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  DEVONthink Pro

  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.

  Contrast with DEVONthink Personal edition at http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/comparison.html

  
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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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  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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  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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  Acrobat Pro

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

  
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  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 InDesign

  A new standard in professional layout and design

  Join the growing ranks of creative professionals discovering new levels of creative freedom and productivity using Adobe® InDesign® CS2 software. Tightly integrated with the Adobe applications you use most, InDesign CS2 delivers faster production workflows and a more fluid creative environment for designing professional layouts with sophisticated graphics and typography.

  
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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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  Anacron for MacOS 10.4

  Anacron runs the periodic daily, weekly and monthly tasks on your Mac even if the machine (a laptop, for example) spends much of its time asleep or switched-off. Anacron silently checks when you reboot and every sixty minutes while the computer is running to see if the various periodic scripts are overdue, and runs them if necessary. The advantage of Anacron over many other solutions to this issue is that it runs as a proper Unix background process, requires no user intervention, and uses the regular periodic scripts, including local additions or modifications.

  
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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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  beaTunes

  Build better iTunes and iPod playlists using beaTunes. By analyzing the songs in your existing library beaTunes is capable of finding songs that simply match.

  
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  Bookends

  Bookends is the reference manager that Mac users have been waiting for: Unicode-savvy, powerful group-based navigation, built-in HTTP server, Internet library searches, automated PubMed searches, and much more.

  
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  Cinema 4D

  MAXON Computer is the developer of Cinema 4d - 3D modeling, painting, animation and rendering solutions.

  
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  Colloquy

  Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.

  
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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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  Dashtrology

  this widget provides You with a plethora of different peeks into Your future... I felt the messages, in spite of the fact that I forget horoscopes the minute I read them, were well- written...

  
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  Deja Vu

  Simple backup preference pane that can do daily, weekly and monthly scheduled backups.

  
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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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  ecto

  ecto is a cross-platform blogging client, supporting a wide range of weblog systems, such as Blogger, Blojsom, Drupal, MovableType, Nucleus, TypePad, WordPress, and more.

  
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  Endo

  Advanced, streamlined yet feature rich aggregator. Fantastic.

  
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  Flip4Mac WMV

  Play wma content on your mac. Works as a Quicktime plugin.

  
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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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  Hardware Growler

  This is a little app hidden in the extras folder of the growl disk image. It notifies you of any hardware events, like when you plug in your mouse. On top of that it also notifies you of wireless network connections and when you acquire an IP, very usefull when on the road, using open wifi networks and wanting to know when you are connected.

  To download, download the GROWL package and look into the Extras folder.

  
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  iCal

  iCal allows you to choose between viewing your schedule by day, week or month. And it's easy to find things on your calendar using iCal's powerful search feature.
  iCal helps you organize your schedule by letting you create as many separate calendars as you need.
  At the click of a mouse, you can easily subscribe to any number of public calendars available on the Internet.

  
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  iEatBrainz

  iEatBrainz is a MusicBrainz client for MacOS X. MusicBrianz is a song/album/artist catalog, that unlike CDDB and friends computes an audio-bound hash for each track, and matches that to the database.

  This is very useful for retagging MP3s.

  
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  iGetter

  iGetter is a full featured download manager and accelerator. It's a nice replacement for your browser's download manager. iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented (accelerated) downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, site explorer, history list, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods, auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up and shut down on completion, and much more.

  
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  iGTD

  Looking for a powerful GTD Mac organizer? Here it is!

  What is it for?

  You are a busy man, aren't you? And there's an easy way to track all things that have to be done... and to get those things done!

  Organize your life by contexts.

  Just divide your tasks by contexts - where they have to be done? At home? At your office? At laptop? At any time you can access the Internet?

  Organize your life by projects.

  Some of your tasks are related to your life projects. If you're a student, divide your school tasks by subjects. If you're a developer, organize your tasks and ideas by your software projects. You can also treat projects as categories for your tasks.

  You won't forget it if you drag it.

  You can drag all your browser links or Finder files to iGTD window. New task will be added immediately - with an adequate link. Just click 'open' - and there you go!

  
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  Inkscape

  Great Open Source SVG editor!

  
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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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  iPhoto

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

  
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  iScrobbler

  iScrobbler is an iTunes plugin that monitors the songs played on iTunes and creates reports about different users' tastes and how often a certain song or artist is played.

  
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  iSync

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

  
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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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  Last.fm

  Last.fm player streams music from Last.fm, based on your music profile.

  The source code is available under a GPL license.

  
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  Macromedia Freehand MX

  Use FreeHand MX for creative design, storyboarding, multipage document production, and editing with an unparalleled set of creative design tools. Easily repurpose your designs for print, the Internet, or Macromedia Flash.

  
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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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  Miro

  Miro is a free application that turns your computer into an internet TV video player.

  The Mac version of Miro uses Quicktime 7, which is built into the operating system, to play video. In addition, it uses plugins for Quicktime to play even more video types. The Mac version can play MPEG, MP4, MOV, H264, Flash, Xvid, AVI, OGG, and more.

  Previously known as Democracy.

  
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  Missing Sync for Palm OS

  Your cool Palm OS device needs the best sync software to truly unlock its potential. That software is The Missing Sync for Palm OS. Designed from the ground up to support the latest Palm OS devices and Apple technologies, The Missing Sync for Palm OS provides everything you need to be more productive and keep on top of your day. Read on to see what you're missing without it.

  
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  Nisus Writer Express

  Nisus Writer Express is an affordable, feature-complete word processor.

  
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  OmniGraffle

  More than just a silly name, OmniGraffle is a powerful, yet easy to use diagramming and drawing tool. OmniGraffle can help you make amazing graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they're moved, providing stencils full of common symbols for you to drag and drop, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Create flow charts, org charts, network diagrams, family trees, project processes, office layouts - or anything else that can be represented by symbols and lines.

  
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  OmniOutliner Pro

  OmniOutliner Professional is the deluxe version of OmniOutliner, a flexible program for creating, collecting, and organizing information.

  
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  Paparazzi!

  Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages.

  
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  Pen Tablet

  This is the latest (and actually not horrible for once) driver application for Wacom's pen tablets.

  
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  Perian

  Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.

  With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:
  Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
  MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
  These formats when they are inside an AVI:
  h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.

  
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  Plazer

  Plazer lets you get the most out of Plazes, a location based service which is still in beta. The Plazer looks for the hardware ID of your local network (MAC ID) and checks whether it is already in the database with an address, so we can plaze you at that location. That is all it does. The Plazer is NOT Spyware or Malware. Sending your router's MAC ID to Plazes does not make your network or your Mac vulnerable to any attacks. Still your MAC ID is not accessable to anyone and is only used for identifying your network.

  Plazes lets you discover nearby locations or people based on where you are and recommends things you should check out or people you should meet based on your past whereabouts.

  
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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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  ScrobblePod

  ScrobblePod is a Last.fm music scrobbler, able to scrobble tracks played in iTunes or on your iPod.

  ScrobblePod scrobbles all tracks (played in iTunes or on your iPod) to Last.fm at the same time. This means that no tracks are 'rejected' by Last.fm.

  
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  Sing that iTune

  This useful widget searches for the current track playing on iTunes on many popular lyrics sites and displays the appropriate lyrics right in the dashboard. Very customizable.

  
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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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  SlimServer

  SlimServer can stream your music collection over the Internet to a software player such as Winamp or iTunes. Now you can easily listen at work to your music collection stored at home without moving files.

  
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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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  Terminal

  Mac OS X's Terminal application.

  
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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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  The Missing Sync for Palm OS

  Your cool Palm OS device needs the best sync software to truly unlock its potential. That software is The Missing Sync for Palm OS. Designed from the ground up to support the latest Palm OS devices and Apple technologies, The Missing Sync for Palm OS provides everything you need to be more productive and keep on top of your day.

  
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  TimeLog

  TimeLog integrates tightly with Address Book, iCal™ and Sync Services and offers an intuitive interface that makes tracking time as easy as listening to music in iTunes™.

  The global timer menu is accessible from within any application and allows to switch to another project with just one click.

  Recordings are stored in iCal calendars which allows sharing of time sheets over network services such as dotmac, CalDAV and others.

  Available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Polish

  Also check out GrandTotal the invoicing app for TimeLog.

  
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  Tofu

  Tofu is a little application to make reading text easier. It reformats text into narrow columns, like in newpapers, so your eye can follow the lines easier. You can jump to any point in your text by simply typing some letters near it (without choosing any command first). There's a system-wide Service so you can, for example, grab some text from a web page. And it lets you use your voice to navigate text, so you can literally sit back and read.

  
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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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  UnicodeChecker

  UnicodeChecker displays information for every code point from the Unicode Standard 5. For a given number, UnicodeChecker will display that character along with its UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings, XHTML entity, Unicode Name, mapping information and much more.

  There are also several text conversion functions available to all applications from the ‘Services’ menu or via AppleScript. So you can convert text to and from XHTML/HTML character entities or have UnicodeChecker escape Unicode characters for use in CSS or other languages.

  
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  VirtueDesktops

  “VirtueDesktops” is a virtual desktop manager for Apple’s Mac OS. It offers features, eye candy and configurable options that no other desktop manager on the mac has added yet. Sadly, VirtueDesktops is no longer under active development. It is based upon the work done by Rich Wareham on DesktopManager (specifically the CGSPrivate headers), which is an alternate open-source virtual desktop application.

  
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  WebKit

  WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60's S60 WebKit development.

  
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  Widget Update

  Widget Update will scan your Mac for any Widgets you have installed and look for new versions at Apple.com, DashboardWidgets.com, MacUpdate and VersionTracker. You will be presented with a tidy list containing links to the new versions' detail pages. The Widget comes with plenty of features such as Growl support, the ability to ignore updates, mark them as installed, ignore Widgets at all, override version information, being collapsed into a small icon to preserve space and much more.

  
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  World of Warcraft

  Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game based in the fantasy-themed Warcraft universe. Currently dominates MMO market. Monthly subscription fee.

  
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  Xyle scope

  For everybody interested in CSS and standards based web design. Can be used to discover, analyze, fine-tune, and debug CSS layouts. Good for the beginner as well (beginners should take a little time, since the richness of info the app provides can be overwhelming at first).