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  1Password

  1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and Convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in one secure place provided by Apple's OS X Keychain.

  1Password browser extensions support Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, DEVONagent, NetNewsWire, Netscape Navigator, and Flock. All browser extensions share the data stored in the keychain which means you never need to manually copy your passwords between browsers or from the password manager to a browser ever again!

  1Password has received numerous awards, including 4.5 mice from Macworld magazine, MacLife Editors pick, and was the Pick of Week on MacBreak Weekly by both Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann.

  
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  7zX

  7zX is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually 7zX compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format, and 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.

  
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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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  Anxiety

  Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.

  
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  AppFresh

  AppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X. It provides a central place to control the software updates available to your Mac, integrating most popular and most common update checking technologies such as Apple Software Update, Sparkle, Microsoft AutoUpdate and osx.iusethis.com. We want you to spend your time using your applications, not keeping them up to date!

  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 applicationsit contains, even automatically. Using your iusethis profile also enables you to install applications you don't have on your computer. This comes in handy when you need to reinstall your computer and want your basic set of applications installed. Using AppFresh and an up to date iusethis profile makes this an easy task.

  AppFresh is still work in progress, so please help us making it better. Contact us or check back at our development blog.

  
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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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  Azureus

  The reigning heavy-weight BitTorrent champion. There are smaller and prettier Bittorrent clients out there, but none are as feature-complete, and none have Azureus's library of available plugins. The Firefox of BitTorrent clients.

  
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  Bento

  Bento... The new personal database from FileMaker that’s as easy to use as a Mac. Bento organizes all your important information in one place, so you can manage your contacts, coordinate events, track projects, prioritize tasks, and more — faster and easier than ever before.

  • Bring It All Together: From contacts and calendars, to projects and events, you can organize just about every type of information you have — all from one place.
  • See Things Your Way: Just drag and drop or point and click to change the look of any form, and see information in a way that makes sense to you. Now seeing, searching, and sorting your information is simpler and faster than ever before
  • Designed For Leopard: Bento has direct links to the Mac OS X Address Book and iCal, and takes advantage of many new features of Leopard, including core animation, advanced find, Time Machine, backups, and multimedia features.

  
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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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  Bookends

  Bookends is the reference manager that Mac users have been waiting for: Unicode-savvy, powerful group-based navigation, built-in HTTP server, Internet library searches, automated PubMed searches, and much more.

  
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  Bookit

  With all the browsers available for the Mac OS keeping your bookmarks organized can become a real problem. But with Bookit keeping your browsers' bookmarks synchronized is quick and easy. Bookit compares the bookmarks you have and then lets you synchronize the bookmarks that are not in all of your browsers. Finally, Bookit creates identical bookmark files for each browser. If you use more than one browser regularly, give Bookit a try, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

  
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  Buddi

  Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.

  
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  Caffeine

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

  
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  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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  Celtx

  Celtx is Pre-Production software for film, video, theatre, and animation. Use Celtx to write and format a script, plan locations, wardrobe, actors and props, special effects and schedules. You can share calanders, add rich media like storyboards and video files, and print out dialog and call sheets. Celtx can help you envision, manage and execute any production from intial idea to final print.

  
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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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  Darwinia

  The world of Darwinia is a virtual themepark, running entirely inside a computer network and populated by a sentient evolving life form called the Darwinians. Unfortunately Darwinia has been overrun by a computer virus which has multiplied out of control. Your task is to destroy the Viral Infection and save the Darwinians from extinction. It also comes with a level editor.

  
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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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  DropDMG

  DropDMG is the easiest way to create Mac OS X disk images. Just drag and drop a folder or file, and DropDMG will create an image in .dmg, .img, or .smi format--or a Tar, Zip, or StuffIt archive. Or, you can drag an existing image or archive file onto DropDMG to easily convert it to any of the other supported formats. DropDMG supports encryption, segmented images, and custom icons, and it can create images with rich-text license agreements in multiple languages.

  
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  Earth Addresser

  Love Google Earth and have all your friends’ contact information in your Mac’s Address Book? Then you will like Earth Addresser! It takes the addresses from your Address Book and writes them to a ‘KML’ file which Google Earth can open to display your friends’ places right on the map. If you have added photos for them in your Address Book, those will appear instead of the usual drawing pin.

  
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  EyeTV

  Turn your Mac into the coolest television in the house. Pause the TV show while you get a snack. Rewind and watch that great play again. Fast forward past the advertisements. Float the EyeTV window on top of other applications and keep an eye on your show while you work or surf the Web. Or, go “Full Screen”, stretch out on the couch, and channel surf with an EyeTV or Apple Remote.

  
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  FacebookSync

  FacebookSync syncs your Apple Address Book with data from your Facebook account. Specifically, it pulls down your friends' names, emails, AIM, mobile phone number, and photo. Adds missing photos, inserts missing information, and adds missing records to your Apple AddressBook. This is great if you use iChat or Bluetooth-sync your AddressBook with your cellphone.

  Note from developer:

  FacebookSync violates Facebook Terms of Use (6/7/2007)

  Facebook contacted me and requested that I stop distribution of FacebookSync since it is in violation of Facebook's Terms of Use. Sorry to all out there who will miss this useful application.

  
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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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  FlashMount

  FlashMount is a small utility to mount disc images at a much faster rate than Apple's Disk Image Mounter in OSX. It also accepts EULAs (which nobody reads) automatically (printing their contents to Console.log)

  
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  GarageBuy

  Mac-Like eBay search

  Finally an application that employs the Mac's user interface to help you find and purchases items on eBay.

  GarageBuy is free

  You will be able to download GarageBuy for free. All that's required is an eBay account and a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

  Place Bids and Purchase Items directly from within GarageBuy

  When you are bidding on an auction that has reached it's final phase, GarageBuy will update the current bid including the highest bidder's name every few seconds automatically. That means you don't need to hit your browser's reload button until your thumbs bleed.

  First Mac desktop application officially certified by eBay for bidding

  GarageBuy is the first Mac desktop application officially certified by eBay for bidding and purchasing items on it's auctioning platform.

  
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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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  Growl

  Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.

  
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  Handbrake

  HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. A Windows port is being worked on.

  
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  Hazel

  Hazel is your personal housekeeper, organizing and cleaning folders based on rules you define. Hazel can also manage your trash.

  Organize your files using a familiar rule interface. Filter on the file's name, type, date, the site or email address it came from and more. And do more than just file. You can set color labels, Spotlight keywords and comments and even archive files. In addition, Hazel can manage your Trash for you, relieving you of having to empty it yourself.

  All this is done automatically in the background allowing you to focus on your real work.

  
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  iAlertU

  iAlertU is an alarm system for the MacBook computers. Once it is running, you simply press and hold the "menu" button of the Apple Remote to activate it. Once activated, an alarm sound starts whenver the computer is moved (more triggers are available) and the only way to stop it is to use the same Apple Remote. It also uses the iSight to take snapshots of the "thief".

  
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  iFreeMem

  iFreeMem... Free system memory for better application performance. A quick and easy alternative to either a reboot or RAM upgrade to get defragmented free memory.

  If you are in the middle of using an application and the system becomes unresponsive for several seconds it could be the memory manager organising free memory for your application to use. IFreeMem clears Inactive memory to help your applications avoid the performance hit you get when running low on Free memory. You could think of it like a RAM upgrade.

  Especially useful for users of memory hungry applications, i.e.:

  • Musicians
  • DJ's
  • Graphic Designers
  • Final Cut Pro users
  • Photographers
  • Scientists
  • Parallels Desktop users

  Rejuvenates old Machines and optimizes new machines.

  
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  Inquisitor

  Inquisitor lets you search the web effortlessly. Search results stream in as you type, letting you easily and instantly refine your search. You might even find the answer before you think you've asked the question.

  
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  iPhone Remote

  Remotely access your Mac through a collection of mini web apps on your phone

  Features:

  * Stream music and videos from your computer learn how
  * Screen capture with mouse click and basic typing support
  * Simple iTunes Remote control
  * Browse your files
  * Run applescript remotely
  * iSight image capture
  * Basic Spotlight search
  * Easily create and add more apps

  
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  iPhoneNotes

  System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Jailbroken iPhone

  
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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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  iSquint

  iSquint is an iPod video conversion application.
  It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er.

  
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  iStat

  iStat is a system monitoring application for Mac OS X. iStat lets you monitor every aspect of your system and features a simple yet beautiful interface.

  
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  iStat menus

  iStat menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system.
  Take a look at some of the features.

  CPU - Monitor cpu usage. 7 display modes, multiple core support.
  Memory - Monitor memory usage. 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display.
  Disks - Monitor disk usage and activity. 6 display modes, ability to hide disks you dont want to see.
  Network - Monitor current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth, ip addresses . Ability to hide disks you dont want to see.
  Temps - Monitor the temperature of your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.
  Fans - Monitor the fan speeds in your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.
  Bluetooth - Control bluetooth status plus monitor the battery level of your Apple wireless keyboard or mouse.
  Date & Time - Date + time in your menubar. World clock display lets you see the time in multiple locations around the world.

  
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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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  KeyCue

  KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively. Just hold down the Command key for a while - KeyCue comes to help and shows a table of all currently available menu shortcuts. When you have found the desired shortcut in the KeyCue table, just type it and continue working as usual. The KeyCue window will disappear automatically.

  You no longer need to memorize and remember key combinations, just press the command key and KeyCue tells you what you want to know.

  Over time, you will automatically remember frequently used shortcuts and become a power user of your favorite applications, working much more efficiently.

  
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  KeyRemap4MacBook

  This is a keyboard remapper for Mac OS X.
  Not to mention the change of simple key remap, it has the special remapping like Emacs-mode, SandS-mode (Space and Shift).

  ex.

  * enter --> command
  * swap escape & tilde.
  * control+M --> return (Emacs)
  * space --> shift (SandS)
  * drop shift+F1 .. shift+F12 (prevent to slow down expose)

  Note:

  Don't use this with other key remapper ( DoubleCommand , Tesla , ...)
  Uninstall these softwares before install KeyRemap4MacBook.

  
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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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  LiquidMac

  LiquidMac mimics the behavior of liquid by creating a particle system that reacts to the computer's orientation.

  It requires a macintosh laptop computer with a sudden motion enabled sensor. This includes MacBook family, MacBook Pro family, and some of the latest PowerBooks.

  
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  MacSaber

  Using your Mac’s sudden motion sensor, this software turns your computer into a Jedi weapon almost worthy of taking on the real thing by making authentic lightsaber sound effects. It senses speed for the lightsaber movement sounds and acceleration for different levels of striking sounds.

  
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  MacTheRipper

  The DVD ripping tool for OS X.

  
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  Mactracker

  Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac OS computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. Also included is information on Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPod, AirPort Base Stations, Newtons, and Mac OS versions.

  
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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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  MaxMenus

  MaxMenus is an excellent application that lets you create menus at the corners of your screens via hot spots. You can customize these menus fully. Some options include adding your own applications or folders (customize further as "opened" or just "contents are a subfolder"), setting a menu to list all your control panel applets, and much more.

  This is what is missing for those of us who switched from Windows-- a quick menu letting us get to all our applications.

  Note: Works fine on intel mac but preference panel is not yet universal (v1.4).

  
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  Meander

  Introducing Meander, the route planning application you've been looking for — and already know how to use. Easy-to-use and logical, Meander lets you plot points, plan routes and measure distances using any map, including maps you've scanned into your computer or those you've found on Google Maps or other websites. You can save your routes for later, keep a journal and export or print your routes to share with your family and friends.

  
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  MenuCalendarClock for iCal

  This app replaces the date and time in your menubar with a fully customizable menu extra that displays an interactive drop-down monthly calendar. Displays calendar events and birthdays (requires registration, or willingness to deal with somewhat frequent nag screens), to do items, and will launch iCal when double clicked. The colors are also configurable. Expensive, but reclaims the valuable menubar space by adding much-needed functionality.

  
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  MondoMouse

  MondoMouse is a mouse enhancement for Mac OS X 10.4. It adds cool new capabilities to your mouse. Move or resize any window without clicking on it or bringing it to the front. Find and identify any window instantly without using Expose. Make focus follow the mouse, switching windows or applications just by letting your mouse hover over them.

  
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  MPEG Streamclip

  You can use MPEG Streamclip to: open most movie formats including MPEG files or transport streams; play them at full screen; edit them with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Trim; set In/Out points and convert them into muxed or demuxed files, or export them to QuickTime, AVI, DV and MPEG-4 files with more than professional quality, so you can easily import them in Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Toast 6 or 7, and use them with many other applications or devices.

  
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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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  Noise

  Generates white or pink noise to provide a serene sonic atmosphere.

  
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  Ocean Waves

  Ocean Waves generates a simulated sound of ocean waves. Unlike the recorded sound of real ocean waves, it does not repeat for hours.

  
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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 Pro

  OmniOutliner Professional is the deluxe version of OmniOutliner, a flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information.

  
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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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  OnyX

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

  
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  Pacifist

  Pacifist 2.5.2 is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .xar file archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them. This is useful, for instance, if an application which is installed by the operating system becomes damaged and needs to be reinstalled without the hassle of reinstalling all of Mac OS X. Pacifist is also able to verify existing installations and find missing or altered files*, and Pacifist can also examine the kernel extensions installed in your system to let you see what installer installed them, and whether the installer was made by Apple or a third-party.

  
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  Papaya

  Papaya is a web server dedicated to sharing your files with others. Sharing files is now incredibly quick and easy! It's a matter of dragging files to Papaya's dock icon, or the library list. The web address for downloading the file is copied automatically, ready for pasting into an e-mail or instant message. Papaya acts as a web server, sharing files through the HTTP protocol. This means that anyone with a web browser can download your files — no special software is needed on the receiving end.

  
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  Papers

  Papers bundles all the great technologies that come with MacOSX Tiger to give you a complete new workflow for reading scientific articles. You find, download, archive, and organize all your articles within a single application. But that is just the start, using spotlight you instantly find back the paper you are looking for. Read it fullscreen, add your notes, send a copy to a colleague... These are just a few of the many features that after using them yourself you will never want to give up again...

  Student Discount of 40%

  
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  pearLyrics

  Downloads lyrics for songs currently playing in itunes.

  
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  Perian

  Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.

  With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:

  • AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
  • MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
  • Subtitle support for SSA and SRT

  
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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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  PlistEdit Pro

  PlistEdit Pro is the most advanced property list editor written for Mac OS X. Property list files are used throughout Mac OS X, and with PlistEdit Pro, users can easily change these files and exert finer control over their systems. You can use PlistEdit Pro in your development work, and its built-in preference file browser lets you explore and tweak your system's settings to your heart's content.

  
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  PlugSuit

  PlugSuit is a plug-in manager for Mac OS X. It is designed to work (and keep working) in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and later. It’s compatible with the plug-ins for Mike Solomon's SIMBL and allows user-owned InputManager-based plug-ins, such as SafariStand and Inquisitor to work under Leopard.

  
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  PopChar X

  PopChar is a utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented and foreign letters, etc., from all installed fonts into your documents. You never need to search for and remember keystrokes any longer. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character appears in your current document.

  If a font contains Unicode characters, you can see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.

  Features:
  Simple to use: click and select,
  Inserts accented characters, foreign letters and any other character from all installed fonts,
  Automatic Font Detection,
  Full Unicode support,
  Character Search Function,
  Various Insertion Options,
  Insertion of HTML symbols,
  Recent Characters view,
  Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters,
  automatically starts at login.

  
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  PresentYourApps

  PresentYourApps lets you easily remove or hide the Dock and menubar when launching selected applications. It does that by changing just one tiny line in any application’s package, taking advantage of a functionality built-into Mac OS X. PresentYourApps just gives
  you an easy way to do it.

  PresentYourApps is freeware, but donations are greatly appreciated.

  
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  Prospects

  MotiMotion Prospects is a new personal finance application for Macs. It provides powerful budgeting and account monitoring capabilities in an elegant, easy-to-use interface.

  Prospects provides up to three ViewPoints that provide instantaneous information about an account. It allows users to group accounts into Binders which provide immediate feedback on assets, liabilities, and overall growth. Prospects contains many other features as well, such as a Budget Advisor, rules, memorized payees, attachments, categories, split transactions and QIF, OFX, and QFX importing.

  Prospects requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), 10.5.1+ Recommended

  
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  Remote Buddy

  Remote Buddy allows you to remotely control anything on your Mac with your iPhone, iPod Touch, Apple Remote or Wii Remote. Key features:

  • iPhone and iPod Touch remote control and remote media access support
  • Support for many EyeTV remotes
  • Switch AirTunes / AirPort Express speakers
  • Control your entire with your remote control
  • Virtual on screen keyboard and mouse. Virtual remote control emulating an Apple® Remote.
  • Support for over 100+ apps and system functions already included
  • Smart, dynamic and configurable menu
  • 30 day, feature-unlimited trial version
  • Built-in developer tools

  
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  Rominator

  Rominator lets you organize all of your DS roms with ease, view their information, trim them, or even transfer your legally backed up games straight onto your backup cart.
  It is cross-platform, and the OS X version also allows Rom icon/header/game code/title editing, and also rom trimming (using safe-trim).
  Transferring files is as easy as drag'n'drop and also allows backup of your DS savegames when you plug your card into the mac.

  It is a Donationware program for members of GBAtemp.net (free to join).

  
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  Secrets

  Secrets is free system preference pane for Leopard only, that allows you to change / customize hidden settings for your system and most applications.

  The website features a comprehensive list of user defaults that you can download.

  NOTE: Secrets is BETA and many of the options can harm your system if used improperly.

  
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  SiteCrawler

  SiteCrawler is a website downloading application that lets you capture entire sites or selected portions, like image galleries. It features powerful settings that no other application offers.

  
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  Skim

  Skim is a free PDF reading and note-taking app for Mac OS X that is designed to make reading research papers and manuals better.

  Just like in Preview, you can search, scan, and zoom through PDFs, but you also get some custom features for your workflow, like:
  - Adding and editing notes
  - Highlighting important text
  - Making "snapshots" for reference
  - Reading in full screen
  - Giving presentations
  and more.

  
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  Skype

  What we've got is a simple bit of software we want to give you. It'll let you make free calls to your friends all over the world. And we don't want any money for it. It's free.

  You could think of us as the big, free Internet telephony company. We prefer to think of ourselves as a big group hug, even a present. Yes! that's it; we're a present; but without the ribbon.

  
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  Snapz Pro X

  Amazing and mature motion-screen capture tool with brilliant features.

  
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  Spyder

  A gorgeous application that helps you keep in touch with friends on MySpace and make new acquaintances through your friends. It's under good development and features are constantly being added.

  
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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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  To Do Widget

  To Do is a lightweight and fast widget to manage tasks. Thanks to Mac OS X Leopard it integrates with iCal and Mail. The big advantage: to manage your tasks you don’t have to leave these applications open.

  
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  ToMacs

  ToMacs allows you to copy your more important files from a Mac to another. In fact, you can copy your Mails, Calendars, Safari Signets, addresses and much more trought your local network. ToMacs will erase the distant Mac's files, then copy those from the local to the distant in a few clicks.

  You can also make archives from your files on a USB key or a CD for example, then restore the data. ToMacs can now manage files for all applications you want, like FireFox, Adium, iTunes or iPhoto. You can add as much application as you want and suggest new ones to the author.

  
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  Twitterrific

  Twitterrific is a fun little application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.

  
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  UnRarX

  UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.

  
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  Vine Server

  Vine Server for OS X (formerly OSXvnc)

  Vine Server is a full featured VNC server for Mac OS X providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using Vine Viewer or any other VNC client. Vine Server offers a rich and unique feature set among Mac OS X VNC servers including:

  * Flexible port assignment for multiple VNC servers on a single computer
  * System servers that run independently of user accounts
  * Outstanding clipboard sharing; Exchange of rich text, images, files and applications when used with Vine Viewer

  
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  Vine Viewer

  Vine Viewer is a feature-rich and well supported VNC viewer. Some feature highlights of Vine Viewer include:

  * Remote screen capture
  * QuickTime movie recording
  * Secure connections through SSH
  * Viewer window scaling

  Plus, when Vine Viewer is used with Vine Server a further unique benefit includes

  * Rich clipboard support, including copy and past file exchange.

  
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  VisualHub

  Converting a bunch of AVI files to a DVD shouldn't require a Computer Science degree.
  Getting movies from your digital camera to your iPod shouldn't take hours.
  Wading through a sea of video formats shouldn't pull you under.

  VisualHub bridges the gap between numerous complicated video formatting standards, and people that just want to get the job done - just what you would expect from the Mac.

  
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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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  VueScan

  VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is easy to use, and has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers.

  Why should you use VueScan?

  • Easy to use - just run VueScan, press Preview, adjust the cropping, then press Scan
  • Accurate colors - uses ICC profiles and IT8 calibration
  • Powerful - dozens of advanced options
  • Faster workflow - can edit one image while the next image is being scanned (most scanner software won't let you work with one image while another is being scanned)
  • Simple to install - installing VueScan changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function.
  • Award winning - 2002 "Best Utility", Mac Addict Magazine

  The list of supported scanners is available here.

  The list of supported digital camera RAW files is available here.

  
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  Warp

  A Quartz Composition that can be used as a screensaver. Warp brings back the classic whizzing-starfield.

  
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  WireTap Studio

  Using WireTap Studio, you can record the discrete audio output of any application, as well as all system audio, or record audio input from any microphone, line-in, or audio input hardware.

  If you can hear it, WireTap Studio can record it.

  Once you have recorded your audio, you can easily organize your recordings in the convenient Recording Library, and edit them with WireTap Studio's integrated lossless audio editor.

  WireTap Studio also boasts full Audio Unit effects support, for adding professional quality effects to your audio.

  
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  World of Warcraft

  Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game based in the fantasy-themed Warcraft universe. Currently dominates MMO market. Monthly subscription fee.

  
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  WriteRoom

  For Mac users who enjoy the simpllicity of a typewriter, but live in the digital world. WriteRoom is a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment. Unlike the cluttered word processors you're used to, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

  
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  Yojimbo

  Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible.

  
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  YummySoup!

  YummySoup! is an easy to use recipe management app focused on four aspects of recipes. Organizing, Sharing, Cooking & Shopping. YummySoup! features an Online Library of recipes populated with recipes that users submit, a full screen view for cooking, shopping lists, Wine & Spirits manager, imports from web sites, and much more. All with a very easy to use interface.