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BibDesk
BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets you drag & drop or cut & paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. BibDesk also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and allows for searching your database through several keys.
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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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Eclipse
Superb Java IDE, recently released an Intel verison.
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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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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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PDFView
PDFView is a lightweight Mac OS X application to display PDF files.
What does it offers more than Preview?
By default, the main window will open up maximized, and the zoom level will be automatically the highest possible to fit the document into your screen - so that documents will become finally readable. Especially valuable if you are using a small size screen.
PDFView supports a powerful full screen mode, and a innovative "presentation" mode, in which nothing is displayed but your document, not even scroll bars. This mode is designed with Beamer user in mind, but not restricted to them. Apple Remote support is also planned, in the future.
PDFView offers powerful integration with LaTeX:
it recognizes when the file is updated on disk and offers to reload it;
if you are using the PDFSync LaTeX package, you can switch back and forth between the document and the text editor; just Command-click on a point in the PDF to be taken to the corresponding LaTeX line in your editor (customizable in the preferences);
again, if you are using PDFSync, you can set up your editor to jump you to the appropriate page in the PDF (please refer to this page for instructions about it).
PDFView has a very nice magnification tool: just drag around the document to use it.
PDFView supports a useful miniature display.
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R
R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.
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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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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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Activity Monitor
Activity Monitor is a GUI application included with Mac OS X. It provides graphical representations of your computer's CPU, system memory, disk activity, disk usage, and network processes. This little utility is easy to overlook, but it can help you manage your memory and processing power when running lots of applications. If you prefer to work in the text-only Terminal application instead, you can view much of this information by using the top command.
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Address Book
Address Book provides a flexible and convenient way to store your contact information online. Because Address Book is integrated with Mail, iChat, and other applications, you have to enter information only once to have your contacts available from all these applications.
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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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Calc
A very simple yet powerful calculator based on typing into a text window and pressing return to get results. Very light yet has functions standard to scientific calculators, as well the ability to assign variables.
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Chax
Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable.
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CocoaBooklet
This program lets you create a booklet out of a PDF file, which is known as pages imposition. It is a useful tool to reduce the number of pages that has to be printed, which lets you save a lot of paper.
A booklet is a book that is bound in the middle. Which means that a booklet has four pages printed on one sheet of paper (two on each sides).
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CronniX
An Aqua front end to the powerful U*ix cron command.
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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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Dictionary
Dictionary and thesaurus system application based on The New Oxford American Dictionary. Comes with OS X.
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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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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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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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Free Ruler
Free Ruler is a free screen ruler for Mac OS X.
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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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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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Growl
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
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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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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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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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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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Neuroet
Neuroet is a ‘simple’ artificial neural network (NN) package designed to assist scientists in determining relationships among variables in complex data sets. We use the word ‘simple’ to describe Neuroet because the package was purposefully designed to be straightforward and uncomplicated. Scientists, who are familiar with neural network principles, should be able to rapidly analyze their data
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OpenOffice
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
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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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Poseidon for UML
A complete, powerful UML tool
Beginners, students, and commercial users alike will find Poseidon for UML to be a thorough UML tool without the limits imposed by the community versions of other tools. It contains all 9 UML diagrams and all implemented diagram elements. You can create and load projects, browse existing models, exchange models, generate Java code, export your diagrams to various formats, and much more.
Export options such as printing and saving are available with a license rental or rent subscription. The cost-free version can be used to view, create, and edit models, but the export options are not available.
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Preview
Apple's built in application that views many photo formats.
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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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RegExpress
RegExpress is a tool for testing regular expresions, this have a straightforward interface which help to have your test done quickly.
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Renamer4Mac
Renamer4Mac makes it really easy to rename a big number of files according to a preset pattern. It lets you rename your files in many different ways.
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Resize!
Resize! is a simple program designed to resize a folder of pictures in one step. It's faster and easier to use than generic graphic programs... and it's free!
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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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SafariStand
safari extension that enables site-specific modification, bookmark & history searching, tab thumbnails & LOTS more
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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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SimplyRAR
SimplyRAR is a Cocoa based file compression utility based on the very popular RAR file archive compression utility. RAR compresses data files extremely well compared to others that are available on the market but lacks a good GUI for use on the Macintosh. SimplyRAR aims to fill this void making it a pleasure to use this great archive compression utility.
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Stickies
The Mac OS Classic notes for the OS X desktop.
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Terminal
Mac OS X's Terminal application.
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TeXShop
A frontend for LaTeX (gwTeX or teTeX installed with Fink).
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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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TinkerTool
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
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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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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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Vidalia
Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for Tor, built using the Qt framework. Using Vidalia, you can start and stop Tor, view the status of Tor at a glance, and monitor Tor's bandwidth usage. Vidalia also makes it easy to contribute to the Tor network by helping you set up and manage your own Tor server.
Vidalia runs on most platforms supported by Qt 4.1 or later, including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux or other Unix variants using the X11 window system.
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Vim
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
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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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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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Xee
An image browser with more features than Preview.app
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XiphQT
WARNING: This project is ALPHA, has extremely limited functionality and may eat your dog.
Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is a set of QuickTime and Macintosh OS X plug-ins. Their role is to provide support for Xiph media compression and container formats.
If you are an end user: installing XiphQT components is all you need to start using Xiph-formatted media files in a variety of applications - for example, listening to Ogg/Vorbis files in QuickTime Player or iTunes.
This plugin does, however, NOT enable you to seamlessly use Ogg og FLAC files in iTunes!
