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.
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Camino
Based on the same Mozilla foundation as Firefox, Camino is a more native OS X app. Fast and simple.
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.
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Camino
Based on the same Mozilla foundation as Firefox, Camino is a more native OS X app. Fast and simple.
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Video Player / Video 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.
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IM - Instant Messaging
Adium
Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber. Beautiful, themable interface.
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Application Launching
Quicksilver
Quảng cáo
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.
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Software packs
MacLibre
Installs a pack of great open source apps (including many on this page) and keeps them updated for you.
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Mozilla Thunderbird
Quảng cáo
Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
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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!
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RSS
Vienna
Very nice, native RSS client.
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RSSOwl
Solid cross-platform RSS client.
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Peer-to-Peer Filesharing
Cabos
A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network.
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Transmission
Very nice torrent downloader.
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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.
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Podcasting
Juice
Solid podcasting client.
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Video Playback
VLC
Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface.
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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.
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Perian
A plugin that allows quicktime to play additional video formats. (Included in Democracy Player.)
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iPod Ripping
Senuti
Get music off of your iPod onto any computer.
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iPodDisk
Copy music off your iPod in the finder, like a regular disk drive.
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DVD Ripping
Handbrake
DVD ripper and MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. Very simple to use.
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CD / DVD Burning
Burn
CD and DVD Burner. Burn any video to a disc that plays in your DVD player!
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Privacy
Vidalia
This TOR frontend keeps you anonymous on the web using military-grade techniques. For use with Firefox see: TorButton.
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Word Processing / Office Suites
Bean
Very fast and easy to use word processor. Live word count, autosaving, more.
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NeoOffice
Built on OpenOffice.org. Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
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AbiWord
A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
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Wifi Scanning
KisMac
The best wireless scanner for Mac. Find wireless access when you're on the go.
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Sound Recording
Audacity
Simple sound recording tool.
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Graphics, Photo, Publishing
Seashore
Based on Gimp, but doesn't require X11.
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Xee
Fast image viewer and image browser.
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Gimp.app
Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features (requires X11).
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Inkscape
Vector graphics application (requires X11).
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Scribus
Desktop publishing. Complicated install, but a nice app.
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FTP / SFTP
Cyberduck
Very good all-around ftp program.
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OneButton FTP
Simple, fast FTP, with a focus on "advanced queuing".
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Fugu
Not as polished as Cyberduck (and only for SFTP) but has a side by side interface showing your files and the remote files.
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HTML / Text Editing
Smultron
Text / html editor. Integrates with Cyberduck for editing websites.
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Nvu
Visual tool for making websites (WYSIWYG html editor), comparable to Dreamweaver.
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IRC
Colloquy
Great IRC client.
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