Web Browsing
Mozilla Firefox The premier free, open-source browser. Tabs, pop-up blocking, themes, and extensions. Considered by many to be the world's best browser. Download Page Video Player, Torrents, Podcasting
Miro Beautiful interface. Plays any video type (much more than quicktime). Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from YouTube and others. Download Page IM - Instant Messaging
Adium Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber. Beautiful, themable interface. Download Page Video Converter, iPhone Converter
Miro Video Converter Convert any type of video to mp4 or theora. Convert any video for use with iPhone, iPod, Android, etc. Very clean, easy to use interface. Download Page Application Launching
Quicksilver Quicksilver lets you start applications (and do just about everything) with a few quick taps of your fingers. Warning: start using Quicksilver and you won't be able to imagine using a Mac without it. Download Page Email
Mozilla Thunderbird Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need. Download Page Utilities
The Unarchiver Uncompress RAR, 7zip, tar, and bz2 files on your Mac. Many new Mac users will be puzzled the first time they download a RAR file. Do them a favor and download UnRarX for them! Download Page DVD Ripping
Handbrake DVD ripper and MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. Very simple to use. Download Page RSS
Vienna Very nice, native RSS client. Download Page
RSSOwl Solid cross-platform RSS client. Download Page Peer-to-Peer Filesharing
Cabos A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network. Download Page
SolarSeek Soulseek filesharing for Mac, in a simple, solid client. Download Page
Transmission Very nice torrent downloader. Download Page Running Windows Software on Macs
Q Emulator Run Windows programs on your Intel Mac at near native speed. Works on G4 / G5 Macs too, but much slower. Download Page Podcasting
Juice Solid podcasting client. Download Page Video Playback
VLC Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface. Download Page
MPlayer The interface and buttons are not as nice or as Mac-like in feel, but it may play even more video files than VLC. Download Page
Perian A plugin that allows quicktime to play additional video formats. (Included in Democracy Player.) Download Page iPod Ripping
iPodDisk Copy music off your iPod in the finder, like a regular disk drive. Download Page CD / DVD Burning
Burn CD and DVD Burner. Burn any video to a disc that plays in your DVD player! Download Page Privacy
Vidalia This TOR frontend keeps you anonymous on the web using military-grade techniques. For use with Firefox see: TorButton. Download Page Word Processing / Office Suites
Bean Very fast and easy to use word processor. Live word count, autosaving, more. Download Page
OpenOffice OpenOffice is a full-featured, office suite compatible with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Friends don't let friends pay for Microsoft Office. Download Page
AbiWord A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format. Download Page Wifi Scanning
KisMac The best wireless scanner for Mac. Find wireless access when you're on the go. Download Page Sound Recording
Audacity Simple sound recording tool. Download Page Graphics, Photo, Publishing
Seashore Based on Gimp, but doesn't require X11. Download Page
Formulate Pro An easy way to fill-out (or sign) PDFs that Preview can't edit. Download Page
Xee Fast image viewer and image browser. Download Page
Gimp.app Photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features (requires X11). Download Page
Inkscape Vector graphics application (requires X11). Download Page
Scribus Desktop publishing. Complicated install, but a nice app. Download Page FTP / SFTP
Cyberduck Very good all-around ftp program. Download Page
OneButton FTP Simple, fast FTP, with a focus on "advanced queuing". Download Page
Fugu Not as polished as Cyberduck (and only for SFTP) but has a side by side interface showing your files and the remote files. Download Page HTML / Text Editing
Smultron Text / html editor. Integrates with Cyberduck for editing websites. Download Page
Nvu Visual tool for making websites (WYSIWYG html editor), comparable to Dreamweaver. Download Page IRC
Colloquy Great IRC client. Download Page Web Development
WaveMaker A visual development tool for building great-looking web and cloud applications. Download Page Note Taking
Freemind An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it. Download Page Personal Finance
Cashbox Simple, easy to use application for managing personal finances. Download Page
Buddi A personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. Download Page MSN Chat AMSN Messenger More Web Browsing
Shiira Fast, nice web browser. Download Page
SunriseBrowser Good webkit-based browser created with special tools for web designers. Download Page
Seamonkey Full-featured Mozilla browser, used to be called 'Mozilla Suite'. Download Page PDF Viewer
Skim PDF viewer. Download Page Screensaver
Electric Sheep Immersive, trippy screensaver. Download Page More Filesharing
Tomato Torrent Download torrents. Nice and simple. Download Page Also see: Poisoned - Azureus 3D Graphics and Modeling
Blender Powerful 3D Modeling software. Download Page Also see: Persistence of Vision Raytracer - Art of Illusion - Wings 3D - Quesa - Open Media Toolkit Planetariums and Outer Space
Celestia Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space). Download Page
Stellarium "Renders realistic skys in realtime." See what you would see if your city wasn't so light- polluted. Used in real planetariums. Download Page Also see: macORSA - Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation, and Analysis Comic Viewer
Jomic Read digital comics. Download Page Dance Dance Revolution
Stepmania Dance Dance Revolution clone. Can connect to external dance pads. Download Page Games
Cube Nice first-person shooter. Download Page
Marathon: Aleph One Engine for Bungie's free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps. Download Page
Zombies 3D zombie strategy game. Download Page
Armagetron Advanced 3D Tron game. Download Page
BZFlag First-person tank game. Download Page
Battle for Wesnoth Fantasy / Strategy Game Download Page Also see: Snes9X (SNES emulator), Frozen Bubble, PySol for Mac (card games), PLANESHIFT (3D Fantasy MMORPG), VDrift (drift racing simulation). del.icio.us Client
Cocoalicious Let's you easily post to del.icio.us. Download Page Free File Hosting
CC Publisher Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader. Download Page Quick Links
Viewers Comic viewer: Comical Comic viewer: FFView OpenDocument viewing application: ODF Viewer
RSS and Usenet RSS Reader: Feed Cross-platform RSS reader: BlogBridge RSS video podcast player: I/ON Usenet Reader: OSXnews
IM, IRC, Chat Multi-IM: Fire Powerful IRC client: X-Chat Aqua Videoconferencing client: XMeeting PBX / Voip system: Asterisk
Graphics and Art Draw on a moving canvas: Cosmic Painter Image editor: Seashore An artwork scaling calculator: Scaletron! A Paint-like program designed for pixel-pushers: Pixen A VRML/X3D Browser: FreeWRL Video Realtime Editing and Effects System: Jahshaka Video transcoder: ffmpegX MPEG convertor: MPEG Streamclip
Music and Audio OGG Vorbis encoder (ogg is an open source audio codec): Ogg Drop Music notation: LilyPond Play and compose live music: Miraton Max/MSP style realtime music and multimedia environment: Pd Manage chords, lyrics, and projection: OpenSong
Wifi / Networking Discover open wifi networks: iStumbler A Prism/Prism2 driver 802.11: WirelessDriver Fast, lightweight VNC client: Chicken of the VNC VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse: OSXvnc
Utilities Manage disk space: DiskInventoryX Book management: Books CD / DVD Burning: SimplyBurns Disable sleep on a Mac: InsomniaX Protect your laptop with a car-alarm style alarm: Multialarm Remove extra languages from OSX to save disk space: Monolingual System event notifications: Growl System performance monitors: MenuMeters Virtual desktop tool: Desktop Manager Virus checker: ClamXav Share mouse and keyboard between 2 or more computers: SynergyKM and Quick Synergy Check available RAM: Memtest Monitor CPU, RAM, battery, CPU temp, network, I/O, and more: X Resource Graph Control your Mac via Bluetooth: Romeo
Writing and Typesetting Screenplay writing and pre-production support: Celtx Bibliography manager, BibTeX .bib format: BibDesk Typesetting - TeX previewer for Mac OS X: TeXShop Typesetting: iTexMac
Education Education course management system: Moodle Student information system: Focus / SIS Another student information system: Centre
Programming Development platform: Eclipse SQL Editor: YourSQL
Math and Engineering General purpose computer algebra system: Yacas GNU S language: R MATLAB style rapid engineering and scientific prototyping / data processing: FreeMat