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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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  3-2-1

  3-2-1 is a simple yet functional countdown timer for Dashboard. It displays hours, minutes & seconds, and includes a lap function and a supersize. The preferences enable custom labels, alarm sounds, and notifications for each countdown.

  
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  Activity Monitor

  Activity Monitor is a GUI application included with Mac OS X. It provides graphical representations of your computer's CPU, system memory, disk activity, disk usage, and network processes. This little utility is easy to overlook, but it can help you manage your memory and processing power when running lots of applications. If you prefer to work in the text-only Terminal application instead, you can view much of this information by using the top command.

  
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  Address Book

  Address Book provides a flexible and convenient way to store your contact information online. Because Address Book is integrated with Mail, iChat, and other applications, you have to enter information only once to have your contacts available from all these applications.

  
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  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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  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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  Afloat

  Afloat is a Cocoa plug-in that adds "Keep Floating" (always-on-top) and "Make Transparent" commands for all windows in all Cocoa 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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  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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  Audio Hijack Pro

  With Audio Hijack Pro, you can create enhanced podcasts, with audio from many sources, record streaming radio, record audio chats, save audio from records (LPs), cassette tapes, and other analog sources.

  
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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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  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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  Baseball

  Keep an eye on your favorite baseball team (MLB or minor league down to Class A) - all the information you need in one single and small widget. Show the current scoreboard, full results from previous days, the schedule for the upcoming week (game times are displayed in your local time), or current division and wildcard standings. For ongoing or past games, show the score overview and current game situation while having a convenient link to the full box score only a click away. The widget is optimized to retrieve the smallest amount of data required and thus is much faster than refreshing the same data in your browser (which typically uses about 20 to 40 times as much data to display).

  
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  BBEdit

  It doesn't suck.

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

  
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  Bean

  Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that features:

  • a live word count
  • a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
  • a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
  • an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
  • date-stamped backups
  • autosaving
  • a page layout mode
  • an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
  • an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
  • selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
  • a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
  • easy to use menus
  • remembers cursor position (excluding .text, .html, and .webarchive formats)
  • all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)

  
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  Bookit

  With all the browsers available for the Mac OS keeping your bookmarks organized can become a real problem. But with Bookit keeping your browsers' bookmarks synchronized is quick and easy. Bookit compares the bookmarks you have and then lets you synchronize the bookmarks that are not in all of your browsers. Finally, Bookit creates identical bookmark files for each browser. If you use more than one browser regularly, give Bookit a try, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

  
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  Calculator

  Calculator, comes with OS X.

  
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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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  Camouflage

  Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper

  
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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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  Chopper

  Chopper is an Action packed side-scrolling helicopter game. Complete your mission, and return to base, while avoiding enemy fire from tanks, bazooka wielding mad men, and jets. It was an entry in the uDevGame 2003 game development competition.

  
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  CleanApp

  According to a poll at MacTechNews.de-Forum, users install 2 to 3 applications a week, to give it a trial. That means about 2 to 10 megabytes of useless data every week remaining without CleanApp. Now CleanApp helps you to keep track of these files, so your system doesn't clutter anymore.

  
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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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  cups-pdf

  CUPS-PDF is a backend module for CUPS (Mac OS X’s printing system) by Volker C. Behr that, rather than printing to a device, prints straight to PDF files.

  Why use this rather than a simple “Save as PDF” in the print dialog?

  • Pressing return is faster.
  • Batch-print through the writer to convert documents to PDF.
  • Common save location for all generated PDFs.

  
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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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  DEVONthink

  DEVONthink is the solution for the digital age, the one database for all your documents. And it's flexible. It adapts to your personal needs. Use it as your document repository, your filing cabinet, your e-mail archive or your project organizer. Collect and organize data from the web for a publication, enrich it with sound and movie files, and export everything as a web site, drag it to an Apple Pages document for publishing in print, or copy it to your iPod.

  
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  DiskWarrior

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

  
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  DotMac

  Access .Mac applications or .Mac webpages from one little widget. The top arrow of the widget accesses .Mac apps on your hard drive including iSync, Backup, iDisk utility. The bottom part or arrow on the widget opens up .Mac webpages including Address Book, bookmarks, groups, iCards, mail.

  Also, a link to join .Mac or get iLife to enhance your .Mac experience. If you don’t have .Mac, then this widget is your first step!

  
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  DoubleCommand

  DoubleCommand is software for Mac OS X (a kernel extension) that lets you remap keys, in other words change the way your keyboard works. Often used to make a PC keyboard more comfortable with a Mac, swapping the Alt (Option) and Windows (Command or Apple) keys, since they are in swapped positions on Mac and PC keyboards. DoubleCommand is a quick and easy way to fix this if you use a PC keyboard with your Mac. Called DoubleCommand because originally it was used to give the old PowerBooks a second Command key, where there was an enter key.

  
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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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  Edgies

  Edgies is an alternative application for Stickies. Just like Classic Mac's Popup Window, tab style memo windows stick to the edges of the screen.

  
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  Excalibur

  Excalibur is a Macintosh spelling checker. It will spell check documents created by any text editor such as BBEdit, Alpha, Emacs or MPW. It will also spell check the clipboard, making it a useful spelling checker for mail programs such as Eudora and news readers such as NewsWatcher. It will also work with any word processing program that supports Word Services such as AppleWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) or WordPerfect. Excalibur is also a very good LaTeX spelling checker.

  
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  FastIcns

  With an innovative and easy–to–use interface, you can create your icons for Mac in only two steps.

  How does FastIcns works?

  Pick your favourite file, folder or image and drag it over the cube; check the preview and then double-click the cube to save as an icns file or as a resource–fork–only file.

  
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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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  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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  Flock

  Flock is a free web browser that makes it easier than ever to share photos, stay up-to-date with news from your favorite sites, and search the Web.

  
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  FolderGlance

  FolderGlance is a small Contextual Menu Plugin for the Finder. When it is installed, it allows you to control-click or right-click on folders to see and open their contents, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels. It also allows numerous features such as previewing and trashing items, all from the contextual menu.

  
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  Gif Fun

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

  
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  Google Earth

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

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

  
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  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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  iCab

  iCab is an alternative web browser. It supports HTML 4, image filtering, cookie filtering, bookmarks, java and javascript support, search modes, importing of web archives from Explorer, download manager, and more.

  Features include:

  • Advertising banner filtering
  • Kiosk mode
  • Error protocol (Smiley)
  • Portable web archives
  • Download Manager
  • Link Manager
  • Souce code manager

  
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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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  iChat

  Apple's chat client supporting AOL Instant Messenger and Jabber Instant Messenger clients.

  
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  iFreeMem

  iFreeMem... Free system memory for better application performance. A quick and easy alternative to either a reboot or RAM upgrade to get defragmented free memory.

  If you are in the middle of using an application and the system becomes unresponsive for several seconds it could be the memory manager organising free memory for your application to use. IFreeMem clears Inactive memory to help your applications avoid the performance hit you get when running low on Free memory. You could think of it like a RAM upgrade.

  Especially useful for users of memory hungry applications, i.e.:

  • Musicians
  • DJ's
  • Graphic Designers
  • Final Cut Pro users
  • Photographers
  • Scientists
  • Parallels Desktop users

  Rejuvenates old Machines and optimizes new machines.

  
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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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  img2icns (from Shiny Frog)

  Img2icns can convert images or icons to file/folder icons with a simple drag 'n' drop!

  
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  iPartition

  iPartition is a disk partitioning utility for Mac OS X with the ability to resize Mac OS extended (HFS+) partitions while keeping their contents intact. Additionally, iPartition's intuitive, easy-to-use interface and built-in intelligence that saves you from having to reorganise your disk by hand to make contiguous space makes iPartition perhaps the easiest partitioning tool ever released.

  
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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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  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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  KeyCue

  KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively. Just hold down the Command key for a while - KeyCue comes to help and shows a table of all currently available menu shortcuts. When you have found the desired shortcut in the KeyCue table, just type it and continue working as usual. The KeyCue window will disappear automatically.

  You no longer need to memorize and remember key combinations, just press the command key and KeyCue tells you what you want to know.

  Over time, you will automatically remember frequently used shortcuts and become a power user of your favorite applications, working much more efficiently.

  
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  Live Interior 3d

  Live Interior 3D will let you create the interior you always dreamed of. 3D visualization will make you feel as in a redesigned home or office and encourage for various improvements. The program can also assist in understanding whether a new sofa or other furniture will fit the interior.

  The program comes with 50+ editable templates that will inspire you to improve the home you are living in. You can conveniently create multi room designs with different interiors for each room.

  The program allows you to move, add and edit furniture in both 2D and 3D views.

  
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  LiveQuartz

  LiveQuartz is a powerful free image editor. It is based on layers and CoreImage filters.
  You have the layers on the left and the filters on the right of the window. (An alternate user interface with settings in a drawer is also available via preferences)
  To edit an image, just drag it into the window (or layers' list at the desired position) and it will be added as a new layer.
  LiveQuartz is localized in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Italian, Danish and Persian. It is Universal Binary since its first releases.

  
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  Macaroni

  Why should you have to remember to clean up your Mac every day, every week, and every month? Shouldn't a computer be able to remember for you?

  Macaroni is a tool which handles regular maintenance for Mac OS X, including the Mac OS X repair privileges process as well as Unix-style maintenance. Without Macaroni, some of these tasks normally run in the middle of the night, and don't get run unless you leave your Mac on all night. Others don't run automatically at all, and won't happen unless you remember when they're due.

  Macaroni remembers the schedule for you!

  
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  MacJournal

  MacJournal is the world's most popular journaling software for the Macintosh. Create a personal journal with two level security (password protection and encryption), record daily ideas, manage to do's and export them to multiple file formats, generate blogs to any of the popular blogging services or .mac account. Even record audio and podcast! MacJournal has the power and functionality to do it all.

  
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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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  Microsoft IntelliType

  You can use IntelliType Pro and IntelliPoint software to customize the features of the Microsoft® mouse and keyboard. By using the software, you can reassign mouse buttons and keyboard keys to open a program, file, or Web page. You can also use the software to control the wheel settings, and assign commands and application-specific functions to the mouse buttons and keyboard keys.

  
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  Mouseposé

  An essential tool for everyone doing presentations or demos. If turned on, it dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention to an area of interest.

  Of course, there are other uses as well. If you have a large screen, it helps you quickly locate the mouse pointer when you return to your work after an interruption. Visually impaired people tell us that it helps them as well.

  Hitting a user definable hot key turns on the Mouseposé effect, dimming the screen and putting the mouse pointer into a spotlight that makes it easy to locate. The desktop behind it remains functional, so that apps can be used while Mouseposé 2 is turned on. With Keynote 3, Apple even added a setting that allows you to use Mouseposé 2 with the popular presentation software.

  
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  NetNewsWire

  NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS and Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface similar to Apple Mail can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.

  
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  Neverball

  Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.

  Also included is Neverputt, a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game using the physics and graphics of Neverball.

  
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  OmniPlan

  How to get your project done on time and under budget:

  With OmniPlan, you can create logical, manageable project plans with Gantt charts, schedules, summaries, milestones, and critical paths. Break down the tasks needed to make your project a success, optimize resources, and streamline budgets. It's project management made painless.

  
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  OmniWeb

  OmniWeb is a browser for Mac OS X with a unique way of viewing tabs, specific site preferences, and a whole lotta other stuff.

  
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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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  OnyX

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

  
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  OpenOffice

  OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.

  
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  Opera

  Opera makes it quick and simple to find the information you want. With features like tabs, popup blocking, an integrated search field, and the ability to remember the sites your visited in a previous session, you control your browsing experience. Opera blocks viruses, spyware, and phishing web sites, too. All while being shockingly fast!

  
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  Pac the Man X

  Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man are back.

  
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  Pacifist

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

  
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  PDFKey Pro

  Have you ever accidentally lost a password to your protected PDF documents? Did you spend the rest of your day re-creating the PDF as a result? Have you ever had to process password-protected PDFs in bulk?

  PDFKey Pro lets you easily recover from lost copying and printing PDF passwords. PDFKey Pro makes an unlocked copy of your PDF, without requiring you to enter a copying or printing password.

  
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  PhotoStickies

  From website : "PhotoStickies puts all your favorite pictures on your desktop, as stickies, floating or even borderless. Sticky pictures may reside on your computer, or on the Internet."

  
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  Pic2Icon

  Create 128×128 icons from your pictures. Pic2Icon is a program that creates beautiful 128×128 Mac OS X icons for your pictures. Simply drop pictures or folders full of pictures onto the application and it will start creating icons. These icons will be applied to the pictures, so you can browse through them in the finder and you will be able to identify them without having to open them!

  Note: Sugarcube Software no longer exists. Please download from softpedia.

  
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  Pixelmator

  Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.

  
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  PopChar X

  PopChar is a utility application that lets you insert special characters, accented and foreign letters, etc., from all installed fonts into your documents. You never need to search for and remember keystrokes any longer. Just pop up the PopChar window, click the desired character, and the character appears in your current document.

  If a font contains Unicode characters, you can see all of them, neatly arranged in the standard Unicode categories.

  Features:
  Simple to use: click and select,
  Inserts accented characters, foreign letters and any other character from all installed fonts,
  Automatic Font Detection,
  Full Unicode support,
  Character Search Function,
  Various Insertion Options,
  Insertion of HTML symbols,
  Recent Characters view,
  Displays the keystrokes needed to create selected characters,
  automatically starts at login.

  
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  Preview

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

  
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  PTHPasteboard

  PTHPasteboard is a pasteboard buffer application. It keeps track of the last 100 (changeable in preferences) items that you copied/cut and allows you to paste them at any time.

  Check out the latest Screencasts

  
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  PTHVolume

  PTHVolume 2 is an utility for Mac OS X 10.5 and later that is used to control the volume of your Mac OS X machine. For most people the included Mac OS X widget is sufficient for controlling volume. There are however two situations in which PTHVolume 2 is a much more useful alternative.
  
  Multiple Output Device Control. The Mac OS X 10.5 volume widget works for changing the volume if you only have a single audio device connected to your computer. But what happens when you have multiple audio devices? This is where PTHVolume 2 excels, you can individually control the volume of multiple devices without opening up System Preferences.
  
  Volume Control with Non Apple Keyboards. Your type of keyboard is a very personal choice, if you like the keyboards Apple provides then you can just use the standard volume keys. But what happens if you like the IBM Model M style of keyboards, without custom volume keys. Well PTHVolume 2 comes to your rescue, you can set keyboard shortcuts for any and all volume devices.
  

  
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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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  Quinn

  Quinn is an arcade-style tetromino puzzle game written and designed specifically for Mac OS X. It features a clean, elegant user interface, beautiful graphics, and smooth, subtle animations for fluid gameplay. Instead of reinventing the game with yet another variation of the rules, the goal of Quinn is to combine the simplicity of the original idea with the genuine Mac experience for perfect user enjoyment. There’s everything you might expect—including a two-player mode, network play with Bonjour support, an online server list and highscore database, and five different multiplayer rules.

  
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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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  Saft

  Saft is a Safari plugin to add features like draggable tabs, full-screen browsing, searchable bookmarks and history, URL shortcuts, kiosk mode and more.

  
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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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  SeaMonkey

  SeaMonkey is a free, open source, and cross-platform Internet suite that is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite.

  "The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as 'Mozilla Application Suite.' Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have "everything but the kitchen sink" - and have it stable enough for corporate use."

  
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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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  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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  SketchUp

  SketchUp is a deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. SketchUp was developed to combine the elegance and spontaneity of pencil sketching with the speed and flexibility of today's digital media.

  Developed for the conceptual stages of design, this powerful yet easy-to-learn software allows for quick and easy 3D form creation, the result is an interface that supports a dynamic, creative exploration of 3D form, material and light.

  
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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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  Smart Scroll

  Smart Scroll (formerly Smart Scroll X) offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling:

  • Super Scroll makes your scroll wheel or trackpad smoother, faster and more comfortable. And it lets you reverse scrolling on the Mac to match your iPhone. Try it!
  • Grab Scroll gives you a Hand tool to easily move (and "throw"!) any window's contents.

  Other features include Universal Scroll Keys that let you scroll from the keyboard, FileMaker Pro and AppleWorks enhancements, and more.

  
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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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  SoundSoap

  No demo available. Only demo video

  SoundSoap scrubs audio squeaky clean — dramatically reducing tape hiss, clicks and crackles, buzzing and hum, rumble, and most other types of unwanted noise.

  
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  SoundSource

  SoundSource is a tiny tool for OS X enabling you to switch your audio input and output sources with a single click. And with the System setting, you can transfer system beeps to a secondary audio source so you won't be disturbed.

  
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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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  Stickies

  The Mac OS Classic notes for the OS X desktop.

  
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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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  StuffIt Expander

  Stuffit Expander is a compression and decompression tool with support for a lot of formats.

  
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  Synergy

  Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause; as well as providing you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune. Synergy can even automatically download and display the cover of the currently playing album. The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes, or access its Dock menu.

  Synergy won't take up precious space in your Dock as it appears only in the menubar. It provides you with ultimate control over iTunes even while you're working in other applications. The Synergy global menu provides you with quick access to recently played tracks and playlists, and the floater displays album covers and provides information whenever a new track starts playing.

  
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  Temperature Monitor

  Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize measured values in a large variety of fashions.

  
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  Terminal

  Mac OS X's Terminal application.

  
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  TextEdit

  Text editor, comes with Mac OS X.

  
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  Think

  Think allows one single application to be run, full screen at any one time. The idea is for the program to hide all other applications, menu bar, and dock, to aid concentration allowing you to focus on what you are doing and remove all other distractions.

  
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  ThumbsUp

  ThumbsUp is a simple, drag-and-drop based utility to create thumbnails for a bunch of pictures and supports all image formats of Mac OS X and QuickTime (including PDF documents).

  
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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]

  
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  Transmit

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

  
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  VectorDesigner

  VectorDesigner is a vector drawing application designed to be simple, intuitive and powerful to use.

  It has everything you need to create fancy vector graphics such as posters, brochures, stickers, logos, web graphics, t-shirt and more.

  Tech Specs

  • Smart shapes.
  • Bezier Creation and Editing.
  • Text inside shape.
  • Text along path.
  • Layers.
  • Conversion Raster To Vector.
  • Image filters powered by Core Image and Quartz Composer.
  • Image adjustment panel.
  • Boolean Operations.
  • iSight integration.
  • Scanner integration.
  • Flickr browser.
  • iLife photo browser.
  • QuickLook support.
  • Cocoa Application.

  
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  Videobox

  Videobox allows you to quickly and easily download Flash video from most all of the popular video sites on the internet. Videobox will convert the video into a native Quicktime format so it's ready to view on your Mac, iPod, iPhone or iTunes. (formerly known as FLVR)

  
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  VLC

  VLC media player 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.

  It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

  
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  VueScan

  VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is easy to use, and has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers.

  Why should you use VueScan?

  • Easy to use - just run VueScan, press Preview, adjust the cropping, then press Scan
  • Accurate colors - uses ICC profiles and IT8 calibration
  • Powerful - dozens of advanced options
  • Faster workflow - can edit one image while the next image is being scanned (most scanner software won't let you work with one image while another is being scanned)
  • Simple to install - installing VueScan changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function.
  • Award winning - 2002 "Best Utility", Mac Addict Magazine

  The list of supported scanners is available here.

  The list of supported digital camera RAW files is available here.

  
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  WireTap Studio

  Using WireTap Studio, you can record the discrete audio output of any application, as well as all system audio, or record audio input from any microphone, line-in, or audio input hardware.

  If you can hear it, WireTap Studio can record it.

  Once you have recorded your audio, you can easily organize your recordings in the convenient Recording Library, and edit them with WireTap Studio's integrated lossless audio editor.

  WireTap Studio also boasts full Audio Unit effects support, for adding professional quality effects to your audio.

  
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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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  Zooom/2

  Zooom provides users the ability to work with any application window using shortcuts for moving, resizing and zooming - which increases your productivity because it's much easier to focus on what you really want to be doing!

  Instead of having to exactly pick out the grow-area (bottom right) of a window for example, you can resize any window by clicking anywhere inside it*.