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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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  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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  DockStar

  DockStar is the smart way to keep an eye on your Mail. Add new badges to the Mail dock icon and clickable indicators to the menu bar. DockStar lets you keep track of email in various accounts and folders, RSS feeds, Notes, and To Do items with customizable badges in the Mail icon, menu bar, Dashboard, and even in a Screen Saver.

  
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  Kinkless GTD

  Kinkless GTD is a free set of Applescripts that work with OmniOutliner Pro to create a framework for implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done task-management methodology.

  
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  MacTheRipper

  The DVD ripping tool for OS X.

  
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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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  OmniOutliner

  OmniOutliner is a flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information.

  
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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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  SnapNDrag

  SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off. For example, to email a screenshot, you would drag the screenshot from SnapNDrag to the Mail application. It is that simple. No hard-to-remember key combinations, no file conversion to deal with, no file dialog boxes to navigate, no temporary files to erase later on.

  
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  VirtueDesktops

  “VirtueDesktops” is a virtual desktop manager for Apple’s Mac OS. It offers features, eye candy and configurable options that no other desktop manager on the mac has added yet. Sadly, VirtueDesktops is no longer under active development. It is based upon the work done by Rich Wareham on DesktopManager (specifically the CGSPrivate headers), which is an alternate open-source virtual desktop application.

  
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  Activity Monitor

  Activity Monitor is a GUI application included with Mac OS X. It provides graphical representations of your computer's CPU, system memory, disk activity, disk usage, and network processes. This little utility is easy to overlook, but it can help you manage your memory and processing power when running lots of applications. If you prefer to work in the text-only Terminal application instead, you can view much of this information by using the top command.

  
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  Adobe Illustrator

  Create sophisticated vector artwork for virtually any medium with Adobe® Illustrator® CS3 software. Capture your ideas easily with industry-standard drawing tools, and experiment freely with flexible new color controls. Experience tight integration with other Adobe applications, and let improved performance help speed you through creating extraordinary graphics.

  
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  Adobe Photoshop

  The essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.

  
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  Afloat

  Afloat is a Cocoa plug-in that adds "Keep Floating" (always-on-top) and "Make Transparent" commands for all windows in all Cocoa applications.

  
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  aMSN

  aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as: Webcam, Costum Emoticons, Skins, Tabbed Windows, Chat logs, and a lot of features that the MSN version for mac doesn't support.

  10.3.9 PPC Available at this adress:

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amsn/amsn-0-96-RC1-PPC.dmg?use_mirror=heanet

  For 10.4 universal

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/amsn/amsn-0-96-RC1-Universal.dmg?use_mirror=heanet

  
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  App Update

  App Update scans directories you specify for share- and freeware applications and looks for updates at Apple.com, MacUpdate and VersionTracker. It will produce a tidy list of updates with links to the download pages. App Update comes with plenty of features such as Growl support, ability to manage application versioning data, support for preference panes, quicktime plugins and frameworks, and more. It also has a built-in help function that you can access at any time by pressing "Shift+H".

  
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  Automator

  You can easily automate tasks such as renaming a large group of files, resizing dozens of images to fit an iPhoto slideshow or creating iCal birthday events using Address Book contacts, then repeat those tasks again and again. Simple and easy-to-understand application Actions are the building blocks, so you don't have to write any code. Each Action has all of the options and settings you need. You don't have to work hard to figure out how to make it work.

  
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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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  BitPim

  BitPim allows synchronization of Phone Book, Calendar, WallPapers and RingTones and manipulating the embedded filesystem in CDMA cell phones.

  
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  CamiTools

  The must have preference editor for Camino. Start finding as you type without keying "/", debugging tools, ad blocking, and more.

  Note: The author recommends AGAINST using with Camino 1.5 and later, but most of its functionality remains. However, other camino plugins are close to reaching feature parity with CamiTools, so look elsewhere for now.

  
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  Captain FTP

  Powerful, secure, user-friendly, FTP Client built from scratch for Mac OS X, with workgroup file-sharing in an attractive tabbed metal interface. It includes Turbo, WebDAV, Growl, File Archiving, Quick Connect, Synchronization, remote file editing, Virtual Folders, Resume, Bonjour, built-in viewers and many, many more.

  Captain FTP is the very first FTP Client to allow local network FTP users to share files directly between each other.

  
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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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  ClearDock

  ClearDock removes the semi-transparent white background from the Dock so the Dock icons are "floating" on top of your desktop picture. Additionally, it can change the colors of application triangles and of the Dock background to customize your desktop!

  
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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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  CoreDuoTemp

  Supervise the temperature of your Intel Macintosh with CoreDuoTemp.

  
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  CrossOver

  CrossOver Mac allows Mac users to run their favorite Windows applications seamlessly on their Mac, without the need for a Windows OS license of any kind.

  Intel Only

  
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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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  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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  Dock Dividers

  Is your Dock getting a little too messy and confusing? If so, grab this dock dividers and organize right away!

  Horizontal version of Dock Dividers is also available from the website.

  
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  Dockless

  Dockless is a little app that does what some people have always wanted - remove certain applications from their dock. Dock real estate can become precious, and some apps don't make a whole lot of sense sitting there. That's where Dockless comes in. With Dockless, any OS X application can be made to show in the Dock or not.

  
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  Downsize

  Downsize is a utility that allows you to prepare images for the web by resizing, and adding watermarks, frames, and drop shadows. Batch resize an entire folder of images in bulk to save time. If you have a digital camera and want to reduce file sizes before sending your photographs through email, or posting them on the web, Downsize is the fastest and easiest way to do it. It's also fully integrated with iPhoto, so you can organize your photos there, and process them with Downsize.

  
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  Dreamweaver

  A great web site production tool, Dreamweaver has everything the other editors have (auto-completion, snippets, good syntax highlighting, etc.) but what makes it great are its project and site management features.

  
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  ffmpegX

  ffmpegX is a Mac OS X graphic user interface designed to easily operate more than 20 powerful Unix open-source video and audio processing tools including ffmpeg the "hyper fast video and audio encoder", mpeg2enc the open-source mpeg-2 encoder and multiplexer and mencoder the mpeg-4 encoder with subtitles support.

  
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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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  GarageBand Anywhere

  If you’d like to be able to stick your GarageBand installation somewhere else, the easiest solution is David Hodge’s free GarageBand Anywhere 5.0.1. This nifty utility can either move your existing GarageBand installation to another volume or, using the iLife ’05 installation disc, install GarageBand directly to another volume. You can also use the 'Fail-Safe Remove' to get rid of it completely & free up about 2.47GB. See the readme for more information.

  
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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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  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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  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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  iDVD

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

  
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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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  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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  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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  iPulse

  iPulse graphically displays the inner workings of Mac OS X on the desktop or in the dock. The entire user interface is completely configurable so you can turn off gauges you don't want, leaving only what you are interested in for easy viewing.

  
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  Jumpcut

  Jumpcut is an application that provides "clipboard buffering" — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history.

  
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  Mail

  Take control of your correspondence with Mac OS X Tiger Mail 2, now featuring Spotlight search technology. Find email instantly and accurately, organize messages using Smart Folders and share, save or view emailed images easily.

  
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  MailTags

  The revolutionary enhancement that transforms Apple's Mail into a powerful email organization system. Add metadata tags such as project, keywords, due date, to your email. Create Smart Mailboxes and perform searches for your tags.

  
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  MenuMeters

  MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. You can choose each of the monitors you want to show in the menubar.

  
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  Mercury Messenger

  Mercury is a Java-based MSN client (and upcoming Jabber client)

  With Mercury you can do the same things as with your normal MSN messenger.

  
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  MoviesForMyPod/PSP/Phone

  MoviesForMy/Pod/PSP/Phone (formerly MovieToGo) converts QuickTime-readable movies into 320×240 MPEG-4 or H.264 format movies suitable for taking with you on your 5G Video iPod, Sony PSP or other MPEG-4 SP playback device. The program utilizes the Apple provided MPEG-4 (best 128 kHz LC audio encoder IMO) and H.264 multipass encoders - NOTE - the H.264 encoder is quite slow, but generates high-quality footage. Use the highest-quality source material possible.

  3GP video for your phone too!

  
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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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  OmniOutliner Pro

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

  
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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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  Overflow

  When the Dock is just too small, or not quite the right place to store less frequently used applications or documents, Overflow is the solution. Quickly launch applications you need to use on a semi-regular basis without wasting valuable space in the Dock

  
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  Preview

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

  
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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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  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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  SeisMac

  This little app accesses the motion sensors of the newest Powerbooks and MacBooks and visualize the movement on three graphs, working just like a seismograph. Totally useless, unless you live in Los Angeles or Tokyo, but funny.

  
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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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  SuperDuper!

  SuperDuper can make a full backup, or "clone" — in moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file.

  
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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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  TinkerTool

  TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

  
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  TivoTool

  Download or Stream Shows recorded on your "Hacked" TiVo. Burn shows to DVD or convert to different formats.

  
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  Toast Titanium

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

  Please note that there is no demo available.

  
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  Unplugged

  UnPlugged is an application to notify when the power cord of the Mac is unplugged or plugged in. Notifications are done using Growl, or with a Alertwindow, when Growl is not installed.
  This App is done with Cocoa and doesn't use as much RAM and CPU usage as the other tools available.

  
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  Virtual PC

  Expand the power of your Mac with Microsoft® Virtual PC for Mac Version 7, the application that makes it possible for you to access PC-only software, files, networks and devices from your Mac. Virtual PC 7, which is compatible with the Mac G5, offers important improvements in support, speed and reliability.

  
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  WeatherPop

  Are you bleary eyed from staring into bright white phosphor all day? Download WeatherPop and you can be in touch with what it's like outside right now. Let the current conditions and temperature in your menu bar serve as a gentle reminder to get outside, go for a walk, and stop working so hard.

  (Free version... see website for WeatherPop Advance, $8, adds color menus)

  
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  WhatSize

  WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it.

  Use it free as long as you wish or purchase a license for $12.99 to support development and have access to the System Administrator functionality.

  
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  X11

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