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Aqua Data Studio

Aqua Data Studio is a database query tool and administration tool that allows developers to easily create, edit, and execute SQL scripts, as well as browse and visually modify database structures. Aqua Data Studio provides an integrated database environment with a single consistent interface to all major relational databases. This allows the database administrator or developer to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously from one application.
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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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Carbon Copy Cloner

Have you ever wanted a simple, complete, bootable backup of your hard drive? Have you ever wanted to upgrade to a larger hard drive with minimal hassle and without reinstalling your OS and all of your applications? Have you ever wanted to move your entire Mac OS X installation to a new computer? Then CCC is the tool for you! CCC makes these tasks simple by harnessing the Unix power built into Mac OS X.
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ChocoFlop

ChocoFlop is an image manipulation program based entirely on Apple's new CoreImage technology which takes advantages of the processing power in your GPU (graphics card).
Main features:
- Small, Launches in a pair of seconds
- Real Time non-destructive filters
- Rich Text Layers
- Load and opens many image formats
- Supports layers, layer masks, selections
- Paint tools with table pressure support
- HDR (128 bits per pixel)
- Universal Binary
- Easy to use for photoshop users
- Imports many RAW formats thanks to dcraw
- Save for web: get the best Jpeg / PNG compression on earth!Keep in mind, ChocoFlop is beta software.
Requires OSX 10.4+ or higher.
The license if free until it reaches a stable status (v version 1.0):
See this page
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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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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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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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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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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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A to G
Import your Mac OS X Address Book into GMail
(Formerly AddressBookToCSV)
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Adobe Reader
Adobe's free solution for viewing PDF documents.
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ArcExplorer
As a complete data explorer, ArcExplorer—Java lets you display and query a wide variety of standard data sources. Using ArcExplorer as a stand-alone desktop application, you can consume shapefiles, a variety of images, ArcSDE layers, and more.
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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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Before You Know It Deluxe
This is an excellent tool for anyone that needs to memorize something. It is marketed as a complete tool for learning the language of your choice but fails miserably in this respect. The true power of this tool lies in the ability to make your own flash card lists. Input anything you like and drill away. The simple interface allows you to spend less time creating lists and more time learning. Absolutely indispensable for any student.
Designed for PowerPC but works flawlessly on Intel Macs.
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Bits on Wheels
Bits on Wheels is the first 100% Native BitTorrent client for the Macintosh. It is completely written in Objective-C and Cocoa. It is also the first client to show a realtime 3D view of your downloads.
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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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Calendar Clock
This widget displays the birthdays on a disk which u can enter on the back.
Good to see the sign of the zodiac and the sun will go around in one year.Note: this widget was once available on apple.com but the author states on macupdate that his homepage is down and that the widget is on the dashboardwidget website.
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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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Cheap Impostor
Cheap Impostor is an inexpensive "Imposition" application. Without imposition software the simplest way to transform your document into a magazine would be to use a photo-copier to shrink the pages so two fit sideways on a sheet of paper and reorder them so that when a stack of them is stapled and folded in half the pages appear in the correct order
The short story is that Cheap Impostor lets you skip the photocopier step and produce output from your printer that can directly be turned into a magazine. Further, Cheap Impostor has settings that let you create books with multiple signatures
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Chicken of the VNC
Chicken of the VNC is a VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you.
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CmapTools
From http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/:
The CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps.
The CmapTools client is free for use by anybody, whether its use is commercial or non-commercial.
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coconutBattery
coconutBattery isn't just a tool which shows you only the current charge of your battery - it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your battery had as it left the factory.
You also get information about the battery-loadcycles, the current charger and last but not least information about the age of your Mac.
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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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Comic Life
Create your own comics, from your iLife :)
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Compressor
With increasing demand for media distribution in multiple formats — ranging from HD broadcast to an iPod screen — it’s more important than ever to be able to output files efficiently while keeping quality high. The streamlined interface of Compressor 3 lets you quickly configure batch processes for encoding to a wide range of industry-standard formats. Or create format and standards conversions at pristine quality through sophisticated optical flow technology. For the ultimate high-speed workflow, set up distributed encoding over a shared-media network powered by Xsan.
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Copernicus
Copernicus has been redesigned from the ground up to bring you the easiest screen capture and movie capture available.
It features the ability to capture movies directly to ram, offering higher framerates than possible with other programs. Once you are done recording your movie, you can export to any video format that QuickTime supports, including MPEG-4.
By default, screenshots are automatically directed to the thumbnail viewer, where you can sort through the screenshots you've taken, and make modifications such as removing the mouse cursor, or adding a watermark. Screenshots can be saved to many formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and more.
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CoRD
CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Windows servers running Microsoft Remote Desktop or Terminal Services. Features: saved servers, full screen, clipboard syncing, session resizing, international keyboards and more in a clean, easy to use interface.
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Dashalytics
Dashalytics Widget is a free Dashboard Widget for OSX that offers quick access to Google Analytics statistics.
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DataBackup
Data Backup: Award-winning, easy to use backup utility for the Mac.
Everyone should be backing up their important data before a hard drive disaster occurs. Data Backup 2.0 makes it easy to backup to FireWire and USB Drives, network volumes, CDs and even DVDs. Make schedules so you don't need to 'think' about backing up. It does it for you.
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disclabel
With DiscLabel you can create, print, & share CD labels, jewel case inserts, and DVD covers that look truly professional.
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Disk Inventory X
Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".
If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.
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DropCopy
Easily and quickly send files and folders to multiple destinations across your LAN by simply dragging files onto recipients in a popup window. The easiest way to get things from one place to another quickly without dialogs, passwords or confirmations.
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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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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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EasyFind
An alternative to or supplement of Spotlight and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing. Highlights:
Boolean operators, wildcards, phrases
No indexing, search immediately
Finds invisible files and files inside packages (which Spotlight doesn't search)
Displays the location of each file in a separate column
Provides contextual menus and services
Supports drag & drop.
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Eavesdrop
Eavesdrop is an application for listening in on TCP conversations on the network your computer is attached to.
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Eclipse
Superb Java IDE, recently released an Intel verison.
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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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FDRTools
FDRTools Advanced are a collection of capable tools for professionals and ambitious shutterbugs alike.
This software allows you to overcome the technical limitations of your digital camera and produce images with a contrast and dynamik range not considered possible so far.
The dynamic range enrichment is handled comfortable and far easier than with traditional methods. The performance characteristics outclass these methods.
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Flip4Mac WMV
Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.
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flvThing
flvThing plays Macromedia Flash Video files otherwise known as FLV files.
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fseventer
Graphically observe filesystem changes using the same underlying API as Spotlight. One example of use could be to determine what files are changed via software installation, preferences, etc...
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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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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 Notifier
The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.
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Google Video Player
* Watch videos downloaded from Google Video
* Browse scenes within a video using thumbnails
* Skip to anywhere in the video, even if that portion hasn't downloaded yet
* Sit back and watch videos in full screen mode
* Resume video downloads automatically
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Graphviz
The Macintosh port of the automated graph layout software, featuring a new document-based GUI, export to PDF and many more bitmap formats, full alpha transparency, native font and shapefile support and anti-aliasing.
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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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Hallon
Hallon can create bookmarks in many applications (like iTunes) that usually can't create bookmarks and they are always accessible from a menu whatever you are doing. You can e.g. bookmark your favorite songs, an email that you have to reply to later that day, some documents that you are working on or the contact information of a friend whom you need to call before the end of the week. And you play the song, open the email, the document or the contact information just by choosing the bookmark in the Hallon menu.
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Home Inventory
Formerly known as Stockpile, Binary Formations Home Inventory is a new version of the same software that helps you track and manage all of the stuff in your home. Home Inventory allows you to store important information about all of the items in your home (including make, model, serial number, value, pictures of your items, and much more) and keeps them organized by location. With Binary Formations Home Inventory you can print detailed reports that can be stored away in a safe place should you ever need to file an insurance claim.
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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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iCab
iCab is an alternative web browser. It supports HTML 4, image filtering, cookie filtering, bookmarks, java and javascript support, search modes, importing of web archives from Explorer, download manager, and more.
Features include:
- Advertising banner filtering
- Kiosk mode
- Error protocol (Smiley)
- Portable web archives
- Download Manager
- Link Manager
- Souce code manager
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iDVD
Takes your movies from iMovie and burns them to a DVD.
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ImageWell
Finally, an easier way to quickly edit your images and send them off to the
web. ImageWell is clean, simple, and xtralean! CNET's Download.com
publishers voted ImageWell one of their Top 5 Favorites. We think you'll
like it too!
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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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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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Inkscape
Great Open Source SVG editor!
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iPhoto Diet
iPhoto Diet is a utility that helps to slim down your iPhoto library by manipulating your photos in the following ways:
* eliminate duplicate photos created internally by iPhoto or imported by yourself
* remove iPhoto's backups of rotated or modified photos
* strip the thumbnail icons of your photos
* remove thumbnail photos that have become mixed up with your high resolution photos
* identify photos which have not been added to albums
* weed out unnecessary folders and files from the library
* and more!
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iShowU
iShowU allows you to capture and record anything you can see on your screen, along with audio from any compatible source. Ever been in the situation where you wanted to show someone what was going on, but couldn't? Either the person is not right next to you, not around, in another country (the list goes on). Now just record what you're doing and what you want to say, and stick it in an email!
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iSnip
iSnip is the easiest way to manage and access your text snippets. iSnip lives in the menu bar, right next to the Time, Volume, and similar menus. From the iSnip menu, you have easy access to any of your text clippings. There's a Snippet Manager window that allows you to organize and modify your snippets with ease. Once you're done, just go to the menu, select a snippet, and it's inserted directly into the frontmost application or copied to the clipboard!
iSnip also allows you to have multiple clipboard at the same time.
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Isolator
Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.
Isolator is similar to, but not the same as Think and Backdrop. The difference is that it works exactly how I want it to. Maybe you'll like it too.
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iStumbler
iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac.
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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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JDiskReport
This utility scans a drive, or user file tree, to report the space occupierd by each single directory. The report can be graphical or text based. It is very helpful to determine what is consuming HDD space and, if possible, take action to clean up the hard drive.
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Journler
Journler is a notebook and entry based information manager. It is simple, it is elegant, it is powerful. Journler is designed to unite text and media in creative endeavor. It offers a place to store your thoughts and ideas while connecting them with media of any kind.
Journler’s inline media viewer supports audio-video, images, PDFs, WebArchives, websites, email and Address Book contacts. When you’re ready to organize, Journler does entries by date and folder as well tiered folders and smart families with auto-tagging. Journler includes lightning search and on the fly filtering of your entries. There is Spotlight and AppleScript support as well as Mail, iWeb, iPod, and blogging integration. The new Drop Box and JPanel make it easy to get stuff in, while the Lexicon helps you find the relationships between your data.
Chronicle. Organize. Find. Connect. Journaling is just the beginning.
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JustLooking
JustLooking is designed to be used instead of the Preview application on your computer for browsing most image file formats. In particular, it has the following differences:
- It focuses on files and directories instead of lists of files. Thus, once you load a file, you can easily navigate through all other files in the same directory.
- It displays images at their native resolution instead of interpreting DPI information stored in the image meta-data. While images are printed at the maximum resolution possible, on screen they are displayed pixel-by-pixel.
- Being designed more for viewing of Images, it properly shows animated GIF files.
- The entire program can easily be manipulated and powered by simple keystrokes for a quick and pleasant viewing experience.
- There is support for printing, image resizing, saving to a few key image formats, and displaying of all image info.
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Komodo IDE
Multi-platform, multi-language IDE for end-to-end dynamic web application development. Easily create, test and debug all your code in one powerful workspace. Komodo IDE offers the most advanced editing and debugging for dynamic languages and client-side Ajax technologies, plus intelligent tools for regular expressions, team development and customization, and unparalleled extensibility.
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Last.fm
Last.fm player streams music from Last.fm, based on your music profile.
The source code is available under a GPL license.
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LaTeX Equation Editor
The LaTeX Equation Editor provides an elegant graphical interface to LaTeX, a powerful typesetting engine for mathematics, enabling you to quickly generate professional-looking mathematics for inclusion in your slides. All equations are produced as single-page PDF files, so they can be smoothly resized and rotated like any other graphic object in Keynote.
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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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Linotype FontExplorer X
NOTE: Original record is here.
FontExplorer™ X sets a new standard for font management software. Linotype is pleased to announce the missing link to your font collection. With the new FontExplorer™ X, font management, font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are simple and fun! FontExplorer™ X gives computer users all the functionality they ever dreamed – easy to use with an elegant style. Download the Mac OS X version / PC version now, or subscribe to our monthly newsletter. Supported languages are English and German, more versions are coming soon.
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Logorrhea
View and search iChat logs
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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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m3u2mp3
M3U files are simple text files used to "stream" MP3 files. You can find them at many excellent sites like CD Baby and Magnatune. Sometimes, you might want to keep the real MP3 file, instead of just streaming it. This program (m3u2mp3) does just that!
On Mac OS X, the app should just run as is. You can can drop one or more M3U files on it, and it will fetch all the MP3s referenced in the M3U. If you use Finder's Get Info to associate an M3U file (or all M3U files!) with this app, you can just double-click on the M3U file(s) to launch them with m3u2mp3 and download the MP3s.
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Mac HelpMate
What Does Mac HelpMate help me do?
Mac Helpmate cleans up trash files, cleans out caches, and removes unwanted log files, and can schedule these tasks to run automatically
Is good for "peeking under the hood" of Mac OS X to troubleshoot a myriad of probelms
Accomplish in seconds what takes minutes of typing in the Terminal
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MacJournal
MacJournal is the world's most popular journaling software for the Macintosh. Create a personal journal with two level security (password protection and encryption), record daily ideas, manage to do's and export them to multiple file formats, generate blogs to any of the popular blogging services or .mac account. Even record audio and podcast! MacJournal has the power and functionality to do it all.
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MacTheRipper
The DVD ripping tool for OS X.
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Magic Number Machine
A free, full-featured, graphically laid out, high-precision, scientific calculator for Mac OS X 10.4 and greater. Full source-code is included with the distribution.
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Mail.appetizer
Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple's Mail and integrates seamlessly. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window. It gives you a brief summary of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention.
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Mailboxer
Mailboxer will take contacts from your address book and create Smart Mailboxes for them in Apple’s Mail. Each of those Smart Mailboxes will contain all e-mails you exchanged with any of the e-mail addresses of that contact.
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MailFollowup
Adds a "Followup" items to the Message and contextual menus (and optionally a toolbar button) of Apple's Mail application that allows you to compose (and then send) a quoted version of the original message to all of the original recipients, keeping the To, Cc and Bcc addresses exactly as they appeared in the original message.
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Meteorologist
Meteo is a menu bar app that can track several locations at once and updates frequently. It works well for international locations and has a nice set of weather icons.
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Mouse Locator
- Highly visible locator instantly reveals your mouse position.
- Controllable trigger time period, from 1 second to 30 minutes.
- Eliminates the frustrating search of your screen.
- Indispensable addition to Mac OS X, v10.4 or later required.
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MyMind
MyMind is a combination of an outliner an a mind mapping application. Or a mind mapper with built-in outlining functionality.
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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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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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Nisus Thesaurus
Free thesaurus, with an innovative interface for navigating a network of meanings, e.g., to find similar, opposite, more specific or more general words. Based on WordNet.
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NIX manual
Unix MAN page viewer widget.
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NotLight
NotLight is a simple Spotlight front-end substitute; but it gives you full access to, and control over, the true power of a Spotlight search. You can use wildcards or not, specify word-based, case-insensitive, and diacritic-insensitive searches, and construct complex searches with AND, OR, and NOT. The Date Assistant lets you form date searches using Spotlight's date specifier syntax. Search queries can be saved as simple XML. Results are displayed a simple list of filenames and paths.
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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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OmniOutliner
OmniOutliner is a flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information.
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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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P-touch Editor 3.2
Label editor for Brother P-touch label printers.
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PagePacker
Mac implementation of Pocketmod: you select 8 pages of calendars, todo-lists, notes-pages, etc. and then print a one-page foldable, paper organizer.
This is an extremely cool alternative to electronic PDAs and large chunks of paper to carry with you in order to get organized.
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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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Parallels Desktop for Mac
Parallels Desktop for Mac is the first solution for Intel-Macs that give you the flexibility of running Windows on a Mac seamlessly without rebooting. The upgraded 3.0 version delivers 3D Graphics Support to play the hottest games and run the most popular applications, cross OS application & file integration with SmartSelect, control the levels of integration and isolation with Security Manager and bulletproofing your VMs with SnapShots.
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PDFLab
PDFLab lets you split and join PDF documents as well as insert images and blank pages.
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PDFMergeX
With PDFMergeX you can combine, transform and reorder your pdfs documents. If you need to merge more than one pdfs, move page inside a document or take a look at your pdfs, PDFMergeX is for you. It’s quite simple (in fact I’ve finished it in a day) and at this time you can’t edit your pdf contents but a day…
PDFMerge was made using Cocoa and Objective-C: it’s small and fast and it uses standard Quartz 2D Technology (PDFKit) to view and edit your documents. Optimized and secure, it’s a system feature!
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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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pgAdmin3
pgAdmin III is the most popular and feature rich Open Source administration and development platform for PostgreSQL, the most advanced Open Source database in the world. The application may be used on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSUSE, Solaris, Mac OSX and Windows platforms to manage PostgreSQL 7.3 and above running on any platform, as well as commercial versions of PostgreSQL such as EnterpriseDB and Mammoth PostgreSQL.
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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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Pixen
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop.
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Punakea
Punakea is a little app trying to help you cope with the day-to-day struggle of managing your files. Designed to complement Spotlight, it allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder's folder structure.
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Quicken
Track, save and invest with the ultimate personal financial management software created for the Macintosh platform.
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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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Quicktime Broadcaster
From the Apple Website:
Combining the power of QuickTime with Apple’s ease of use, QuickTime Broadcaster allows just about anyone to produce a live broadcast event. From a backyard birthday party to a corporate keynote speech, QuickTime Broadcaster allows anyone with an Internet connection to “virtually” attend.QuickTime Broadcaster is Apple’s award-winning live encoding software that lets you produce professional-quality live events for online delivery—quickly, easily and affordably.
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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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RapidoSerial
RapidoSerial is an application to store both serial numbers, license files and other related
informations. Protect your investment of licenses. RapidoSerial is a way to backup them.RapidoSerial organizes all your information in a secure location.
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RapidoSMTP
Tired of changing your smtp server over and over again?
This free utility helps Mac users set up a full SMTP mail server in less than a minute.In fact, RapidoSMTP allows you to turn on the Postfix SMTP server built into Mac OS X, which will allow you to send mail out the command line, from PHP, or from Mac OS X applications like Apple Mail, Eudora or Microsoft Entourage.
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RapidoWrite
Nice little app to speed up typing. Store abbreviations and sentences and re-use them. Small footprint, free, good.
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RCDefaultApp
RCDefaultApp is a Mac OS X 10.2 or higher preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, MIME types, and Uniform Type Identifiers (or UTIs; MacOS 10.4 only). MacOS X uses the extension and file type settings to choose the application when opening a file in Finder, while Safari and other applications use the URL and MIME type settings at other times for content not related to a file (such as an unknown URL protocol, or a media stream).
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RealPlayer
The Mac OS X version of RealPlayer. Useful for playing RealAudio and RealVideo files.
- Download and play Flash video
- PerfectPlay enabled pausing and seeking within live clips
- Playlist window
- Play RealMedia, QuickTime, Windows Media, and Flash Video
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Reggy
Reggy is a small OS X cocoa/objective-c application to very quickly visualize what a given regular expression will match given a test string. It will also tell you if you have errors in your regular expression.
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Remote Desktop
Apple Remote Desktop is the best way to manage the Mac computers on your network. Distribute software, provide real-time online help to end users, create detailed software and hardware reports, and automate routine management tasks — all without leaving your desk. Featuring Automator actions, Remote Spotlight search, and a new Dashboard widget, Apple Remote Desktop 3 makes your job easier than ever.
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Remote Desktop Connection
Remote Desktop Connection Client lets you connect to a Microsoft Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer
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Safari Icon Manager
This app allows you to delete icons so Safari Can Grab new icons.
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Scrivener
Scrivener is a project management tool for writers that acts like your own little writing shed at the bottom of the garden, where you have cork notice-boards, ring-binders, photos, clippings paperclipped to jottings, notebooks and reams of typewritten pages piling up - along with a secretary who keeps it all in neat piles and uses his speed-reading skills to find what you need as soon as you need it.
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Seashore
Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format.
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Selenium
Selenium is an application designed to assist with web research. Combining a tabbed web browser with a text editor, outliner, bibliography editor and PDF manager, Selenium makes it easy to research a topic online and keep track of the information you find without the need to switch between applications.
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Server Admin
The ServerAdministrationSoftware.mpkg contains administration software and tools that you can install on a computer other than your server. These tools require Mac OS X v10.4 or later.
Server Admin
For configuring service settings, monitoring server activity, logging information and the state of each service.Documentation
The Documentation folder contains the getting started guide in PDF format. This folder also contains information about additional documentation, including onscreen help and more administration and orientation guides.
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Service Scrubber
Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using? With Service Scrubber, you can:
- restructure the services menu
- change service keyboard shortcuts
- disable services
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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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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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Simple CSS
To help you work with CSS, we've created a free tool called Simple CSS, which runs on Macs, Windows and Linux. Simple CSS allows you to easily create Cascading Style Sheets from scratch, and/or modify existing ones, using a familiar point-and-click interface.
With Simple CSS, you can manage multiple CSS projects and import your existing style sheets. Simple CSS supports CSS2.
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SiteOrbiter
Get familiar with a web site quickly and easily. With the SiteOrbiter web cartography tool, you can gain insight into the structural components of a web site with a few clicks of the mouse.
SiteOrbiter is a visual reporting tool for web developers and administrators.
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SiteSucker
SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads Web sites from the Internet. It does this by copying the site's Web pages, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and click a button and SiteSucker can download an entire Web site.
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skEdit
skEdit (formerly skHTML) is a text editor with a focus on web development. It includes features to assist in the editing of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, Ruby/Rails, SQL and ColdFusion.
These features include an integrated Project View to easily edit an entire project of files, syntax highlighting, code-completion and hinting, integrated SFTP/FTP/WebDAV for file transfers and editing, Tidy integration to validate and clean files, powerful search and replace on single and multiple files with support regular expressions, snippets to store frequently used sections of text, line-numbering, free upgrades after initial purchase, and more.
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SketchBox
Stickies with tablet support and reminders.
SketchBox is a Sticky Notes Manager that supports graphical and text notes that can be used as reminders.
Notes can be arranged via drag'n'drop in the thumbnail view.
Each Sticky consists of three layers: The drawing canvas, a little text editor and an intuitive alarm timer that combines analog and digital elements.
While editing text the drawing layer is still visible in the semitransparent background and vice-versa.
You can stick individual notes to the Desktop if you don't want them to clutter Exposé or make them appear always on top for important things.
The drawing canvas has extensive support for graphics tablets with pressure sensitivity and you can use the backside of your pen as an eraser.
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SketchUp
SketchUp is a deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. SketchUp was developed to combine the elegance and spontaneity of pencil sketching with the speed and flexibility of today's digital media.
Developed for the conceptual stages of design, this powerful yet easy-to-learn software allows for quick and easy 3D form creation, the result is an interface that supports a dynamic, creative exploration of 3D form, material and light.
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Skim
Skim is a free PDF reading and note-taking app for Mac OS X that is designed to make reading research papers and manuals better.
Just like in Preview, you can search, scan, and zoom through PDFs, but you also get some custom features for your workflow, like:
- Adding and editing notes
- Highlighting important text
- Making "snapshots" for reference
- Reading in full screen
- Giving presentations
and more.
