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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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  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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  AppZapper

  Everybody loves the drag and drop nature of OS X. Drag an app into your applications folder, and it's installed. You'd think it would be that easy to delete an app - just a matter of dragging it to the trash. But it's not. Applications install preferences, caches, and other support files throughout your computer that take up space and generate clutter. Deleting these by hand every time you delete an app is a pain.

  
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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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  Calculator

  Calculator, comes with OS X.

  
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  Cisco VPN Client

  Simple to deploy and operate, the Cisco VPN Client enables customers to establish secure, end-to-end encrypted tunnels to Cisco remote access VPN devices supporting the Unified Client Framework.

  
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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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  Cyberduck

  Cyberduck is a open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

  
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  Dashboard

  Dashboard hosts nifty mini-applications called widgets that appear instantly and keep you up to date with timely information from the Internet. View stocks, check weather forecasts, track flights, convert currency and units of measure, even look up businesses in the phone book.

  
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  DeliciousSafari

  Use and create del.icio.us bookmarks from the Safari web browser. DeliciousSafari is a SIMBL plug-in for the Safari web browser.

  
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  Disco

  Disco is a workflow-based disc burner that supports a wide variety of filesystems. It also makes use of the sudden motion sensor to detect potential burning problems, and the microphone for superfluous visual effects.

  
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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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  Fernsehen

  Fernsehen is a Dashboard widget that shows the schedules of TV channels in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In addition, it allows "Reminders" to be set so you'll never miss your favorite shows again.

  The widget uses data from TVToday.

  
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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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  ForgetMeNot

  ForgetMeNot is a Safari plug-in which remembers the tabs and windows you have opened when you quit Safari, and reloads those same windows and tabs when you restart Safari. It also adds an "Unclose Window" command to Safari's file menu: if you close a Safari window accidentally, you can click "Unclose Window" to bring that window back. The latest release adds “Unclose Window” to Safari’s file menu; if you accidentally close a window, you can “Unclose Window” to bring the closed window back. This version also allows you to “Undo Close Tab.”

  
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  Front Row

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

  
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  GarageBand

  (Comes with iLife bundle on new Mac purchases, no demo avaliable. $79.00 is price of iLife bundle.)

  GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create a piece of music. It is developed by Apple Computer for Mac OS X.
  The application is not aimed at professional musicians, but it is intended to help amateurs produce music easily. The application comes with 1,000 pre-recorded sampled loops, and 50 sampled or synthesized instruments which can be played using a MIDI keyboard connected to the computer, or using an on-screen keyboard.

  
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  GimmeSomeTune

  GimmeSomeTune is an iTunes controller with power.

  Here's an excerpt of the features it offers:
  - Automatic Artwork fetching
  - Automatic Lyrics fetching
  - Last.fm (scrobbling) support
  - Hotkeys for controlling nearly every aspect of iTunes
  - Apple Remote Control support
  - Info-window
  - Lyrics window (with editing capabilities)

  A full list of features can be found on the product's website.

  Starting with version 4.1, GimmeSomeTune is Leopard only. Still, version 4.0 has been updated for Tiger to establish compatibility to iTunes 7.7.x - it's available at www.eternalstorms.at/gimmesometune/GimmeSomeTuneTiger.dmg

  GimmeSomeTune is freeware, but the author greatly appreciates donations.

  
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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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  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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  GrowlTunes

  GrowlTunes is a small menubar application that comes in the Extras folder of the Growl panel.

  It displays the currently playing track in iTunes, and allows you to rate that track from the menubar.

  
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  iConquer

  Mac OS X's favorite game of world conquest. The goal of the game is to take over every country on the map by eliminating all your opponents. iConquer comes with a great variety of maps, and you can even make your own! You can play against your friends, but also against the computer's fierce Artificial Intelligence personalities. Take the tour and play a few games -- you'll be hooked!

  
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  iDVD

  Takes your movies from iMovie and burns them to a DVD.

  
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  IMAPCheck

  IMAPCheck is a bundle for Mail.app that fixes an issue with IMAP support. Namely, when using server side rules to re-route email into folders, Mail.app wouldn't see the new mail until you actually clicked on the subfolder. This bundle changes the way Mail checks for new email on IMAP accounts by forcing it to do a full sync every time.

  
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  iMovie

  iMovie ’08 makes viewing and working with video as intuitive as enjoying your photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your video, so all the clips you’ve captured and movies you’ve created are just a click away. With its revolutionary interface, iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your library and create new movies. And iMovie is built for sharing. In just a few steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV.

  
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  Interface Builder

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

  
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  iPhoto

  Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos you’ve been taking. Have fun with them. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse - so you can get the most out of even the biggest collection.

  
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  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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  iSwiff

  Play flash games off line.

  
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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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  iTunes

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

  
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  iTunesFS

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

  
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  iWeb

  Use iWeb to create websites and blogs — complete with podcasts, photos, and movies — and get them online, fast. Just drag, drop, and design using your choice of web templates, then publish live to your .Mac account.

  
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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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  Keyword Assistant for iPhoto

  Keyword Assistant is a plugin for iPhoto to make keyword management easier. The main feature is an auto-completing text field for assigning keywords. This is much faster than using the built-in keyword panel.

  
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  Keyword Manager

  Keyword Manager introduces a brand new way of assigning keywords to your photos in a simple and efficient way. Keyword Manager expands the functionality of your familiar iPhoto setup, and will greatly enhance your photo management experience. Download a fully functional demo version and try Keyword Manager today!

  
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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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  LaTeXiT

  LaTeXiT is a small utility that allows you to quickly typeset LaTeX equation, without bothering with file creation, preambles, and so on. The PDF image obtained can then be exported by drag'n drop to any application supporting it.

  LaTeXiT also features an application service to be used through other applications.

  
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  Little Snitch

  Little Snitch is a software firewall that protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!

  Little Snitch informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private data from being sent out without your knowledge. Little Snitch runs inconspicuously in the background and it can also detect network related activity of viruses, trojans and other malware.

  
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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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  MainMenu

  Don't have time to run all the various tools and scripts to keep your Mac running smoothly? MainMenu makes these tasks quick and easy, right from your menu bar.

  Rebuilding your Spotlight library for faster searching, repairing permissions, cleaning caches to improve application performance, and even more advanced settings — such as enabling and disabling the Dashboard — are no more than two clicks away.

  MainMenu is full of powerful maintenance tools to keep your Mac running like new, within a slick, simple interface.

  
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  Maple

  (No demo) Maple is the ultimate productivity tool for solving mathematical problems and creating interactive technical applications.

  
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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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  Matlab

  Math Toolbox with many capabilities and libraries.

  
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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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  Nessus

  Nessus is the world's most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world's largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

  
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  NetNewsWire

  NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface similar to Apple Mail can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.

  
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  Numbers

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

  
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  OmniGraffle Professional

  OmniGraffle Pro helps you draw beautiful diagrams, family trees, flow charts, org charts, layouts, and (mathematically speaking) any other directed or non-directed graphs. We've had people use Graffle to plan plotlines for a story, make an overview of an operating system, show the evolution of computers, and even show how diseases can spread in a closed population. If you want to organize your thoughts, your projects, or even your friends graphically using boxes and lines, OmniGraffle is your tool.

  
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  OmniPlan

  How to get your project done on time and under budget:

  With OmniPlan, you can create logical, manageable project plans with Gantt charts, schedules, summaries, milestones, and critical paths. Break down the tasks needed to make your project a success, optimize resources, and streamline budgets. It's project management made painless.

  
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  Pac the Man X

  Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man are back.

  
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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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  Photo Booth

  Photo Booth allows you to take images of yourself and friends using the built in iSight camera on your Mac, and changes the images with effects. This comes on all Macs with iSights.

  
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  Picard

  Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application. This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track/file oriented like the ClassicTagger was. Picard is written in Python, which is a cross-platform language, and makes use of cross-platform libraries - this allows the same code to run both on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

  
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  Pixelmator

  Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.

  
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  Porticus

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

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

  
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  Preview

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

  
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  Pukka

  Pukka is a minimalist client for Delicious, Ma.gnolia, and compatible social bookmarking services. Fire it up and within seconds you can easily post to one or more accounts. Think of it as a mini link blogging application. Pukka features Spotlight integration, too. You can even set Pukka as your external weblog client in NetNewsWire, NewsFire, or Vienna.

  
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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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  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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  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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  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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  Safari AdBlock

  Safari AdBlock blocks ads in Safari. Safari AdBlock is meant to be extremely simple to use: there is nothing to configure, no filter list to manage, no regular expression, it just works out of the box!

  Note: Safari AdBlock requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

  
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  Shimo

  Shimo started in 2006 as a replacement for the really obtrusive and uncomfortable graphical user interface that comes with Cisco's VPN client. Thus it was "only" an interface, but a very successful one!
  With Shimo2 comes a completely new way of using VPN connections on your beloved Mac. It supports many different types of secure connections and makes it even more comfortable to configure and use them...

  
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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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  Sing that iTune

  This useful widget searches for the current track playing on iTunes on many popular lyrics sites and displays the appropriate lyrics right in the dashboard. Very customizable.

  
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  Spaces

  You do a lot on your Mac. So how do you keep order when projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to group your application windows and banish clutter completely. Leopard gives you a space for everything and makes it easy to switch between your spaces.

  
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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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  svnX

  SvnX is an open source GUI for most features of the svn client binary.

  It allows you to browse your working copies, spot changes and operate on them but also to browse logs and revisions of your repositories !

  It's written using Panther's new bindings mechanism for maximum flexibility and user experience.

  
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  TeXShop

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

  
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  Textmate

  TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

  
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  textsoap

  TextSoap Standard is the premier styled-text transformation tool today. Whether you're cleaning email, text from the web, scripts or any other text with all the gobbledygook. Features include:

  • Universal Binary * Clean Plain or RTF Text * Improved Cleaner Palette * Improved SCRUB * OS X Services * Automator Action * Shareable Custom Cleaners * New Custom Cleaner Editor * Regular Expressions in Custom Cleaners * Improved line-ending handling * Ability to tag text with Custom Cleaners * Over 100 built-in cleaners * and more..

  
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  Things

  Task management has never been this easy. Organize your tasks in an elegant and intuitive way. Things combines powerful features with simplicity through the use of tags and its intelligent filter bar. A Leopard style source list allows for quick and easy focusing. Together with a beautiful user interface, Things aims at the seemingly impossible: making task management both easy and fun.

  Public preview available for download!

  
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  Toast Titanium

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

  Please note that there is no demo available.

  
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  Transmission

  Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.

  
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  Unison

  Usenet app in Cocoa, fantastic interface and easy to use. Very mac like. Find anything you want to download, "it's on there".

  
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  VectorDesigner

  VectorDesigner is a vector drawing application designed to be simple, intuitive and powerful to use.

  It has everything you need to create fancy vector graphics such as posters, brochures, stickers, logos, web graphics, t-shirt and more.

  Tech Specs

  • Smart shapes.
  • Bezier Creation and Editing.
  • Text inside shape.
  • Text along path.
  • Layers.
  • Conversion Raster To Vector.
  • Image filters powered by Core Image and Quartz Composer.
  • Image adjustment panel.
  • Boolean Operations.
  • iSight integration.
  • Scanner integration.
  • Flickr browser.
  • iLife photo browser.
  • QuickLook support.
  • Cocoa Application.

  
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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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  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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  X11

  An implementation of the X Window System that makes it possible to run X11-based applications in Mac OS X. Based on the open source XFree86 project — the most common implementation of X11 — X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast, and fully integrated with Mac OS X. It includes the full X11R6.6 technology including an X11 window server, Quartz window manager, libraries, and basic utilities such as xterm.

  
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  Xcode

  Xcode is Apple Computer's integrated development environment for Mac OS X. It includes all the tools you need to create, debug, and optimize your own Universal applications, targeting both Intel and PowerPC platforms. At the heart of Xcode is a graphical workbench that tightly integrates a syntax-highlighting text editor, a robust build control system, a debugger, and the powerful GCC compiler capable of targeting both Intel and PowerPC regardless of host platform.