Mac Free Software

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Web Browsing

Mozilla Firefox
The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser. Download Page

Video Player, Torrents, Podcasting

Miro
Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than quicktime). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others. Download Page

IM - Instant Messaging

Adium
Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber. Beautiful, themable interface. Download Page

Video Converter, iPhone Converter

Miro Video Converter
Convert any type of video to mp4 or theora. Convert any video for use with iPhone, iPod, Android, etc. Very clean, easy to use interface. Download Page

Application Launching

Quicksilver
Quicksilver lets you start applications (and do just about everything) with a few quick taps of your fingers. Warning: start using Quicksilver and you won't be able to imagine using a Mac without it. Download Page

Email

Mozilla Thunderbird
Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need. Download Page

Utilities

The Unarchiver
Uncompress RAR, 7zip, tar, and bz2 files on your Mac. Many new Mac users will be puzzled the first time they download a RAR file. Do them a favor and download UnRarX for them! Download Page

DVD Ripping

Handbrake
DVD ripper and MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. Very simple to use. Download Page

RSS

Vienna
Very nice, native RSS client. Download Page

RSSOwl
Solid cross-platform RSS client. Download Page

Peer-to-Peer Filesharing

Cabos
A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network. Download Page

SolarSeek
Soulseek filesharing for Mac, in a simple, solid client. Download Page

Transmission
Very nice torrent downloader. Download Page

Running Windows Software on Macs

Q Emulator
Run Windows programs on your Intel Mac at near native speed. Works on G4 / G5 Macs too, but much slower. Download Page

Podcasting

Juice
Solid podcasting client. Download Page

Video Playback

VLC
Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface. Download Page

MPlayer
The interface and buttons are not as nice or as Mac-like in feel, but it may play even more video files than VLC. Download Page

Perian
A plugin that allows quicktime to play additional video formats. (Included in Democracy Player.) Download Page

iPod Ripping

iPodDisk
Copy music off your iPod in the finder, like a regular disk drive. Download Page

CD / DVD Burning

Burn
CD and DVD Burner. Burn any video to a disc that plays in your DVD player! Download Page

Privacy

Vidalia
This TOR frontend keeps you anonymous on the web using military-grade techniques. For use with Firefox see: TorButton. Download Page

Word Processing / Office Suites

Bean
Very fast and easy to use word processor. Live word count, autosaving, more. Download Page

OpenOffice
OpenOffice is a full-featured, office suite compatible with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Friends don't let friends pay for Microsoft Office. Download Page

AbiWord
A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format. Download Page

Wifi Scanning

KisMac
The best wireless scanner for Mac. Find wireless access when you're on the go. Download Page

Sound Recording

Audacity
Simple sound recording tool. Download Page

Graphics, Photo, Publishing

Seashore
Based on Gimp, but doesn't require X11. Download Page

Formulate Pro
An easy way to fill-out (or sign) PDFs that Preview can't edit. Download Page

Xee
Fast image viewer and image browser. Download Page

Gimp.app
Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features (requires X11). Download Page

Inkscape
Vector graphics application (requires X11). Download Page

Scribus
Desktop publishing. Complicated install, but a nice app. Download Page

FTP / SFTP

Cyberduck
Very good all-around ftp program. Download Page

OneButton FTP
Simple, fast FTP, with a focus on "advanced queuing". Download Page

Fugu
Not as polished as Cyberduck (and only for SFTP) but has a side by side interface showing your files and the remote files. Download Page

HTML / Text Editing

Smultron
Text / html editor. Integrates with Cyberduck for editing websites. Download Page

Nvu
Visual tool for making websites (WYSIWYG html editor), comparable to Dreamweaver. Download Page

IRC

Colloquy
Great IRC client. Download Page

Web Development

WaveMaker
A visual development tool for building great-looking web and cloud applications. Download Page

Note Taking

Freemind
An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it. Download Page

Personal Finance

Cashbox
Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances. Download Page

Buddi
A personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. Download Page

MSN Chat
AMSN Messenger

More Web Browsing

Shiira
Fast, nice web browser. Download Page

SunriseBrowser
Good webkit-based browser created with special tools for web designers. Download Page

Seamonkey
Full-featured Mozilla browser, used to be called 'Mozilla Suite'. Download Page

PDF Viewer

Skim
PDF viewer. Download Page

Screensaver

Electric Sheep
Immersive, trippy screensaver. Download Page

More Filesharing

Tomato Torrent
Download torrents. Nice and simple. Download Page Also see: Poisoned - Azureus

3D Graphics and Modeling

Blender
Powerful 3D Modeling software. Download Page Also see: Persistence of Vision Raytracer - Art of Illusion - Wings 3D - Quesa - Open Media Toolkit

Planetariums and Outer Space

Celestia
Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space). Download Page

Stellarium
"Renders realistic skys in realtime." See what you would see if your city wasn't so lightpolluted. Used in real planetariums. Download Page Also see: macORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis

Comic Viewer

Jomic
Read digital comics. Download Page

Dance Dance Revolution

Stepmania
Dance Dance Revolution clone. Can connect to external dance pads. Download Page

Games

Cube
Nice first-person shooter. Download Page

Marathon: Aleph One
Engine for Bungie's free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps. Download Page

Zombies
3D zombie strategy game. Download Page

Armagetron Advanced
3D Tron game. Download Page

BZFlag
First-person tank game. Download Page

Battle for Wesnoth
Fantasy / Strategy Game Download Page Also see: Snes9X (SNES emulator), Frozen Bubble, PySol for Mac (card games), PLANESHIFT (3D Fantasy MMORPG), VDrift (drift racing simulation).

del.icio.us Client

Cocoalicious
Let's you easily post to del.icio.us. Download Page

Free File Hosting

CC Publisher
Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader. Download Page

Quick Links
Viewers Comic viewer: Comical Comic viewer: FFView OpenDocument viewing application: ODF Viewer RSS and Usenet RSS Reader: Feed Cross-platform RSS reader: BlogBridge RSS video podcast player: I/ON Usenet Reader: OSXnews IM, IRC, Chat Multi-IM: Fire Powerful IRC client: X-Chat Aqua Videoconferencing client: XMeeting PBX / Voip system: Asterisk Graphics and Art Draw on a moving canvas: Cosmic Painter Image editor: Seashore An artwork scaling calculator: Scaletron! A Paint-like program designed for pixel-pushers: Pixen A VRML/X3D Browser: FreeWRL

Video Realtime Editing and Effects System: Jahshaka Video transcoder: ffmpegX MPEG convertor: MPEG Streamclip Music and Audio OGG Vorbis encoder (ogg is an open source audio codec): Ogg Drop Music notation: LilyPond Play and compose live music: Miraton Max/MSP style realtime music and multimedia environment: Pd Manage chords, lyrics, and projection: OpenSong Wifi / Networking Discover open wifi networks: iStumbler A Prism/Prism2 driver 802.11: WirelessDriver Fast, lightweight VNC client: Chicken of the VNC VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse: OSXvnc Utilities Manage disk space: DiskInventoryX Book management: Books CD / DVD Burning: SimplyBurns Disable sleep on a Mac: InsomniaX Protect your laptop with a car-alarm style alarm: Multialarm Remove extra languages from OSX to save disk space: Monolingual System event notifications: Growl System performance monitors: MenuMeters Virtual desktop tool: Desktop Manager Virus checker: ClamXav Share mouse and keyboard between 2 or more computers: SynergyKM and Quick Synergy Check available RAM: Memtest Monitor CPU, RAM, battery, CPU temp, network, I/O, and more: X Resource Graph Control your Mac via Bluetooth: Romeo Writing and Typesetting Screenplay writing and pre-production support: Celtx Bibliography manager, BibTeX .bib format: BibDesk Typesetting - TeX previewer for Mac OS X: TeXShop Typesetting: iTexMac Education

Education course management system: Moodle Student information system: Focus / SIS Another student information system: Centre Programming Development platform: Eclipse SQL Editor: YourSQL Math and Engineering General purpose computer algebra system: Yacas GNU S language: R MATLAB style rapid engineering and scientific prototyping / data processing: FreeMat

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