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  Ableton Live

  Ableton Live is a solution designed for each stage of the musical process, from creation to production to performance.

  
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  Absynth 3

  The unique blend of inimitable effects with multiple synthesis and sampling techniques is the defining element of the ABSYNTH sound, now more than ever before. The signal flow is far more flexible and a revolutionary wave morphing feature has been added. Both the master effects section and the modulation concept have been greatly enhanced. All these enhancements further sweeten ABSYNTH's already distinctive sonic flavour.

  
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  Aperture

  Designed from the ground up for professional photographers, Aperture provides everything you need for after the shoot, delivering the first all-in-one post-production tool for photographers.

  
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  AppleWorks

  Applications for word processing, spreadsheet, drawing, painting, presentation, database. An Apple product, hasn't been updated in some time (and apparently won't be). However, you can't beat it for simplicity and ease of use. I prefer it to MS Office.

  
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  Ardour2

  Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.

  Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it.

  Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible "anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't available on other platforms.

  
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  Audacity

  Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

  Record live audio.
  Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
  Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
  Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
  Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
  And more!

  
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  Audio Unit Manager

  Audio Unit Manager allows you to organize your Audio Units into sets that can be enabled for different contexts (such as Video editing, mastering etc.) and/or troubleshooting Audio Unit host problems.

  This can mean accelerated application launch times and exclusion of incompatible Audio Units for some hosts.

  
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  Automat

  Automat is a polyphonic stereo subtractive AudioUnit synthesizer. It features antialiased oscillators with hard-sync, filters and amplifier with ADSR, modulators with tempo sync, waveshaper / eq, stereo-delay with filter and tempo sync, modulated chorus phasor and reverb, poly- unisono and legato-mode, random preset generation, midi learn.

  
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  Backuplist+

  Backuplist+ is a simple but powerful file copy and backup application for Mac OS X. With it you can create lists of your important folders and files that you want to save to an external hard drive or other destination. It makes simple copies so there is no need for complex restore operations. It will automatically collect all the important system preferences and application preferences for safe keeping as well. There are many other options including single compressed archives or Burn folders ready for making CD or DVD hard copies. And you can schedule backups daily or weekly. The elegant and intuitive interface makes it easy and fun to use.

  
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  Battery

  Battery is drum sampler software made by Native Instruments.

  "BATTERY 2 is the ultimate drum sampler for creating and fine-tuning all of the percussive elements in any production. With a streamlined design for fast and intuitive control, generate perfect drums and percussion every time. From the smoothest grooves to the most rugged rhythms - BATTERY 2 is the professional choice."

  
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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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  ChronoSync

  ChronoSync is an easy to use data management tool that allows you to efficiently synchronize files and folders from one disk location to another.

  
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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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  Digital Performer

  Digital Performer is an integrated MIDI and audio sequencer. For studio recording, film scoring, live performance, and remixing, Digital Performer is the choice of professionals worldwide.

  
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  DiskWarrior

  DiskWarrior uses a different approach to disk directory repair than other programs. DiskWarrior is not a disk repair program in the conventional sense. Instead of patching the original directory, it uses a patent-pending technology to quickly build a new replacement directory using data recovered from the original directory, thereby recovering files and folders that you thought were lost and that no other program could recover.

  
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  Drive Genius

  Drive genius is a wonderful utility app that can perform a multitude of maintenance tasks on a harddrive. It can scan for bad blocks (a feature difficult to find), repair directory damage, defragement, edit sectors, and non-destructively repartition. Absolutely critical for someone trying to support Macs as bad blocks on drives can cause all sorts of issues.

  
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  Fission

  Fission is a streamlined audio editor designed to get you editing in minutes, not hours. It works with MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless and AIFF audio, enabling you to instantly trim and split files with no quality loss!

  
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  GarageBand

  (Comes with iLife bundle on new Mac purchases, no demo avaliable. $79.00 is price of iLife bundle.)

  GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create a piece of music. It is developed by Apple Computer for Mac OS X.
  The application is not aimed at professional musicians, but it is intended to help amateurs produce music easily. The application comes with 1,000 pre-recorded sampled loops, and 50 sampled or synthesized instruments which can be played using a MIDI keyboard connected to the computer, or using an on-screen keyboard.

  
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  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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  Guitar Rig 2

  Guitar Rig 2 is a professional all-in-one software and hardware set-up for guitarists and bass players. A huge range of authentically emulated amps and effects are complemented by a robust foot controller boasting an integrated, studio-quality sound card.

  
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  InstantSampler

  The plugin could be named "audio copy-paster" or "snippet looper", but I choose to call it InstantSampler because it does what a simple 'normal' sampler does (playing audio fragments by MIDI notes), but it takes its samples (instantly) from the audio input whenever you hit a specific MIDI note for the first time. Every consecutive time you hit the same MIDI-note, it plays back the recorded fragment (or shorter, depending on the note's length).

  So, is this plugin an instrument (as the name 'sampler' might suggest), or an effect? Technically, it is an effect, but one that is controlled using MIDI. But, in Logic for instance, it is considered to be an instrument, played with MIDI, while having an audio side-chain input. The bottomline is: It needs both audio - and MIDI input!

  
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  iPhoto '08

  Apple's digital photo managing/editing application.

  
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  iTunes

  Download iTunes 7 and make yourself at home. Buy music, movies, TV shows, and audiobooks, or download free podcasts from the iTunes Store 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Play everything on your Mac or PC. Then sync it to your iPod and bring it along. Anywhere.

  
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  iTunes 7

  Apple's digital music player/online shopper/iPod syncing utility.

  
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  Jack OS X

  Jack (the Jack Audio Connection Kit) is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system, and now with Mac OS X support. It can connect any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other.

  Jack is different from other audio server efforts in that it has been designed from the ground up to be suitable for professional audio work. This means that it focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation.

  
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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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  Logic Express

  Create your own music using an advanced spectrum of features and tools for computer based music production. Logic Express provides a step up from GarageBand for aspiring musicians, producers and composers without breaking the bank. With the same flexible layout as Logic Pro, you can dive deeper into the creation and manipulation of audio and MIDI

  
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  Logic Pro

  Complete Audio and Midi production software.

  
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  MainStage

  Built for live performance, MainStage lets keyboardists, guitarists, and other musicians perform with software instruments and effects through a full-screen interface designed specifically for the stage.

  
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  MAMP

  Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP.
  With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X.

  
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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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  OnyX

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

  
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  Pacifist

  Pacifist 2.0 is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .tar, .tgz, and .tar.gz file archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them.

  
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  PickChar

  Easily select unusual characters (currency symbols, foreign letters, etc.) to enter into your text document.

  
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  QuickTime Pro

  QuickTime 7 Pro is everything that Apple's backbone media engine is, with features unlocked. Record audio, capture video, convert file formats, and save some web delivered content.

  
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  Reason

  The software synth that is harder than hardware. Reason is a complete studio package with synths, samplers, drum machines, loop players, a sequencer, mixing, effects and much much more.

  
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  ReCycle

  A music loop editor that can detect beats or hits in a drum loop and other sound material. Sounds can be exported as loops, individual samples, or as REX files that can be used in DAWs such as Cubase or Reason. Comes with a copy of Reason Adapted.

  
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  Senuti

  There are many good reasons that someone would have to transfer music from her iPod back to her computer. There are many good ways to do it, too. Senuti is the only alternative that will give you the power and convenience that you need, wrapped in an interface that is extremely easy to use, at a cost that you can't complain about.

  
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  SonicBirth

  SonicBirth is an AudioUnit designing application. The first in its category, it allows users to build their own AudioUnit plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch. SonicBirth is also a free AudioUnits package, as it comes bundled with a set of plugins designed for standalone use as plugins as well as pre-constructed circuits to modify or build upon for creating new plugins. Whether you're looking for traditional eqs, compressors, and reverbs, or softsynths, distortion, and filters, etc., SonicBirth allows you unprecedented freedom and creativity over your sound.

  SonicBirth is based on a powerful, flexible engine. Every plugin can be used in 32 bits or 64 bits for added precision. Since all plugins share this engine, any improvement in speed will benefit all of them.

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  NOTE: This app used to cost money, but has just been released as freeware/open sourced (GPL)!

  
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  Sound Studio

  Sound Studio 3 is an easy-to-use Mac OS X application for recording and editing audio digitally on your computer. Digitize tapes and vinyl records, record live performances, create your own mixes with crossfades, tweak the levels and EQ, apply digital effects, and save in all major file formats with Sound Studio 3!

  
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  SoundTrack Pro

  Soundtrack Pro gives audio and video professionals a powerful way to edit and design sound. Soundtrack Pro?s waveform editor includes innovative action layering and intelligent repair and restoration functions that let you accurately manipulate audio while retaining total creative flexibility. And, with support for video formats up to HD resolutions, full multitrack editing and mixing, over 50 professional effects plug-ins, and thousands of included Apple Loops, precise audio control has never been so intuitive.

  
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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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  Transmit

  Transmit is an excellent FTP (file transfer protocol), SFTP, and iDisk/WebDAV client that allows you to upload, download, and delete files over the internet. With the most Mac-like interface available, Transmit makes FTP as simple, fun, and easy as it can possibly be.

  
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  VLC

  VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) 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.

  
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  WebKit

  WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60's S60 WebKit development.

  
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  WindowShade

  WindowShade X provides an exciting and useful way of organizing your work on Mac OS X. With this handy tool, you can assign the following actions to the minimize button and a double-click on the window title:

  Minimize the window to the Dock, like always;
  "Windowshade" the window into a tiny strip to quickly peek below or get it out of the way;
  Minimize-In-Place the window so it becomes really small so you can move it out of the way yet still see what is going on;
  Make the window transparent so you can continue working in it while seeing things under it;
  Hide the application quickly;

  
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  0xED

  0xED is a native OS X hex editor based on the Cocoa framework.

  
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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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  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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  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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  Adobe AIR

  Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.

  
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  Adobe AIR Application Installer

  Run Air Application like on pownce.com very useful

  
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  Adobe Media Player

  Adobe® Media Player software provides control and flexibility to view what you want, when you want — whether online or offline. You can queue up and download your favorite Internet TV content, track and download new episodes automatically, and manage your personal video library for viewing at your convenience. Top networks and media companies present your favorite shows for viewing online or offline. From edge-of-your-seat dramas, sports, and reality TV shows to classic feature films and miniseries as well as educational videos and more, Adobe participating network partners put a wealth of enjoyment at your fingertips with Adobe Media Player.

  
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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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  AppCleaner

  Presentation
  AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to completely and properly uninstall unwanted apps.
  It isn't, in fact, sufficient to just delete an application. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.
  AppCleaner can find all these small files and safely delete them.
  The toolbar has the following useful features.
  Drop an application onto the AppCleaner icon and AppCleaner searches for the related files and then by clicking the red cross it deletes them.
  If you change your mind, just click on the green arrow back button.
  The "Applications" button shows all the applications installed on your system. You can select them and then click on the magnifying glass search button. AppCleaner will search for the related files of the selected applications and delete them, too.
  The "Widgets" button shows all the installed widgets and the "Others" button displays all the installed Preference Panes, Plugins and Screen Savers.

  
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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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  Application Enhancer

  Application Enhancer (APE) is a system used in Unsanity's and third-party products that helps them to enhance and redefine various applications behavior running on your system.

  
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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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  Archive Utility

  Archive Utility is the default archive file handler in Mac OS X. This utility was called BOMArchiveHelper until 10.5. You can install a hidden preference pane (Archive Utility/Contents/Resources/Archives.prefPane) in 10.5.

  
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  AU Lab

  AU Lab is a free digital mixing application that hosts Audio Unit effects. It ships with the Apple Developer tools (for more info on that, read http://osx.iusethis.com/app/xcode:"here").

  Note: the only way to retrieve AU Lab is by downloading Apple Developer tools.

  AU Lab is in many ways similar to commercial apps, such as Rax by Audiofile-Engineering, Mainstage by Apple Inc. (included in their Logic Studio bundle). Still, it's free.

  
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  AudioSlicer

  A simple lossless MP3 audio cuter. Open the file, select the range, listen, and then save.

  
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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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  BBEdit

  It doesn't suck.

  BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit transforms text with high performance.

  
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  Bento

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

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

  
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  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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  C3 Multi Band Compressor

  A complex multi-band compressor as an Audio Unit plugin for OS X.

  
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  Cache Out X

  Cache Out X (COX) is a handy tool that deep cleans your computer's system, getting to, and deleting the multitude of cache files generated by OS X and web browsers.

  By using COX, you can get your computer feeling like it did the first time you bought it. The application deletes virtual memory swap files, system and user cache files, purges system logs, as well as removing cookies and other Internet related navigation and download cache files.

  
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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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  Carbon Copy Cloner

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

  
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  ChocoFlop

  ChocoFlop is an image manipulation program based entirely on Apple's new CoreImage technology which takes advantages of the processing power in your GPU (graphics card).

  Main features:
  - Small, Launches in a pair of seconds
  - Real Time non-destructive filters
  - Rich Text Layers
  - Load and opens many image formats
  - Supports layers, layer masks, selections
  - Paint tools with table pressure support
  - HDR (128 bits per pixel)
  - Universal Binary
  - Easy to use for photoshop users
  - Imports many RAW formats thanks to dcraw
  - Save for web: get the best Jpeg / PNG compression on earth!

  Keep in mind, ChocoFlop is beta software.

  Requires OSX 10.4+ or higher.

  The license if free until it reaches a stable status (v version 1.0):
  See this page

  
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  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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  Console

  Console allows you to examine the messages logged by your system and software.

  
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  CSSEdit

  Quite simply put, CSSEdit will save your sanity when editing style sheets. Its intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful editing features will make you deliver beautiful standards-based sites in no time!

  
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  cue-splitter

  "cue-splitter" is a small tool to split long MP3s using a CUE-file containing the filenames and splitpositions. This MP3s mostly are an album or a compilation which you have to split before you can burn it to a CD.

  
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  Data Rescue II

  Do you have a corrupt hard drive or one that no longer mounts? Are other tools failing to even recognize your bad drive?

  Data Rescue II is the best data recovery utility on the market for recovering files from a problem hard drive. Other utilities can cause more damage to your hard drive and files by trying to 'fix' the problem, instead of focusing on recovering your files.

  
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  DAZStudio

  Free 3d figure posing and animation application.

  
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  DesInstaller

  DesInstaller is a simple tool that reads the receipts generated when you install a .pkg file with Apple's Installer. Every file installed by this package is removed, even if it has been modified, and archived if you ask the DesInstaller to. If you decide to use a reinstaller, you will get a tar archive, for portability, and a shell script with a "command" extension, to be double clickable. Please be aware that even if the reinstalller does not actually care about its position when invoked, the two parts (the tar archive and the term shell script) are both needed in the same folder.

  
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  Diablotin

  Diablotin allows you to manage the items that have been added to the Mac OS X Library folders. This is a good way to make sure your operating system stays in order. This preference pane also allows you to enable/disable those items.

  
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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 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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  Disk Utility

  Manage disks easily. Use Disk Utility to repair disks, erase them, create disk images, and much more.

  
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  DMGConverter

  DMGConverter is a Disk Image (.dmg, .cdr, .iso) create and conversion tool which is simple and easy to use.
  It is convenient for the collective processing of more than one file and every folder, and it can deal with all the fundamental processing with the drag & drop of the file/folder.

  
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  Dockables

  Dockables provides you with one-click system event access right from the Dock in OS X. Dockables was awarded an Apple Download's Staff
  Pick for version 1.0 and up; it has also had over 100,000 downloads since the 1.0 release. Dockables increases your efficiency in using Mac by bringing key system events right to your Dock.

  Dockables version 1.0.4 (the most recent version) includes the following features: Shut Down, Start Default Screen Saver, Restart, Empty Trash, Eject Media, Sleep, Log Out, Close Applications, Hide Applications, and Mute Sound.

  Dockables requires Mac OS X version 10.4 ("Tiger") or Higher. Dockables is a Universal Binary Application (which means that it runs on both PowerPC and Intel Macs).

  Dockables is provided to Mac users as freeware. However, we do accept Donations. If you download Dockables and find it useful, please consider giving a small donation.

  
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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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  Drosera

  Drosera is a JavaScript debugger for WebKit that can be used with any application that uses WebKit. Like the Web Inspector, over 90% of it is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

  
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  DVD Player

  If you have an Apple-supplied DVD-ROM drive installed in your computer you can use the Apple DVD Player application to play DVD-Video discs. DVD Player 4.6 lets you play DVD Studio Pro 4 authored HD DVDs from discs and hard drives.

  
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  EasyFind

  An alternative to or supplement of Spotlight and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing. Highlights:

  Boolean operators, wildcards, phrases
  No indexing, search immediately
  Finds invisible files and files inside packages (which Spotlight doesn't search)
  Displays the location of each file in a separate column
  Provides contextual menus and services
  Supports drag & drop.

  
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  Ejector

  Ejector will add an Eject icon to the Mac OS X menu bar. From it you can eject any removable disks, e.g. an iPod, a CD, a DVD, an USB Key and even a .dmg. You can then safely disconnect them from your mac.

  
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  Exif Untrasher

  Have you ever deleted images from your digital camera's memory card and needed them afterwards? Exif Untrasher can recover them.

  
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  EXIFViewer

  EXIFViewer is a quick and easy tool for digital photographers. It allows you to quickly display detailed information stored in EXIF tag in JPEG files produced by a wide range of digital cameras.

  
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  FileSalvage

  Data recovery software for Mac OS X that will retrieve files that have been deleted (undelete), rescue data from corrupted media, and recover lost files from your hard drive or storage device.
  If you've lost data and you need to get it back, FileSalvage is your best choice for getting it back. FileSalvage is the ultimate Mac OS X tool for data recovery. FileSalvage recovers deleted files, damaged or missing volumes and even formatted disks.

  
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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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  Final Vinyl

  Final Vinyl allows users to easily record their collection of old vinyl records using just the Griffin iMic and their turntable. Previously users wishing to record their old record collection had to hook up their entire stereo system just to power their turntable. Now users can connect the record player directly to their iMic, and using Final Vinyl record and save all their old albums. They can then make them into CDs, MP3s etc. Final Vinyl does more than just record old albums; it is a fully functional general audio recording application as well. It can be used to record instruments, microphones and reel-to-reel tapes plugged into the iMic. It includes a 10-band Equalizer that is capable of significantly altering and enhancing a user's sound input. For example, inexpensive microphones could be improved by tweaking the bass response. Old worn records can be fine tuned and tonally corrected. All this and more can be done using the completely free Final Vinyl combined with the Griffin iMic.

  
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  Finder

  Your home on the Mac, Finder gives you lots of options for locating, displaying and organizing all your files and folders. From the power of Spotlight search technology to the flexibility of customizable item views, Mac OS X Finder truly shows your Mac at a glance.

  
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  Fink

  The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. We modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X ("port" it) and make it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.

  There are currently over 3000 packages available.

  
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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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  FireStarter FX

  FireStarter is a pure Cocoa, Mac OS X only burning application which will allow you to duplicate all kind of CDs (even those that other Mac OS X applications won't), burn VCDs and SVCDs, and have access to unique features such as overburning and CDDB access.

  
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  Flash Player

  Adobe Flash Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices. Now as a universal binary.

  
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  Flip4Mac WMV

  Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.

  
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  Fluid

  Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or (Insert Your Favorite Webapp Here) fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Spreadsheets data in another tab?

  If so, Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great solution for your webapp woes. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite webapps as a separate desktop application. Fluid gives any webapp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity.

  How does it work?

  Fluid itself is a very small application. When launched, Fluid displays a small window where you specify the URL of a webapp you'd like to run in a Site Specific Browser. Provide an application name, click 'Create' and you'll be prompted to launch the new native Mac app you've just created.

  Use Fluid to run YouTube, GTalk, Flickr, Basecamp, Delicious, .Mac webmail, or any other webapp as a separate Mac desktop application.

  Anytime you click a link to another site in an SSB, the link is opened in your system default web browser, keeping your SSB dedicated to the original site you've specified.

  
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  FLV2iTunes

  FLV2iTunes... This is a simple docklet application for converting movies to iTunes, iPod and iPhone supported format. Just drag and drop videos to it and wait for it to finish. It will accept any video format that are supported by ffmpeg (WMV, XVID, DIVX, FLV, AVI, and more), converts it, and insert the movie into iTunes library. If you like the program and want to make a donation, I will appreciate it.

  
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  FolderGlancePrefs

  FolderGlance is a small Contextual Menu Plugin for the Finder. When it is installed, it allows you to control-click or right-click on folders to see and open their contents, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels. FolderGlance also has the following features:

  Adding your own custom folders to the contextual menu, enabling FolderGlance to act as a very versatile launcher
  Moving, copying and making aliases of the currently selected files in a folder you browse to
  Control-free popups: Open the contextual menu without holding down the control-key or using a two-button mouse
  Drag-and-drop of files and folders
  In-menu preview of arbitrary files
  Opening files with an application different than the default by using an "Open with..." menu you can tailor to suit your own taste
  Changing the font size used in contextual menus
  Disable the menu fade effect, for a more speedy menu experience
  Browsing into package contents
  Optional display of custom file and folder icons
  Customizable sorting and customizable display of hidden files and folders
  Trash files directly from the contextual menu by typing Command-Backspace or Command-T
  Localized to Japanese, French, Polish, Italian and Norwegian.
  Universal: Runs on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs!

  
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  Font Book

  Font Book is a powerful tool for managing fonts and font collections on Mac OS X

  
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  FontExplorer X

  FontExplorer X sets a new standard for font management software. After several relatively sad years for all font users who were looking for a professional font manager, Linotype is pleased to fill the gap with the new FontExplorer X. Font management has never been so simple, and font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are now more fun than ever. FontExplorer X gives computer users all the font functions they could need, and lets them decide how deeply they wish to dive into various font themes.

  
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  FontNuke

  FontNuke is a utility application that removes corrupt or troublesome font cache files. I created this application as a tool for my personal use at the office, and has become very useful for me. To grant individual non-admin users the ability to remove font cache files, without my involvement--is HUGE! Not to mention intelligent application quitting, plus a GUARANTEED reboot, makes my life easier. FontNuke removes system font caches, Adobe font caches (*.lst), Microsoft Office font caches, and now also (as of version 1.0.6) QuarkXPress 6.x/7.x font cache files. Not to mention it's free.

  http://www.jamapi.com/pr/fn/faq.html

  
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  FreeDMG

  FreeDMG is one of the most powerful and easy to use disk imaging program available for Mac OS X. With this software it is possible to quickly perform disk imaging on the fly. Both the program's window, and the dock icon can be used for drag-and-drop imaging. There many image formats that that can be chosen (UDZO, UDCO, etc.). FreeDMG can make internet enabled disk images for distribution to Macs as well as ISO/Joliet hybrid images for cross-platform delivery. Verbose preferences, and a built-in log window help users hide/display additional information about the imaging process.

  Gain easy access to the many options available for creating and manipulating disk images in Mac OS X with FreeDMG. From the hidden "resize" function of hdiutil to the adjustable compresion levels available for the UDZO format, this software attempts to unveil it all. Users have the option to overwrite exising files, and can choose to quit the program automatically after creating an image on launch. It is possible to encrypt images (password protect) with the click of a button.

  With FreeDMG you can attach beautiful html/rtf software license agreements to disk images. This software is currently the best way to add SLAs to disk images for multi-lingual distribution. The license creation process in FreeDMG prevents character loss for all 2-byte languages.

  
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  fseventer

  Graphically observe filesystem changes using the same underlying API as Spotlight. One example of use could be to determine what files are changed via software installation, preferences, etc...

  
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  FStream

  Small application which makes it possible to listen easily and quickly Web-radio stations.

  
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  gDisk

  gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet.

  
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  Gif Fun

  GIFfun™ by Stone Design is the key to creating Web Animations quickly - you can use Create™ to make the individiual slides, or drag in any Image File directly into the GIFfun window, and the best part is that GIFfun is totally free, including the well-commented source code. GIFfun was originally created because I wanted to add yet another feature to Create, but this tool is also of use to every web page designer.

  
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  Gimp.app

  Gimp.app is a binary package of Gimp that needs Apple's X11 and not much more.

  Gimp is similar to Adobe Photoshop, except that it's free software.

  
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  GIMPshop

  Modified version of GIMP to make the user interface seem more like photoshop.

  
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  Google Earth

  Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more

  Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your

  
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  Google Maps Plugin

  The Google Maps Plugin enables you lookup your Apple Address Book addresses using Google Maps as well as get directions between your Address Book addresses. At the time this was written, Google Maps supports the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Spain, Italy and France. Google Earth is now supported as of June 15, 2006.

  
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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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  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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  GPG Tools

  Gpg Tools is a Mac OS X graphical interface to the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) utility. It provides approximately the functionality of the old PGPtools, and is freeware.

  
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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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  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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  Growl

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

  
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  Guitar Pro

  Began as a PC-only tabalature writing application, and is the best way to write and listen to music for bands.

  
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  HyperEngine-AV

  HyperEngine-AV, Arboretum Systems' award winning video editing software is now free, complete with full source code. Users can capture, arrange, edit and process video, audio and text in a free-form, trackless document, to create movies and slide shows

  
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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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  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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  iColors

  Simple app to save your favorite colors outside Apple's own color picker. Also good for viewing a color's hexadecimal