| General Mac OS X Info |
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| Mac OS X Lion |
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| Mac OS X Community |
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| Mac Software Collections |
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| Mac OS X Interface |
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| Unix ÒlocateÓ (Find File) GUIÕs |
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- Locator Ð Freeware GUI front-end for the CLI locate command (find file); nice interface
- SubRosa QuickFind Ð Another freeware GUI front-end for locate
- Look4 Ð Another GUI front-end for locate. Shareware; v1.1 is not as good as either the free Locator nor SubRosa
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| Spotlight alternatives/enhancements |
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- EasyFind Ð Alternative to Spotlight; finds files, folders or contents without indexing
- Better Search Ð Search deeply in your HD for invisible directories, packages, etc.
- HoudahSpot Ð File search tool based on Apple Spotlight technology
- SpotLook Ð GUI for Leopard Spotlight; open-source project
- SpotInside Ð Preview result documents with highlighted search words
- FileSpot Ð Provides an enhanced interface to Spotlight (was MoRU)
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| Mac OS X Utilities |
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- DiskWarrior Ð Everybody should have this disk utility
- Disk Inventory X Ð Shows sizes of files and folders in graphical ÒtreemapsÓ
- PrefEdit Ð Inspect and edit preference settings for Mac OS X applications
- HexEdit Ð Inspect and edit binary files
- OpenLDAP, PostgreSQL and TCP Flow Recorder Ð Tips and instructions for installing these under Mac OS X
- Cyclone Ð Character set text converter (useful for web development, among other things)
- CronniX Ð A GUI cron front-end
- BatChmod Ð A GUI chown, chgrp, chmod, and it can Force Empty the Trash too; obsolete since Jaguar?
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| CD/DVD Burning |
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- Burn Ð Simple disc burning, with a lot of advanced options Ð Free and open source
- SimplyBurns Ð Burn CD/DVD media; copy mode Ð Free and open source
- LiquidCD Ð Burn CD/DVD media Ð Freeware
- BurnX Free Ð Burn CD's with multiple sessions Ð Freeware
- Patchburn Ð Allows legacy versions of Mac OS X to burn with many third-party DVD or CD writers
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| Mac OS X Web Browsers |
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- iCab Ð Feature rich; now based on WebKit engine
- Firefox Ð UI now more Mac-like; Powerful plug-in architecture; Gecko engine
- NetVideoHunter Ð Download videos from many video sharing sites (e.g. YouTube) Ð Firefox
- Safari Ð AppleÕs AppleWebKit/KHTML based browser
- Autocomplete Always On! Ð Patches Webcore (SafariÕs HTML engine) to ignore the ÒautocompleteÓ flag so AutoFill works on more pages
- Safari Tidy Ð Validates webpages for (x)html compliance
- Cocoa Cookies Ð Utility to search (with regex) and delete (with undo) HTTP cookies used by Safari, Dashboard, NetNewsWire, Sherlock, Shiira, et al.
- DownloadComment Ð Saves URI in the Finder/Spotlight Comments
- PimpMySafari Ð Safari customizations
- Web Development with... Safari Ð Safari enhancements (mostly obsolete now)
- OmniWeb Ð Now free
- Camino Ð Camino (formerly Chimera) Cocoa UI, Gecko engine; simple, small, fast
- PimpMyCamino Ð Camino customizations
- Shiira Ð A Cocoa, Open source, WebKit browser
- Bookit Ð Cross-browser bookmark sync tool
- Mozilla Ð Open source version of Netscape
- Google Chrome Ð Crash resistant; unwieldily amalgam of URI & search boxes is just dreadful, however
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| Ad Blockers for Web Browsers |
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- ClickToFlash Ð Block Flash on WebKit browsers (e.g. Safari, Chrome, iCab); one click viewing; higher quality YouTube; reduce CPU usage, extend battery life
- GlimmerBlocker Ð A proxy-filter ad-blocker compatible with 64-bit Safari, other WebKit browsers, and FireFox (when manually configured)
- SafariBlock Ð A Firefox AdBlock clone for Safari (32-bit Safari only)
- Ad Blocking for Firefox, Mozilla, Camino, and Safari Ð CSS based ad Blocking for Firefox, Mozilla, Camino, and Safari
- PithHelmet Ð Ad, Flash, Shockwave blocker for Safari (WebKit)
- Adblock Plus Ð Ad blocker for Firefox
- Flashblock Ð Flash blocker for Firefox
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| Spreadsheet |
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- Numbers Ð Part of AppleÕs iWork suite
- Mariner Calc Ð Lean yet capable spreadsheet app; Excel file compatibility
- Tables Ð Cocoa app
- Mesa Ð Cocoa; icon-based interface; Excel compatible
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| Audio/Video Software |
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- Plex Media Center for OS X Ð iTunes & Front Row alternative
- Plex competes with Front Row Ð Macworld Plex Review
- EyeTV Ð Turn your Mac into a DVR
- ETVComskip Ð EyeTV plugin to skip past commercials
- PyeTV Ð Plugin to access EyeTV within Front Row's top-level menu
- Perian Ð Open source; adds QuickTime support for many popular video formats
- VLC Ð Open source; plays most multimedias files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols
- Lunettes Ð Death of VLC for Mac is Ògreatly exaggeratedÓ
- HandBrake Ð Video transcoder; e.g. move videos from DVD to iPod; Open Source
- Audio In Ð Great little App to capture audio input
- Audio Hijack, Detour, et al Ð Useful Mac OS X sound redirection tools
- xACT Ð GUI front-end to Shorten, shntool, monkey's audio compressor,flac and cdda2wav (with paranoia support)
- Flip4Mac Ð Play Windoze Media files (.wma and .wmv) in QuickTime Player or in a web browser
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| Mapping Software |
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| Graphics Software |
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- Google SketchUp Ð Create, modify and share 3D models
- Pixen Ð Designed for pixel artists; somewhere between a powerful Paint, or a simple, Photoshop. Open Source.
- Paintbrush Ð Bitmap image editor (like MacPaint); open source
- Seashore Ð Cocoa image editor. Gradients, textures, anti-aliasing, layers and alpha channel editing. Uses GIMP technology, but only for basic image editing. Open Source
- Tux Paint Ð Drawing software for children ages 3 to 12. Open Source.
- MacGIMP Ð GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) for your Mac
- GIMPShop Ð A more Photoshop-like version of GIMP
- InterfaceLIFT: Icons Ð Free Mac OS X icons
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| Other Mac OS X Software |
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- Pangea Payroll Ð Open Source: calculate employee payroll taxes for small businesses
- HPConnect Ð Open Source: Connect to HP calculators with USB (e.g. HP49G+, HP50)
- Archicad Ð Architectural virtual design
- Undercover Ð Anti-theft software; transmits pictures of the thief
- MyMahj Ð A freeware MahJongg Solitaire game; similar to ActivisionÕs Shanghai for Mac OS 8, but without the wonderful sound effects and dancing dragon
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| Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HTML, CGI |
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| Databases |
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| Data/Network Security |
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| Encryption |
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| eMail |
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| News Readers |
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- MT-NewsWatcher Ð A descendant of John NorstadÕs venerable NewsWatcher; now carbonized for Mac OS X
- NewsWatcher-X Ð A carbonized version of John NorstadÕs venerable NewsWatcher
- Halime Ð Mac OS X news reader technology preview (under development, but worth keeping an eye on)
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| Screen sharing/remote control |
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| Networking/File Transfer (e.g. SSH, sFTP, FTP) |
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- Fugu Ð A Mac OS X SFTP, SCP and SSH Frontend
- Macfusion Ð Mount servers from across the internet directly in the Finder as a ÒVolumeÓ; requires GoogleÕs MacFUSE
- FileZilla Ð Cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client
- Cyberduck Ð A Mac OS X FTP and SFTP client; open-source (GPL)
- SSHKeychain Ð GUI Keychain management for SSH Keys, and SSH Tunnels
- MacSSH & MacSFTP Ð Secure Telnet applications (freeware/Classic & shareware/Carbon)
- RsyncX Ð rsync with HFS+ support through either CLI or GUI
- Radmind Ð (remote administration daemon) a collection of Unix command line tools to manage file systems of multiple machines
- Synk Ð Sounds like (but may not be) rsync with a GUI frontend
- RBrowser Ð Commercial graphical FTP/SSH/SFTP client
- osXigen Ð A feature-rich sharware FTP/SFTP client (Cocoa)
- FTP client comparison Ð from Indiana University; links, descriptions and chart
- CaptainFTP Ð Freeware and Shareware versions of a graphical FTP client
- Transmit 2 Ð Commercial graphical FTP/SFTP/SSH client (Cocoa)
- Gideon Ð A sharware FTP/SFTP client (Cocoa)
- Interarchy Ð Commercial graphical FTP/SSH/SFTP client (formerly called Anarchie)
- Fetch Ð Commercial graphical FTP client
- Net::SSH::Perl Ð Perl client interface to Secure Shell
- AlmostVPN Ð A Preference Panel for managing ssh tunnels
- SSH Tunnel Manager Ð A CLI tool to manage SSH Tunnels. It can set up many tunnels, each containing many port redirections
- see also: Things Macintosh (Users) Ð for classic Mac software
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| Technical Mac OS X Info |
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| Command Line Interface (CLI) |
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| Packages and Ports |
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| CVS Information |
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| GUI front-ends for CVS |
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| Backup Software |
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| Beer Making |
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