Useful OS X Apps

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Every other forum/community's "Mac" section has one of these threads... why don't we? - abz0ract

Just a list of apps that you just can't live without:

NB. 'PPC' = Compiled for PPC | 'UNI' = Universal

• Adium Multi IM client! (UNI)

• AppleJack A Troubleshooting/Repair Utility (UNI)

• Blue Phone Elite Lets you answer calls and write sms's from your mac through your bluetooth phone. Originally known as Blue Phone Menu. (PPC)

• ByteController Simple iTunes controls on the menubar (PPC)

• Camino Mozilla, Mac Style! (UNI)

• Cabos A Great Gnutella Based Program (UNI)

• CamiTools Enhanced Preference Pane for Camino 1.0 (UNI)

• CleanArchiver Uncompresses An Archive VIA Drag & Drop. Supports compressing to Sit, SitX, Zip, Gzip, Bzip2, Disk Image. (PPC)

• CodeTek Virtual Desktop Pro A more feature rich version of Desktop Manager. (PPC)

• Colloquy IRC Client. (PPC)

• CoRD (Cocoa Remote Desktop). RDP client capable of handling multiple sessions. (UNI)

• Cyberduck FTP Client. (UNI)

• Desktop Manager Virtual Desktop program, has some pretty cool transition effect to use as you switch between desktops. (PPC)

• DragonDrop Linked folders @ bottom of screen A.K.A Tabbed Windows. (PPC)

• eXpander Similar to Suffit. More Features. (PPC)

• ffmpegx Video / Audio encoder. (PPC)

• Fire Another MultiIM Client. (UNI)

• Fugu Graphical SFTP, SCP, SSH frontend. (UNI)

• Handbrake Multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. (UNI)

• Httpd Info Displays information about a web server by parsing its HTTP headers. (PPC)

• iClip a clipboard type thing where you can just drag somethign and it just temp saves it. (PPC)

• iScroll2 Enable two finger scrolling on older model pBooks / iBooks. (PPC)

• iTerm Replacement "Terminal" app, bit more customizable. (UNI)

• iStat Menus System stats and information on the menubar. (UNI)

• iStat Pro A Widget that Monitors Your Mac. (UNI)

• KisMac A Program Similar To NetStumbler (Finds Wireless Hot Spots). (UNI)

• Meteorologist Weather in your menubar. (PPC)

• MPlayer osX Media Player. (PPC)

• Maccam USB webcam driver. (UNI)

• MacTheRipper DVD Ripper. (PPC)

• MenuMeters CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network monitoring tools . (UNI)

• NetTracker Monitors the download and upload traffic on your Internet connection and keeps a record of your traffic volume. (PPC)

• Remote Desktop Client (osX) Microsoft Remote Desktop Client. Allows you to connect to windows PC's running RDP. (PPC)

• Patchburn Burn with 3rd party CD/DVD drives. (PPC)

• Pacifist Peek Inside Those Installer Packages. (PPC)

• Pathfinder Path Finder is an innovative file browser and manager with powerful tools to make you more productive on Mac OS X. (PPC)

• Pause Pause is a program which will allow tasks to complete and then turn off / hybernate your machine & More. (PPC)

• Quicksilver Essentiall a Launcher, it Catalogs Freequent Actions etc For Quick execution later. (PPC)

• remote basics if you own a SonyEricsson k700i or s700. (PPC)

• R-Name Free batch-file-renaming utility. (PPC)

• Romeo Good free alternative to sallingclicker (bluetooth remote software). (PPC)

• Salling Clicker Use your bluetooth mobile as a remote for presentations and various media players. Worth checking out a free program from salling software. (PPC)

• Sequel Pro MySQL frontend. (UNI)

• ShakesPeer DC++ Client. (PPC)

• Shiira Another free alternative browser, and dare i say it one of the best (Extreamly Funky). (UNI)

• Skype IP Telephony / Instant Messaging. (PPC)

• Steermouse Lets you use unsupported mice. (UNI)

• StuffIt Expander A MUST HAVE program. (PPC)

• Sunrise Browser Good webkit-based browser created with special tools for web designers. (PPC)

• Teleport teleport is a simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. (PPC)

• TextWrangler A text editor. Feature packed (i'm told) It's a little too feature packed for me. Good if you write code, i'm told. (UNI)

• ToastMount Toast 5 / 6 Mounts an image (iso/dmg) as a CD So Programs think its a CD "Requires Toast". (PPC)

• Transmission A free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end. (UNI)

• Transmogrifier A simple tool for sorting TV show collections into a customizable file / folder name structure. (UNI)

• uControl a Key Remapper. (PPC)

• VirtueDesktop The Smackbook Desktop Manager. (UNI)

• VLC Media Player. (PPC)

• VIM Highly configurable text editor, freely available for many different platforms Click To Visit Devs Site. (PPC)

• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory A Free Game. Nuff Said. (PPC)

• X-Chat Aqua IRC Client. (PPC)

• Resource Graph Health (Temp / Usage) Monitor. (PPC)

• YuBurner A free CD burning app, as an alternative to toast. (UNI)

• Dragthing A replacement dock for your mac. Well worth the $29.95 (UNI)

• RCDefault APP Lets you remape default file extensions. (UNI)