, and more importantly - where they are on your computer. No other tool does this. Works great for office documents, too.
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macam
macam is a software and plugin bundle which let us use other webcams then the apple isight on our macs or programs like skype.
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MacStumbler
MacStumbler is used to find open wireless networks.
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Meetro
"Meetro is an application that overlays the physical world on top of the online world. It combines the best features of messengers and social networks together with physical location."
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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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Microsoft Entourage
Mastermind your next project with the tightly integrated, streamlined information management tools in Microsoft® Entourage® 2004 for Mac. It’s the ultimate personal information manager (PIM) that helps you handle e-mail messages, contacts, schedules, notes, documents and more from one central location. And now you can work more easily in a Microsoft Exchange server environment with the new Exchange server support built into Entourage 2004.
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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac
Microsoft Office includes a word processing application, a spreadsheet application, a presentation application, and an email application with calendar and organizational tools. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office for Windows.
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Mouseposé
An essential tool for everyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest.
Of course, there are other uses as well. If you have a large screen, it helps you quickly locate the mouse pointer when you return to your work after an interruption. Visually impaired people tell us that it helps them as well.
Hitting a user definable hot key turns on the Mouseposé effect, dimming the screen and putting the mouse pointer into a spotlight that makes it easy to locate. The desktop behind it remains functional, so that apps can be used while Mouseposé 2 is turned on. With Keynote 3, Apple even added a setting that allows you to use Mouseposé 2 with the popular presentation software.
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MPlayer OSX
MPlayer is a multi-platform movie player supporting many formats and A/V codecs. MPlayer OSX is the GUI frontend with precompiled binaries optimized for PowerPC and AltiVec
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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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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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Proxi
Proxi allows you to automate a variety of tasks such as copying files, opening URLs, updating iChat status, entering text, launching application and much more by associating these tasks with one or more triggers. Some of the triggers that Proxi can respond to include custom hot keys, incoming email, recurring date and time events, speech recognition, folder, battery, or network changes. Unwanted triggers can be suppressed by applying filters if needed. And of course, Proxi allows you to extend the functionality Griffin products such as AirClick and PowerMate.
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Quartz Desktop
View Quartz Compositions on your desktop.
What's a Quartz Composition?
Quartz Compositions are screensaver-like files that can include rich data sources and render them using all the features of Quartz Extreme and Core Image. The best example is the RSS screensaver that ships with Tiger.
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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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RDC Menu
This adds a menu that allows you to launch multiple instances of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection.
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ReelBean
ReelBean is a movie converter and player. It can be used to convert movies to Apple TV, video iPod MPEG4, H.264, AVI and many other formats, and has media playing features available as standard that are often pro features in other applications. Individual track extraction from videos is also provided.
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Remote Buddy
Remote Buddy allows you to remotely control anything on your Mac with your iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple Remote or Wii Remote. Key features:
- iPhone and iPod Touch remote control and remote media access support
- Support for many EyeTV remotes
- Switch AirTunes / AirPort Express speakers
- Control your entire with your remote control
- Virtual on screen keyboard and mouse. Virtual remote control emulating an Apple® Remote.
- Support for over 100+ apps and system functions already included
- Smart, dynamic and configurable menu
- 30 day, feature-unlimited trial version
- Built-in developer tools
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RescueTime
RescueTime is a free time management solution which allows productivity geeks to understand exactly how they spend their computer time.
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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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Stuffit Deluxe
Deluxe version of file compressor with optimizations based on file type. Long a staple of the Mac community, it still serves its purpose though handling a large number of off-platform formats, and thus useful for collaboration with non-Mac users.
NB: Universal as of 11.0
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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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SynergyKM
GUI wrapper for Synergy.
"Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s)."
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Terminal
Mac OS X's Terminal application.
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Typinator
Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, and other words or phrases again, again and again? Or do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often introduce errors when retyping standard business text?
Typinator boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics.
Configuration is easy - You just define abbreviations and their replacement text or picture.
Usage is even easier - Whenever you type one of these abbreviations in an arbitrary application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement.
Save your time and annoyance and let Typinator type repeating texts and pictures for you.
You can use Typinator to...
quickly type greeting phrases,
set up a list of standard text fragments to be used in e-mail replies,
insert the current date and/or time in arbitrary formats with a few keystrokes,
Auto-correct your most frequent typos in all applications system-wide,
"type" pictures, such as smilies or bullets,
insert Unicode symbols by typing a few special regular characters (e.g., type "->" to insert an arrow symbol),
define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands,
quickly create templates for code fragments, if you are a programmer, and more
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UnCoverIt
UnCoverIt is for making CD/DVD archive covers. It comes with a variety of templates including ones for mp3 and video discs.
I especially like the feature that auto-resizes the contents of the disc as you turn the disclosure triangles to reveal each folder's content.
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USB Overdrive
The USB Overdrive X is a device driver for Mac OS X (Jaguar, Panther and Tiger) that handles any USB mouse, trackball, joystick and gamepad from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on a per-application basis.
It reads all kinds of wheels, buttons, switches and controls and supports scrolling, keyboard emulation, launching and all the usual stuff like clicking, control-clicking and so forth. The USB Overdrive can easily handle several USB devices at once.
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VChat
VChat takes over from the CU-See Me client that was the pioneer in Video Conferencing software. Although originally designed to connect to a "Reflector site" i.e. a Server, you can initiate Direct Connect (DC) video chats with another VChat user.
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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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WebDesktop
WebDesktop layers a web browser over your Mac OS X desktop.
Any standard web page can be displayed. WebDesktop uses WebKit, Apple's HTML rendering engine from Safari, so web pages should appear exactly as they do in Safari, including such advanced features as CSS and Flash. But on your desktop.
Bringing WebDesktop to the front allows full interaction with the page, including scrolling, navigation, and form input.
In WebDesktop's preferences, you can specify an automatic refresh interval so that the page on your desktop is reloaded every minute, every 5 minutes, every hour, etc... This is useful for keeping up to date with pages that update frequently.
Do you have an unusual or cool use for WebDesktop? Email me! I'd love to hear about it.
Some actual uses, as reported by real-world users:
- Tracking the orbit of satellites
- Monitoring servers / network operations center
- Monitoring stock quotes
- Keeping an eye on an eBay auction during the last few minutes
- Staying up-to-the-minute on news
- Monitoring a live webcam
- Viewing current TV listings
- Tracking weather conditions
- Tracking sports scores
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Wireshark
Gerald Combs, the creator of Ethereal®, has initiated the Wireshark network protocol analyzer project, a successor to Ethereal®.
Wireshark is one of the world's foremost network protocol analyzers, and is the standard in many parts of the industry.
It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998. Hundreds of developers around the world have contributed to it, and it it still under active development.
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Witch
Witch lets you access all of your windows by pressing a shortcut and choosing from a clearly arranged list of window titles.
Moreover, you can use Witch to...
� Directly access minimized windows without using your mouse
� Close minimized windows without bringing them to front first
� Zoom, de-/minimize, and close windows on the fly
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X-Assist
X-Assist is a small application created to bring a few beloved Mac OS 9 features to Mac OS X. It provides an application switcher menu in the familiar location, a "Recent Applications" menu with no limit on items, easy access to individual System Preferences, an extensible plugin architecture, and the ability to toggle between Mac OS 9 window behavior (when you switch applications by clicking in a window, all windows for that application are shown) and Mac OS X windowning behavior (only the clicked-upon window it brought forward).
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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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xPad
xPad allows you to manage multiple documents in a single window (with a drawer to organize them). You can assign color-coded categories to keep things straight.
