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Your top 5 (or so) freeware/shareware apps for OS X?
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Feb 2003
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What are some of your favorite free/cheap shareware programs, and what are they?
(In no particular order)
1) Transmit - ftp
2) Mac Stumbler - presence/singal/strength of wireless networks
3) ClearDock - removes translucent background from the Dock
4) Camino - browser
5) VLC - media player
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: columbus, oh
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Transmit
CSSEdit
Candybar
VLC
Firebird
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"Another classic science-fiction show cancelled before its time" ~ Bender
15.2" PowerBook 1.25GHz, 80GB HD, 768MB RAM, SuperDrive
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Europe
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- CSSEdit
- Salling Clicker
- Safari, Mail, Address Book, iCal, iChat etc...
- Hydra
- Mellel
- R-name
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Viva Chile Mierda
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Proteus
iApps
VLC
BitTorrent
osXigen (ftp)
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:: Frankenstein / LCD-less TiBook - 1GHz - Radeon 9000 64MB - 1GB RAM - w/ext. 250GB FW Drive - Noname USB Bluetooth Dongle - D-Link USB 2.0 PCMCIA Card - Dell 2407WFP - X.5.2
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Riverside IL, USA
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Thoth
Rosetta
RBrowserLite
Meteorologist (when it works)
Default Folder (to be obviated by Panther)
vlc
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
-- Frederick Douglass, 1857
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: New York, NY
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in no particular order:
(1) iApps
(2) OmniApps (I love OmniWeb, depend on OmniOutliner, and think OmniGraffle is a deal for what it does - plus OmniDictionary (free!) is extremely convenient)
(3) iConquer - great risk game - first game I've seen that looks like it was built for OS X - rendezvous & internet networking, plugins, GORGEOUS maps, etc.
(4) Acquisition - for all your gnutella needs, SO much better than limewire
(5) Meteorologist - free menu bar weather - most customizable I've seen
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cpac
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: always on the sunny side
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LaunchBar
LaunchBar and
LaunchBar
Thoth
Hotapp
Did I mention LaunchBar?
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Santa Fe
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- Carbon Copy Cloner
- Proteus
- NetNewsWire Lite
- GraphicConverter
- Transmit
(Last edited by hyperizer : Nov 3, 2003 at 10:11 AM
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: St. John's
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1. StickyBrain
2. Camino Knight / CaminIcon
3. Disk Tracker
4. Sound Studio
5. NoteTaker
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Close to the sea and a place with a big, big castle...
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Not in any specific order:
Thoth
Curator (Shame that Caffeine Software are no more!)
PrefEdit
FruitMenu
ClearDock
MenuMeters
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: I  NY
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no order
launchbar
ilife
ichat av
proteus
vlc
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Vermont(the biggest and most interesting state in the country)
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1.) transparent dock-customize alot of things about the dock
2.) VLC
3.) DVDBackup-backs up DVDs
4.) Fetch-FTP app
5.) AACelerator-converts to AAC in quicktime much faster than it would be manually
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I think I think...therefore, I think I am.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: New York, NY
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Liteswitch
iChat
msft remote desktop (faster then virt pc)
emacs
iTunes
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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LaunchBar! - the only way to fly in Mac OS X
MyMind - a small outliner + map, which I use for my to-do list
Clutter - a more traditional way to view my music
WindowShade X - while waiting for Exposé
FotoWire - iPhoto won't give me prints in Europe, but I don't care; FotoWire beats it anyway
And FocusLayer, which I sparked here at the dev forum, but which now appears to be siteless
There are tons. These are of the more functional kind
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: UCSD
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In no particular order (because I don't feel like thinking about it):
1. iApps, plus Safari
2. ThemeChanger
3. ThemePark
4. Snard
5. Cocktail
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: The Sar Chasm
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Dragthing
Fruit Menu
Show Desktop
Sound Studio
Watson
I also get some use out of
Windowshade X
Default Folder
Acquisition
Captain FTP
Desktop Calendar
Drop JPEG
Little Secrets
Weather Pop
CV
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We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Malaysia
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1) OpenOffice 1.0.3 (by far my #1)
2) VLC
3) Fugu
4) Konfabulator
5) Safari (not sure if it should count, but it is based on open source software)
[many of these will be replaced by panther out of the box]
---gralem
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: New York
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The four applications that I use most often on my Mac happen to all be freeware (sort of):
1. Adium
2. Safari
3. Mail.app
4. iTunes
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Chico, CA and Carlsbad, CA.
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In no particular order:
1. VLC
2. Adium
3. MenuMeters (since NetMonitor is shareware now  )
4. Terminal.app
5. BitTorrent (Amazing technology.  )
6. Spy (the CPU monitor. mmmmua!)
(Last edited by [APi]TheMan : Jul 1, 2003 at 05:06 PM
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"In Nomine Patris, Et Fili, Et Spiritus Sancti"
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Tempe, AZ
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In no particular order: - LaunchBar (I actually have a broken spacebar because I use it so much)
- DragThing (although I'm only using it to show running programs right now)
- PTH menubar extras - PTHClock, PTHITunesNotifier, and PTHCPUMonitor
- Camino - I can't live without keyword bookmarks and type-ahead-find and Safari ain't got 'em.
- Cocoa Browser - indispensable while coding
- MathRPN - excellent RPN scientific calculator
- VLC - ugliest interface in the world, but an excellent program
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Geekspiff - generating spiffdiddlee software since before you began paying attention.
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Netherlands
Status:
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1: VLC (i may be a bit biased in this  )
2: Fugu (we lost from them at the Design Awards, and i have to say it is GOOD
3: Stuffit Expander (why are so many ppl taking this baby for granted)
4: Seti@home (run it all the time)
5: OpenOffice.org (even though it f#cked up my custom build environment i keep for VLC by installing it's own version of dlcompat )
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Derk-Jan Hartman, Student of the University Twente (NL), developer of VLC media player
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Los Angeles, CA.
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Launchbar
Microsoft Word (yes, you read that correctly!)
Kung-log
Page Sender
Transmit

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