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Adium

http://www.adiumx.com/

Use AIM, MSN, Jabber, or Yahoo? Then this awesome multi-protocol Instant Messaging client is for you.

Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac

Cross-platform audio editing tool. Very useful for chopping audio or changing formats etc. Capable of multitracking too. If you edit audio, try this before you buy anything else.

Audion

http://panic.com

The once great shareware audio player is now the great freeware audio player. Simple, no fuss.

Butler

http://www.petermaurer.de/

This is probably the most awesome app ever conceived. Contains most of the functionality of LaunchBar and Quicksilver + several other apps too, all with a tiny memory footprint.

Cabos

http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/

Entirely free Gnutella/LimeWire network P2P client. Can't find a copy of that old 60's song you love? This will find it. Cross-platform as well.

Camino

http://www.caminobrowser.org/

Fast, slick browser, and very functional too. Based on the open source Gecko core, but has the OS X appeal.

Celestia

http://www.shatters.net/celestia

Educational software for gazing upon the stars. Check out the Celestial Motherlode too. (www.celestiamotherlode.net)

Chicken of the VNC

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/

Use this when away from home to use your computer through a VNC session. Handy if you want to use your home computer from work.

ClamAV

http://www.markallan.co.uk/clamXav/

If you are worried about viruses, here is a free scanner.

Colloquy

http://colloquy.info/

Nice looking, simple, full featured GUI IRC client. Theres about a hundred other IRC apps out there, but this looks nice, and is good for beginners.

Crystal VST/AU

http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/

Wicked little freeware synth program. Very powerful.Rax will let you try this out. (http://www.grantedsw.com/rax)

Cyberduck

http://cyberduck.ch/

Excellent, easy to use FTP and SFTP client. This kinda stuff you have to pay for if you use Windows.

Disk Inventory X

http://www.derlien.com/

Gives you a graphical representation of which folders are using up the most space. Handy for clearing out your HD if you cant find what is taking up all your room.

Ugly but still venerable email client. Wickedly fast searches through thousands of messages. And the kicker: total control over leaving/deleting messages on/from the mail server. Lite, sponsored, and premium versions available. Lite and sponsored are freeware.

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner

http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner.html

Eudora mailboxes don't import easily into other mail clients. This little application helps you maintain dates, attachments, and other goodies when migrating to Mail or Thunderbird.

ffmpegX

http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

This is truly the Swiss Army knife or VLC of video encoding. Will take almost any format and convert it to something else.

Firefox

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

One of the best browsers on the planet, with hundreds of plugins. You can get an Intel build as well. (wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Intel)

gDisk

http://gdisk.sourceforge.net/

Amazing little tool lets you use your gmail account (almost 3GB and counting!) as storage space.

GimmeSomeTune

http://members.chello.at/eternalstorms/try.html

Cool tool which adds an iTunes menubar item and gives more control to iTunes. Also displays album art as a track plays. UB.

GIMPshop

http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294

Almost all of the features of Photoshop at an infinitely smaller price. Based on the GIMP base, but with a more Photoshop-like interface. Requires X11 but you can find that on your OS X install disc. And they just released a Universal Binary too.

Google Earth

http://earth.google.com/

If you don't know what this is yet, you've been under a rock in the middle of Australia. Check out your house with this.

HandBrake

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

This is the VLC of DVD video encoding. It will take a DVD and convert it into almost anything else. Handy for if you want to take your laptop on the road, but dont want to carry all your DVD's too.

HenWen

http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/henwen.html

Intrusion detection system for the paranoid. Can e-mail you if it detects someone trying to get into your computer. These kind of apps usually cost a LOT of money.

InkScape

http://www.inkscape.org/

Drawing tool like Adobe Illustrator which saves in SVG format.

iPhoto Buddy

http://nofences.net/iphotoBuddy/

If you have a LOT of photos, this will let you manage multiple photo libraries.

iSquint

http://www.isquint.org/

This will convert almost any video to a video iPod compatible format. Universal as well

iTerm

http://iterm.sourceforge.net/

If you use the Terminal a lot for the UNIX backend of OS X, this thing is definitely worth a try. Can even have tabbed Terminals. UB.

KisMAC

http://kismac.binaervarianz.de/

Wireless network tool. Very useful and just plain cool, if you have a wireless card in your Mac.

MAMP

http://www.mamp.info/

MySQL, Apache, PHP for Mac Installer. Do yourself a favour.

MenuMeters

http://www.ragingmenace.com/

If you like to keep an eye on CPU use, bandwidth, mem usage, this will give you the readouts. Essential on every working person's Mac.

MidiKeys

http://www.manyetas.com/creed/midikeys.html

Lets you use your computer keyboard to send MIDI signals. Awesome to turn your Mac into an instant synthesiser or drum machine instrument! Check out Rax too.

MidiPipe

http://homepage.mac.com/nicowald/SubtleSoft/

Gives you very fine control over MIDI signals. Can be use to transpose, microtune, use chords etc.

NeoOffice

http://www.neooffice.org/

This is OpenOffice repackaged in nice looking Aqua goodness and using Java as well. Don't need that slightly clunky X11 for this one.

OmniDictionary

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidictionary/

A free mac OS X client for Internet Dictionary servers. A nice, concise application which does away with the need for a hard copy of a dictionary.

OnyX

http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html

Excellent utility to optimize parts of OSX and turn on and off various things such as the viewing of hidden files. UB.

OSS3D

http://www.subband.com/

Great plugin for iTunes to give incredible versatility with sound equalization, 3D surround and other cool stuff.

OSXvnc

http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html

Incredibly useful if you want to access your computer from away from home.UB

PHP Point of Sale

http://www.phppointofsale.com/

Free POS system if you need it. You might want to look into installing MAMP first.

PureFTPd Manager

http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd/

The most perfect FTP server software out there and a sweet GUI on top of it. Genius. If you wanna FTP, get this.

Quicksilver

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

Very nice looking and sleek app launcher every Mac owner should try out.

Scorched 3D

http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/

If you ever played Worms or some Scorched Earth game, this will be familiar. Requires X11.

SharePoints

http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/

Lets you share any folder on your hard drive, not just a specific place like the built-in OS X sharing does. Very useful.

Simon Extreme

http://lumacode.com/simon/

Simon Extreme is a reinterpretation of the classic 1978 Milton Bradley game Simon, complete with authentic gameplay and sound samples from the original game. (From the developer)

Skype

http://www.skype.com/products/skype/macosx/

Make internet calls for free, or calls to anywhere in the world for dirt cheap.

SoundFlower

http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower

Free interapplication audio router. Lets you route audio from any application to another.

SysStat Nano

http://www.islayer.com/viewWidget.php?id=21

This is a Dashboard widget which can show almost every stat about your computer at the click of a button.

TextWrangler

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ind

If you need something more than TextEdit, this is a wicked editor with more advanced functions. Kicks ass.

Tomato Torrent

http://sarwat.net/bittorrent/

Another BitTorrent Client. This one is very customisable, small and fast.

TrailRunner

http://trailrunnerx.com

Route planner for sports with iPod and Garmin GPS Support. If you ever asked yourself how long your workout routes are and what route you should choose for this evening - then TrailRunner should be your training-partner. For people who enjoy running, biking or hiking TrailRunner is a route planning application that connects the Nike + iPod sports kit or GPS devices like the Garmin ForeRunner and Garmin Edge with an interactive topo map. Plan and calculate the distances of routes, journalize your workouts and write about your training progress in a weblog published to your .Mac account.

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