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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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  A52Codec

  • Multi-channel decoding of AC3 audio (can do full 5.1 decoding).
  • Implemented as a core-audio component so it is available to both Quicktime and Core Audio components.
  • Includes an AC3 importer so QuickTime can read .ac3 files directly.
  • Includes a preferences file to enable or disable dobly surround encoding as well as dynamic range compression.

  A52/AC-3 audio is a common format for audio from DVDs.

  
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  Acquisition

  Acquisition is a Gnutella file-sharing client written using the Cocoa APIs.

  
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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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  Adblock Plus

  Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.

  Right-click on a banner and choose "Adblock" from the context menu - the banner won't be downloaded again. Maybe even replace parts of the banner address with star symbols to block similar banners as well. Or you select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, then even this simple task will usually be unnecessary: the filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically.

  Works with:

  Firefox Firefox: 1.5 – 3.0a6

  
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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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  Air Traffic Control

  AirTrafficControl is the most advanced wireless networking widget available.

  * Connect to any type of network.
  * Sort networks by any feature.
  * Check for AirTrafficControl updates.
  * Use the Keychain to store, retrieve and update WPA or WEP passwords.
  * Select your own refresh rate.
  * View current connection details including network speed.

  
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  Airfoil

  Use Airfoil to send any audio to one AirPort Express, to multiple AirPort Express units in sync, and even to other local Macs! It's your audio — everywhere.

  With Airfoil you can take audio from any application and send to one or many AirPort Express units, as well as other local Macs running Airfoil Speakers, plus your local machine, all in sync! You can "wire" your whole house wirelessly and give your audio wings with Airfoil.

  Use Airfoil for all your wireless audio:

  • Transmit audio from RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, QuickTime Player, and other media players.
  • Send audio from web-based applications like Pandora, Last.fm, and other to the AirPort Express.
  • You can even stream audio from audio devices like RadioSHARK, XM and Sirius radios, around your house.

  
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  Amadeus Pro

  Amadeus Pro is a multitrack audio editor. It includes advanced features such as batch conversion and processing, sound denoising and repairing, plug-in support, audio analysis, etc. Perfect for transferring your old vinyl or tape recordings to CD, editing your podcast, etc.

  
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  Aquamacs

  Aquamacs is an Aqua-native build of the powerful Emacs text editor. By "Aqua-native," we mean more than just the fact that this version of Emacs runs as a standard OS X application. Aquamacs features extensive customization: it will feel and behave mostly like an Aqua program - while still being a real GNU Emacs with all the ergonomy and extensibility you've come to expect from this world-class editor.

  
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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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  BibDesk

  BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets you drag & drop or cut & paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. BibDesk also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and allows for searching your database through several keys.

  
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  BitRocket

  Great universal binary torrent client for OSX based on libtorrent (NOT the transmission one like it is often assumed.)

  Version Beta 0.1(25) has been released that now supports OiNK as well as fixing a bunch of other things:

  
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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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  Cocktail

  Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X. The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface and toolset. It is a smooth and powerful utility that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions.

  
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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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  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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  Dictionary

  Dictionary and thesaurus system application based on The New Oxford American Dictionary. Comes with OS X.

  
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  Disk Utility

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

  
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  DVD2One

  With DVD2one you can make a movie-only or full disk copy of your DVD for personal use on a single DVD-Recordable

  
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  Exces

  Find yourself needing to protect secret files? Need to hide those love letters from your past loved one? Or maybe you need to hide those invoices your little sister keeps fiddling with.

  Here's your solution!

  Exces. Simple, pretty, secure. Exces allows you to protect your precious files with the click of a button. Just pick a password, lock, and you're good to go. Exces uses the strong, uncracked AES encryption standard.

  Further information

  Exces is a tool that lets the users create password-protected vaults. The ease of use and the attractive interface are Exces' key features. Each vault is protected using the same encryption algorithm Apple uses for FileVault - AES 128. Exces features a password assistant, to help choose strong passwords. Exces now also has a shrink vault feature, which lets you easily shrink a vault to the minimum possible disk space.

  
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  Fetch

  Fetch is a Macintosh program for transferring files over networks, such as the Internet, using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).

  
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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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  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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  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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  Gimp

  Image manipulation app that has many features

  
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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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  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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  GraphicConverter

  Ever had an image that seemed impossible to open? Struggeled too many times with images without enough info for even the mighty Photoshop?

  GraphicConverter X/Classic is kinda like vlc, only for converting images. Keep it in mind, when running into trouble....

  
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  Growl

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

  
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  Handbrake

  HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. A Windows port is being worked on.

  
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  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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  iCal Events

  Face the day! Always know what's next in your schedule using iCal Events. iCal Events displays upcoming events from multiple calendars in a beautiful, resizable widget for Dashboard. You can see up to two weeks of upcoming events in the same widget without needing to open iCal.

  
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  Intaglio

  Intaglio is traditional Mac drawing with the power of Mac OS X.
  Since the early days of MacDraw, Macintosh has always had powerful and easy to use drawing software. With the introduction of Mac OS X, the graphics capabilities of the Mac expanded considerably. Intaglio carries the legacy of MacDraw into the modern Macintosh world by combining ease of use with the power of Mac OS X graphics. Intaglio retains the feel of MacDraw while harnessing the full capabilities of Quartz and CoreImage. Old timers soon feel right at home and those new to Mac drawing pick it up quickly.

  
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  iPhoto

  Don’t be daunted by all those digital photos you’ve been taking. Have fun with them. Share them by email or create amazing web pages, cards and calendars. iPhoto automatically organizes your photo library and makes editing as easy as clicking your mouse - so you can get the most out of even the biggest collection.

  
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  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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  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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  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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  Little Snitch

  Little Snitch runs in the background and hooks into the operating system kernel while you are logged in. When an application tries to establish a network connection, Little Snitch intercepts the attempt and brings up an alert panel, telling you all the connection details including the name of the application which initiated the connection. You can either allow the connection, deny it or add a permanent rule for similar future-connections.

  
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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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  MacTheRipper

  The DVD ripping tool for OS X.

  
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  Mail

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

  
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  Matlab

  Math Toolbox with many capabilities and libraries.

  
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  Max

  Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.

  
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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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  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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  PithHelmet

  PithHelmet is an extended site preferences and ad blocking plugin for Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose of the plugin is to empower you the user to view the web as you like. You can block ad images, Flash, Shockwave or horrible midi loops.

  
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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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  QuickTime Player

  QuickTime 7 makes the future of video crystal clear with new features including user-friendly controls and pristine H.264 video. Upgrade to QuickTime 7 Pro and capture your own movies, then share them with friends and family via email or .Mac.

  
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  R

  R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. The S language is often the vehicle of choice for research in statistical methodology, and R provides an Open Source route to participation in that activity.

  
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  Refresh Finder

  A small AppleScript app that refreshes your current Finder window. Handy for network shares.

  
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  Remote Desktop

  Apple Remote Desktop is the best way to manage the Mac computers on your network. Distribute software, provide real-time online help to end users, create detailed software and hardware reports, and automate routine management tasks — all without leaving your desk. Featuring Automator actions, Remote Spotlight search, and a new Dashboard widget, Apple Remote Desktop 3 makes your job easier than ever.

  
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  Safari

  Safari offers you a superior Web experience with outstanding performance. Even the most complex of pages load at breakneck speed. In fact, Safari loads pages more quickly than any other Mac Web browser. But that's not all. Safari uses the advanced interface technologies underlying Mac OS X to offer you an all-new view of the Web, one that's much easier to use.

  
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  SafariStand

  safari extension that enables site-specific modification, bookmark & history searching, tab thumbnails & LOTS more

  
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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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  Shimo

  Shimo started in 2006 as a replacement for the really obtrusive and uncomfortable graphical user interface that comes with Cisco's VPN client. Thus it was "only" an interface, but a very successful one!
  With Shimo2 comes a completely new way of using VPN connections on your beloved Mac. It supports many different types of secure connections and makes it even more comfortable to configure and use them...

  
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  SIMBL

  SIMBL (Smart InputManager Bundle Loader) allows you to build hacks for Cocoa applications and apply the code selectively based on an application's unique identifier.

  
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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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  Skype

  What we've got is a simple bit of software we want to give you. It'll let you make free calls to your friends all over the world. And we don't want any money for it. It's free.

  You could think of us as the big, free Internet telephony company. We prefer to think of ourselves as a big group hug, even a present. Yes! that's it; we're a present; but without the ribbon.

  
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  SpamSieve

  SpamSieve gives you back your inbox by bringing powerful Bayesian spam filtering to popular e-mail clients. It learns what your spam looks like, so it can block nearly all of it. It looks at your address book and learns what your good messages look like, so it won't confuse them with spam. Other spam filters get worse over time as spammers adapt to their rules; SpamSieve actually gets better over time as you train it with more messages. SpamSieve doesn't delete any messages--it only marks them in your e-mail client--so you'll never lose any mail.

  
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  SSHKeyChain

  You no longer have to cancel your ssh request because you forgot to load your keys.
  Because SSHKeychain acts as a gateway between you and the agent, it can automatically add keys when you need them. SSH will just pause for a few seconds, and you'll be on your way.

  
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  Teleport

  teleport is a simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers.
  teleport is currently a Public Preview. Please feel free to contact me for comments, suggestions, bug reports, etc.

  teleport uses Bonjour to find available hosts. For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using TCP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.

  Warning: teleport pr3.7 does NOT encrypt data transfers. Therefore, be sure to have a safe network before sending sensitive keystrokes, such as passwords, on a slave computer.

  
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  TextEdit

  Text editor, comes with Mac OS X.

  
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  Textmate

  TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike.

  
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  The Unarchiver

  The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. The Unarchiver is designed to handle many more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, and to better fit in with the design of the Finder. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems.

  
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  Toast Titanium

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

  Please note that there is no demo available.

  
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  Tunnelblick

  Tunnelblick is a simple graphical user interface for the great VPN software OpenVPN 2.0 and higher. It is written in Cocoa and comes in a ready to use distribution with all necessary binaries and drivers. Versions of OpenVPN older than 2.0 are not supported, because they lack the management interface used by Tunnelblick. Please send feedback and suggestions to info@tunnelblick.net.

  
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  UnRarX

  UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.

  
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  Visor

  Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake. Visor requires elements of Quartz only found in 10.4. Visor is compatible with 10.4 and higher only.

  
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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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  VMware Fusion

  VMware Fusion is the most seamless way to run Window on your Intel-based Mac. VMware Fusion allows you to run more than 60 ×86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Mac OS X, without rebooting.

  VMware Fusion is built on VMware's rock-solid and advanced desktop virtualization platform that is used by over four million users today.

  It's mature virtualization platform makes it the only virtualization product for Mac OS X that allows for SMP virtual machines (up to 2 cores assigned to a virtual machine), up to 8 GB of memory in a virtual machine, and allows you to use the full 16 GB available in a Mac Pro.

  You can see a demo on YouTube, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIApJMzGzDQ

  
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  VPNClient

  VPN application for Cisco systems

  
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  WengoPhone

  WengoPhone is a cross platform SIP VOIP phone and IM client for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. It is not native Cocoa but based on Qt 4.x and Pidgin, which Adium is based on. The price for calling is cheaper than Skype, and has especially good price to call Europe, as low as 0.008 €. Starting from 2.1.0 WengoPhone can be used as a standard SIP client, which gives users the freedom to choose their own SIP service provider.

  
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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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  X11

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

  
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  xBench

  xBench is a free program to judge the speed of your computer. It looks at CPU, graphics, disk read/write speeds, among others to give you a single score you can compare to other users.