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  URLwell

  URLwell is a simple and unobtrusive menu extra that lets you drag and drop URLs onto its icon to store temporary bookmarks. Once you've visited a bookmark, it's automatically removed from the list.

  It's great for those times when you come across a web page that looks like something you might want to take a look at, but you don't have time to do so at that given moment. It's easier and less cluttered than storing such short term bookmarks with your regular bookmarks.

  
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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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  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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  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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  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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  Bookdog

  Bookdog is the world's premier shepherd and guardian of your bookmarks for the world's premier operating system, Mac OS X. Bookdog can sort, organize, eliminate duplicates, automatically verify, migrate and synchronize bookmarks between Safari, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb and Opera.

  
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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  FileMaker Pro

  A powerful database tool for rapid application development. Works on Windows and the Mac, plays well with others and can do almost anything. Superb support available from other developers, including plug-in support and online fora.

  
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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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  Font Book

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

  
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  GarageBuy

  Mac-Like eBay search

  Finally an application that employs the Mac's user interface to help you find and purchases items on eBay.

  GarageBuy is free

  You will be able to download GarageBuy for free. All that's required is an eBay account and a Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

  Place Bids and Purchase Items directly from within GarageBuy

  When you are bidding on an auction that has reached it's final phase, GarageBuy will update the current bid including the highest bidder's name every few seconds automatically. That means you don't need to hit your browser's reload button until your thumbs bleed.

  First Mac desktop application officially certified by eBay for bidding

  GarageBuy is the first Mac desktop application officially certified by eBay for bidding and purchasing items on it's auctioning platform.

  
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  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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  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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  iDisk Utility

  iDisk Utility is an application that adds several convenient features to your iDisk:
  - Password protect your Public folder
  - Allow others to put files in your Public folder
  - View the available storage space on your iDisk
  - Quickly open your iDisk or other .Mac members’ iDisks
  - Quickly open other .Mac members’ Public folders

  
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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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  Image Capture

  Image Capture is the technology in Mac OS X that transfers images from your digital camera or scanner to your Mac for use in iPhoto or Automator. Gives a little more control than automatically filing within iPhoto, when using the iPhoto importer.

  
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  ImageWell

  Finally, an easier way to quickly edit your images and send them off to the
  web. ImageWell is clean, simple, and xtralean! CNET's Download.com
  publishers voted ImageWell one of their Top 5 Favorites. We think you'll
  like it too!

  
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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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  iSync

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

  
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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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  iWeb

  Use iWeb to create websites and blogs — complete with podcasts, photos, and movies — and get them online, fast. Just drag, drop, and design using your choice of web templates, then publish live to your .Mac account.

  
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  Keychain Access

  The Keychain stores all your information to use encrypted disk images and to log onto file servers, FTP servers and Web servers. Mac OS X automatically adds your .Mac account information to your Keychain. When you log in to Mac OS X, the system opens your Keychain. You don't have to enter your user name and passwords to access this data. You can set Mac OS X to lock your Keychain when the system sleeps or is inactive for a time. The system will ask you for your password the next time you try to access secure data. Other users on the system cannot access your Keychain or its data.

  
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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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  MacJanitor

  MacJanitor allows you to manually startup daily, weekly, and monthly cron maintanence scripts. These scripts are important when keeping MacOS X in "good shape". Usually, these scripts are set to automatically launch at times of the day when little activity occurs. However, if your Mac is turned off during these times, then the maintanence scripts don't have a chance to run.

  
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  MacStumbler

  MacStumbler is used to find open wireless networks.

  
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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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  MainMenu

  Don't have time to run all the various tools and scripts to keep your Mac running smoothly? MainMenu makes these tasks quick and easy, right from your menu bar.

  Rebuilding your Spotlight library for faster searching, repairing permissions, cleaning caches to improve application performance, and even more advanced settings — such as enabling and disabling the Dashboard — are no more than two clicks away.

  MainMenu is full of powerful maintenance tools to keep your Mac running like new, within a slick, simple interface.

  
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  MenuMeters

  MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. You can choose each of the monitors you want to show in the menubar.

  
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  Microsoft Office 2008

  Microsoft® Office v. X for Mac was the first Office productivity suite designed exclusively for Mac OS X. Each edition comes with Microsoft Word X, Microsoft Entourage® X, Microsoft Excel X, and Microsoft PowerPoint® X. Professional Edition also includes Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 for those who work in multi-platform environments.

  
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  MUMenu

  MUMenu is a Menubar Item application that will check periodically for daily Mac OS X software updates at MacUpdate.

  
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  Network Utility

  This is a handy little utility provided with Mac OS X. It will allow you to:
  Check for open TCP ports
  Check the status of/investigate your network connection
  Look up user/domain information
  Test whether you can contact another computer
  Test your DNS server
  Trace the paths of your network traffic
  View AppleTalk routing tables and statistics
  View network routing tables and statistics

  It does this using one of Info, Netstat, AppleTalk, Ping, Lookup, Traceroute, Whois, Finger and/or PortScan.

  If you're looking for the app that provides a variety of computer network information, this is it and it's already included with OS X.

  
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  Preferential Treatment

  Preferential Treatment will check your preference files (both in your user's preference folder and the system's preference folder) for corruption by using the "plutil" command line tool. If it finds suspect files, it will list the files and allow you to reveal them in the Finder or move them to the trash.

  
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  Preview

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

  
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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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  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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  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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  Snapz Pro X

  Amazing and mature motion-screen capture tool with brilliant features.

  
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  Spaces

  You do a lot on your Mac. So how do you keep order when projects pile up? Easy. Use Spaces to group your application windows and banish clutter completely. Leopard gives you a space for everything and makes it easy to switch between your spaces.

  
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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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  Speed Download

  Developed exclusively for Mac OS X Tiger and later, Speed Download 4 marks the next generation of powerful and reliable, time-saving download managers. Faster and more secure, more features, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Speed Download release sets a new standard for download manager innovation, and is designed to be your central, unified hub for almost all the downloading and file transfer activities you do online.

  Some of the new features include the following:
  - a gorgeous new interface, thanks to the great job done by IconDrawer.
  - a re-engineered 'universal' download engine optimized for maximum performance,
  - a powerful database to manage all your downloads, uploads, and file transfers,
  - a FTP client (with SSL) that satisfies the basic FTP needs of most users,
  - a secure, high performance P2P file sharing utility (with encryption),
  - a high performance utility for downloading web content for offline viewing,
  - .Mac iDisk integration,
  - auto-resuming file transfers all the time,
  - unlimited UNDOs throughout the entire application,
  - smart folder technology,
  - and much more!

  
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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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  TextEdit

  Text editor, comes with Mac OS X.

  
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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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  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.