There are 1000's of Free Applications For Mac OS X
Last update : March, 2009.
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Glims for Safari
Requirements: Safari 3.0.4 (4525.18) or later
Current features list:
Adds thumbnails to Google.com search results
Adds thumbnails to Yahoo.com search results
Adds search engines to the default Google search tab
Adds full-screen browsing capability
Adds Favicons to tab labels
Adds keyword search from address bar
Undo "Close Tab" (cmd-z)
Re-opens last session when Safari starts
Auto-Closes download window
Focus last selected tab
Always open links in a new tab
Type-ahead support (auto cmd-f)
Sets the focus on the search field when opening a new window
Adds Amazon's information banner on Google.com search results
Adds Amazon's information banner on Yahoo.com search results
Adds a "Max Window Size" menu item to resize the Safari window
Forms autocomplete always on
Dated download folders
Localized to Japanese, French, Greek, and German
Different Background Images For Every Space
Now you can customize each Space with its own wallpaper and identify it quickly everytime you switch from one Space to another.
NeoOffice: Free MS Office Alternative
Since 2003, NeoOffice has been the leading open source office software created and supported by Mac users specifically for Mac OS X and is used by over half a million people worldwide. NeoOffice is funded solely by the time and money donated by NeoOffice users like yourself. Without donations from our users, NeoOffice would not exist. Your donations have a huge impact on what we are able to provide our users.
NeoOffice is available for free from the NeoOffice download page.
GIMP: Free PhotoShop Alternative
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
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Create RSS Feeds Of The iTunes Music Store
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Carbon Copy Cloner
The key to a successful backup plan is to actually do the backups regularly. When left to a human, the task often gets tacked on to the end of a very long list of other things to do. When you eventually have a catastrophe, the data is simply gone. You know that feeling -- you just lost six years of family photos. Your kids being born, their first birthdays, their first everything. The answer to this is consistent and regular backups, placed on a schedule and handled automatically by your computer.
CCC 3.0 features a new interface designed to make the cloning and backup procedure more intuitive and more responsive. Users have better control over what gets backed up, and are provided with detailed information about the progress of their backup. In addition to general backup, CCC can also clone one hard drive to another, copying every single block or file to create an exact replica of your source hard drive. CCC's block-level copy offers the absolute best fidelity in the industry!
Among the new features are:
CCC recognizes iPods specifically, allowing time for the iPod:iTunes synchronization to complete.
The ability to drill down into folders to select exactly what gets copied and what doesn't (you can drill down indefinitely).
Built-in software update feature notifies you when updates are available.
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Cool Free App For Photos: PicMark
Equiped with a powerful and flexible watermark manager, PicMark is an essential tool for, but not limited to, photographers, graphic designers, publishers and editors.

Skitch & Skitch.com
Skitch is the Internet age's Camera and it Rocks!
JetPhoto
With only several clicks, JetPhoto Studio can turn your digital photos into a beautiful Flash gallery with a professional look. Also makes a fantastic collage wallpaper or the pocket-size photos for your cell phone screen quickly and easily.
To share your photo albums on Internet, JetPhoto is an advanced photo Web publisher, too. Once the photo album is prepared on your desktop computer, by WebSync, only One-Click is needed to upload the album onto your own photo website using JetPhoto Server. (JetPhoto Server is a free PHP-based web service software.)
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Pixer
Pixer is a little application that helps you to scale (or rotate, add pad and, crop) PNG, JPG, Tiff, PSD , BMP or PICT images in batch (RAW support, only for Leopard users, is still in beta).Drag an image, a group of images or a folder into Pixer and type the size you want (for example 500 for 500 pixel): Pixer will resize them to the desired size.
That's all!

Hint 1: leaving the input window blank will create icons for the images without resizing them.
Hint 2: Pixer preserves transparency when creating an icon from a 24 bit PNG (for PNG 24bit, Pixer icon abilities preserve transparency!)?
Hint 3: you can use letters instead of numbers: H for 800 pixel, M for 480 pixel, L for 305 pixel and T for 80 pixel. If you use letters instead of numbers, Pixer will insert a standard prefix and postfix in the name of image (image.jpg becomes H_image_1.jpg).
Hint 4: to scale an image by percentage, just type the percentage (e.g: 50%, 74%, 16% etc) and Pixer will scale the image by that percentage.
Hint 5: to rotate an image just type the rotation degrees (e.g: 90°, 45° etc ).
Hint 6: to flip the image horizontally type "fh", to it vertically type "fv".
Hint 7: to crop or pad use two dimensions (e.g "1440x900" instead of "1440").
Now you can choose color pad (Leopard only).
Hint 8: the Jpeg button converts the non-jpeg images into jpeg images. You can use Jpeg ability with all others features.
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HandBrake
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.Supported sources:
Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
PAL or NTSC
AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
Outputs:
File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
Misc features:
Chapter selection
Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
Integrated bitrate calculator
Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
Grayscale encoding
Mojo is music sharing done right.
Zero Configuration:
Mojo will automatically find other users on your network and allows you to easily add buddies to your roster for those who aren't on your local network. Select any user to begin sharing. It's that simple. This is all accomplished transparently using a multitude of technologies such as Bonjour, XMPP (Jabber), HTTP/TCP, and STUNT. This means Mojo will automatically handle all the messy network configuration without any user interaction.
Choose and Download:
Select a user to share with, and Mojo opens a browsing window. Songs you already have in your library are grayed out. Also, protected songs display in red. Check the checkbox next to the songs you wish to download. When your selection is complete, click one button and you're done. All the songs you have selected will be automatically downloaded and added to your iTunes library.
Subscribe to Playlists:
If manually choosing the music is too much work, try using the playlist subscriptions. Choose any playlist to subscribe to, and Mojo will automatically download and update the latest changes to that playlist anytime you are on the same network with the playlist's owne

Exports Apple Address Book Contacts Into Gmail.
A to G will bring over your contacts' phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, companies, job titles and notes so that you can have info you need wherever you have Gmail.

Dockdrop
Drag any file or folder you want to share onto the Dockdrop dock icon then choose how you want to send it. Dockdrop uploads it and puts a URL for your upload on the clipboard, ready for pasting into an Email, chat program or website.
Dockdrop is currently available completely free of charge.
Supported protocols:
FTP
Flickr
WebDAV
SCP

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ToMacs
ToMacs is a freeware developped to manage your most impotant data on your Macs: Addresses, Bookmarks, Calendars, Mails, Keychains, and even more thanks to the modules you can download in the preferences panel. All these data are copied troughout your local network in the way you choose: ToMacs will replace a remote Mac's files with a copy from the local Mac or vice versa with just a few clicks. You can also make archives from your files to a USB key or a CD for example, then restore the data later.Getting started with ToMacs: Download the freeware, install it where you want, enable SSH on your computers and begin to copy your data! Have a look to the help to learn more about the installation.
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Desktoptopia
You can rate and reject any desktop.

Here's a few example desktops:

DVD & CD Covers. Find, Print, Done.


Funes
Funes is a very simple free program to use, just click on the status menu item and a submenu opens. This submenu contains the current playing song, the current rating and the Quit button.When you click a star you immediately set the new rating. When you want to set no rating you just click the first star twice and the song isn't rated any more.

Monitor Your Entire System Right From Your Menu Bar
7 display modes, multiple core support.
Memory usage.
4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display.
Disks usage and activity.
6 display modes and the ability to hide disks you don't want to see.
Monitor networking.
Current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth and IP addresses.
Temperatures.
Monitor the temperature of your Mac with 2 display modes and the ability to hide sensors you don't want to see.
Fans.
Monitor the fan speeds in your Mac. 2 display modes and the ability to hide sensors you don't want to see.
Bluetooth.
Control bluetooth status plus monitor the battery level of your Apple wireless keyboard or mouse.
Date & Time.
Date, time a calendar and a world clock in your menubar.
Mac Music Makers Social Network
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Perian: Quick Time Plugin
Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional Media Types:
AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
Subtitle support for SSA and SRT
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Flip4Mac: Quick Time Plugin
Version 2.2 Now Available
Flip4Mac%u2122 WMV is a collection of QuickTime components that allow you to play, import, and export Windows Media video and audio files on your Mac using your favorite QuickTime-based applications.
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VLC media player
It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
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HotBox
HotBox is a background application that allows you to make anything on screen full screen! Just press a keystroke and drag a box around whatever you want, and it'll fill your entire monitor.It works great for things like webpages with videos or flash movies that don't have a full screen button, games you want to play full screen, text or images you want to enlarge, or anything else you might ever want to see become big. Anything that's on the screen can be made full screen, so the possibilities are potentially endless!

Mail Unread Menu
Mail Unread Menu is a free simple menu bar application which can provide you with a quick and easy way to see how many unread email messages are in apple's mail. Unlike other menu bar notification applications, mail unread menu is actually a plugin for mail, which means that the count is instantaneously updated whenever you recieve new email or change the status of a message.Get It Here

Flock
There are also versions available for Windows and Linux.
FEATURES:
Webmail Integration - Yahoo Mail And Gmail Now Supported
Upload Directly To Picasa And Photobucket
Friend Activity Feed
Supports Facebook, YouTube, Twitter And Flickr
Share Pictures, Text And Video
Feed Reader
Blog Editor - Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress And More
Much More

Delivery Status - Check The Status Of Your Deliveries
Delivery Status is an excellent free widget for OS X that tracks the status of your deliveries. There is no need to waste your time checking the sites constantly, just open this all-in-one delivery tracker and enter your order number or tracking number. The status will update automatically for you, and even count down the days. It also works with Growl to give you pop-up messages, email notifications, and much more New Orbitz!
Google Earth
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.Miro: Video Player / Video Podcasting

Podcasts for Mac Users
- Mac Cast Loop
- "The Loop", offers a whole new way to join the Maccast community. It is recorded live each Sunday at 10:00 AM PST/1:00 PM EST. Using the Talkshoe network we offer live audience participation using text and audio chat.
- Mac OS Ken
- With PowerBook in lap and tongue in cheek, Ken Ray brings 12 years of radio experience and 6 years of tech-news work to the Mac world. If you've heard him before you know what to expect... news, interviews, commentary, and humor. If you haven't heard him, welcome to a slightly skewed look at all things Apple and Apple related.
- Apple Gazette Daily
- Daily Mac News Show
- Mac Break Weekly
- Get the latest Mac news and views from the top journalists covering Apple today. This roundtable discussion is audio only, and complements the video only MacBreak. Another great show from the Pixel Corps and the TWiT.tv network.
- MacBreak Tech
- MacBreak Tech is a no-holds-barred tech talk about all things Mac. We talk about technical Mac things like servers, storage, best practices and other stuff that is, well, technical.
- iLife Zone
- Learn how to get the most out of your investment in your Mac hardware and software. Our blog is updated several times each week. We also publish a podcast several times each month.
- Typical Mac User
- Victor Cajiao is the host and producer of the Typical Mac User Podcast. An IT professional for over 17 years, Victor's understanding of technology and teaching brings a focus to the show that enables the subscriber to learn, grow and have fun.
The Typical Mac User Podcast is published twice per week on Wednesdays and Sundays. We are sponsor supported and cover industry news ,and both audio and video tutorials. This includes software reviews, hardware review as well as reviews of industry related conferences, expos and symposiums.
He is also the owner of Typical Media Group LLC , a company focused on production and consultation services for New Media producers.
Adam Christianson of the Mac Cast
Mac Cast Podcast

- maccast
- aka Adam Christianson
- 6,148 followers
- 694 following
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- Just recorded an awesome upcoming Maccast with @jchutchins. Incredible guy. Check out his stuff at http://jchutchins.net/.
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- @OliveTreeMarket we just cracked open the first Pliny the Elder. Thanks for the beer and the great turkey sandwich.
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- @michaelking4023 thanks.
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- Just read that this Pliny guy saved people at the erruption of Mt. Vesuvius. His beer is good too. http://twitpic.com/93yca
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- @MattJanssen I friend is borrowing my old iPhone to see if they like it enough to buy a new 3GS
Delibar
Delibar is a simple del.icio.us desktop client for macosx.Delibar collects all your bookmarks in the system bar, so you can access them comfortably.
Delibar offers you many of the del.icio.us features and a lot more, like:
Tag and bundle catalogation
Sorting entries by alpha or frequency
Recent bookmarks
Exporting in a html page
Bookmarks autoreload
Proxy support and auto detection
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DiggUpdate
DiggUpdate will instantly inform you of new Digg stories that hit the front page. Whenever a new item is dugg to the front, a window will roll down from your menu-bar (resembling Digg.com itself) and pleasantly inform you of new tech news. If multiple stories are found at the same time, DiggUpdate will compile the stories into one window to reduce clutter. Simply click left and right on the arrows to browse through all the new stories. DiggUpdate's Classic View truly brings the digg.com experience to your Mac's menu-bar.Get It Here
Gmail Notifier

FMenu
A friend updated his profile
A friend changed his status
A friend wrote a new note
Someone wrote on your wall
You have new messages
You have new pokes
You have new friend requests
You have new photo comments
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PlugINCool
PlugINCool is a Plugin manager for Mac OS X.Thanks to this software, you can easily add and remove plugins for:
Dashboard
Screen savers
Spotlight
Preferences Panes
QuickLook
Web browser
iTunes
QuickTime
MindNode:
Node Well. New nodes are created by simply dragging them out of the node wells. There is no need to access the toolbar or the application menu.
Clean Interface. The very simple and intutive user interface let's the user focus on finding and developing ideas. Nearly no time is required to learn the interface.
Multiple MindMaps. The ability to create mutliple mind maps on one canvas, makes MindMap an ideal tool for brain storming sessions.
Visual Appealing Mind Maps. There is no need to spend hours playing with the visual attributes to create an appealing mindmap. The default values are suitable for most uses.
Full Keyboard Support. Although MindNode really shows it's strenght when used with a mouse, nearly all interactions can be performed very easely with the keyboard.
Build for Leopard. MindNode makes use of Quicklook, Spotlight and iChat Theater.
No lock in. You can print, share and export your mind map as tiff or pdf.
Expanding Canvas. The mind map is not restricted to the size of a page. The canvas resizes automatically in the background to fit the mind map.

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OnyX
OnyX is a multifunction utility (maintenance, optimization, and personalization).It allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window 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.
Automatically check update, verify the status of startup disk and the structure of system files at launch, parameter with precision the actions, modify the appearance of OnyX, increase the window transparency, chooose its icon and the toolbar icons among those proposed in the Preferences...

Access Your Computer Remotely from Anywhere %u2013 Free.
- Visit www.LogMeIn.com
- Login with your LogMeIn account details
- Click on the computer in the list
- Login with the name and password for your Mac
- Click Remote Control
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- Two Up
- Follow on Twitter
- Glims for Safari
- Different Background Images For Every Space
- NeoOffice: Free MS Office Alternative
- GIMP: Free PhotoShop Alternative
- Create RSS Feeds Of The iTunes Music Store
- Mac Music Makers
- Daily Mac Tips
- Customize Parts Of Mac OS X Leopard
- Carbon Copy Cloner
- Cool Free App For Photos: PicMark
- Skitch & Skitch.com
- JetPhoto
- Pixer
- Mac Tips
- Mac The Ripper
- HandBrake
- Mojo is music sharing done right.
- Exports Apple Address Book Contacts Into Gmail.
- Dockdrop
- ToMacs
- Great Stuff on Amazon
- Desktoptopia
- DVD & CD Covers. Find, Print, Done.
- Funes
- Monitor Your Entire System Right From Your Menu Bar
- Mac Music Makers Social Network
- Adium
- Perian: Quick Time Plugin
- Flip4Mac: Quick Time Plugin
- VLC media player
- HotBox
- Mail Unread Menu
- Great Stuff on eBay
- Flock
- Delivery Status - Check The Status Of Your Deliveries
- New Orbitz!
- Google Earth
- Vote On Your Favorite Mac Freeware
- Miro: Video Player / Video Podcasting
- Podcasts for Mac Users
- Adam Christianson of the Mac Cast
- Delibar
- DiggUpdate
- Gmail Notifier
- FMenu
- Preview The Contents Of A Standard Apple Installer Package.
- PlugINCool
- MindNode:
- MainMenu
- OnyX
- Access Your Computer Remotely from Anywhere %u2013 Free.
- Great Mac Stuff on eBay
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