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> cd to ...
> cd to ... is a fast mini application that opens a Terminal.app window cd'd to the frontmost finder window. This app is designed (including it's icon) to placed in the finder window's toolbar.
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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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AdiumBook
AdiumBook is a free Mac OS X bridge application between Adium and Address Book, used to search, manage and keep your contacts in sync.
Manage:
- Add Adium contacts to Address Book.
- Update card's information using Adium data.
- Find an Adium contact in Address Book.
- Find an Address Book contact in Adium.
- Full text search for both applications.
- Listing of contacts grouped by IM service.
- Contacts with no picture.
- Contacts present in Adium but not in Address Book.
- Contacts present in Address Book but not in Adium.
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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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AirPort Radar
AirPort scanning widget.
From the website:
AirPort Radar is a free and convenient tool for quickly scanning the area for AirPort and other wireless networks. It will work with AirPort cards, MacWireless 11g PC Cards, and 11g PCI cards. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required.
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AlbumArt
listen to itunes, grab cover better than everyone else
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AllBookmarks
AllBookmarks helps you to quickly access bookmarks from all your browsers by adding a new item to your Mac OS X menu bar. It also includes 1Password 1Click bookmarks, which go to a web site, fill in a form, and submit it with a single click.
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Amazon Album Art widget
Search Amazon's catalogue for album art, then import it into the selected tracks in iTunes at the click of a button. It's that simple! Great for filling in the gaps in your imported CD collection.
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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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AppDelete
AppDelete is an application for Macs that will delete the application you choose and any associated items (files and folders) that belong to that application. Now you will no longer have to hunt through your system to find these items and delete them manually. Or worse, just let them sit on your Mac forever even though the application is long gone!
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AppFresh
AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.
AppFresh not only gets update information from iusethis.com. If you have an user profile at iusethis.com you can manage it from within AppFresh and control which applications appear in your profile, even automatically. We can only recommend you sign up, it's free and lets you see how many users use a certain application. In AppFresh, the full iusethis.com application page with comments and links to similar apps is always just a click away.
AppFresh can capture the installed version of an application along with your preferences and application data and store it in a safe place. This way, you're covered in case you decide you liked the last version of an application better. Create as many snapshots as you want to make sure you don't lose anything.
AppFresh is currently work in progress, and we're not even calling it a beta. Make sure to check our development blog regularly. You are welcome to leave your feedback or suggestions for improvements there.
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AppTrap
Uninstalling on Mac OS X; let's solve it once and for all!
What can be considered the exact opposite of dragging an application to the Applications folder? Opening another application, dragging the unwanted application to that application, clicking a button, clicking another button, quitting? Nope!
The exact opposite would have to be... dragging the application to the trash. Ah, there you go! This is exactly what AppTrap does. Whenever you drag an application to the trash, a dialog window will pop up, asking if you want to delete the associated system files too. Simple as that.
AppTrap is a completely free utility for uninstalling applications on Mac OS X.
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ArcanaStartupSound
StartupSound.prefPane is the software which controls the volume of the startup sound of your Macintosh computer. StartupSound.prefPane mute the startup sound without changing the output volume setting. And StartupSound.prefPane limits the startup volume so that it may not become loud even if you make the output volume louder. To set up the startup volume, you select the "Startup Sound" pane added to the "System Preferences."
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Audacity
Audacity is a free audio recorder/editor/mixer. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Bass Boost, Wahwah, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST plug-in effects.
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Audion 3
Plays Audio CDs, mp3s, and streaming network audio. Also can encode, edit, mix, sort/manage, broadcast, record, crossfade, and work with an iPod.
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AviationWeather
Get current weather conditions as well as weather forecasts with the "Aviation Weather" dashboard widget. The widget shows weather data (METAR and TAF) which is used by pilots for their flight preparations.
"Aviation Weather" lets you choose any airport weather stations from its built-in database by either name or ICAO (4-letter) code. Data will be shown in its original format or translated into easy understandable texts.
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Awaken
Awaken is a digital alarm clock that wakes you up by playing the iTunes playlist of your choice or choose from a selection of built in alarm sounds. Alarms can be created to alert you on a weekly basis at a set time, or at any specific date and time. You can also fall asleep to your favorite music using the newly introduced sleep timer.
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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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Bean
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that features:
- a live word count
- a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
- a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
- an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
- date-stamped backups
- autosaving
- a page layout mode
- an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
- an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
- selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
- a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
- easy to use menus
- remembers cursor position (excluding .text, .html, and .webarchive formats)
- all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
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Bluetooth Switch
This widget displays the current status of Bluetooth. Simply click the icon to switch Bluetooth on or off. On the back you can select an application to open automatically after you turn Bluetooth on. You can also press the O key on your keyboard to open the selected app immediately without switching the Bluetooth status. Hold down O and click if Bluetooth Switch is not the active widget. Makes a great replacement for the Bluetooth menu bar item! The Bluetooth icon was created by RimshotDesign.
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Books
Books is a native Cocoa application for Mac OS X that stores, sorts, and searches book collection information. Books is intended to assist book collectors with managing personal collections.
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Burn
Burn is an application to burn most common disks: data disks, audio disks (mp3, audio cd), video disks (VCD, SVCD, DVD-Video, DivX), images and disk copy. Burn makes it easy for everyone to burn.
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Butler
Butler's purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks. Butler lets you arrange these tasks in its fully customizable configuration. You can use it to launch or control various apps with universal triggers and/or keyboard shortcuts.
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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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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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CandyBar
CandyBar is the easiest, quickest and by far, the safest way to customize the icons found in the system and application toolbars of Mac OS X. CandyBar also lets you customize apps, folders, clipping icons, locations and even the OS X Trash icon!
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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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Chax
Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable.
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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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Citrix ICA Client
Similar to Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection, Citrix clients running on any platform can connect to a virtual Windows session to run Windows applications remotely.
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ClamXav
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.
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CLIX
The CLIX package includes a starter command database with over 1000 (yes, you read that right) system commands for investigating your system status, for cleaning out the junk files, for getting at secret settings for the Dock, the Finder, Spotlight, Dashboard, Exposé, and all of your most used applications, and all sorted for easy access, any way you wish.
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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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coconutIdentityCard
coconutIdentityCard is a small app that reads out where and when your Mac and your iPod were built by Apple.
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coconutWiFi
coconutWiFi displays you a small aqua-bubble at the top of your screen which indicates whether you're in range of a wireless network or not.
The app also tells you if the wireless networks in your range are encrypted or open, so you won't miss the next open wireless network any more.
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Cog
A free open source audio player for OS X (10.4 and above). Currently it supports the following formats: Musepack, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, Shorten, Wavpack, WAV, and AIFF.
Features: gapless playback, smart shuffle, tagging (APE 1.0/2.0, Vorbis comments/FLAC tags, ID3 1.0/1.1/2.3+), seeking.
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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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Currency Converter
A very nice widget that let's you convert between 4 different currencies at a time. Updates the currency rates once every day. Very handy!
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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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D-Vision
D-Vision is a GUI to encode Divx 3, Divx 4, Xvid and h264 with Mencoder. A fantastic tool when used with Mac the Ripper. Make sure to use the dual processor/core option to increase the speed if you have a dual processor/core machine.
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Deep Sleep
About Deep Sleep
The default behavior of Mac OS X is to put sleeping computers in “hardware suspend” mode, during which the RAM is still powered on. This widget allows the computer to enter “software suspend” mode. Software suspend is a feature similar to what Windows calls “hibernation:” the computer consumes no power while sleeping, however the wake up process takes more time to complete.Hibernation is made possible by the Mac OS X Tiger v10.4.3 update. This operating system version is required.
Only the computers with “safe sleep” feature are officially supported. For now, the only computers with this feature are the PowerBook HD line of Apple laptops. Please read the included documentation for more information, including the possibilty to use this widget on unsupported computers.
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Deeper
Deeper allows you to enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and many Apple's applications...
Deeper is an Universal Binary application and works with all Macintosh PowerPC and Intel computers running Mac OS X version 10.4.x (Tiger).
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Delicious Library
Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight™, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world. Once your whole library is cataloged, you can find and use your items like never before.
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Delocalizer
DeLocalizer will remove all non-American English localization resource files that you request.
Localization files provide the language support for an application. All strings of text that an application uses are defined in a localization file. Mac OS X also includes non-English localization files for people who speak other languages. While this is a wonderful technique for easily bringing applications to other languages, it can use up more space than you may be willing if you plan on using no more than one language.
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DeskLickr
We all love Flickr right? And if you're anything like me, you probably change your Desktop image more than you change your underwear!
Well thats where DeskLickr comes in, it's this tiny little tool that sits in your menu bar making sure your Desktop is as sexy as can be.
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Desktop Curtain
There are times when you need to make a screenshot which should meet the following requirements:
• standard desktop picture (aqua blue or plain white, for instance)
• no desktop clutterDesktop Curtain displays your favorite desktop picture just in front of your real desktop, so you won't have to clean up each time you need to take a screenshot.
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Desktopia
Desktopia is a customization concept for Mac OS X. Thanks to it’s very simple and unobtrusive interface you will be able to configure desktopia to automatically change your desktop picture based on a specified time of the day.
For example a beautiful sunrise at 7:00AM or a starry sky at 10:00PM. Just drag & drop the pictures that you have chosen on Desktopia’s window, set the time, and voilà! Like they say… “set it, and forget it!”
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Desktoptopia
Desktoptopia is a desktop background manager for the mac that automatically loads and displays designer desktops on your monitor, as often as you wish.
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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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DiskCatalogMaker
DiskCatalogMaker is a simple disk management tool which catalogs disks.
New Updates! v 4.2.3
- Added the hide file extension option in the save dialog.
- Fixed a bug when cataloging an archive file on IntelMac.
- Fixed a bug that couldn’t search a disk item which was renamed after scan.
- Supported to scan disc and song titles from CD-TEXT encoded audio CDs. (Mac OS X 10.4 or later)
- Fixed a bug that couldn’t “open/select original” with Mac OS X 10.4.
- Fixed a bug that a new empty catalog is created at startup.
- Fixed a bug when cataloging a burned disc.
- Added Spanish and Brazilian-Portuguese resources.
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Dock Library
Dock Library is an application that takes the headache out of managing styles for your Leopard dock.
Download styles from sites such as LeopardDocks.com or LeopardDocks.net. Once downloaded, there's no need to expand or unpack the file, just click "Add Dock" to add it to Dock Library.
When you have some styles in your library, you're a simple click away from changing the look of your dock. No hunting through hidden system directories, just select the dock you want and click "Set Dock".
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Docker
Docker... Tired of your dock? Spice things up a little with Docker. Access dock settings from a simple interface, and Leopard users can customise the style and color of their dock too!
Docker allows Leopard users to switch between 2D or 3D dock, or customize the Dock further by individually changing the color of and style of Dock parts. If you are feeling creative, you can easily select your own images, or a vast array of styles from the ever growing LeopardDocks.com
Docker also lets users of OS X 10.2 to 10.5 access settings normally hidden out of sight. Choose from a larger range of dock sizes, extra animation options and more.
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Drive-in
Drive-in is an innovative application that allows you to store your personal DVD movie library on your Mac. It is now available as a public beta.
Using Drive-in you can create an image of a DVD disc on your laptop or home entertainment system. The image preserves the quality, navigation and special features of the original DVD and can be played using Apple’s DVD Player or Front Row.
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DVDRemaster
DVDRemaster is a full featured application for Mac OS X which recompresses large DVDs so that they fit on standard DVD5 or video iPods. DVDRemaster accomodates both novices and experts with its simple yet powerful interface.
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Emailchemy
Emailchemy reads email from the closed, proprietary file formats of the most popular (and many of yesterday's forgotten) email applications and converts it to standard, portable formats that any application can use. Emailchemy also includes an embedded IMAP mail server from which any IMAP-compatible email application can download your converted mail.
Emailchemy converts proprietary email formats to many popular formats based on The One True E-mail Format - RFC-2822 (formerly RFC-822). This is the official Internet/ARPAnet standard for email that has been around since 1973. Most modern email applications are able to directly use or import these standard formats.
Things you can do with Emailchemy:
Recover / Export email from an old application or file format
Import email into your new email application
Convert email to standard formats, for:
entry into a database
long-term archival
forensic analysis (eDiscovery)
Repair or clean mailbox files
Condense/split email files and archives
Make older email Y2K compliant
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Evernote
Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere.
- Create notes containing text and audio
- Find printed and handwritten text within images
- Clip application and web content directly into Evernote
- Synchronize with the Evernote Service and access all notes, even ones taken using other clients
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ExtFSManager
access ext2 linux filesystems on mac os x
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EZ 7z
EZ 7z is a an easier way of using the command line archiver, p7zip/7za.
It supports compression, decompression, listing the contents of an archive, and testing the integrity of an archive.
In other words, it can open .7z, .zip, and some other formats and create .7z files.
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Fairmount
From the developers site
FairMount is a tool that allows decryption of DVD content on the fly for a convenient access. FairMount does not perform the actual decryption, it simply forwards the data to VLC Media Player which is used for decryption - thus, VLC Media Player must be installed for FairMount to work.NB: The only DL link is to download fairmount with dvdremaster which is a paid app, but after the download just extract fairmount from the .dmg
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Fan Control
Do you think your MacBook (Pro) is running to hot? Give Fan Control a try then.
Some MacBook (Pro) are just to hot for daylong use. Fan Control adjusts the minimum fan speed depending on the current CPU temperature. For safety, it leaves the original automatic fan speed control intact.
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FastScripts Lite
keyboard shortcuts to run custom scripts
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Feed Me
Manage your RSS feeds for publishing on the web. Generated XML adheres to the RSS 2.0 specification.
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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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FileZilla
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface.
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FinderPop
Finderpop improves & extends features in contextual menus.
"Having finally started using a Mac again in earnest for the first time since I left Apple three-and-a-half years ago, one of the things I really missed was FinderPop. So I began a spare-time project to port it to Carbon (it would probably be more correct to say re-write it for Carbon.)"
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Fink Commander
FinkCommander is an open-source, graphical user interface for the Fink software packaging system for Mac OS X. It provides an intuitive front-end to the Fink command-line tools for downloading and installing Unix software.
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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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Fish
Fish is an aquarium simulator. It allows you to add fish to an underwater environment and customize them. Fish show complex behavior. You can feed them, see their evolution as they grow, use different cameras to track them, and save different aquariums for later use. Fish can also be shared with others over a local network.
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Flip4Mac WMV
Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.
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Flying Buttress
Flying Buttress allows configuration of the firewall built-in to all Mac OS X installs. It allows for more effective protection from unauthorized users gaining access via your internet connection.
- Simple and easy interface to activate and configure your firewall's filters.
- Includes a firewall monitor window that allows you to see how frequently each filter is used.
- Includes several pre-loaded firewall filter sets.NB: Software formerly known as BrickHouse
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FStream
Small application which makes it possible to listen easily and quickly Web-radio stations.
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FUGU
Fugu is a graphical frontend to the commandline Secure File Transfer application (SFTP). SFTP is similar to FTP, but unlike FTP, the entire session is encrypted, meaning no passwords are sent in cleartext form, and is thus much less vulnerable to third-party interception.
Fugu allows you to take advantage of SFTP's security without having to sacrifice the ease of use found in a GUI.
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Gallery Designer
The perfect software title if you want to publish a web photo album, but don't have the know-how or time to manually code it. In minutes, Gallery Designer allows you to feed in your photos, videos, stories, and audio files to instantly compile a web-ready gallery!
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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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GeekTool
"GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Tiger to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows)."
The Linux kids have been doing this forever. Widgets are neat, but they don't have the tty non-anti-aliased grittiness of Geektool scripts.
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GetDilbert
Feed your addiction! GetDilbert simply grabs and displays the latest Dilbert comic from unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert. Refreshes with the spiffy, new “Refresh” button!
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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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GPG Keychain Access
The goal of this project is to create a GnuPG front end for Mac OS X. To that extent, it will make installing GnuPG on OS X easier and provide inter application services to access GPG. Also, GPGME wrapper in ObjC will be done.
GPG Keychain Access serves as an OS X native interface with MacGPG.
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GPGDropThing
Quickly use GnuPG on text via GUI
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GPGFileTool
Mac GNU Privacy Guard (Mac GPG for short) is, after a fashion, the Mac OS X port of GnuPG, licensed under the GNU GPL. The aims of the project are to make GnuPG easy to install, develop a framework to make it easy for other developers to incorporate GnuPG functionality into their applications, write services to allow for the use of GnuPG functions in most Cocoa applications, and write a Mac GPG Keys type application so that you no longer have to go to the commandline to manage your keys. For those who don't know, GnuPG is a free OpenPGP client (PGP == Pretty Good Privacy). It can encrypt text (usually e-mail or other messages sent between people) and sign text to prove who wrote it.
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GPGMail
GPGMail is a plug-in for Apple's Mail, providing a front-end to gpg for some operations. It allows you to read/write encrypted messages, as well as electronically signed messages.
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GPGPreferences
Prefereces pane for the Mac GNU Privacy Guard.
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GrandPerspective
A small utility application that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space.
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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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GrowlMail
GrowlMail is a plug-in for Apple Mail that posts a Growl notification every time new mail arrives containing the text of the message.
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GrowlTunes
GrowlTunes is a small menubar application that comes in the Extras folder of the Growl panel.
It displays the currently playing track in iTunes, and allows you to rate that track from the menubar.
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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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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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Hardware Growler
This is a little app hidden in the extras folder of the growl disk image. It notifies you of any hardware events, like when you plug in your mouse. On top of that it also notifies you of wireless network connections and when you acquire an IP, very usefull when on the road, using open wifi networks and wanting to know when you are connected.
To download, download the GROWL package and look into the Extras folder.
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Harmonic
Harmonic always finds the lyrics you want, quickly and easily. You don't have to do a thing. Fire up the widget and play a song from iTunes. Leave it open in Dashboard and each song that plays will have lyrics added to it in the background while you work or play. It's that easy.
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HierarchicalDock
HierarchicalDock gives you hierarchical menu navigation of folders sitting in your Dock. As of Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard doesn't support going through more than 1 folder deep for stacks in your Dock. HierarchicalDock makes it easier to navigate multiple folders deep with a simple click-and-hold.
Unique Features Include:
- QuickLook Previews as Icons
- Easy access to QuickLook - Windows
- Finder's colored labels
- Can show numbers of items inside folders
- Very fast
- Per-Folder settings
- Can show invisible files
- 3 sorting modes: alphabetically, by last used date, by creation date
- and many moreHierarchicalDock is Freeware, but donations are greatly appreciated by the author.
The author is aware that with Mac OS X 10.5.2, Apple supposedly brings back hierarchical menus themselves, but is willing to continue to work on it should a certain level of interest remain in the application. So please drop him a line (support (at) eternalstorms (dot) at) to tell him to continue development.
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IceClean
IceClean is a powerful Finder and System Maintenance and Optimization Tool using ONLY built-in System Tasks to help your Mac stay healty and to keep it running smoothly.
IceClean is now completely renewed in Scripting and Cocoa Interface for help you in faster and useful Tasks Managing of All Unix Power.
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iConiCal
iConiCal is a simple donationware utility for setting iCal's icon and dock icon to show the current date in a choice of colours.
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Iconverter
Icon format manipulation tool with batch processing.
(Note: Homepage link leads to an older version of the program. Use the download link to get the latest version.)
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iEatBrainz
iEatBrainz is a MusicBrainz client for MacOS X. MusicBrianz is a song/album/artist catalog, that unlike CDDB and friends computes an audio-bound hash for each track, and matches that to the database.
This is very useful for retagging MP3s.
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iFortune
Yet another cocoa wrapper for fortune. Slightly cooler than the others ;)
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Image Tricks
Image Tricks is a free application to edit and generate images.
It uses Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced visual effects.
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img2icns
img2icns is a a small and simple utility that converts JPEGs, PNGS, TIFs, and GIFs to the ICNS format, which is used for Mac OS X applications’ icons. The original version is by Matteo Rattotti.
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InfiniteCanvas
InfiniteCanvas is a freeware/open source application for arranging and displaying infinite canvas comics.
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Input Managers
Input Managers (little plugins) in Leopard don’t work when they’re not setup correctly. Making them work again can be a difficult task involving the Terminal.
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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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Interface Builder
Interface Builder is an application for designing and testing user interfaces. Developers can use Interface Builder to create user interfaces that follow the Mac OS X human-interface guidelines by dragging user-interface elements from a palette of predefined controls and dropping them into the window or view they are configuring. Interface Builder works closely with Xcode to provide a development experience that facilitates the concurrent but specialized development of an application's user interface and business logic.
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IP Locator
Ever check your web logs and wonder where in the world is 84.112.1.125? (Answer: Vienna, Austria) How about 202.103.130.12? (Answer: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China) Wonder no more! Through the magic of geolocation, IP Locator takes that mysterious IP address and tells you where that hit to your web site (or intruder on your network!) resides.
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iPhoto2Gmail
An iPhoto (5 & 6) plug-in that lets you quickly and easily send pictures using your Gmail account… all without installing or configuring an email application.
You can choose to have the pictures resized and sent as JPEGs for quicker emailing, or send the full sized original files. iPhoto2Gmail features Gmail Contact list integration, so emailing pictures to your contacts is even simpler.
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IPSecuritas
IPSecuritas is an application which uses software built into Mac OS X to connect to IPSec-based Virtual Private Networks.
IPSecuritas can be used to connect to many software and hardware VPN servers and provides many of the features of other tools for free.
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iQuip
iQuip displays a new amusing quotation in the Login Window every time you start up your Mac.
With an easy-to-use preference pane, you can select from a variety of categories containing thousands of quotations. You can also enter your own quotations to be displayed, or use any of the hundreds of Unix 'fortune' files which are available on the internet.
iQuip has a tiny footprint and does not run any background processes on your system.
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iScrobbler
iScrobbler is an iTunes plugin that monitors the songs played on iTunes and creates reports about different users' tastes and how often a certain song or artist is played.
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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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iStat Pro
iStat pro is the ultimate system monitoring widget, consisting of nine sections which can be shown or hidden aswell as customized.
It features highly detailed information on CPU usage (up to 8 cores), memory usage, hard drive space, network usage, IP addresses, battery usage, wireless keyboard and mouse battery levels, uptime, temperatures, and fan speeds.
Vertical and Horizontal style skins are available aswell as 7 different color schemes.
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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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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-LAME
The iTunes-LAME Encoder combines the simple interface of iTunes with the high quality of the LAME encoder.
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JBidWatcher
A Java-based application allowing you to monitor auctions you're not part of, submit bids, snipe (bid at the last moment), and otherwise track your auction-site experience. It includes adult-auction management, MANY currencies (pound, dollar (US, Canada, Australian, and New Taiwanese) and euro, presently), drag-and-drop of auction URLs, an original, unique and powerful 'multisniping' feature, a relatively nice UI, and is known to work cleanly under Linux, Windows, Solaris, and MacOSX from the same binary.
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JellyfiSSH
JellyfiSSH lets you store preset Terminal SSH session, with custom colors, transparency, background images, etc. Right click (or hold down the left click) on the JellyfiSSH icon in the Dock to bring up a pop-up menu of all your saved sessions.
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JiWire
Download the JiWire WiFi Hotspot Finder dashboard widget for Mac OS X Tiger and get lightning-fast access to JiWire's complete global hotspot database, plus a built-in Wi-Fi network detector to help you locate and connect to immediately available networks.
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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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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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KeePassX
KeePassX saves many different information e.g. user names, passwords, urls, attachemts and comments in one single database, encrypted either with AES (alias Rijndael) or Twofish encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key
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Lab Tick
Have you ever been annoyed by the fact that you could not turn on your PowerBook's or MacBook Pro's keyboard illumination in daylight? If so, here's your solution. Lab Tick gives you total control over the backlit keyboard.
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LaCie LightScribe Labeler
LaCie LightScribe Labeler for Mac
Burn high quality labels from your DVD drive* As easy as Burn, Flip, Burn
* Create customized labels with drag-and-drop ease
* Exclusive LightScribe Labeling software on Macintosh bundled with LaCie's LightScribe drive
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Letterbox
Great plugin for Apple mail which optimises the application for widescreen screens (eg Powerbooks, MacBook Pros and Cinema Displays).
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Librarian Pro
Organize items into smart collections, add them to the in-program Amazon shopping cart, mark them as lent out to friends, and even export for the web or your iPod! Librarian Pro also supports importing from other cataloging applications like Delicious Library and DVDpedia.
Search for items in-program on Amazon by author, artist, title, and keyword. Details will automatically fill into new items — including product images! Additionally, up to five Amazon reviews are also retrieved for your reading pleasure. Afterward, even add your own reviews!
Librarian Pro's databases are fully compatible with both the Mac OS X and Windows versions. Additionally, one license will grant activation for both copies of the application. Download the free fifteen day trial and have serenity return to your media collections.
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Lingon
Lingon is a graphical interface for creating launchd configuration files and controlling them through launchctl for Mac OS X. (launchd is a system daemon that is used to run scripts/programs automatically, repeatedly or at certain times.)
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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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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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LiteIcon
LiteIcon allows you to change quickly any icons of your system. It also can restore all the system's icons.
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Mac Cleanse
Most of us know the pain of using a shared computer. Privacy is a valued commodity in today's world, and maintaining it does not have to be a hassle. Mac Cleanse securely scans your system for activity and erases the desired information.
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Mac Pilot
Scared of the terminal or can't be bothered to remember those commands to customize your system the way you want? Mac Pilot is your digital savior. Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations with the click of a button!
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MacJanitor
MacJanitor allows you to manually startup daily, weekly, and monthly cron maintanence scripts. These scripts are important when keeping MacOS X in "good shape". Usually, these scripts are set to automatically launch at times of the day when little activity occurs. However, if your Mac is turned off during these times, then the maintanence scripts don't have a chance to run.
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MacPAR Deluxe
Ensures error-free transport of the data by means of so called "par" and "par2" files. Unpacks data from a RAR archive (most of the files in newsgroups are compressed with rar). Automatically start an external program (such as Stuffit Expander) to process downloaded files.
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MacTheRipper
The DVD ripping tool for OS X.
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Mail Act-On
Plug-in to Apple's mail.app to attach keystrokes to mail rules.
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Mail Attachments Iconizer
Mail Attachments Iconizer 2.0 gives you control over attachment handling in Apple Mail. It fixes the most annoying Apple Mail flaws and allows you to configure how attachments are displayed and sent using a simple interface.
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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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ManOpen
ManOpen is a MacOS X GUI application for viewing Unix manual pages, which are the standard documentation for Unix command line programs, programmer libraries, and other system information. It can open files directly or be given titles, in which case it will display the output from the `man' command-line program.
