Get Various Leopard Enhancements for Free

Posted by Wendy

Even though the released of Leopard has killed many 3rd party apps, we still got many of the survivals which have their own specialties.

Note : Clicking the title will refer you to the specified app's homepage.

Instant Messengers

Adium

Free instant messaging application for your Leopard which provides the connection to most of the messenger types, such as MSN, AIM, GTalk, etc.

MSN Messenger

Free messenger application for Mac that can connect you with your friends. It runs on Intel Macs.

Yahoo! Messenger

Send instant message to your Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger friends and share your experience throughout the world of instant messaging.

AIM

Another great instant messenger for you to experience with your Mac and your friends on AOL.

Skype

More advanced application for communicating with your friends from which you will be able to make your phone call through.

Web Browsers

Firefox

Everyone loves Firefox, especially its add-ons.

Opera

Talking about browser speed, we shouldn't forget our folks Opera Browser.

Camino

Another alternative of web browser to feed your Mac.

Shiira

Free web browser for your Mac that provides several unique features that differ it from another browsers, such as Tab Exposé.

Flock

The social web browser for enhancing your experience with your social community.

Mail, RSS Reader and iChat Modifications

Letterbox

Letterbox expands your Mail view, i.e. it transforms your two-columns Mail view pane into three-columns which suits widescreen monitor the most.

WideMail

WideMail provides the interface for you to give many variations to your Mail application.

Vienna

Vienna is a open source RSS newsreader which competes well with Leopard RSS Readers for Mail application.

Chax

Have you been enjoying your iChat? Using Chax will further improve your experience with Leopard iChat.

iTunes Tools

Sing that iTune!

Free dashboard widget for your Leopard that can display the lyric of your songs.

Aurora

Tune your alarm from your song's playlist.

GimmeSomeTune

iTunes' extension that comes in assistance when you want to show the detail of your iTunes' currently playing songs, lyrics, etc.

Dot.Tunes

Securely share your iTunes music with your friends across the internet.

MakeiPhoneRingtone

This will help convert your audio files into your iPhone ringtones.

Image Editors

Naked Light

New image editor for Leopard. Let's see how you can give a touch on images to create a wonderful masterpiece.

GIMP

Image editor with efficiently designed user interface for Mac OS X users.

Seashore

Open source image editor for Cocoa framework that aims for basic image editing tools for most computer users.

LiveQuartz

LiveQuartz is an image editor which is based on layers and CoreImage filters and it's free.

Google SketchUp

For you who like to design 3D images, Google SketchUp will be the best choice.

Christmas Accessories

Christmas Crisis

Free Christmas arcade game for your Mac which in this game you're supposed to help Santa to deliver all the presents. Our Christmas lays on your shoulder.

Christmas Gifts

Vladstudio offers us freebies including several cute wallpapers, e-cards, etc.

Christmas Screensavers

Decorate your desktop for Christmas.

Application Launchers

Quicksilver

Everybody loves Quicksilver (I am included). Trying out this application launcher developed by blacktree will definitely worth your time.

Sapiens

It creates amazing breakthrough in the world of application launchers which has the ability to read your mind or, in exact, it learns from you.

Namely

Another form of Spotlight but the search is narrowed to only applications results in quicker access.

Google Desktop

Google Desktop gives you convenience in finding and launching not only your applications but also e-mails right from your desktop.

Desktop Cleaners

Think

Think assists you in removing all distractions on your Desktop which will improve your concentration and, hence, boost your productivity.

Isolator

With this, you won't be distracted by your surroundings because they are all isolated from your eyes. Procrastination no more!

Camouflage

Camouflage helps you taking care of those cluttered icons on your Desktop with a single click as well as restoring them back.

Organizers

Celtx

Celtx helps you digitalize your ideas using digital approach instead of old-fashioned paper writings.

HierarchicalDock

Simplify your Dock stacks with HierarchicalDock which grants you easier access into the depth of your folders.

Do It

Do It aims for good management of to do lists.

DoBeDo

Organize your calendar right from your Dashboard.

System Maintenance Tools

OnyX

OnyX does the miscellaneous and tedious tasks for you, such as doing maintenance and system optimization.

OmniDiskSweeper

OmniDiskSweeper helps you organize and save your Mac disk space by deleting useless files.

Hardware Modifier and Analyzer Tools

iAlertU

iAlertU is a kind of alarm system for your MacBook that uses the SMS device to detect movement of your MacBook and will trigger alarm as set.

Lab Tick

With the aid of Lab Tick, controlling your PowerBook's backlit keyboard is a piece of cake.

iStat Pro

iStat Pro is a widget that will monitor and display out the inner process of your system.

Mactracker

Getting detailed information on every Mac and playing Mac startup sounds can be done with Mactracker.

Quick Look Plugins

BetterZip Quick Look Generator

With this Quick Look plugin, investigating inside your archived files won't be of a problem anymore.

EPSQLPlugin

EPSQLPlugin, a QuickLook plugin for Leopard, provides you the ability to preview .esp files.

Icon Creation Tools

Fluid

Fluid can create a separate desktop application for your webapps along with Dock icon and menu bar items.

img2icns

From now on, give the task of converting images to icons to img2icns.

IconGrabber

With IconGrabber, you can easily grab the icon from any file or folder.

Media Players

VLC

VLC is a cross-platform media player that has the ability to play various audio and video formats, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, etc.

ToolPlayer

ToolPlayers is a simple music player for your Mac which supports file types such as FLAC, MP3, etc.

File Compressions

7zX

If you need a smaller compression result, you should try 7zX.

StuffIt Expander

You will need StuffIt Expander for the urge of expanding compressed archives.

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You can also refer to Apple Official Website, IUseThis, or VersionTracker which also provide information of developers' work on 3rd party apps.