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Useful OS X Apps

Revision as of 11:12, 24 June 2007 by 303-Acid (Talk | contribs)

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)
  • 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)
  • CoRD (Cocoa Remote Desktop). RDP client capable of handling multiple sessions. (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)
  • Maccam USB webcam driver. (UNI)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Shiira Another free alternative browser, and dare i say it one of the best (Extreamly Funky). (UNI)
  • Skype IP Telephony / Instant Messaging. (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)
  • VLC Media Player. (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)

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