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Search Tech-Forums - link takes you to our Forum's search page. Note: The following is only a text archive! To view the actual forum discussion, please visit our website at http://www.tech-forums.net Pages:1 Post your recommended free/shareware OSX apps!(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: bla!! Well, I just recently made the switch to Mac and I must say I love it. I wanted to get a post going for different aps that people have found for mac's that are useful and fun. [URL=http://www.yousoftware.com/itunes/]You Control Tunes[/URL] ITunes controls in your applications bar [URL=http://freshsqueeze.com/get.fss?get=BackLight]BackLight[/URL] Use your screensaver as a background [URL=http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12745]Visage[/URL] Customize boot images and text [URL=http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/]SideTrack[/URL] Customize your Mac laptop touchpad Share your fun tweak and customization programs. Posted by: g5orbust [URL=http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=M-Beat]M-Beat[/URL] and [URL=http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/application.php?app=iPodRip]iPodRip[/URL] , by The Little App Factory. [URL=http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter]Shapeshifter[/URL] , a theme application, by Unsanity. [URL=http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/]mPlayer[/URL], an all purpose video player application. [URL=http://www.adiumx.com/]Adium[/URL], free AIM/ICQ/MSN chat client (great because it uses very few system resources). Posted by: nak-1 Somebody got there first with adium, [URL=http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/brickhouse.html]BrickHouse[/URL] , allows much finer control of your ipfw firewall than the Mac GUI under system preferences without having to resort to Terminal.app Posted by: g5orbust Yeah, I make plugs for Adium because I moderate on the forum they rent space on, so I gotta help them out (like they need it anyway! they have one of the best osx chat clients out there!). Posted by: mac_mogul I highly reccomend [URL=http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13321]System Optimizer X[/URL] . It's like disk clean-up for Mac :) it speeds up your system and does the little things on a type of schedule. It can automatically clean up your Safari Cache (even thought thats pretty darn easy :) ) And you can even tell it to prioritize your RAM! Posted by: andydude117 [URL=http://www.ctspgames.com/ptanks.htm]Pocket Tanks[/URL], ported to the Mac [URL=http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19994]Temperature Monitor[/URL], a program that will tell you how hot everything in your computer is [URL=http://ranchero.com/tigerlaunch/]TigerLaunch[/URL], application launcher [URL=http://www.dragthing.com/]DragThing[/URL], a dock to tidy up your desktop -Andy Posted by: MacMaster64 Theres Some Pretty cool Stuff! and Mac rules I just got mine! Posted by: g5orbust OK from now on please just post recommendations and no comments except those directly related to said recommendations. Posted by: MacMaster64 Oh Uh sorry...:< Posted by: JoeTheOdd [url=http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/networking_security/pastor.html]Pastor[/url] - Stores your passwords to important information in an encrypted file. The file itself is encrypted arround another password, so it still doesn't give out access to all your information. This requires MacOS X 10.3, but if you don't have it, I can look arround my computer for the installer, and upload an older version which only requres 10.1. EDIT: I found the Pastor 1.6 installer on my computer. It was in my trash can, where anything can be found. I love my big HD, and never empty the trash (never lose anything that way :P) Posted by: andydude117 Ok, so I have some more... [B]OSXPlanet[/B] - Put's the Earth on your desktop, and it spins around according to what time it is. [URL=http://gabrielotte.com/osxplanet.html]Link[/URL] [Freeware] [B]Desktop Manager[/B] - Gives you a little thing in the bar at the top of the screen where you have four "desktops" that you can switch. It's a nice way to orgainize your windows. [URL=http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/]Link[/URL] [Freeware] [B]Screen Cleaner Pro![/B] - Makes your screen brighter and it looks better. [URL=http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/]Link[/URL] [Freeware] - Andy Posted by: mac_mogul Check out [URL=http://www.konfabulator.com]Konfabulator[/URL] It's essentially a Widget program for Pre-Tiger OS X Systems. Posted by: jaross You controll tunes [url]http://www.yousoftware.com/itunes/[/url] puts controlls for itunes on the right side of the menue bar so you can controll itunes when it is hidden.I like this much more then the dashbaord widget because you dont have to press a key to get it to show up. Posted by: macdude425 [url=http://www.lgm.com/bolo/]Bolo (classic OS)[/url] and [url=http://www.xbolo.net/]XBolo (OS X)[/url] - the definitive tank game for the Mac. [url=http://homepage.mac.com/philrobin/conversation/]Conversation[/url] - A very iChat-ish IRC app. [url=http://www.panic.com/audion/]Audion[/url] - a great multimedia app. Read the history of Audion; a classic case of Murphy's Law. Posted by: The General lol good calll heres a good program for getting music OFF your ipod: [URL=http://http://wbyoung.ambitiouslemon.com/senuti]Senuti[/URL] Posted by: bla!! [url="http://shakespeer.sourceforge.net/"]ShakesPeer[/url] - A Direct Connect client for Mac OS X. (Based off of the code for DC++) Posted by: foxdii I recently just compiled all of those apps in one post, check it out. [url]http://tech-forums.net/showthread.php?threadid=75659[/url] Posted by: The General would've been a **** of a lot better with links Posted by: The General also... senuti doesnt erase music ffrom your ipod it lets you import your itunes database ... the feature they removed from itunes. Posted by: mersyone MY RECOMMENDATIONS to ANYONE USING a Mac! (Free): iDupe 1.5 ( for iTunes 5.0) // iDupe is a smart duplicates scanner for iTunes. It tries to deal with duplicate songs or albums in iTunes in a smart way. ?ΚΚ OmniDiskSweeper 1.5 // Utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on your hard disks. ?ΚΚ MemoryStick 1.3.4 // View your RAM usage in Mac OS X by providing a graphical display of RAM usage. Posted by: jetskidude911 iterm- Give you a terminal with tabs and much more. [url]http://iterm.sourceforge.net/[/url] Posted by: toaster99 [URL=http://www.tremulous.net/]Tremulous[/URL] This is a great online multilayer FPS. It's a alien vs. human game where every kill earns you credits. These credits can be used to evolve your species, buy new weapons, and create your base. vBulletin Copyright ©2000 - 2003, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. PPC Management vB Easy Archive Final - Created by Xenon |