Mac Apps
Essential free Mac OS X Applications
If you are missing your favorite application, use the comment function and let me know the name and function. I’ll add suggestions after having tested them.
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Antivirus
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Archiving
- The Unarchiver multi-format-application
- 7zX 7z droplet
- Unrarx rar-application
- rawr rar-application
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Audio
- Cog great & still simple audio player
- Amarok 2
- Vox (ex. ToolPlayer)
- Audacity Sound Editor
- Systemsound Play sound files like in Mac OS Classic
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Backup / Clone
- Carbon Copy Cloner
- SuperDuper! Core-function is free
- iBackup backup/restore utility
- WinClone Backup Bootcamp Installation
- Mlbackup Backup script
- LBackup Backup system
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Browser
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Burning
- Burn simple burn app
- SimplyBurns simple burn app
- LiquidCD simple burn app (my fav)
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Calender
- MenuCalenderClock iCal access to iCal in menubar
- Dateline displays a calender with ical integration as part of your dekstop
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Clipboard
- Clyppan clipboard application
- PTHPasteboard clipboard application
- Clipmenu clipboard application
- Jumpcut clipboard application
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Contextual Menu Plugins
- Open with Manager define which app appears in the open-with dialog for each file extension
- NuFile adds a new file option into the context menu
- New! adds a new file option into the context menu
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Dock
- Dock Dodger Hide app-icons from dock
- Dockless Hide app-icons from dock
- SuperDocker Customize Dock
- Dock Spaces Multiple docks – up to 10
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Development
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Download Helper
- SimpleWget simple wget user interface
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Deskmodding
- LiteIcon Change icons for folders & apps
- GeekTool Display images, shell output and more on your desktop
- Nerdtool Display images, shell output, quartz and more on your dekstop
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Energy
- Caffeine prevent from sleep etc
- SlimBatteryMonitor Menubar based battery icon replacement (smaller)
- InsomniaX – Handle Sleep mode (temp. disable)
- Coconut Battery Get battery informations
- F.lux Change monitor lightning according to daytime
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Finder AddOns( and Alternatives)
- muCommander Midnight Commander like
- Xfolders Midnight Commander like
- FinderMinder define finder windows position and size
- SCPlugin SVN Finder Plugin
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FTP
- Cyberduck – Good FTP Client
- Filezilla – FTP Client
- Tftp Server – Frontend for Mac TFTP
- PureFTPd Manager Pure FTPd server application
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Focusing on work
- Isolator helps focusing on one application
- Nocturne Toggle night-vision view. Might help for handicapted
- PresentYourApps Hide Dock and/or Menubar for specific apps
- Omni Dazzle Highlight your mouse cursor
- Spirited Away hide inactive application windows
- Anxiety Lightweight To-do Management
- Check Off Lightweight To-do Management
- Tipp10 – 10 Finger System Tipp-Trainer
- FreeMind Mind Maps
- Mindnote Mind Maps (there is a free and a commercial version)
- Think focusing on one application
- Eversave saving all your open applications/documents
- afloat make cocoa apps run on-top
- MagicMenu hide menubar
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Firewall
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Filesystems
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Games
*Special category* – for sure not essential but at least some free mac-games while os x will never be the ultimate gaming OS.
- SuperTuxKart Mario Kart Clone
- SecretMaryo Mario Clone
- Supertux Mario Clone
- Domination Risk Clone
- Phun 2D physics
- Pingus Lemming Clone
- Enemy Territory Q3 based Multiplayer Team-Egoshooter
- The Battle for Wesnoth Turn based strategy game
- Quinn Tetris clone
- X-Moto 2D motocross
- VDrift Driving simulation
- Nexuiz 3D Egoshooter
- Flightgear Flight simulator
- Neverball Puzzle action game
- Widelands Siedler clone
- Warzone 2100 Command n Conquer like
- BlobFoot Multiplayer Fun football game
- Tasty Static Skyroads clone
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Image Editing
- Pixen
- iPaint
- MacPaint X
- Gimp
- Seashore
- inkscape vector graphics editor
- DrawBerry vector graphics editor
- Paintbrush bitmap image editor
- HDRtist HDR tool
- Hugin Panorama tool
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Image viewer
- Xee small image viewer
- JustLooking small image ivewer
- Picasa – image library based by Google
- Crossbow – image viewer
- Sequential 2 – image viewer
- XnView – image viewer
- Phoenix Slides – image viewer
- Footagehead – image viewer
- Gawker – webcam tool
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iTunes AddOns
- Bowtie
- GimmeSomeTune
- PodtoMac – Copy files from iPod to iTunes
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Keyboard working
- Be Born Tired control mouse-cursor with your keyboard
- TwoUp Modify window positions & size with your keyboard
- Window Wrangler moving app-windows with your keyboard
- Keyboard cleaner locks your keyboard
- CatNip locks your keyboard on cat-like input. Test it if your cat loves your keyboard
- Synergy2 Share mouse & keyboard with other computers
- Spark Shortcut Manager for Script etc
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Launcher
- Namely easy, quick & small launcher for apps
- Quicksilver complex launcher with many functions / options
- XMenu menubar based launcher
- aLunch menubar based launcher
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Language
- Language switcher configure individual language for each app
- LaunchAppPlugin start app in onther language via context menu
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Location Handling
- Marco Polo automaticaly handle network-location changes with rules etc.
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Maintenance & Configuration
- MainMenu Shareware since version 2.0
- TinkerTool
- RCDefaultApp define a default application for an extension
- Lingon launchd interface
- Service Scrubber
- Smartreporter Check SMART status of hard disk drives
- StartupSound prefpane to configure the startup sound
- DoubleCommand prefpane for key remapping
- Secrets prefpane with access to several hidden settings
- BootXChanger change the grey apple boot logo
- Pref Setter Plist Editor
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Monitoring
- iStatsMenus menubar based sys-monitoring
- MenuMeters menubar based sys-monitoring
- Whoisconnected monitor afp & ssh connections in menubar
- atMonitor System Monitor
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Mouse
- FlyGesture mouse gestures
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Money
- GNU Cash Money-app
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- Thunderbird free mail client by Mozilla
- Postbox Free mail client
- Widemail Mail.app AddOn
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Messenger, IRC and Co.
- LimeChat great IRC client
- Adium Messenger
- Colloquy IRC client
- XChatAqua IRC client
- Pidgin Instant Messaging
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Network
- Bonjour Browser discover network services
- iStumbler wireless discovery tool
- KisMac free stumbler/scanner
- SquidMan Squid proxy frontend/installer
- CocoaPacketAnalyzer network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer.
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Notification
- Growl great notification system which is heavily supported by other applications
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Office Suites
- OpenOffice free Office Suite
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Remote Desktop
- Chicken of the VNC VNC Client
- JollyFastVNC VNC Client (changed to Shareware)
- Remote Desktop Connection Client Microsoft RDP client
- CoRD Remote Desktop for Mac
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Renaming
- NameChanger Rename bunch of files
- NameMangler Rename bunch of files
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Restore
- Exif Untrasher Recover images
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RSS
- NetNewsWire RSS Client
- Vienna RSS Client
- NewsFire RSS Client
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Ripping
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Space / HDD Usage & Cleaning
- Disk Inventory X show disk usage
- GrandPerspective show disk usage
- Diskring show disk usage
- Monolingual (Delete language support)
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Safari AddOns
- Glims Great plugin which offers many missing functions
- SafariAdBlock AdBlocker for Safari
- SafariStand Input Manager for Safari
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Security / Crypt
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Screenshot
- Skitch Create screenshots – edit them and upload them
- Backdrop Change Desktop color & hide all icons and apps for screenshots
- Camouflage Hide desktop content
- Copernicus Screenshot & Capture app
- Paparazzi Creating fullpage screenshots from webpages
- SnapNDrag creating screenshots
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Search and Co
- Search & Replace search and replace tool
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Screensaver
- due3 Clock screensaver
- analogy Clock screensaver
- Osirus screensaver
- World clock Text clock screensaver
- Lotsawater Water screensaver
- Polarclock Great Clock-Screensaver – which can cause problems in some cases
- FractalClock – screensaver
- DropClock – screensaver
- Fireflies – screensaver
- Flux – screensaver
- Solar winds – screensaver
- Euphoria – screensaver
- StatusScreenSaver – screensaver which displays statusinformations like new mails etc
- Fenetres Volantes – screensaver
- Desktop Tiles – screensaver
- Scattered Flurries – screensaver
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Terminal etc..
- Macports Unix Open Source software for Darwin and Mac Os X
- Fink Unix Open Source software for Darwin and Mac Os X
- Visor Quake 3 like Terminal solution
- iTerm Terminal replacement
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Text Editor
- Smultron code on sourceforge but currecntly not longer developed.
- TextWrangler Small brother of commercial BBEdit
- Macvim port of the text editor Vim
- Bean Word processor
- KompoZer Web Editor
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Torrent & Co
- Transmission fully featured but still simple torrent client
- Vuze torrent client
- Frostwire torrent & gnutella client
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Update Checker
- LogicielMacUpdate Update checker for third party apps
- AppFresh Update checker for third party apps
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Video Player etc
- VLC Video player
- NicePlayer Video player
- mplayer Extended Video Player
- MPlayerX Video Player
- MPlayer OS X Video Player
- Miro Video Player
- movist Video Player
- Perian more codecs for QuickTime
- Mediathek Java App to access & record content of german televison online portals
- tsMuxer muxing
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Virtual Machines
- Virtualbox free virtual machine environment
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VPN
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Weather
- Weather Dock – Menubar based weather application
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Web-Development
- MAMP – Apache, MySQL, PHP all in one solution for developers
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Widgets (Dashboard)
- PollenRadar – widget that displays the current intensity of pollen in Germany
- Minutes alarm clock thing
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January 11th, 2009 at 16:02
[...] Mac Apps [...]
January 11th, 2009 at 19:02
Gute Idee! Hier gleich mal ein paar Vorschläge um die Liste zu erweitern:
Perian Codecs – http://www.perian.org/
XMBC (Media Center) – http://www.xbmc.org
Pidgin (wenn auch nur mit Fink?) – http://www.pidgin.im
KeepassX (Passwortverwaltung) – http://www.keepassx.org/
MuCommander (Dateiverwaltung) – http://www.mucommander.com/
LogicielMacUpdate – http://www.eagle-of-liberty.com/logicielmacupdate/
January 11th, 2009 at 19:07
Some suggestions:
- Caffeine (http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/)
- WeatherDock (http://www.alwintroost.nl/?id=52)
- Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/mac/)
- SlimBatteryMonitor (http://www.orange-carb.org/SBM/index.html)
- SmartReporter (http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/)
Dashboardwidget:
- PollenRadar (http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=2045)
January 11th, 2009 at 19:25
Thanks Stefan,
SlimBatteryMonitor was completly new for me. Appreciate your input
January 11th, 2009 at 19:51
Folgendes könnte man evtl. noch dazu packen:
Perian Codecs – http://www.perian.org/
XMBC (Media Center) – http://www.xbmc.org
Pidgin (wenn auch nur mit Fink?) – http://www.pidgin.im
KeepassX (Passwortverwaltung) – http://www.keepassx.org/
MuCommander (Dateiverwaltung) – http://www.mucommander.com/
LogicielMacUpdate – http://www.eagle-of-liberty.com/logicielmacupdate/
UnrarX – http://www.unrarx.com/
January 11th, 2009 at 22:19
Wie wäre es noch mit:
- MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim/)
- OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/)
- Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/)
- DrawBerry (https://launchpad.net/drawberry)
- iBackup (free for personal use) (http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/)
January 11th, 2009 at 23:07
Danke tigion – hinzugefügt
January 12th, 2009 at 17:38
@Lasse:
dein Post wurde von akismet aufgesammelt hehe, ich arbeite das heut abend noch auf -> rein
Danke & Gruss
fidel
January 12th, 2009 at 17:57
list updated
January 12th, 2009 at 21:15
Network tool: iStumbler (http://www.istumbler.net)
Another network / security tool is KisMac but because there are some legal problems in germany with this kind of tools I won’t post a link.
Keep your apps up to date: Appfresh (http://metaquark.de/appfresh/)
Vocabulary trainer: ProVoc (http://www.arizona-software.ch/provoc/)
Encryption tool: TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org)
TV program (Germany): TV-Browser (http://tvbrowser.org)
That’s all for today
January 12th, 2009 at 22:10
@Stefan:
afaik posting links to Kismac is not a problem – only using it
I’ll add the others tomorrow, thanks again for the input.
January 14th, 2009 at 19:51
http://twocanoes.com/winclone/ Backup Bootcamp Install from within Mac OS X
January 17th, 2009 at 10:14
[...] Good list here [...]
January 22nd, 2009 at 18:52
[...] hat bereits eine Liste mit Software für Mac-Umsteiger bei sich auf der Seite und führt dort nun noch einen Punkt [...]
January 22nd, 2009 at 19:16
Updated with several new apps & now games too. Thanks for all suggestions =)
January 22nd, 2009 at 21:23
updated
January 24th, 2009 at 17:13
Eine Spitzensoftware zum Festplatten-Klonen und Backup-Image ziehen:
SuperDuper! http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper
January 24th, 2009 at 19:47
@Andyman:
absolut richtig – jedoch sammel ich hier nur kostenfreie Programme – SuperDuper fällt damit leider aus dem Raster
Trotzdem danke für den Tip.
January 30th, 2009 at 17:11
*updated*
February 2nd, 2009 at 15:19
Für Leute die generell (so wie ich) gerne Open Source Software einsetzen: http://www.opensource4mac.de
Und bitte den Open Source Projekten die man gerne nutzt auch mal was zu Spenden!
February 2nd, 2009 at 15:25
machen leider wohl nur die wenigsten – sagt mir zumindest mein Gefühl – hast aber absolut recht.
und merci für den Link – hab ich doch X-Moto glatt vergessen hehe *skandal*
February 2nd, 2009 at 15:58
Zzz… da hat er X-Moto vergessen^^
Ja, leider Spenden die Wenigsten, ich versuche aber immer die Leute darauf hinzuweisen wenn ihnen ein Programm gefällt und sie es regelmäßig nutzen und sei es nur 2 oder 3 Euro. Per PayPal ist es auch kein großer Aufwand mal was zu Spenden.
February 2nd, 2009 at 16:35
Ach ja, unter Games bitte noch Quinn (http://www.simonhaertel.de/quinn) ein klasse Tetris Clone! Sogar Multiplayer fähig übers Internet!
February 2nd, 2009 at 17:15
@Jann: du hast auf der Seite auch das von hier bekannte Problem der kaputten Sonderzeichen – nur für den Fall dass es dir nochnicht aufgefallen ist
Im Impressum sieht man das sehr schön.
und zu mplayer: geht es nur mir so oder ist das aufm Mac nur ne Option wenn man sich das ding selber bastelt ? Die Binaries sind doch “etwas” alt.
February 2nd, 2009 at 17:32
*added some games*
February 3rd, 2009 at 08:38
Uhi, stimmt, du hast mich da an was erinnert was ich noch machen wollte … ^^
Mh, zum mplayer, nicht nur die Binaries sind alt, das ganze Projekt (glaube ich) ist “etwas” Träge geworden, schade.
February 3rd, 2009 at 08:47
bzgl Mplayer:
wenn ich ehrlich bin war ich auch jahrelang deren Verfechter – inzwischen bin ich mit VLC ganz zufrieden und sehe dort zumindest ne aktive Weiterentwicklung. So schade es ist – aber mplayer ist inzwischen nur die Notlösung und auch dass nur auf Linux-Rechnern (Tradition hehe)
February 5th, 2009 at 16:51
updated
March 16th, 2009 at 20:53
[...] Mac Apps [...]
March 22nd, 2009 at 14:00
schreib mal liquidcd zu brennprogrammen oder? *g*
March 22nd, 2009 at 14:11
Hi Raffi,
ich sammel immer ne Weile – im Kern stehen noch alle Apps aus Kommentar 28 aus – sprich werden die Tage mal hinzugefügt. Witzigerweise steht da LiquidCD schon mit dabei.
Trotzdem danke für die Anregung
March 22nd, 2009 at 17:15
achso stimmt ja, hab ich nicht gleich rausgelesen aus der url.
wollte noch anmerken ihr habt mich überzeugt, hab nun auch burn damit ersetzt.
March 23rd, 2009 at 08:47
hehe – witzig
March 30th, 2009 at 15:43
new apps & games added
March 31st, 2009 at 12:50
updated
May 17th, 2009 at 23:13
20090517 updated
May 18th, 2009 at 15:49
updated
May 23rd, 2009 at 22:22
Hi Fidel,
SuperDuper ist im Basic-Modus = super einfaches Clonen (Bootfähiges-Backup) kostenlos. Das Programm ist einfacher zu bedienen als Carbon-Copy-Cloner, aber etwas langsamer und kann im kostenlosen Modus kein Sync.
Grüsse
Bernd
May 24th, 2009 at 17:11
Hi Bernd,
danke fuer den Hinweis – kommt beim nächsten Listenupdate (#37) mit rein.
Gruss
fidel
May 29th, 2009 at 18:17
20090529 updated
May 30th, 2009 at 16:02
[...] Mac Apps [...]
June 1st, 2009 at 14:56
updated
June 5th, 2009 at 19:59
[...] Mac Apps [...]
July 10th, 2009 at 22:03
[...] unnötig ist, da es mehr als genug Artikel dieser Art in den Weiten des WWW gibt (beispielsweise: Macfidelity, OS X Freeware), aber dabei sein ist [...]
August 15th, 2009 at 12:45
[...] empfehlenswerter Mac Programme wurde aktualisiert – d. h. um 36 neue Programme aus Kommentar 42 [...]
August 15th, 2009 at 12:46
20090815 updated
August 15th, 2009 at 13:07
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September 17th, 2009 at 09:42
Fidel,
You have helped me in the past. I have a problem, and I was wondering if you might can help. I am not sure how secure this message is, so please get back to me if you can. Thanks, Melody
September 17th, 2009 at 10:19
Hi Melody,
basically you are using the wrong article to ask questions – as this post is supposed only to list new & free applications.
Apart from that it is public viewable -> regarding your question how secure this message is.
Anyway … just ask your question and i’ll see if i can help you out.
Best regards
fidel
January 17th, 2010 at 22:21
20100117 updated
January 20th, 2010 at 10:16
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Systemtools/monitoring – SMARTreporter: http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/
Cloud – Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/home
Screensaver 10.6 – Flipsaver: http://shirtmullet.com/flip/
Screensaver 10.6 – Anemona: http://uri.cat/software/Anemona/
Screensaver 10.6 – Today: http://www.gingerbeardman.com/today/
Screensaver 10.6 – Several: http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/savers.html
Screensaver 10.6 – Several: http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software.html
Screensaver – Several: http://www.opanoid.com/screensavers.php
Screensaver 10.6 – Flipclock: http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16793914
Torrent – utorrent: http://www.utorrent.com/downloads/mac
Password Generator – Password Assistant: http://www.codepoetry.net/products/passwordassistant
IRC Client – Quassel IRC: http://quassel-irc.org/downloads
Keyboard&mouse sharing (Synergy like) – Teleport: http://abyssoft.com/software/teleport/
Painting – Pinta: http://pinta-project.com/
Games – OpenSonic: http://opensnc.sourceforge.net/
SIMBL Plugin – Megazoomer: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html
TextNotes – notational Velocity: http://notational.net/
RSS – Gruml: http://www.grumlapp.de/
iPhone Backup Extractor: http://supercrazyawesome.com/
Launcher – alfred: http://www.alfredapp.com/
Launcher – Quicksilver: http://www.blacktree.com/
DNS Benchmark Tool – namebench: http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
January 20th, 2010 at 17:44
Postbox kostet doch geld …
Dropbox fehlt mir
January 20th, 2010 at 17:46
@Nico:
der war mal kostenlos – und aus dieser Zeit stammt auch noch der eintrag.
Danke für den Hinweis – wird korrigiert.
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