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as i am running jaguar i am limited to the number of apps i can run. and most of the apps i do run are older versions.

but i cant believe no one has said audacity...

and a new one i just found DesktopManager
Wings 3d is another one...

and i love my safari!
 
Me1000 said:
as i am running jaguar i am limited to the number of apps i can run. and most of the apps i do run are older versions.

but i cant believe no one has said audacity...

and a new one i just found DesktopManager
Wings 3d is another one...

and i love my safari!
Click to expand...

I used Audacity to rip a bunch of old vinyl, worked well.
 
- Google Earth.
- Rita.
- Seashore.
- Adium
- GIMP.
- Comic Life (free for me anyway)
- Photo Booth
- iTunes
- DivX Player
- Flip4mac
- Easy iWeb Publisher
- Fetch
- Google Sketchup
- StepMania
- Fish (hey, it's funky)
- Quinn

- Firefox with:
CustomizeGoogle, Fasterfox, Tabbrowser Preferences, Colorful Tabs (is actually VERY helpful when you have a lot of tabs open), Adblock and FoxyTunes extensions
 
A quick list of the free apps I use on my machine (all available for Intel):

AdiumX - instant messenger - http://adiumx.com/
Coconut Battery- battery monitor - http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/
Flip4Mac Intel Beta - wmv playback from quicktime/safari - http://flip4mac.com/
Google Earth - dunno what to say it's Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/
Handbrake - DVD to mpeg4 convertor - http://handbrake.m0k.org/
Image Tricks - Core Image/OpenGL image editor - http://www.belightsoft.com/products/imagetricks/overview.php
iSquint - convert video to iPod format - http://www.isquint.org/
JBidWatcher - eBay sniping tool - http://www.jbidwatcher.com/
Pac the Man X - Pac-Man clone - http://www.mcsebi.com/pacx.php
RealPlayer - nothing to say - http://real.com/
Solitaire XL - OpenGL Solitaire game - http://lavacat.com/
Transmission - BitTorrent client - http://transmission.m0k.org/
Tremulous - FPS/FP-RTS - http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/action_adventure/tremulous.html
VLC - media player - http://videolan.org/vlc/
 
AdiumX
iTunes
Skype
Stepmaina
Transmission
Limewire
VLC
Sizziling keys
Chicken of the vnc
Desk browse
iSquint
Lightroom
Mac the ripper
Mactracker
Handbrake
Google Earth
Blue Coconut
Maya PLE

I don't like apps that aren't free.
 
Freeware means they are free to use.
Shareware you normally get a trial or limited features until you pay for the app, however these are normally inexpensive.
Hope this helps.

::20ROGERSC::
 
Nearly everything on my Mac is freeware - the only things that aren't are bundled apps that came with it, Photoshop Elements and Office:mac (which cost £17 through my work!)

From left of dock to right (i.e. the ones I use a lot)

TacoHTML - lightweight and great HTML editor
Cyberduck - FTP client
Transmission - BitTorrent client
Adium

iBackup - little app to backup/restore stuff
iSquint - brilliant for converting vid for iPod
Handbrake - everybody knows about this one!

SEGA Genesis emulator
Snes9x SNES emulator
Boycott advance GBA emulator

In the menu bar

Coconut WiFi

Dashboard

iStat pro
Simpson quotes
iTide

Not in my dock

MacTheRipper
Lostify - really useful for tagging those .mp4s
OsiriX - the most impressive freeware I have EVER seen, so fully featured. But I doubt it would be of much use/interest to anybody on these boards!
NeuroLens - fMRI data analyzer
CoreDuo Temp
Coconut Identity Card
Solitaire XL

That's all I can remember at the moment...
 
As someone new to converting videos to iPod, how does iSquint differ from the feature available in the last iTunes version?
 
I love to use:

- Quicksilver
- Menumeters
- Adiumx

but those most of you use it already.

So I specially recommend that you Powerbook/MBP users try this new app, so you can be in full control of your backlit keyboard:

Lab Tick
 
Your Favorite freeware apps....

Just thought I would start out a thread on favorite freeware apps. Hoping to share mine with other peoples and maybe find myself something new. Seems that there is some great freeware stuff out there for OS X (and good looking, buy it worthy stuff).

Here are all the ones I have:
Adium - chat app
Burn - CD/DVD burning app
Camino - Browser
coconutBattery - batt life info app
Flip4Mac - plugin that allows WMV playback in QT
Handbrake - one click DVD to iPod solution
iPodDisk - allows iPod to be seen as a disk in OS X
MacTheRipper - DVD Ripper
NeoOffice - MS Office substitute
Onyx - system maintenance/cleaner app
Seashore - simple photoshop like app (I use it to resize pics :) )
TinkerTool - app that allows you to unlock hidden OS X settings
Vienna - RSS Reader
VLC - media player

So, what you got?

[moderator note: threads merged]
 
Adium - chat app
Firefox - Browser
Flip4Mac - plugin that allows WMV playback in QT
NeoOffice - MS Office substitute
Skype - Chat app
Stuffit - Expanding app for archives
Acqlite - P2P app
Transmission - Torrent app
(maybe Songbird when its done -Music app)
 
I don't got a mac (yet) but here goes.

iTunes-Duh?
Frostwire- P2P File sharing
VLC- Media Player
MWSnap- Screenshot app
Firefox-Browser
ABiWord- Word processing
AVG- Anti-virus
Xfire- Instant messageing

Lots of games I can't even count.
 
will add one more ...

Virtue desktop is my favorite. Gives me extra desktops ... at least until I can use "Spaces" on Leopard!
 
my mac freeware

Adium.app
BitTorrent.app
Google Earth.app
OsiriX.app (it´s like Google earth with the human body!! a mst for people in the medical field)
Quicksilver (Easy made easier!)
Skye.app
Stuffit Expander
VLC.app
XsTrimmer
 
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