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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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  Desktop Manager

  Desktop Manager is an easy to use virtual desktop manager for OS X.

  
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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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  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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  i-Installer

  i-Installer is a generic software install and configuration application. It can install socalled i-Packages, which are wrappers (directories containing files) with names ending on .ii2 and which will look like files in most applications (like the Finder). i-Packages can be updated and downloaded from remote locations. Most of this will happen automcatically.

  
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  i-Installer/gwTeX

  Installer for gwTeX and other LaTeX-related packages.

  
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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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  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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  iLike Sidebar

  This plugin allows you to connect iTunes directly to the iLike service for organizing and sharing your musical tastes and discovering new music through your friends.

  Requires 10.4+

  
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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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  iSync

  Apple utility to keep your contacts an calendars in sync between your mac and cellphone/pda

  
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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

  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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  jabref

  JabRef is a graphical application for managing bibliographical databases. JabRef is designed specifically for BibTeX bases, but can import and export many other bibliographic formats. JabRef runs on all platforms and requires Java 1.4 or newer.

  
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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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  KeyRemap4MacBook

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

  ex.

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

  Note:

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

  
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  Last.fm

  With Last.fm on your computer you can scrobble your tracks, share your music taste, listen to personlised radio streams, and discover new music and people.

  Last.fm is open source software and contains no spyware/adware.

  
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  LaTeX Equation Editor

  The LaTeX Equation Editor provides an elegant graphical interface to LaTeX, a powerful typesetting engine for mathematics, enabling you to quickly generate professional-looking mathematics for inclusion in your slides. All equations are produced as single-page PDF files, so they can be smoothly resized and rotated like any other graphic object in Keynote.

  
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  Life2Go

  This is a little utility that allows you to synch several types of info to your iPod from your Mac including Contacts, Calendar, Weather, News, Gas Prices, Movie Times and more.

  
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  Limewire

  LimeWire is a file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network. It is open standard software running on an open protocol, free for the public to use. LimeWire allows you to share any file such as .mp3s, .avis, .jpgs, .tiffs, etc. Limewire is written in Java, and will run on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Sun, and other computing platforms.

  
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  MacPorts

  The DarwinPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to install various open-source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X and Darwin)

  There are currently about 3420 completed and usable ports, with more being added on a regular basis. You can track recently added ports by subscribing to the cvs-darwinports-all mailing list.

  
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  MacTeX

  A complete TeX system supporting TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX, ConTeXt, XeTeX and many other packages.

  
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  MacVim

  MacVim is a port of the text editor Vim to Mac OS X that is meant to look better and integrate more seamlessly with the Mac than the existing Carbon port of Vim. It has support for:

  * Safari style tabs
  * Multiple windows: use "Application windows" Exposé and Cmd-` to switch between windows
  * Client/server (+clientserver): use the --remote switch and friends to open files; script the server with remote_send() et al.
  * GUI Dialogs: with keyboard shortcuts, no need to use the mouse anymore!
  * Toolbar
  * Font panel: access to all of your fonts, proportional fonts render with fixed advancement
  * Multibyte: with automatic font substitution for wide characters
  * Input methods: use Mac OS X input methods to input non-English languages
  * and more...

  
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  Matlab

  Math Toolbox with many capabilities and libraries.

  
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  MenuCalendarClock for iCal

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

  
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  Mozy

  Mozy is a secure, automatic remote backup service for any PC in any home. It's simple to install and configure. No external hard drive, expensive subscription services, CD's or DVD's to burn. All you need is a broadband connection and you are ready to go!

  
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  OMCEdit

  And editor for On My Command commands. It allows you to add all sorts of functionality to your contextual menus without having to be a programmer. Some AppleScript or Shell experiences is helpful, but there is also a vast library of pre-built commands you can download and install into your contextual menu.

  
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  OnMyCommand

  OnMyCommand is a UNIX CLI and AppleScript executor. You can build your own Contextual Menu Item or GUI application.

  
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  PDF Browser Plugin

  PDF Browser Plugin turns your web browser into the best PDF viewer available. With the help of PDF Browser Plugin you can view PDF documents directly in your web browser, print them, and save them to disk if you'd like to keep them.

  
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  Plaxo

  Plaxo Toolbar for Mac synchronizes your Mac OS X Address Book with your Plaxo Universal Address Book. Wherever you install a Plaxo toolbar, your address book will be consistent and stay up-to-date automatically. You can also access your address book on the web through Plaxo Online.

  
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  PullTab

  MacOS X 10.2 and later block the ability of third-party programs to use the Command-Tab (Apple-Tab) keystroke as a hotkey. Instead that keystroke is reserved solely for switching applications from the Dock.

  PullTab allows you to reclaim the Command-Tab and Command-Shift-Tab keystrokes from the MacOS X Dock. The reclaimed keystrokes can then be used in other applications, including third-party application switchers.

  
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  Quicksilver

  Quicksilver is a tool that lets you open programs, documents, contacts, bookmarks, etc.

  Unlike other launchers it also supports other actions, not just opening, like composing a mail to a person, or browsing the iTunes library directly, etc.

  
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  radioSHARK

  The radio SHARK adds an AM/FM radio to any Mac or PC — but that’s just the beginning.

  The radio SHARK device connects via USB. Proper function of this software depends upon having the radio Shark hardware.

  This universal binary software will allow you to play, pause, and record live radio on your Mac. Compatible with 10.3.9 or later

  radio SHARK application controls all radio and recording functions. Favorite station presets can be set with the click of a mouse, and new stations can be scanned and tuned with ease. The application is also where you program Time-Shift Recording.

  
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  Skim

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

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

  
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  Sync Now

  Sync Now can be added to your dock or your favourite menu bar application launcher to bring back the old 1-click iSync functionality without having to manually open iSync and click again.

  When run Sync Now will open iSync, start the syncing process then quit iSync and itself when finished.

  
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  TeXniscope

  TeXniscope is a DVI/PDF previewer for MacOSX. It has a simple user interface and it is capable of synchronization (forward/backward) with an external editor (e.g. Emacs) both for DVI files (using the src-ltx package) and PDF files (using the pdfsync package).

  
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  Thunderbird

  Email, NNTP, RSS reader based on Gecko.

  
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  TriTag

  TriTag helps you to get a clear MP3 collection by either creating a new filename out of the ID3Tag or filling the metatags using the information found in the filename using a user defined pattern - easy due to a pattern builder.
  The first mode also allows to create a unique directory structure (artist/album/) similar to the one generated by iTunes "Consolidate library".
  Search the FreeDB database if neither the filename nor the tag contains correct information.

  
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  Vim

  Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.

  Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.

  
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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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  Witch

  Witch lets you access all of your windows by pressing a shortcut and choosing from a clearly arranged list of window titles.

  Moreover, you can use Witch to...

  � Directly access minimized windows without using your mouse

  � Close minimized windows without bringing them to front first

  � Zoom, de-/minimize, and close windows on the fly

  
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  You Control: Tunes

  You Control: Tunes is a free utility that gives you complete control over iTunes from the Mac OS X menu bar. You don’t have to stop whatever it is you may be doing, switch to iTunes, take care of business and then go back to your original app. You can now simply pull down your very own custom menu that gives you access to the iTunes controls (Next, Previous, Volume, Play/Pause, Stop) as well as displaying the current track, artist and album. You can also navigate your entire iTunes music library from this menu as well so you never leave your current application.

  Get a free serial number from:
  http://yousoftware.com/tunes/tunes_form.php

  
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  Yummy FTP

  An FTP, FTP SSL/TLS and SFTP client that combines all the best features available in other file transfer solutions, makes them better, adds a wealth of its own uniquely powerful capabilities, and then powers them all with a highly tuned FTP engine. The result is a very fast, very flexible and completely reliable file transfer utility for Mac OS X, wrapped up in a gorgeous and highly intuitive user interface, sporting Finder-like FTP browsers, toolbars and drag and drop simplicity throughout. Yum!

  
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  BluePhoneElite

  BluePhoneElite is a utility that connects and automates processing and display status information of Bluetooth mobile phones.

  Call Features

  • Dial and answer calls from your desktop
  • Log calls with time, duration, caller and notes
  • Display caller ID using your phone's phone book or Apple's Address Book
  • Pause iTunes and DVD Player or set iChat away message when a call is in progress
  • Customize a variety of visual and aural call notifications
  • Export calls to iCal, Address Book or external files
  • Trigger AppleScripts for different call events

  SMS Features

  • Send and receive messages using email-style SMS Center or SMS Chat
  • Archive SMS to disk using hierarchical folders
  • Pop-up incoming SMS on-screen
  • Export SMS to iCal, Address Book or external files
  • Trigger AppleScripts for different SMS events

  Other Features

  • Proximity detection controls iTunes, iChat, DVD Player and the screen saver
  • Display battery and signal strength, power source and network name in the menu bar
  • Power saving option disconnects phones when power is running low
  • Customizable interface options like dock visibility, menu bar visibility and font sizes
  • Localization: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US, Australian, Canadian & UK), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish

  
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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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  Acrobat Pro

  Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional software is the advanced way to create, control, and deliver more secure, high-quality Adobe PDF documents. Assemble electronic or paper files — even Web sites, engineering drawings, and e-mail — into reliable PDF documents that are easy to share with others using free Adobe Reader 7.0 software.

  
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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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  Adobe Illustrator

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

  
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  Alpine

  Alpine is an "Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News and Email" produced by the University of Washington. It is intended to be an easy-to-use program for sending, receiving, and filing Internet electronic mail messages and bulletin board (Netnews) messages. Alpine is designed to run on a wide variety of Unix® operating systems. A version for Microsoft Windows® is available as is a world wide web based version designed to run under the Apache web server.

  See Paul Heinlein's shell script to compile Alpine at http://www.madboa.com/geek/pine-macosx/#compiling-alpine.

  Edit version number to VER="alpine-0.99999".

  
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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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  BetterZip

  BetterZip lets you quickly view the contents of an archive in a Finder like list view without extracting it. It lets you add files to archives and extract single files from archives.

  BetterZip can extract and create fully WinZip compatible AES-256 encrypted zip files. It handles zip, sit, rar, 7-zip, tar, dd, bin, hqx, tgz, tbz2, gzip, bzip2, arj, lha/lzh, cab, iso, chm, rpm, deb, nsis, and cpio archives.

  The preview drawer lets you quickly view images, PDF, HTML, RTF, and text files.

  
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  Chicken of the VNC

  Chicken of the VNC is a VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it's right next to you.

  
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  ClearDock

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

  
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  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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  Disk Utility

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

  
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  DivX for Mac

  The DivX for Mac download includes:
  DivX Player 1.0.3
  DivX Community Codec 6.2.5
  DivX Web Player 1.0.2

  
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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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  Flickr Uploadr

  A tool to send pictures to Yahoo's Flickr Photo service You can drag and drop from iPhoto or the Finder, and upload your photos in batches.

  
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  GeekBind

  GeekBind allows one to bind keyboard shortcuts to actions such as moving and resizing windows, moving mouse, clicking mouse, etc. These capabilities are inspired by X11 window managers such as FluxBox.

  
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  Google Desktop

  Google's desktop search now for the Mac. Includes a "cache" much like Google's web search cache.

  
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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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  Logitech Control Center

  The Logitech Control Center (LCC) is designed to support Mac OS X (Leopard, Tiger, Panther), and allows you to take full advantage of your Logitech keyboard, mouse or trackball. The LCC is an easy-to-use tool that gives you access to useful shortcuts and one-key actions that will make your time at the computer or on the Internet more productive, comfortable and enjoyable.

  
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  Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac

  Microsoft Office includes a word processing application, a spreadsheet application, a presentation application, and an email application with calendar and organizational tools. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office for Windows.

  
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  OSXPM

  a package manager for os-x, interacts with the system's main package system (ie. the stuff you install from .pkg/.mpkg files) and allows you to uninstall those pages (among other things)

  
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  OSXvnc

  OSXvnc is a full featured VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using any VNC client.

  
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  Preview

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

  
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  Pseudo

  This is a simple and convenient way to run applications as a superuser. Simply drag the application you want su'd onto the Pseudo icon.

  Handy Tip: to manage your files with superuser privs, try running pathfinder + pseudo.

  
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  RealVNC

  VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is remote control software which allows you to view and fully interact with one computer desktop (the "VNC server") using a simple program (the "VNC viewer") on another computer desktop anywhere on the Internet. The two computers don't even have to be the same type, so for example you can use VNC to view a Windows Vista desktop at the office on a Linux or Mac computer at home. For ultimate simplicity, there is even a Java viewer, so that any desktop can be controlled remotely from within a browser without having to install software.

  VNC is in widespread active use by millions throughout industry, academia and privately. There are several versions to choose from, including a free version and some substantially enhanced commercial versions.

  You can download the Enterprise Viewer for Mac OS X for free, they have both a PPC and Universal version.

  
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  Remote Desktop Connection

  Remote Desktop Connection Client lets you connect to a Microsoft Windows-based computer and work with programs and files on that computer from your Macintosh computer

  
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  Script Editor

  The heart of AppleScript is the Script Editor application. This venerable utility for script editing and composition has been totally re-written to become a native Mac OS X application with a long list of new features and improvement.

  
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  ShadowKiller

  ShadowKiller removes window and menu shadows in Mac OS X. This changes the look of Mac OS X completely, and speeds up its operation for slower Macs (such as G3). This was our first haxie, and it is distributed on a freeware basis. However, due to the nature of the haxie, we are unable to guarantee its operation for all configurations.

  
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  Snail Mail

  Envelope printing application for use with the Mac OS X Address Book database.

  
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  Stuffit Deluxe

  Deluxe version of file compressor with optimizations based on file type. Long a staple of the Mac community, it still serves its purpose though handling a large number of off-platform formats, and thus useful for collaboration with non-Mac users.

  NB: Universal as of 11.0

  
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  TextExpander

  Previously known as Textpander, TextExpander is a utility that helps you type more efficiently and more accurately. TextExpander listens to what you type and inserts predefined text snippets on the fly whenever you enter their corresponding abbreviations.

  
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  TinkerTool

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

  
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  TinkerTool System

  "TinkerTool System is a professional all-in-one maintenance tool for the Macintosh platform. It allows you to change advanced operating system settings and offers a wide variety of maintenance features. It strictly complies with the software guidelines for Mac OS X, and also uses Apple's official instructions and recommendations for the resolution of certain system problems.

  "TinkerTool System is very different from other maintenance applications because it never uses any scripts and is fully integrated into the security architecture of Mac OS X. . . ." [from developer's website]