100 Free Useful Applications for Mac, Part I

100 Free Useful Applications for Mac, Part I Posted: 10 Mar 2009 08:21 AM PDT If you’ve just got yourself a new Mac and totally clueless what to install, this article is for you. If you are looking for alternatives for some applications you are currently using in your Mac, the following list might come in handy too. This week, we’d like to showcase you a list of useful yet free applications you can install for your Mac. Full list after jump. Productivity Anxiety Provides a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice. Appointments Keep record of customers, contact persons and important events related to them. BackBoard A Mac app to collect notes and tasks. Camouflage Hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper Evernote Easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. EventSync Allows you to sync your Facebook events with iCal. HimmelBar HimmelBar provides an icon in the menu bar to quickly access your installed applications by scanning standard locations such as local, user, network and developer applications. iClockr Simple way to track your time. MindNode Simple-to-use mindmapping applications for the Macintosh that help to visually collect, classify and structure ideas as well as organize, study and solve problems. NameChanger Designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files. Namely Fast way to open applications. Punakea Allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder’s folder structure. Quicksilver A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data. SketchBox Sticky Notes Manager for your Mac Desktop. Slife Time and activity analytics application that automatically keeps track of where you spend your time on your computer. SyncMate Help you keep all your documents, text messages, contacts, calendar entries and events and other stuff well organized. http://gettaskmate.com/">TaskMate Simple Mac to-do list application. Think Helps you to concentrate on your current task and activity. Todos Todos shows you all your applications in a complete dock. Tools and Utilities AppFresh Helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. Burn Mac’s application to burn discs, with a lot of advanced options. Font Explorer X Font management tool. Garagebuy Help you find and purchase items on eBay. Set Icon Small application that lets you quickly and easily set a custom icon for one your drives either from an ICNS file or any old image file that Mac OS supports. TextWrangler Powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool. NeoOffice Full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X. Emacs An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more… Readers Adobe Reader Read PDF files with this Adobe Acrobat reader. NetNewsWire RSS reader for Mac by NewsGator NewsFire A great RSS reader for Mac whom recently made free. ThunderBird Powerful email application from Mozilla. System AppCleaner AppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. 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. Carbon Copy Cloner Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Deeper Allows you to enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and many Apple’s applications. EverSave Allows you to save all of your documents in a specific time interval or by changing the frontmost application. Growl Growl lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen. iStat pro Highly configurable widget that lets you monitor every aspect of your Mac, including CPU, memory, disks, network, battery, temperatures, fans, load & uptime and processes. Loginox Easily customize your Mac’s login screen. MacLoc After clicking on MacLoc, it will appear that you’ve logged out, however upon entering your username and password, all open documents and applications will be right where you left them. Mactracker Provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options. OnyX Allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window. Monolingual A program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. PresentYourApps Lets you hide the Dock and menu bar for every Cocoa application you choose. SMARTReporter Application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen. SuperDocker Tweak your Mac’s dock. Chat Clients Adium Free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. Colloquy Advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client. Gabtastik Gabtastik lets you keep chat sessions open on your OS X desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory. Messenger Think of it as Mac’s MSN Messenger. Skype Skype for Mac. Stay tuned for Part II Be sure to keep an eye on next week’s Part II where we’ll cover more free Mac applications categories of: Internet & Network Utilities Audio and Video Imaging More tools We’ve missed out something or you’ve got some Mac applications to suggest? Feel free to contact us.

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