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Online web tools from Macintosh.

Password Manager + AutoFill for Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Syncs via Dropbox

AbiWord is a free word processing program. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Works in Linux, Mac, PC

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

Aion is a program that enables You to keep track of actual time in other time zones. Aion is an applicaiton for the MacOS X operating system

AppFresh helps you to keep all applications (third-party and Apple), widgets, preference panes and application plugins on your Mac up to date, from one place. It works by checking the excellent iusethis.com for new versions and lets you download and install available updates easily.

Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.

Aurora is a free Alarm Clock for your Mac that lets you wake up to your favorite iTunes playlist or any TV or radio channel from EyeTV.

Mac OS X alarm clock.

Macintosh data backup program.

The Bastille Hardening program "locks down" an operating system, proactively configuring the system for increased security and decreasing its susceptibility to compromise. Bastille can also assess a system's current state of hardening, granularly reporting on each of the security settings with which it works.

Quite simply, this makes securing a Linux box a simple, educational process. And it's free!

Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. It was built for Mac OS X.

Filemaker's personal database software designed for Mac users.

Billable is an application for Mac OS X that helps you keep track of the billable services you perform for a client and then lets you create and manage invoices based on those services.

BluePhoneElite brings your Bluetooth cellphone's call and text messaging of your features to OS X with a simple, yet powerful interface.

Burning application for Mac OS X

Butler's purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks on your Mac.

Share, browse, and subscribe to iCal calendar

Macintosh program to customize and organize icons.

Interact with a remote computer as if it's next to you. Great for troubleshooting, maintenance and all of those relatives who call you up for Mac help. Requires that the remote computer have VNC client software running (10.4 has this built-in, otherwise d

Displays info about your laptop battery

Automatic trash management tool for Mac OS X.

A general ledger and payroll accounting software.

Commercial-supported package of WINE, a Win32 API compatibility layer, that allows Mac and Linux users to run Microsoft products without having to run the Windows operating system.

CSS Editor for Macintosh

Cyberduck is an open source FTP and SFTP client for Mac OS X. Cyberduck is easy to use and includes features such as uploading and downloading by drag and drop. It can also synchronise files and directories. Cyberduck includes a bookmark manager and supports the Mac OS X Keychain and Bonjour networking

Turn a flash drive or multi use storage device into a Mac OS X diagnostic, repair, and maintenance tool.

Download utility based on wget command line tool.

Mac OS X widgit that will display the tracking status of your packages.

Direct Mail is the best mailing list management and mail delivery software for Mac OS X.

CD & DVD creation tool

Dock-It is a multifunctional dock and Finder enhancer for the Mac OS X operating system.

an application dock for Mac OS X

Disk utility for OS X

Macintosh program to access remote files within any application.

FTP/SFTP client for Macs

Finance management solution based on the principles of double entry accounting which allows both individuals and small businesses to track where money is spent using automatically generated graphs and reports.

Financial calculator for Mac OS X.

Firefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla

Digital Media Tools for the Mac

Seamlessly run Windows, Linux and other PC operating systems on your Intel-based Mac.

Macintosh client application for buyers on eBay.

GeekTool is a PrefPane (System Preferences module) for Panther or Tiger to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop (or even in front of all windows).

a voip/IM client like Skype, but based on open protocols

Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

GPGTools is a collection of several softwares, bringing encryption/decryption and signing of e-mails and files, to you on your mac.

GraphicConverter X/Classic converts pictures to different formats

gSpell is a service for Mac OS X that provides spelling suggestions from Google.

With HoudahGeo you may "pin" photos to the locations where they were taken.

Free, graphical FTP client

iAlertU is a very cool alarm system for the MacBook Pro.

Personal and small business financial manager.

Personal finance manager for Mac OS X

Calendaring application for Mac OS X

Macintosh DVD creation software.

Video creation software.

Mac program to autocomplete your words and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts.

iP2F is a plugin that makes it extremely easy to upload your pictures from iPhoto 2 Flickr.

eBay auctioning client for the Mac.

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X

Iusethis is macintosh free service that allows one organize one's applications as well as discover new ones. You can also use it to check if your apps are up-to-date

Macintosh website creation software.

Full-screen text editor.

Macintosh lets you open things by typing an abbreviation.

To-do list software for Mac.

Lilt utilizes the ambient light and sudden motion sensors found on recent Apple Macintosh portable computers to trigger actions

A utility for uploading, downloading, and transcoding GPS data among GPS devices, GPX files, and KML files (for Google Earth).

Apple's server operating system.

A FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism for Mac OS X

MacGPS Pro supports almost all GPS receivers

Mac journaling and blog software

MacSaber uses your Mac's sudden motion sensor to detect movements, fast and slow

Voice-to-text dictation software.

Mailplane is an application that combines the best of two worlds: Gmail and your Mac.

The abbreviation MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. This is a standalone installer that will install Apache, mySQL and PHP on Mac OSX without interfereing with the existing OSX Apache installation. Run web-based services locally or use it

Max - An Audio Swiss Army Knife

MiniBatteryLogger monitors your laptop’s battery. It traces the graph of charge and amperage over time, compares your battery with other users, logs relevant power events and alerts you with Growl notifications.

Download and watch high resolution internet TV shows and videos in one application. New channels arrive daily in the built-in Channel Guide.

Synchronizing service for iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC.

MoRU is an application that provides an enhanced interface to Apple's Spotlight searching tool

Note-taking application for Mac OS X.

NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applicationsfor Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite

Network visualization, including dynamics

RSS aggregator for the Mac.

Nicecast can help you create your own internet radio station

Norton Internet Security provides protection from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, port scans, privacy intrusions, and lurkers that intercept personal information.

Mac MindMapping Software.

A complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users (Offers functionality found in FrontPage and Dreamweaver).

Personal organization program for Mac OS X.

It allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Exposé, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome.

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Pacifist is a shareware application that opens Mac OS X .pkg package files, .dmg disk images, and .tar, .tgz, and .tar.gz file archives and allows you to extract individual files and folders out of them

Full Featured fax software for Mac OS X

Take screenshots of websites/pages that you can print out *on one page*. Great for archiving, presentations, etc. esp. when not connected to the Internet.

“Pdftotext” is a shell program for converting PDF (Portable Document Format / Adobe Acrobat) documents into plain text.

Support for editing, managing, enhancing, and sharing photos. Includes tools for photo corrections, retouching, and color correction. Common editing tasks can be recorded and used on multiple photos. Also includes set of drawing and painting tools.

Image editor for Mac OS X

PortableOSX - tools to install and manage stripped down and "portables" versions of Mac OS X.

Viewing, editing and annotating PDF and image files, including PDF, JPG, GIF, HDR, TIFF, PSD, PICT, PNG, BMP, RAW, SGI, and DAE, importing images from scanners and cameras and taking screen shots. Part of the basic Apple software package.

Open source emulator; run Windows/Linux on Mac, etc.

A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.

Remote control and network management software.

rooSwitch Lite - easily move application settings back and forth for testing and backup.

Macintosh website creation tool.

Unlock the hidden display capabilities of your iBook! Makes it possible to split your displays (vs. just mirroring them)

create pdf & html lessons from screen captures

SeisMac is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that makes your MacBook or MacBook Pro into a seismograph. It access your laptop's Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs.

Service uninstaller for OS X

Donor management suite for PCs and Macs

Note-taking application for Mac OS X.

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.

Mac OS X data backup software.

Smultron is a text editor written in Cocoa for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later

Powerful desktop snapshot utility

Synchronize Google Calendar and Apple iCal.

SSH Tunnel Manager is a front-end for the ssh command when used to open tunnels between two hosts.

File compression software

Open-source calendar that works with the Mozilla suite of tools or by itself.

Spreadsheet tool for Mac OS X.

TeamViewer allows presenters to share PC or Mac desktops with participants on PCs or Macs.

Handy utility to make it easy to clean up Internet text littered with extraneous characters and poor formatting.

Archive unpacker program for Mac OS X.

Usenet newsreader

Address Book program for Mac OS X.

Automatic backup program for Mac Leopard.

TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.

OpenVPN GUI for OSX

Small application, lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community website.

Full-featured USENET / news client exclusively for Mac OS X,

VaultletSuite 2 Go is privacy protecting software that installs on your hard drive or your thumb/USB drive. It uses Open Source 2048 bit RSA public key and 256 AES encryption, and provides easy-to-use (transparent) encrypted and controllable email and password protects important files.

A virtual desktop manager for Apple’s Mac OS.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Organize all your random notes with this easy-to-use local wiki tool. Multiple categories, freelinking, power search -- finally, all your notes in one place, and easy to retrieve. Great for to-do lists, too. For Mac OS 10 plus.

WengoPhone is a free software Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) service. It allows users to speak at no cost from one computer to another. It also allows users to call landlines, cellphones, send SMS, make video calls and chat using various Instant Messaging services. WengoPhone is a FOSS alternative to proprietary systems such as Skype.

WorldTimes is a clear and compact world clock for OS X that displays up to 12 different time zones from a database of more than 420 worldwide locations.

Full-screen text editor.

A Swiss Army Knife for Mac OSX

FTP software for Mac OS X