In the spirit of the free software thread in the windows forum I thought I would start a thread on your favorite free apps for Mac's. I know when I am talking to people about making the switch I tell them they can do pretty much everything on a Mac that they do on their PC. Here are some of my favorites some are cross platform as well.
VLC - Excellent Media player
Transmission - Torrents. Clean simple and fast.
Cyberduck - Simple FTP program
Handbrake - Video Transcoding
Quicksilver - Multi-Application launcher
Adium - Messaging application
FireFTP - Add on for firefox for FTP
PS3 Media Server - Streaming MKV files to my PS3
Monolingual - Cleans out languages not needed.
CoRd - Remote Desktop App
Some to add
Carbon Copy Cloner Clone and backup
Celestia - stars program
Chicken of the VNC - eh VNC
Mr Tides 3 - tides
OpenOffice (or Neooffice) Office suite
Pic-a-Pod - Download Picture of Day from NASA etc
SkyOrb - another stars program
Stellarium - Solar system
Vine server - VNC server
Weatherdock - menubar weather
Just started using Google Quick Search Box. Developed by the same guy who created Quicksilver. It hasn't replaced Quicksilver for me yet, but it looks very promising at an early stage.
JollysFastVNC - another VNC client, possibly better than Chicken of the VNC
Flip4Mac - WMV player plugin for browsers
uTorrent
Growl - multi-app notification system
Perian - plug in for QuickTime, adds support for many video formats.
(along with Flip4Mac & Flash - it's all you really need)
Paparazzi - creates screenshots of webpages
Max - creates/converts high-quality audio files/CDs into various formats
Onyx - Utility to maintain, optimize and modift system appearance
Audacity - Audio editor
Plex - although still in beta, it's a pretty amazing HTPC. Far superior to Apple's FrontRow.
a tool which shows you the current charge of your battery - it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your battery had as it left the factory.
You also get information about the battery-loadcycles (how often did you fully load your battery), the current charger (coconutBattery even warns you if you plugged in a wrong charger for your Notebook) and last but not least information about the age of your Mac.
an application to read out all accessible temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can visualize the history graphs of the readings, display measured values in a large variety of fashions
Cyberduck - Open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files,Google Docs & Amazon S3 Browser for Mac & Windows
FileZilla - Open source FTP solution.
Burn - Disc burning (included in OS X)
Skype - Voice and video call conferencing.
iTunes - media player (included in OS X)
VLC - media player
UnRarX - Mac OS X RAR Extraction Utility
MacTheRipper - DVD Ripper
HandBrake - Video conversion
Firefox - Web Browser
FLACer - Rip Music CD's into Flac format
Caffeine - Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu. The menu now has a sub-menu for deactivating Caffeine automatically after a number of minutes.
VirusBarrier Express - antivirus program for Intel systems running 10.6 or later. Viruses still aren't much of an issue on Macs, but it's nice to be able to check files that you've received from or are sending to pc users, in the interest of their safety, if not yours.
I have ripped about 15 favorite songs from my favorite concert DVD's. I want to burn a compliation DVD with 1 song per chapter, keeping the original video and audio tracks intact. I assumed it would be trivial to do this on a Mac.
But I soon noticed that the Burning and iMovie apps seem to want to reprocess these. I think it's trying to unify the video and audio to some common denominator, but that's not what I want.
I only want to make one or two of these 'best of' discs, so a free and easy app is the preference.
Try "Burn" it should do the trick. Link > h**p://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
Cheers
Just tested it out and you can make a very basic but functional Title Screen and Chapter Screen. A looping option is also available, perfect for your compilation DVD.
XBMC - Complete media center solution for Windows, OSX, Linux, and more!
Mountain Tweaks - Brand new tweaking tool to deal with the annoying changes in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Cheers
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