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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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  Aurora

  Let Aurora wake you and your Mac. Wake up every morning to the sound of your favorite iTunes playlist instead of that annoying alarm clock.

  Aurora is an alarm clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes or iPod playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV.

  Other features include a Sleep Timer, Apple Remote support and the ability to wake your Mac from sleep or from a powered-off state. Aurora is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian and Chinese.

  
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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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  Hey Folders!

  Color icons for color labels. Hey Folders! adds colored folder icons to Apple's Finder. Instead of a generic icon, labeled folders show up in the appropriate color.

  
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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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  Sidenote

  Sidenote is an advanced note taking utility. Designed to be a central piece of your digital life. It'll hide in the edge of your screen and be available whenever you need it. It's a powerfull, full featured, yet very easy to use sticky replacement.

  
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  Typist

  Typist is a typing tutor, which helps you in learning touch typing.
  If you have never taken any lessons in typing before, please be patient. Typing is not difficult but it does take a lot of practice. Avoid the tendency to look down at your fingers while typing. This is a very bad habit and is hard to break later.

  If you have always used the hunt-and-peck method, you will have an even harder time keeping yourself from looking. Don't be surprised if you find touch typing slower than your old ways. It may be slower when you first start. But, touch typing is far faster once you get the hang of it.

  
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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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  Adobe Reader

  Adobe's free solution for viewing PDF documents.

  
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  AppFresh

  AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.

  AppFresh not only gets update information from iusethis.com. If you have an user profile at iusethis.com you can manage it from within AppFresh and control which applications appear in your profile, even automatically. We can only recommend you sign up, it's free and lets you see how many users use a certain application. In AppFresh, the full iusethis.com application page with comments and links to similar apps is always just a click away.

  AppFresh can capture the installed version of an application along with your preferences and application data and store it in a safe place. This way, you're covered in case you decide you liked the last version of an application better. Create as many snapshots as you want to make sure you don't lose anything.

  AppFresh is currently work in progress, and we're not even calling it a beta. Make sure to check our development blog regularly. You are welcome to leave your feedback or suggestions for improvements there.

  
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  AquaTerm

  AquaTerm is a Mac OS X grahics renderer. It allows command line applications written in ObjC, C, FORTRAN, Perl or Python to display vector graphics, text and images using a simple API. Adapters for gnuplot, PGPLOT, and PLplot exists as well.

  
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  BBC Weather

  Fetches the latest five-day weather forecast from the BBC Weather Centre. Shows the current temperature, high/low temperatures and the weather summary for each day. The wind information is also displayed via tool tips.

  Now with current weather information.

  The forecast can be fetched for UK postcodes and locations. Worldwide locations are also supported.

  
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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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  BlueJ

  BlueJ is an integrated Java environment specifically designed for introductory teaching.
  BlueJ was developed at a University specifically for the purpose of teaching object orientation with Java.
  BlueJ is free!

  
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  Caffeine

  Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.

  
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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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  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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  DataPlot

  An intuitive and powerfull tool for 2d plotting (line, scatter, histogram, function), curve fitting and animated plots.

  The demo is not time limited and offers a great number of functions (I couldn't yet figure out what the limitations of the demo are).

  Plots look very professional.

  
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  Desktop Manager

  Desktop Manager is an easy to use virtual desktop manager for OS X.

  
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  Diablotin

  Diablotin allows you to manage the items that have been added to the Mac OS X Library folders. This is a good way to make sure your operating system stays in order. This preference pane also allows you to enable/disable those items.

  
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  Digital World Clock

  Although Apple's World Clock is beautiful, not everyone's a fan of analog clocks -- they take up more space and, well, they're just not as instant to read as a digital clock. So Mat Schaffer wrote this. The look and feel was done by Gabriel Radic.
  
  It can view other time zones by setting GMT offset and a DST preference (North American, European, or none). The DST code was adapted from Offworld Time, a Konfabulator widget.

  The widget can be shown in normal or mini-mode and has storage and retrieval of previous settings.

  
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  DoBeDo

  DoBeDo is a freeware Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X. The widget allows you to view, add, edit and delete iCal's todo items. Its tight integration with iCal make it an indispensable addition to any Dashboard lineup. You can display items from any one of your calendars, open multiple widgets each set to a different calendar, or list all of your tasks together in a single widget. If you are not an iCal user, that's ok too. DoBeDo can help keep you organized and on task on its own.

  
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  DOSBox

  DOSBox is a DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library which makes DOSBox very easy to port to different platforms. DOSBox has already been ported to many different platforms, such as Windows, BeOS, Linux, MacOS X...

  DOSBox also emulates CPU:286/386 realmode/protected mode, Directory FileSystem/XMS/EMS, Tandy/Hercules/CGA/EGA/VGA/VESA graphics, a SoundBlaster/Gravis Ultra Sound card for excellent sound compatibility with older games...

  
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  Duke Nukem 3D

  Duke Nukem 3D includes an installer that will install the game from either the PC "Atomic Edition" disc, or the MacSoft disc from the Mac Classic version of the game. If you don't have a retail disc, the installer can give you the free shareware episode.

  Duke Nukem 3D is a fantastic 3D shooter game.

  3DRealms still sells the game off their website at 3drealms.com (in fact, they recently did an updated print run, believe it or not). If you don't have it, this is the path of least resistance to a legitimate copy of the game. eBay is another option. Make sure you get the "Atomic Edition" if you buy a PC disc.

  PPC-Only.

  
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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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  Epson Scan

  scanner software for Epson

  
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  Event Maker

  Event Maker makes it easy to create iCal calendar events from Apple's Mail application. You can also use Event Maker to create iCal events from scratch.

  
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  Excalibur

  Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker. It will spell check documents created by any text editor such as BBEdit, Alpha, Emacs or MPW. It will also spell check the clipboard, making it a useful spelling checker for mail programs such as Eudora and news readers such as NewsWatcher. It will also work with any word processing program that supports Word Services such as AppleWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) or WordPerfect. Excalibur is also a very good LaTeX spelling checker.

  
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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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  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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  Gimp

  Image manipulation app that has many features

  
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  GlowWorm FW

  Similar to Little Snitch in functionality.

  GlowWorm FW Lite is a rule-based network security and monitoring application based on plugin-accessible framework. By defining rules based on a set of connection criteria including the addresses, ports, the relevant endpoint and protocol, as well as a specific application, one can effectively restrict network activity. A free registration code is necessary to use this program.

  The developer is also working on a non-Lite shareware full version.

  
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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 Updater

  Google Software Downloads for the Mac

  
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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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  GrowlMail

  GrowlMail is a plug-in for Apple Mail that posts a Growl notification every time new mail arrives containing the text of the message.

  
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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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  i-Installer

  i-Installer is a generic software install and configuration application. It can install socalled i-Packages, which are wrappers (directories containing files) with names ending on .ii2 and which will look like files in most applications (like the Finder). i-Packages can be updated and downloaded from remote locations. Most of this will happen automcatically.

  
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  iBackup

  iBackup is a simple to use backup/restore utility.

  
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  iBackup 2008

  iBackup is a powerful, yet very easy to use backup/restore tool for scheduled or manual backups of:
  * Files
  * Folders
  * Application settings (e.g. Firefox, Adobe applications, Google Earth, etc.)
  * System preferences like Time, Firewall, Bluetooth, etc.
  * System applications like Mail, Address Book, iChat, iTunes, Stickies, etc.
  
  iBackup supports Smart Folders, can create dated backup folders and Burn Folders, can run scripts and more. You can edit these settings and add your own.

  iBackup can backup to local or network volumes or to WebDAV servers.

  
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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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  iCal Events

  Face the day! Always know what's next in your schedule using iCal Events. iCal Events displays upcoming events from multiple calendars in a beautiful, resizable widget for Dashboard. You can see up to two weeks of upcoming events in the same widget without needing to open iCal.

  
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  iMovie HD

  Riveting performances. Major effects. Inspired directing. Amazing how iMovie has changed the way people look at home movies. Now, with more cinematic tools to offer, iMovie makes you even more comfortable in the director's chair. And the editor's chair. And the special effects guy's chair. And, well, you get the idea. iMovie is the fastest and easiest way to turn home movies into dazzling Hollywood-style hits.

  
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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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  iPhoto Buddy

  iPhoto Buddy is a Mac OS X application that allows you to easily create, manage, and switch between multiple iPhoto Libraries. The advantages of splitting your One Huge Photo Library into multiple, smaller ones include improved iPhoto performance, increased flexibility in organizing your digital photo collection, and a consistency with most other Mac applications that allow their respective data to be stored in as many documents (in this case, "Libraries") as you like.

  
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  iStat nano

  iStat nano is a stunning system monitor widget with beautifully animated menus and transitions.

  View detailed stats about CPU usage, memory usage, hard drive space, bandwidth usage, temperatures, fan speeds, battery usage, uptime and the top 5 processes. iStat nano also shows your public IP address, which be can copied to your clipboard using one of the many keyboard shortcuts.

  
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  iTunes

  Download iTunes 7 and make yourself at home. Buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Play everything on your Mac or PC. Then sync it to your iPod and bring it along. Anywhere.

  
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  Keynote

  Apple's presentation program. Easy to use, generating drop-dead beautiful presentations of all sorts, from photography portfolios, kiosks, to scientific or business job interviews.

  
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  Keywurl

  Keywurl adds functionality to Safari similar to the search functionality in Firefox and Opera. Type a keyword and a query in the address bar, and it will be expanded into a predefined search.

  
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  Locker

  This is a widget for OSX dashboard.
  Locker has a very simple and limited usage: When you double click it, it will lock your computer. You will end up at login window, just as if you had used the fast user switching menu item...(so simple, it doesn't need a screenshot)

  
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  LyX

  LyX is an advanced open source document processor running on many Unix and some non-Unix platforms. It is called a "document processor", because unlike standard word processors, LyX encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance. LyX lets you concentrate on writing, leaving details of visual layout to the software. LyX automates formatting according to predefined rule sets, yielding consistency throughout even the most complex documents.

  
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  MacSwear

  A version of the classic worm game, played in non-Euclidean space - that is to say, on the surface of various three-dimensional shapes.

  
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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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  MarbleBlast Gold

  An arcade action game with simple yet addictive gameplay, suitable for players of any age. In the rich cartoon landscape of Marble Blast, players will race their marbles through moving platforms, dangerous hazards, sparkling treasures and power up enhancements in an effort to complete each course in record time.

  
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  Mathematica

  From simple calculator operations to large-scale programming and interactive-document preparation, Mathematica is the tool of choice at the frontiers of scientific research, in engineering analysis and modeling, in technical education from high school to graduate school, and wherever quantitative methods are used.

  
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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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  Microsoft AutoUpdate

  Microsoft AutoUpdate for Office 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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  Microsoft Office 2008

  Microsoft® Office v. X for Mac was the first Office productivity suite designed exclusively for Mac OS X. Each edition comes with Microsoft Word X, Microsoft Entourage® X, Microsoft Excel X, and Microsoft PowerPoint® X. Professional Edition also includes Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 for those who work in multi-platform environments.

  
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  Monolingual

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

  
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  Nanosaur 2

  Dans un monde futuriste en 3D, vous évoluez dans les air puisque vous incarnez un ptérodactyle (bardé d'armes technologiques). Vous devez dégommer nombre de dinosaures tout en récupérant des œufs dispersés un peu partout pour passer au niveau supérieur...

  
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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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  Netbeans

  superb java ide
  Features:
  * GUI Builder
  * Plugins
  * Ant based projects
  * ...many more...

  
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  OnyX

  OnyX is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel). It allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure the hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock and of some of Apple's own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.

  
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  OsiriX

  Application to view DICOM files, in 2D, 3D and 4D!
  Fun to watch your medical pictures if you got them digitally!

  
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  Otis

  Otis is a strategy/puzzle game for Mac OS X, based on a classic game popularly known as Same Game, Chain Shot, or JawBreaker.

  The object is to remove all the blocks from the board by clicking on groups of two or more blocks with the same color. Clear as many blocks at once as possible to score higher, but only through careful maneuvering can you clear the entire board.

  Written in Cocoa with an attention towards design and interface, Otis packs addicting gameplay, stunning visual effects, and multiple levels of difficulty for every player.

  
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  Pages

  Apple's word processing/page layout software. Easy to use and relatively inexpensive (includes the excellent "Keynote" program in the price). Might not replace Word or InDesign but is terrific for making academic posters for conferences.

  
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  PDFLab

  PDFLab lets you split and join PDF documents as well as insert images and blank pages.

  
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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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  PEMDAS

  A calculator widget for Dashboard that combines nice design with powerful functions: basic calculations, formulas, variables, a formula and variable cache, additional hex and binary mode.

  It has the ease of use of a simple calculator with the possibilities to enter formulas and use variables.

  
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  PhotoToolCM

  - Batch lossless transform (rotate/flip) JPEGs

  - Batch resize JPEGs

  - Add photo frame (border) to multiple files

  - Lossless cleaning to make JPEG file size smaller

  - Batch rename multiple JPEG photo image files using their Exif date

  - Edit JPEG comment on multiple files

  - Edit Exif date/time on multiple files

  - Display Exif information directly on contextual menu for quick viewing

  - Copy Exif information of multiple JPEG photo image files to the clipboard as text

  - Change file date (created/modifed date) of multiple JPEG photo image files to their Exif date

  
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  Picasa Web Albums Uploader

  Use your Mac to upload photos!

  Now there's two ways to upload your photos to Picasa Web Albums -- from directly within iPhoto or using drag-and-drop from a standalone application.

  For iPhoto users
  The Picasa Web Albums Exporter lives right inside iPhoto. Select photos, choose Export in the File or Share menu, and upload them directly to your web album.

  For a standalone application
  Use the Picasa Web Albums uploader -- just drag photos from the Finder and click the Upload button.

  
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  PicturePopProCM

  PicturePopPro is a contextual menu plugin that shows pictures and QuickTime files directly from the Finder or any software that handle this kind of plugin. It helps you show quickly numericals photos, navigate through a pictures folder, within multiple windows or in fullscreen.

  
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  Pref Setter

  This app is used to edit OS X's preference files. Very useful for many things, including enabling options not available via an application's preferences.

  
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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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  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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  Screenshot Plus Widget

  Take screen captures quickly and easily. Screenshot Plus can take full screen captures, grab portions of the screen, and even capture windows, desktop icons, and other widgets. Captures may be saved to the clipboard or to the hard drive, or they may be imported to any application directly from the widget.

  Captures may be saved in the formats: png, tiff, jpg, jp2, pdf, gif, bmp, or pict.

  
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  SIMBL

  SIMBL (Smart InputManager Bundle Loader) allows you to build hacks for Cocoa applications and apply the code selectively based on an application's unique identifier.

  
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  Simple EXIF Viewer

  EXIF Viewer is a small Mac OS X application to display EXIF information in JPEG files coming from digital cameras. This version is based on Eric M. Johnston's "exiftags" EXIF parsing code

  
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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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  Sleep Display (Widget)

  If you have a beautiful new iMac, you know how nice and bright the screen is. Thing is...sometimes a bright screen isn't what you're going for. Enter this widget. It allows you to IMMEDIATELY sleep just your display so that you can continue running your background jobs. It doesn't permanently affect your energy settings, so when you start working again, your monitor will not sleep immediately. It's a simple widget, but it solves an annoying problem.

  
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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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  Switch

  Sound File Conversion Software

  For Mac OS X Switch converts a variety of audio file formats such as wav, mp3, au, aif/aiff, gsm, vox, raw, ogg, flac, aac, mp2, m4a, .mov, .amr and many more formats.

  
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  Terminal

  Mac OS X's Terminal application.

  
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  Texmaker

  Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application.
  Texmaker runs on unix, macosx and windows systems and is released under the GPL license.

  
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  TeXShop

  A frontend for LaTeX (gwTeX or teTeX installed with Fink).

  
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  TextWrangler

  TextWrangler is BBEdits little brother. You can code HTML or PHP with it. It has multiple file search, syntax coloring, etc.

  
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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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  Tilt Mania

  Tilt Mania is a little arcade game which uses the sudden motion sensor (SMS) of modern apple laptops. It's similar to BubbleGym in that it uses the computer itself as an input device, however it is freeware.

  
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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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  VPNClient

  VPN application for Cisco systems

  
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  Windows Media Player

  Introducing Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X. Sporting a new brushed steel skin for Apple's newest operating system, this new version of our player opens the world of Windows Media 9 content to Macintosh users, enabling them to access the best audio and video on the Web. New plug-in support added for Internet Explorer, Netscape and Safari enables playback of Windows Media files right from the browser.

  
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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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  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!