Best Mac Freeware apps

[*JimmyJ*]

What are your best freeware apps for the mac.

 

[172.com]

Firefox.

 

[Rich]

Audacity for chopping up sound files etc.

 

[Josh2005]

i got most of the apps i use from :
http://www.opensourcemac.org/
pretty much anything you'll need.

 

[Daz]

Adium is my all time favourite application I think.

 

[planetx]

HANDBRAKE is a pretty useful tool if you own an ipod video/nano/touch /iphone etc.
Its a DVD to mp4 converter.

 

[Rich]

VLC is also handy for playing anything that Quicktime won't.

 

[planetx]

Hi Rich..
I have heard about VLC....will it play WMV WMA files etc??
Still got a load of WMV files from my old PC that I wanna play but don't want to run PARALEL or virtual PC etc.

 

[Rich]

Not sure will give it a try, there is a version of Windows Media Player for Mac so I just use that.

Edit - no does not look like it will.

 

[planetx]

ok mate cheers.

 

[sn00p]

Firefox.

Sicko....

Safari all the way!

 

[sn00p]

(Some of these will not be freeware, but hey ho)

Adium
Growl
Little Snitch (Version 2 is amazing)

 

[*JimmyJ*]

I dont see the point of Growl?

 

[Tizer]

Firefox.

Sicko....

Safari all the way!

here here!

 

[Peter.K]

Lots of useful apps on this site.

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/

 

[sn00p]

I dont see the point of Growl?

Well...

You have a growl enabled application minimized - say "Mail", you're working away and then you get a notification that new mail has arrived.

It's very useful. Or you're downloading something and then it notifies you when it has finished.

 

[Daz]

It is useful.. but I always turn it off.

The main thing was Adium can hook into it, and do prompts like MSN does.. which is semi useful, although, nothing is better than a bouncing duck on ya dock

It's useful for lots of things.. I'm sure Cyberduck uses it too for transfer status updates etc.

 

[Mells]

ubuntu ftw!

 

[Daz]

ubuntu ftw!

Seriously, OSX on a desktop/laptop is SO far ahead of Ubuntu in a similar role.. Any Linux/*BSD distribution is way behind.

 

[sn00p]

ubuntu ftw!

Seriously, OSX on a desktop/laptop is SO far ahead of Ubuntu in a similar role.. Any Linux/*BSD distribution is way behind.

So far ahead that it's not even funny!

The linux desktop has 2 major problems, KDE & Gnome. There's a reason that OSX and windows have only a single UI....

 

[Mells]

I agree. Out they box it is, but with some tweeking and customisation...

I tell you I downloaded the liveCD of dreamlinux the other day. It's just a plain rip off of OSX. Even animates the screens like OSX!