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1Password

1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and Convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in one secure place provided by Apple's OS X Keychain.
1Password browser extensions support Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, DEVONagent, NetNewsWire, Netscape Navigator, and Flock. All browser extensions share the data stored in the keychain which means you never need to manually copy your passwords between browsers or from the password manager to a browser ever again!
1Password has received numerous awards, including 4.5 mice from Macworld magazine, MacLife Editors pick, and was the Pick of Week on MacBreak Weekly by both Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann.
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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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Butler

Butler's purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks. Butler lets you arrange these tasks in its fully customizable configuration. You can use it to launch or control various apps with universal triggers and/or keyboard shortcuts.
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Caffeine

Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
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Cha-Ching

Cha-Ching is a fun and easy to use money manager, with a slick interface that uses advanced functionality built into OS X.
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CoverSutra

CoverSutra gives music lovers a handy and attractive way to control iTunes without having to leave the currently active application. CoverSutra features a powerful music search feature along with global keyboard shortcuts and informative bezels that provide users with song and album details in an unobtrusive way. In addition, CoverSutra has integrated support for Last.fm, the popular social music recommendation service.
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Evernote

Remember everything.
Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at anytime, from anywhere.
What’s the point of Evernote?
We are all constantly bombarded by information, much more than our brains can handle. So, we end up forgetting all sorts of things.
With Evernote, you can start capturing all of those experiences, ideas, and memories, from both your real and digital life that would otherwise slip away.
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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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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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Inquisitor

Inquisitor lets you search the web effortlessly. Search results stream in as you type, letting you easily and instantly refine your search. You might even find the answer before you think you've asked the question.
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Isolator

Isolator is a small menu bar application that helps you concentrate. When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.
Isolator is similar to, but not the same as Think and Backdrop. The difference is that it works exactly how I want it to. Maybe you'll like it too.
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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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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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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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Minutes

Minutes is a countdown timer application featuring polished graphics and advanced interface. It works on Mac OS X Dashboard and has more functionalities.
An intuitive small application, you just dial the knob only to set the counting time. No repetitive button clicking is needed, or the editing of text-boxes.
It is very easy, simple and smart. The dial Interface keeps it's look minimal and the interactions, like fading animations and moving slider knob, help you to understand whether Minutes is counting and how long until the target time. Also the fading light gradually relaxes you - who are managing your time.
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Newsfire

Mac RSS with style. A very simple and elegant RSS Newsreader without all the bloat of other Mac RSS newsreaders.
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OmniFocus

Task management shouldn’t be your full time job. We’ve built OmniFocus to take a load off your mind by managing your tasks the way that you want, freeing you to focus your attention on the things that matter to you most. Finish that novel. Spend more time with your friends and family. Grow your business. Let us worry about keeping your goals and tasks, both personal and professional, in one ordered, easy to access system that you can depend on.
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Pages

Apple's word processing/page layout software. Easy to use and relatively inexpensive (includes the excellent "Keynote" program in the price). Might not replace Word or InDesign but is terrific for making academic posters for conferences.
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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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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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Scrivener

Scrivener is a project management tool for writers that acts like your own little writing shed at the bottom of the garden, where you have cork notice-boards, ring-binders, photos, clippings paperclipped to jottings, notebooks and reams of typewritten pages piling up - along with a secretary who keeps it all in neat piles and uses his speed-reading skills to find what you need as soon as you need it.
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Sidenote

Sidenote is an advanced note taking utility. Designed to be a central piece of your digital life. It'll hide in the edge of your screen and be available whenever you need it. It's a powerfull, full featured, yet very easy to use sticky replacement.
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Skitch

Public Beta! Create an account and use it right away:
http://skitch.com/signupEveryday we all share images, ideas and have fun with friends online - this should be easy... right!?
With an innovation packed user interface and the mySkitch webservice to instantly upload your images, Skitch cuts out all those tedious and tricky middle steps. Get your images where you want them to be, on the web with a single click or drag and drop to any application.
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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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Spirited Away

Spirited Away (who's namesake is a well-received anime) is a tiny os x app that hides inactive windows on your os x desktop.
It's a great way for a user to keep focus on their most foreground app.
I use it to fool everyone around me that I am not ADD.
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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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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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Today

Today is a powerful, easy to use event and task management application for Mac OS X Leopard. Built on top of the same data engine as Apple's iCal and Mail programs, Today let's you quickly see what events and tasks are on today's agenda with the click of a button.
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Twitterrific

Twitterrific is a fun little application that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website. The application's user interface is clean, concise and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop.
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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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Delivery Status
Can't wait for your packages to arrive? Don't waste your time checking the site constantly, just open this all-in-one delivery tracker and enter your order number or tracking number. The status will update automatically for you, and even count down the days! It also works with Growl to give you pop-up message, email notifications, and more, whenever your package status changes. If you have more than one order, just open another copy of the widget so you can keep an eye on them all at once!
Delivery Status lets you track your deliveries from:
- Adobe.com (US and Canada)
- Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.de, Amazon.at, and Amazon.fr
- Apple.com (including all international stores)
- Aramex
- Canada Post (Postes Canada)
- DHL (US and Germany)
- DPD
- FedEx and FedEx SmartPost
- GLS Germany
- Google Checkout
- Japan Post (EMS, Yu-Pack, Registered Mail, and Morning 10 Overnight Mail)
- Nintendo (US and Canada)
- Parcelforce
- Purolator
- Royal Mail
- Poste Italiane (Paccocelere1, Paccocelere3, Postacelere1, PaccocelereMaxi, and PaccocelereInternazionale), thanks to Claudio Procida of Emeraldion Lodge
- Posten (Norway)
- Posten (Sweden)
- TNT
- UPS and UPS Mail Innovations
- USPS (United States Postal Service)
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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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Pzizz
Pzizz is a program that randomly generates a track of soothing and energizing music (or sleeping music, if you have the module) that helps you work through your day.
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Adobe Photoshop
The essential software for perfecting your images, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 offers productivity and workflow enhancements, powerful new editing tools, and breakthrough compositing capabilities.
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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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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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AppZapper
Everybody loves the drag and drop nature of OS X. Drag an app into your applications folder, and it's installed. You'd think it would be that easy to delete an app - just a matter of dragging it to the trash. But it's not. Applications install preferences, caches, and other support files throughout your computer that take up space and generate clutter. Deleting these by hand every time you delete an app is a pain.
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Armagetron Advanced
"A Tron clone in 3D"
This has been the tagline of Armagetron, since, well, a very long time, and is probably the shortest and most accurate description possible. Tron was an arcade game based on the movie of the same name, release by Disney in 1982. The original game consisted of 4 sub-games, the only one of concern is the 'Light Cycles' one, in which the player uses a left/right joystick to control a 'Light Cycle' which leaves a wall behind it wherever the cycle it goes, turning only at 90 degree angles...
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Awaken
Awaken is a digital alarm clock that wakes you up by playing the iTunes playlist of your choice or choose from a selection of built in alarm sounds. Alarms can be created to alert you on a weekly basis at a set time, or at any specific date and time. You can also fall asleep to your favorite music using the newly introduced sleep timer.
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Combine PDF's
Does exactly what it says on the tin. Well no tin, but you get the idea
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Delicious Library
Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight™, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world. Once your whole library is cataloged, you can find and use your items like never before.
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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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Flip4Mac WMV
Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.
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Front Row
The full-screen Front Row media experience — with its intuitive menus, large text, and brilliant graphics — lets you browse the music, photos, and videos on your Mac mini as easily as you browse music on your iPod. The Apple Remote lets you enjoy your media from anywhere in the room, from your desk chair to favorite sofa. Front Row can even play music, photos, and videos saved on other computers in the house, thanks to Bonjour instant networking. So gather your friends and dazzle them with a slideshow of your vacation pics, a home movie, your latest playlist, or a DVD.
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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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GLtron
As the name suggests, it's inspired by the movie TRON. Or more exactly, by all the games that where inspired by the movie TRON.
You steer a futuristic bike, called lightcycle. Combat takes place in a rectangular arena. Your bike leaves a trail behind, which is like a wall. The goal is to force the other players to drive into a wall. The winner is the last player alive.
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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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iSquint
iSquint is an iPod video conversion application.
It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er.
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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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iStat Pro (Widget)
at pro is the ultimate system monitoring widget, consisting of nine sections which can be shown or hidden.
It features highly detailed information on CPUs (up to 8 cores), memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, battery, wireless keyboard and mouse battery, uptime, temperatures, and fans. You'll know exactly what's going on inside your Mac!
Not for the faint-hearted or anyone with a small screen.
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iStumbler
iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac.
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Joost Beta
Joost is a new way of watching TV on the internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping.
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Keynote
Apple's presentation program. Easy to use, generating drop-dead beautiful presentations of all sorts, from photography portfolios, kiosks, to scientific or business job interviews.
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Mail.appetizer
Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple's Mail and integrates seamlessly. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window. It gives you a brief summary of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention.
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MindNode
MindNode is a free and very easy to use mindmapping application. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple interface for quickly creating visual appealing mind maps.
Requires Mac OS X v. 10.5 or later.
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Paintbrush
Paintbrush is a Cocoa-based paint program for Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft Paint and the now-defunct MacPaint. The project's ultimate goal is to recreate the basic functionality of Microsoft Paint, which has been noticeably absent from Mac OS X for years. Paintbrush can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF.
Paintbrush is not yet full-featured, but is very stable and is being actively developed.
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QuickShareIt
Send Files to Anyone (It doesn't matter if they use QuickShareIt or not, PC, Mac or Linux, if they can browse websites, they can download your file.) Easily Upload Any Type of File. Unlimited Bandwidth (Serve it to the world!). Drag & Drop 1 File or 100 Files (Multiple files or folders automatically get zipped before they're uploaded).
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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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Quit Anything
Quit Anything is simple application that can be used to quit processes. It lets you quit multiple processes all at once without having to switch to each one, and also lets you quit background processes (a.k.a., 'Faceless Background Apps' or 'Daemons').
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Secrets
Secrets is free system preference pane for Leopard only, that allows you to change / customize hidden settings for your system and most applications.
The website features a comprehensive list of user defaults that you can download.
NOTE: Secrets is BETA and many of the options can harm your system if used improperly.
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Service Scrubber
Wouldn't the services menu be much more useful if it weren't overcrowded by services you never even thought of using? With Service Scrubber, you can:
- restructure the services menu
- change service keyboard shortcuts
- disable services
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smcFanControl
FanControl lets the user adjust the minimum speed of the built in fans. So you can increase the minimum speed to make your Intel Mac run cooler, as well as monitor temperature and fan speed.
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StuffIt Expander
Stuffit Expander is a compression and decompression tool with support for a lot of formats.
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TaskPaper
For Mac users who want a simpler way to create lists. TaskPaper is a simple to-do list application that helps you stay organized. Unlike competing applications, TaskPaper is based on plain text files which offer you paper-like simplicity and ease of use.
TaskPaper makes it easy to create a list of your projects and their tasks so that you always know what needs to be done. It's simple to reorganize the list, create new items, mark items as done, and delete items that your finished with. You can also assign contexts (such as "home", "office", or "car") to your tasks so that you can later generate lists of all tasks assigned to a specific context.
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Tilt Mania
Tilt Mania is a little arcade game which uses the sudden motion sensor (SMS) of modern apple laptops. It's similar to BubbleGym in that it uses the computer itself as an input device, however it is freeware.
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Transmission
Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.
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TVShows
What is TVShows ?
TVShows is a Mac OS X application that automatically downloads your favourite shows. You don't need anymore to manually download torrent files, TVShows does it for you. Manage your subscriptions and preferences from within the TVShows application, and TVShows takes care of the rest: a background process is automatically launched at a regular interval to check for new episodes.
What is not TVShows ?
TVShows is not a Bittorrent client, it (just) automatically downloads the correct torrent file at the right time. TVShows will automatically use your preferred Bittorrent client to download the shows.
Features* Automatic process in background: no need to run the application 24/7; silent and unobstructive
* Intelligent: downloads the right episode as soon as it is available
* Quality selection: choose a quality setting (Normal, High or Very High), TVShows downloads the best available one
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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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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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Xslimmer
Xslimmer reduces the disk space taken up by Universal Binary applications preserving just the Intel or PowerPC version.
Xslimmer is a new and user-friendly way to size down your Universal Binary apps, without losing any of their functionality by removing the code inside the Universal Binaries that does not fit with your machine's architecture, a code that never gets executed and just wastes your disk space.
In addition, Xslimmer can strip out unneeded languages. Safari is available in more than a dozen languages, Adium in more than 20. This is great, but how many of those do you need? Xslimmer allows you to select how many languages you want to preserve in your apps and will remove the rest, recovering lots of precious free space from your disk.
Now fully Leopard compatible!
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