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Free
Software for Mac OS |
Short description |
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Q Emulator
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Q [kju:] emulator is
a feature packed Cocoa port of QEMU: Run Linux, Windows, and other
systems on your Mac. |
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Juice
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Want to listen to internet
audio programs (podcasts), music and shows but can't when they
are scheduled? Juice is for you. Juice lets users select and download
shows and music and play whenever they want on their iPods, portable
digital media players, or computers automatically. It supports most
RSS protocols and scans for enclosures. If the enclosure is in the
form of a BitTorrent file, it will download the torrent file in the
background. If the mediaplayer on the system supports it, the downloaded
content is automatically added to playlists. The content is kept on
the local harddrive in nested folders, titled with the show's
name. |
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The Unarchiver
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Uncompress Tar-GZip,
Tar-BZip2, Rar, Zip, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less
obscure formats on your Mac.
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| 4 |
Burn
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CD and DVD Burner. Burn
any video to a disc that plays in your DVD player! |
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Transmission
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Transmission has been
built from the ground up to be a lightweight yet powerful BitTorrent
client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly
with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission
strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature
bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify. |
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Xee
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Xee is a lightweight,
fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be
a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and
powerful interface. Xee is useful as a more powerful replacement for
Preview, or most any other image viewer available on Mac OS X. It
is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools.
It also uses OpenGL to display and scroll images much more smoothly
than other viewers. Its interface is highly streamlined and has easily
configurable keyboard shortcuts. Xee can display a large number of
image formats - any format QuickTime or Preview can open, plus several
more, including PCX, Maya IFF and Amiga IFF-ILBM. |
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Adium
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Adium is a free instant
messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber,
Yahoo, and more. Adium is distributed under GNU GPL. |
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Firefox 3
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Firefox 3 sets the pace
with dozens of new features, including the smart location bar, one-click
bookmarking and blindingly fast performance. |
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Camino
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Camino is an open source
web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible
experience for Mac OS X users. The Camino Project has worked to create
a browser that is as functional and elegant as the computers it runs
on. Camino combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that
has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with the powerful web-browsing
capabilities of the Gecko rendering engine. |
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Mozilla Thunderbird
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Mozilla Thunderbird for
Mac OS is an e-mail client that includes powerful spam filtering,
solid interface, and all the features you need. |
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Opera
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One of the fastest and
most user-friendly browsers. Includes rss reader. |
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Quicksilver
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Quicksilver lets you
start applications (and do just about everything) with a few quick
taps of your fingers. |
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MacLibre
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MacLibre is an Open Source
Software Distribution for Mac OS X. It's simple, intuitive with
applications you need. It brings a new way of software installation
on your Mac. |
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Vienna RSS reader
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Vienna is a freeware,
open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system.
It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both
it and the source code are freely available for download. |
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RSSOwl
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RSSOwl is a news aggregator
for RSS and Atom News feeds. It is written in Java, and uses SWT as
a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different
operating systems while remaining cross-platform. Released under the
Eclipse Public License, RSSOwl is free software. |
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iChm
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iChm is a full featured
chm file reader for Mac OS X. |
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OpenProj for Mac OS
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OpenProj is an open source
project management solution. OpenProj is a replacement of Microsoft
Project and other commercial project solutions. |
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ClassDumper
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ClassDumper offers a
convenient way to browse the internal workings of your applications
(and frameworks). Just navigate to an app in Finder and click a button
or press a key, and a "header" file opens instantly with
all the internal structure of the app, for your own personal perusal!
You can choose which application this header file is opened with,
such as TextEdit, Xcode, BBEdit, TextMate, or anything you'd like. |
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VLC
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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. It can also be used as a server to
stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth
network. It doesn't need any external codec or program to work. |
| 20 |
TexFinderX
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A free tool to search
and replace text in files in entire folders. |
| 21 |
XMind |
XMind, is an open source
brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd.
It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts, and
share them for collaboration. Supporting mind maps, fishbone diagrams,
tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and even spreadsheets. Often
used for knowledge management, meeting minutes, task management, and
GTD. |
| 22 |
KompoZer
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KompoZer is an open source
WYSIWYG HTML editor. Warning: Looks like php commands are not supported
by KompoZer. |
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Inkscape |
An Open Source vector
graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw,
or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file
format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones,
alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined
interface. |
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Getleft
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A website grabber, it
downloads complete web sites according to the rules set by you. |
| 25 |
Audacity |
Audacity is free, open
source software for recording and editing sounds. |
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Art of Illusion
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Art of Illusion is a
free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. |
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OpenSourceMac.org
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Find more free software
for Mac at:
www.OpenSourceMac.org
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