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 | Mac App Store (free)
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
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
RSS
Peer-to-Peer Filesharing
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
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
CD / DVD Burning
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
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
Sound Recording
Graphics, Photo, Publishing
FTP / SFTP
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
IRC
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
Buddi
A personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background.Download Page
MSN Chat
More Web Browsing
PDF Viewer
Screensaver
More Filesharing
3D Graphics and Modeling
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 light-polluted. Used in real planetariums.Download Page
Also see: macORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis
Comic Viewer
Dance Dance Revolution
Games
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
Also see: Snes9X (SNES emulator), Frozen Bubble, PySol for Mac (card games), PLANESHIFT (3D Fantasy MMORPG), VDrift (drift racing simulation).
del.icio.us Client
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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