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Most of the time, Windows users are reluctant to switch to a Mac. One amongst many reasons is that they found it hard to search for free softwares/applications for the Mac. Some of them have already switched to a Mac, but they're still running Windows OS on a Mac.
It's such an irony that actually there are mountains of free Mac applications available for us. After days of working on this, I've come out with list of free and useful Mac applications.
I've categorized and arranged the order of applications so that it will be extremely easy for you to find applications you need for your Mac.
Continue reading and you will see fabulous list of 100+ Free Mac OS X Applications!
Productivity Tool
| 1 | Think Simple Utility to Help Concentrate On Your Current Activity |
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| 2 | SketchBox Sticky Notes Manager for Your Mac Desktop |
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| 3 | Slife Complete Interface for You to Completely Analyze your Activities |
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| 4 | Todos Dock Expansion to Put All of Your Applications |
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| 5 | Anxiety To-Do List Application that Synchronizes with iCal and Mail |
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| 6 | Backboard Application for Easier Taking Notes and Writing Down Tasks |
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| 7 | EtreTask Small, Fast and Easy-to-Use To-Do List Manager |
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| 8 | Out of Mind Simple and Elegant To-Do Application |
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| 9 | Camouflage Tool to Hide All Icons Behind Wallpaper |
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| 10 | iClockr Tool to Track Timeline for Different Tasks and Projects |
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| 11 | TaskMate Simple To-Do List Application |
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| 12 | Appointments Keep Records of Customers, Contact Persons and Related Important Events |
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| 13 | Evernote Synchronizable Evernote Service for Clipping Webpages, Taking Notes and Creating To-Do Lists |
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| 14 | SyncMate Synchronizer for Mac to Organize Documents, Text Messages, Contacts, etc |
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| 15 | PresentYourApps Helps You Hide the Dock and Menu Bar While Opening Cocoa Applications |
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| 16 | Dock Spaces Extend Spaces of Your Dock Up To 10 Different Docks |
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| 17 | MindNode Easy Mind-Mapping for Your Mac |
System
| 18 | OnyX Multifunction Utility for Maintenance, Optimization and Personalization of Your System |
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| 19 | Deeper Personalization Utility for Mac OS X which Reveals Hidden Settings |
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| 20 | EverSave Save All of Your Documents to Avoid Data Loss During Applications Crash |
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| 21 | Pref Setter Application to Edit Property List Files and Viewing Preference Files |
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| 22 | MacLoc Log Out from System without Closing Applications |
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| 23 | Caffeine Prevent Your Mac from Automatically Going to Sleep, Dimming the Screen or Starting Screen Savers |
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| 24 | SMART Reporter Protect Your Data with System Failure Prediction |
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| 25 | Loginox Application for Easier Customization of Login Screen |
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| 26 | Mactracker Mactracker Provides Detailed Information on Every Apple, Motorola, PowerComputing, and UMAX Mac OS Computers |
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| 27 | SuperDocker Little Application to Help You Modify Your Dock, Dashboard or Safari Loading Bar's Appearance with Simple Drag & Drop |
Tools and Utilities
| 28 | Burn Burning Application for Mac OS X |
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| 29 | Paparazzi! Utility for Mac OS X to Make Screenshots of Webpages |
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| 30 | Linotype FontExplorer X Font Management Application |
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| 31 | Growl Notification System for Mac OS X which allows your Growl-supported applications to send you notifications |
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| 32 | iStat Pro Highly Configurable Mac OS X Widget that Helps You Monitor Your System |
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| 33 | WeatherSnitch Weather Forecast on Your Menu Bar |
File Management
| 34 | AppCleaner Small Application to Allow You Thoroughly Uninstall Unwanted Apps |
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| 35 | AppFresh Application to Keep All Applications Up-To-Date |
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| 36 | Punakea Little App to Allow Your Manage Files by Tagging and Bookmarking |
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| 37 | NameChanger Rename List of Files Quickly and Easily |
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| 38 | Set Icon Application to Help You Set Custom Icon for Your Drives |
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| 39 | Carbon Copy Cloner Clone, Synchronize and Backup Your Files |
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| 40 | Monolingual Application for Mac OS X to Remove Unnecessary Language Resources |
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| 41 | SpotInside Search and Look Inside Documents |
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| 42 | SpotLook Graphical Interface to Mac OS X Leopard's Spotlight |
Application Launcher
| 43 | Quicksilver A Unified, Extensible Interface for Working with Applications, Contacts, Music, and Other Data |
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| 44 | Namely Application Launcher that Requires Less Time for Learning |
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| 45 | TigerLaunch Easy-to-configure Application Launcher for Mac OS X |
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| 46 | HimmelBar Configurable Custom Folders to Give Extra Space for Launching Applications |
Social Networking
| 47 | GarageBuy Client Application for Buying and Searching on the eBay Online Auction |
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| 48 | Delibar Delicious in Your Menu Bar |
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| 49 | Gabtastik Site Specific Browser for web chat services such as Facebook Chat |
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| 50 | EventSync Sync Your Facebook Events with iCal |
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| 51 | PhotoBook Facebook Photo Browser for Mac |
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| 52 | FMenu Facebook Events on your Menu Bar |
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| 53 | MiniTwit Tweet in a Fast and Dynamic Ways |
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| 54 | TwitterPod Twitter Client for Mac OS X |
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| 55 | Syrinx Customizable Twitter Client for Mac OS X Leopard |
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| 56 | Photo Grabbr Easily Download Photos and Photosets from a Flickr Account |
Chat Client
| 57 | Adium Free Universal Instant Messaging Application for Mac |
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| 58 | Microsoft Messenger MSN Messenger Client for Mac |
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| 59 | Skype Application for Phone Call over Internet |
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| 60 | Colloquy Advanced IRC, SILC and ICB Client |
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| 61 | Hab.la Live Chat Application with Website's Visitors |
Text Editor
| 62 | TextWrangler Fully Featured and Functional Text Editor |
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| 63 | NeoOffice Set of Office Applications for Mac OS X |
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| 64 | Aquamacs Emacs Mac OS X Text Editor Based on GNU Emacs |
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| 65 | Bean Small, Easy-to-use Word Processor Designed to Make Writing Convenient, Efficient and Comfortable |
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| 66 | Smultron Free and Easy-to-Use Text Editor for Mac OS X Leopard |
Email, RSS and Atom Reader
| 67 | Thunderbird Email Application to Help You Organize, Secure and Customize Your Mail |
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| 68 | NetNewsWire Easy-to-Use RSS and Atom NewsReader for Mac OS X |
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| 69 | Vienna Freeware and Open Source RSS/Atom Newsreader for Mac OS X |
PDF Reader
| 70 | Adobe Reader Adobe's Free Solution for Viewing PDF Documents |
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| 71 | Skim PDF Reader and Note-Taker for OS X |
FTP Client
| 72 | Cyberduck FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 Browser for Mac OS X |
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| 73 | Classic FTP Easy to Use FTP Client |
BitTorrent Client
| 74 | Transmission Multi-Platform BitTorrent Client |
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| 75 | Vuze The Reigning Heavy-Weight BitTorrent Client |
Network
| 76 | iStumbler Great Utility to Detect Wi-Fi Signals |
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| 77 | Visual NetTools Set of Network Scanning, Security, and Administrator Tools for Mac |
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| 78 | Remote Desktop Connection Client to Connect to a Microsoft Windows-Based Computer from Your Mac |
Web Browser
| 79 | Mozilla Firefox 3 Quick and Secure Web Browser |
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| 80 | Camino Open Source Web Browser for Mac OS X |
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| 81 | Opera Quick and Simple Web Browser for Your Mac |
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| 82 | Flock Web Browser that Makes Your Community Live Easier |
Audio
| 83 | Audacity Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor |
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| 84 | QLab Live Media Timelines for Mac OS X |
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| 85 | UltraMixer Professional Digital DJ Solution to Mix Digital Music in Various Formats |
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| 86 | ToolPlayer Simple Music Player for OS X that Supports FLAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, etc |
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| 87 | SimpleSynth Plug MIDI Keyboard and Play with SimpleSynth |
Video
| 88 | VLC Media Player Cross-Platform Multimedia Player |
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| 89 | RealPlayer Mac OS X Version of RealPlayer |
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| 90 | Flash Player Flash Player for Your Mac |
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| 91 | ooVoo Free Video Chat and Video Conferencing |
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| 92 | Jing Instantly Captures Images and Records Video |
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| 93 | FrameByFrame Stop Motion Movie Creator for Mac |
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| 94 | AutoRate iTunes Rating Made Easy |
Games
| 95 | Quinn A Tetromino Game for Mac OS X |
Image Editor
| 96 | Sweet Home 3D Application for Quick Interior Design |
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| 97 | Blender Open Source 3D Content Creation Suite |
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| 98 | GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program |
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| 99 | DrawBerry Application for Vectorial Drawing |
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| 100 | Xee Lightweight, Fast and Convenient Image Viewer and Browser |
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| 101 | Colorate Utility for Creation of Harmonized Color Palettes and Color Schemes |
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| 102 | Poladroid Create High Resolution Polaroid-like Pictures from Digital Photos |
File Compressor
| 103 | The Unarchiver Archive Unpacker Program for Mac OS X |
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| 104 | 7zX High Compression Ratio File Archiver |
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| 105 | UnRarX Cocoa Application to Expand RAR Archives |
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| 106 | Stomp Video Re-Compressor |
| 107 | Google Earth Application that Shows You the World's Geographic Information |
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| 108 | Google Notifier Notification Tool for Gmail and Gcal Events |
Uploader
| 109 | Flickr Uploadr Tool to Help You Send Pictures to Flickr Photo Service |
Programming IDE
| 110 | MySQL Most Popular Open Source SQL Database |
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| 111 | NetBeans IDE for Different Programming Languages |
QuickTime Plugin
| 112 | Flip4Mac WMV QuickTime Plugin for Playing WMA Content |
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| 113 | Perian QuickTime Component that Adds Native Support for Many Popular Video Formats |
Converter
| 114 | HandBrake DVD to MPEG-4 Converter |
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| 115 | Senuti Transfer Songs from Your iPod Back to Your Computer |
I humbly say that I, as a mere human, don't have a capability to foresee any bugs for any of the applications mentioned above; I deliver what I've seen and experienced during the time of using my Mac.
If you've any enquiries regarding to the applications, kindly approach the corresponding application's developer which link to the homepage has been provided.
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73 Comments
Smash
Another for me... http://tuppis.com/smultron/ (editor) http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/ (uninstall application) Thank you this list is perfect :D
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Robert
Best weather program for Mac, IMHO, is WeatherDock. It's beautiful to look at and it works extremely well. Weathersnitch doesn't come close. Link: http://www.alwintroost.nl/?id=52
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Chet
isn't AppZapper shareware?
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Chet
isn't AppZapper shareware?
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Iury
Great List! PS: OverFlow and AppZapper are not free.
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Wendy
Oops.. Sorry for that, I've removed those applications that are not shareware.. Please check with me if there are still some sharewares included..
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Pat
Audio Hijack Pro is a Shareware, not a freeware.
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Brian
What a great list!! I was just wondering today about all the great apps out there that are free and are just great at what they do. Perfect timing!
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Wendy
Thanks Pat, it's removed now.
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Tomas
Vienna is great and free app for RSS and Atom. http://vienna-rss.sourceforge.net/
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Ben
Awesome list. How about SuperDocker, Skitch, Poladroid :D They're all free and awesome, visit www.suberapps.com to read more about them and other awesome apps. :)
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Wendy
To Tomas & Ben: Added, Thanks.
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JG
You should add Plex, which is turning into an ever greater home theater program, and it is free! www.plexapp.com
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Robert
Let's not forget InstantShot! and Dockdrop, two freeware programs that I use frequently. Oh...and ScreenShade.
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ansel
I think MAMP is more useful (also free) than pointing people towards the MySQL site. Great list, thanks!
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Hemu
This is an awesome list. Exactly what I wanted.
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Moshe
Tnx for your great list! I think you should add one more video watch app that called Movist. It is great application almost like vlc but the best thing about it that you have much more control and Especially with subtitles that it present it with great view and not like vlc that make the sub to look bad. in conclusion i am hopping that you will take a look on this program and if i am not wrong it developed by google.
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Kirt
err... no vim? you have aquamacs emacs, but no vim for the vi fans! otherwise an awesome list.
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Alessandro
In "Programming IDE" you could add Eclipse also ;)
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Justin
Check out Songbird for an alternative to iTunes. It's almost out of beta, and it's outstanding. www.getsongbird.com
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John francisco
amazing list… thx. pretty sure to find something cool…
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Mahmoud
Great List ! There are also some interesting GTD free applications like things (so far still free) and iGTD Thanks
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Patrick Thompson
I think NameMangler is a much better file renaming app than NameChanger. http://www.manytricks.com/namemangler/
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Adam
Interesting list, with a good few intriguing apps I've not heard of before, but … no NewsFire? It's the most attractive (and my favoured) RSS reader, and it's now free.
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Chris Pratt
I don't get MacLoc. You can add the built-in Mac OS X fast user switching menu item to the menubar and from there choose the "Login Window..." menu item. Why install a program to get functionality that's already baked in?
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Gerry
Hi, have you tried xbmc from xbmc.org It is a multi platform media ctr and was originally the Xbox Media Ctr, I am using it and it has a great GUI
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MNO
This one is still the best list, when just getting started
http://www.macnewsonline.com/wp/the-ultimate-mac-apps-list/
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Edgardo
What about Eclipse has programming IDE?
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Edgardo
What about Eclipse as programming IDE?
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Phil
The editor category is missing MacVim (http://code.google.com/p/macvim), a great OS X port of the venerable vim text editor.
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scottishsimon
Sidenote (http://www.chatelp.org/?p=50) is a great note-taking, image-storing free app which slides out of the side of the screen. I use it every day. Also InstantShot! (http://projects.digitalwaters.net/index.php?q=ishot_download) is great for screenshots. Glad to see you've got a lot of my faves! Great list!
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Terry Wang
Wow, wonderful post. It should be the first thing one should read before switching to Mac. I will post this on my website and via Twitter. I found that I use most of them, good sign. I like free stuff:) Thanks guys!
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Nanda Firdausi
You must like afloat. It can make any windows float over other windows
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Amgad Suliman
Great post, usually lists like these are mostly games. I think I will be using most of these apps
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Rodrigo
Very good list! congratulations and thanks. I am from Chile. You coul do the same with paid aplications.
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Juno
Gente en la página web: http://www.mimac.es Hay todo esto y más y además en español para los que el inglés nos nubla la vista!
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submyt.com
wonderful stuff for me and other designers too. Suraish Patel http://www.submyt.com
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Dan
just bought my MAC and can't wait to install these!
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sergio
I feel insulted that you left out MacVim from the free editor apps. Just joking, great work. Thanks for the list!
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jopicar
Nice and Great list!! Thanks for sharing All the best!!
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penflare
WOW. THIS. IS. AMAZING. THANK. YOU.
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rep12
This article is fantastic. Thank you. This is like definitive for me!
On a side note, and not to detract from the greatness of this article, Stomp is not freeware. It leaves a watermark.
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Jedive
Awesome list. Many programs I didn't know. One things I feel it's missing is the AppTrap uninstaller (http://konstochvanligasaker.se/apptrap/). One thing I like over other alternatives is that you don't have to do anything special to use it, it's perfectly integrated into Finder. That means that when you move an application to the Trash Bin, it shows a pop-up with the list of files that the app is leaving on the system, and you can also move them to the trash in a single click.
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Carny
Filezilla now has an OS X native FTP client.
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Moshe
If you want Uploader Manager for Rapidshare try out this app that called "RSUploaderX". i think it is great app and moreover, i don't think that you can find any app like this for rapidshare for mac. here is it's Website http://www.fbis.ch/index-de.php?frameset=4&pagenum=50
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