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Acquisition
Acquisition is a Gnutella file-sharing client written using the Cocoa APIs.
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Address Book
Address Book provides a flexible and convenient way to store your contact information online. Because Address Book is integrated with Mail, iChat, and other applications, you have to enter information only once to have your contacts available from all these applications.
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Adium
Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won't look back.
Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.
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Booxter
Booxter is a library tracking application to track your books, music, movies, and comic books. It supports all the expected features: Amazon (and many other sources) lookups, bar code and iSight scanning, export to HTML and iPod, and Spotlight integration, and a modern MacOS interface. What makes Booxter unique is that it is lightning fast, even with enormous collections, and allows a degree of customization that other similar apps do not.
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Calculator
Calculator, comes with OS X.
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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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Combine PDF's
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Well no tin, but you get the idea
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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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Dictionary
Dictionary and thesaurus system application based on The New Oxford American Dictionary. Comes with OS X.
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Disk Utility
Manage disks easily. Use Disk Utility to repair disks, erase them, create disk images, and much more.
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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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Eudora
The venerable email client runs in three modes: sponsored, light and paid. Automatically decompresses and saves attachments to Finder, saves mailbox as plain text file. HTML email support stinks, but one of the most stable Mac programs ever.
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Eyeballs
Eyeballs provides you with a "desk critter": eyes that watch your cursor as you work. They are very configurable, very Aqua, and very groovy. Much more full-featured than other eyeball apps you may have seen; they are even skinnable.
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Firefox
The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.
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Flip4Mac WMV
Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.
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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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Grab
Comes with OS X
Taking pictures of your screen with Grab
You can use the Grab application to take a picture of all or part of your computer screen. These pictures are often called "screen shots" or "screen captures."
Open Grab (located in /Applications/Utilities) and choose a command from the Capture menu.
Selection takes a picture of a part of the screen that you select.Window takes a picture of a window you select.
Screen takes a picture of the entire screen.
Timed Screen lets you start a timer and activate part of the screen (such as a menu), and then takes a picture of the screen.
Follow the instructions in the dialog for the command you chose.
To see information about a screen shot you've taken, such as the size and depth, choose Edit > Inspector.To save a screen shot, choose File > Save. Grab saves screen shots as files in TIFF format. You can use the Preview application to view these files and export them to other formats, such as JPEG.
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GraphicConverter
Ever had an image that seemed impossible to open? Struggeled too many times with images without enough info for even the mighty Photoshop?
GraphicConverter X/Classic is kinda like vlc, only for converting images. Keep it in mind, when running into trouble....
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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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iCal
iCal allows you to choose between viewing your schedule by day, week or month. And it's easy to find things on your calendar using iCal's powerful search feature.
iCal helps you organize your schedule by letting you create as many separate calendars as you need.
At the click of a mouse, you can easily subscribe to any number of public calendars available on the Internet.
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iChat
Apple's chat client supporting AOL Instant Messenger and Jabber Instant Messenger clients.
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imakeprofile
The profile maker is a tool to help you build your profile on iusethis, and to keep your machine in sync with the profile. When you run it, it will send a list for your installed applications to our server, and then allow you various ways to view the profile data, download apps you are missing, or mark apps you are using.
Thanks to Rob Mientjes for making the icon!
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iMovie HD
Riveting performances. Major effects. Inspired directing. Amazing how iMovie has changed the way people look at home movies. Now, with more cinematic tools to offer, iMovie makes you even more comfortable in the director's chair. And the editor's chair. And the special effects guy's chair. And, well, you get the idea. iMovie is the fastest and easiest way to turn home movies into dazzling Hollywood-style hits.
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iPhoto
Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos you’ve been taking. Have fun with them. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse - so you can get the most out of even the biggest collection.
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Keychain Access
The Keychain stores all your information to use encrypted disk images and to log onto file servers, FTP servers and Web servers. Mac OS X automatically adds your .Mac account information to your Keychain. When you log in to Mac OS X, the system opens your Keychain. You don't have to enter your user name and passwords to access this data. You can set Mac OS X to lock your Keychain when the system sleeps or is inactive for a time. The system will ask you for your password the next time you try to access secure data. Other users on the system cannot access your Keychain or its data.
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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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KisMAC
KisMAC is a free, open source network stumbler that operates in passive mode, allowing the program to run completely invisibly without sending any probe requests (unlike active scanners).
In addition to standard stumbler logging and graphing features, KisMAC reveals cloaked SSIDs and can perform deauthentication, packet injection, and several other attacks against WEP/WPA encrypted packets. GPS mapping is also included.
KisMAC is the only stumbler to support Apple's Airport Extreme card in passive mode. It is also compatible with original Airport cards and several third party cards (see website).
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KoolClip
A great little clipboard history app. Use keystrokes to navigate the history for mouse-free copy-and-pasting. Also stores images in the history.
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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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MacSOUP
MacSOUP is an offline reader for Usenet newsgroups and Internet e-mail.
MacSOUP is primarily a newsreader, its e-mail capabilities are somewhat rudimentary compared to "real" e-mail clients.New: Native Intel-Mac beta version available (2.8b2).
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MacTheRipper
The DVD ripping tool for OS X.
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Miro
Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player.
The Mac version of Miro uses Quicktime 7, which is built into the operating system, to play video. In addition, it uses plugins for Quicktime to play even more video types. The Mac version can play MPEG, MP4, MOV, H264, Flash, Xvid, AVI, OGG, and more.
Previously known as Democracy.
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Missing Sync for Palm OS
Your cool Palm OS device needs the best sync software to truly unlock its potential. That software is The Missing Sync for Palm OS. Designed from the ground up to support the latest Palm OS devices and Apple technologies, The Missing Sync for Palm OS provides everything you need to be more productive and keep on top of your day. Read on to see what you're missing without it.
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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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Newsfire
Mac RSS with style. A very simple and elegant RSS Newsreader without all the bloat of other Mac RSS newsreaders.
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OmniOutliner
OmniOutliner is a flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information.
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Opera
Opera makes it quick and simple to find the information you want. With features like tabs, popup blocking, an integrated search field, and the ability to remember the sites your visited in a previous session, you control your browsing experience. Opera blocks viruses, spyware, and phishing web sites, too. All while being shockingly fast!
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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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Plazer
Plazer lets you get the most out of Plazes, a location based service which is still in beta. The Plazer looks for the hardware ID of your local network (MAC ID) and checks whether it is already in the database with an address, so we can plaze you at that location. That is all it does. The Plazer is NOT Spyware or Malware. Sending your router's MAC ID to Plazes does not make your network or your Mac vulnerable to any attacks. Still your MAC ID is not accessable to anyone and is only used for identifying your network.
Plazes lets you discover nearby locations or people based on where you are and recommends things you should check out or people you should meet based on your past whereabouts.
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PodTube
Encode any YouTube video for your iPod. Simply and quickly download, encode for iPod and add to your iTunes library any YouTube video you browse with, Safari, in a single click!
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Preview
Apple's built in application that views many photo formats.
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Privoxy
A web filtering proxy that can allow you to keep your identity a little safer online, and to share the same ad blocking settings across browsers.
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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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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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Safari
Safari offers you a superior Web experience with outstanding performance. Even the most complex of pages load at breakneck speed. In fact, Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac Web browser. But that's not all. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X to offer you an all-new view of the Web, one that's much easier to use.
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Salling Clicker
Control your OS x applications using your Bluetooth enabled cell phone. Control presentations, iTunes, and other system preferences and applications.
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SilverKeeper
SilverKeeperTM is an application which provides Macintosh OS 9 and OS X users with Backup, Synchronize, and Compare capabilities. Use SilverKeeper for copying files to another hard drive or removable media drive automatically for simple backups.
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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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StuffIt Expander
Stuffit Expander is a compression and decompression tool with support for a lot of formats.
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Terminal
Mac OS X's Terminal application.
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TextEdit
Text editor, comes with Mac OS X.
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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.
About me
I teach (new) media theory at the University of Amsterdam and do all kinds of projects on the side.
