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Bean
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that features:
- a live word count
- a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
- a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
- an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
- date-stamped backups
- autosaving
- a page layout mode
- an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
- an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
- selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
- a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
- easy to use menus
- remembers cursor position (excluding .text, .html, and .webarchive formats)
- all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
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Blender
Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
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Chipmunk Basic
Chipmunk Basic for MacOS is an old-fashioned Basic interpreter which runs on almost all Macs. Chipmunk Basic uses a vintage traditional-style command-line console.
Versions are available for System 6.0.7 thru Mac OS X 10.4, for systems from very old Mac 512Ke's up thru the latest Apple iBooks and G5 PowerMacs.
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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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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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Io
Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).
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iTerm
iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support.
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OpenKomodo
The Open Komodo Project, based on the award-winning Komodo IDE, is a new initiative by ActiveState to create an open source platform for building developer environments. ActiveState has open-sourced elements of Komodo Edit, a free multi-language editor for dynamic languages based on Komodo IDE, to create the Open Komodo code base.
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Scratch
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
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Shiira
Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.
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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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Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
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Think
Think allows one single application to be run, full screen at any one time. The idea is for the program to hide all other applications, menu bar, and dock, to aid concentration allowing you to focus on what you are doing and remove all other distractions.
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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.
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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 AIR
Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
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Amaya
Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium. Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound 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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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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Aquamacs
Aquamacs is an Aqua-native build of the powerful Emacs text editor. By "Aqua-native," we mean more than just the fact that this version of Emacs runs as a standard OS X application. Aquamacs features extensive customization: it will feel and behave mostly like an Aqua program - while still being a real GNU Emacs with all the ergonomy and extensibility you've come to expect from this world-class editor.
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Armagetron Advanced
"A Tron clone in 3D"
This has been the tagline of Armagetron, since, well, a very long time, and is probably the shortest and most accurate description possible. Tron was an arcade game based on the movie of the same name, release by Disney in 1982. The original game consisted of 4 sub-games, the only one of concern is the 'Light Cycles' one, in which the player uses a left/right joystick to control a 'Light Cycle' which leaves a wall behind it wherever the cycle it goes, turning only at 90 degree angles...
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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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Audion
Record, play, encode, edit, mix, manage, and visualize audio files. This was once a pay application, but they offer for free now.
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Bwana
Bwana is an application that lets you load man pages in a browser. It offers link to other man pages, an index of all man pages and most importantly color coding.
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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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CocoaMySQL
CocoaMySQL is a MySQL management (schema and data) app.
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DbVisualizer
DbVisualizer is a feature rich, intuitive and cross platform database tool for developers and DBA's providing a single powerful interface for a variety of databases. DbVisualizer supports simultaneous database connections, it lets you explore and manage database objects, execute SQL queries, visualize information and a lot more.
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DrScheme
DrScheme is a Scheme development environment for building applications that run on MzScheme or MrEd. It features intuitive syntax checking, an REPL for testing modules and much more. It is a complete environment for teaching programming and comes with a set of graded "languages" that a tutor can expose students to.
Programming tutorials such as HtDP (How to Develop Programs) and "Teach yourself Scheme in fixnum days" come bundled with this IDE.
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Female Alert System
Crazy fun. Your wife or girlfriend may not find it funny.
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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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Flame
View all bonjour traffic.
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Flock
Flock is a free web browser that makes it easier than ever to share photos, stay up-to-date with news from your favorite sites, and search the Web.
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GIMPshop
Modified version of GIMP to make the user interface seem more like photoshop.
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GLtron
As the name suggests, it's inspired by the movie TRON. Or more exactly, by all the games that where inspired by the movie TRON.
You steer a futuristic bike, called lightcycle. Combat takes place in a rectangular arena. Your bike leaves a trail behind, which is like a wall. The goal is to force the other players to drive into a wall. The winner is the last player alive.
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Google SketchUp
SketchUp is a fast and simple 3D modeling program. You can use it to model simple objects, like your house. You can use textures and colors, too. After Google aquired SketchUp, they came out whit this free version. It is still not universal, but works well in Rosetta. You can export to 2D images or directly into Google Earth. Google also has a 3D Wharehouse where you can upload your models and download the other user's.
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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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Integrity
Integrity helps keep links on your website from becoming broken. Feed Integrity your homepage URL and it will follow internal links to find all of your pages, checking each link and reporting the server response code for each.
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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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Jahshaka
Welcome to the Jahshaka Project! The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Please join our community and get involved!
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Jar Inspector
The Jar Inspector is an easy to use yet powerful jar file editor. It allows you to effortlessly view, edit and decompile the contents of jar files.
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Key Codes
Key Codes is a little utility that displays the key code, unicode value, and modifier keys state for any key combination you press. As a developer, you might find this to be useful.
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LispWorks
Free (personal use) version of the commercial LispWorks IDE, an excellent implementation of Common Lisp, particularly considering the price. See review comments for notes on other editions.
5.0 is universal; 32 and 64 bit editions are now available as well (in the commercial versions). The Enterprise version includes an Orb, as well as Knowledgeworks, a Prolog/RETE based expert system development tool.
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MakeHuman
MakeHuman© is an open-source, open graphics library, stand-alone, multi-platform, software program, which is completely written in C++ language. Its purpose is to provide a versatile, professional and extremely specialized application for parametrical modeling of three-dimensional humanoid characters.
By specialized, we mean that MakeHuman's© purpose is to model and pose a 3D humanoid, complete with hair, accessories and high quality UV maps. It will only make an acceptably photo realistic, poseable, humanoid character suitable for use in a variety of applications and for a variety of purposes – marketing campaigns, advertisements, animations, graphic art, and 3D games, just to name a few.
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MAMP
Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP.
With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X.
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mi
mi is a text editor to write HTML source, C language source, and so on. It supports your editing by many features such as keyword colorize feature. mi is a freeware. Please distribute this freely. But, I keep my copyright of this software. Even if you lost any data or something by using this software, distributer and I are not responsible for it.
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MySQL
MySQL, the most popular Open Source SQL database, is provided by MySQL AB. MySQL AB is a commercial company that builds its business providing services around the MySQL database.
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MySQL Administrator
MySQL Administrator is a powerful visual administration console that enables you to easily administer your MySQL environment and gain significantly better visibility into how your databases are operating. MySQL Administrator now integrates database management and maintenance into a single, seamless environment, with a clear and intuitive graphical user interface.
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MySQL Query Browser
MySQL Query Browser is the easiest visual tool for creating, executing, and optimizing SQL queries for your MySQL Database Server. The MySQL Query Browser gives you a complete set of drag-and-drop tools to visually build, analyze and manage your queries.
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MySQL Workbench
MySQL Workbench is a database modeling tool for MySQL. You can use it to design and create new database schemas, document existing databases and even perform complex migrations to MySQL.
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MySQLHealth
This widget shows connection and query counts for a server.
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Navigator
Netscape web browser
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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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otx
otx is a disassembler based on Apple's otool with many improvements. It is a must have for any developer who wants to understand crashlogs
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PHP Apache Module
This is a PHP module for the Apache web server included in Mac OS X.
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.This particular build of the module is based on the most recent version 5.2.1 of the software. It runs on Mac OS X version 10.4/Tiger and is built as Universal Binary for compatibility with both Intel and PPC Macs.
The module includes support for lots of extensions, among them the ones listed below:
- the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
- the PDFLib PDF library
- the cURL library for various communications protocols
- the GD image creation library (with PNG, JPEG, PostScript Type 1 and TrueType font options).
- the expat XML parser and WDDX support
- XSLT transformations
- LDAP access
- the IMAP client library
- FTP client access
- exif digital camera image metadata support
- transparent session id propagation (--enable-trans-sid) option
- mcrypt encryption functions
- mhash hashing functions
- sockets extension (experimental!)
- iODBC database support
- XML-RPC support (back in after I had to remove it in a previous release)
- mhash support
- GNU gettext
- CLI Version
(description from download page)
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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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Sdef Editor
Sdef Editor is a "Scripting Definition File Editor".
If you are developer, and you want that your application be scriptable, you have to write a AppleScript dictionary, or terminology. Sdef Editor can create, and edit sdef xml files. Sdef file format is an OS X format that can be exported as Cocoa Terminology (.scriptSuite and .scriptTerminology files) or 'aete' resource file.
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Self
Designed for expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure, prototype-based object model with uniform access to state and behavior. Unlike other languages, Self allows objects to inherit state and to change their patterns of inheritance dynamically.
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Shiira mini
Shiira mini is a small web browser widget designed to thrive in your Dashboard environment. Small and quick, for browsing in a hurry.
Shiira mini is not a limited Web browser. It provides full features for browsing including shrinking image sizes. It supports also GIF animation and Flash. (Some plug-ins are not supported, ex. QuickTime plug-in.)
Since Shiira mini imports Shiira and Safari bookmarks, you can migrate with zero configuration required. Bookmarks are displayed as HTML.
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Squeak
Squeak is a modern, open source full-featured implementation of the powerful Smalltalk programming language and environment. Squeak is highly-portable - even its virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. Squeak is the vehicle for a wide range of projects from multimedia applications, educational platforms to commercial web application development.
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Sunrise
Sunrise is the open-source browser that based on WebKit framework for Mac. It is light and fast. The concept is to add some convenient functions that have not equipped it with other browsers yet. The same rendering engine as Safari is used.
Great for web developers.
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SunriseBrowser
Light & fast. The open-source browser for web developer.
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Sweet Home 3D
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview.
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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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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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YourSQL
YourSQL is a minimalistic app which is really useful for viewing the data inside a MySQL database. You can also make limited changes to the schema through the GUI. I find it quicker than CocoaMySQL for simple tasks, and prefer the GUI.
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ZigVersion
ZigVersion is a Version Control interface for Mac developers that works with Subversion servers. Instead of simply reproducing the command line concepts as a graphical interface, we looked at the typical workflows of professional programmers and designed an interface around them.
Free for non-commercial use, $99 USD for commercial use.
