Ottawaman
07-07-2005, 10:02 PM
Since the board was wiped out I thought we should build up the mac section again....
Adium X
http://www.adiumx.com/
Free. A multi-protocol instant messaging client. Extremely customizable. Some think it is much nicer than iChat.
Audion
http://www.panic.com/audion/
Free. One of the best music players you will ever see. Unfortunately, is a casualty to iTunes being so good, so is no longer being developed or supported. The developers, however, have made the last release available for free. This is your best bet on Mac OS X if you are an ogg fanatic.
Camino
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/
Free. stable, fast, standards compliant (built using Gecko, the same HTML engine in Mozilla and Firefox) and built specifically for Mac OS X.
Chicken of the VNC
http://cotvnc.sf.net/
Free. A client to connect to machines running VNC servers. This allows you to see an image of the remote machine and control it. This appears to be one of the only free, feature rich VNC clients for the Mac still under active development. (Also see OSXvnc, below.)
Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/
Free. Widely regarded as just a Java IDE , Eclipse is really more of a platform into which functionality can be plugged. The Java plugins happen to be bundled with the download, but there are others that extend Eclipse to be much more, such as write and debug Perl and manage databases.
File Merge
http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html
Free. Part of the Mac OS X development tools, this is a slick text file comparison application. Almost as good as the one built into CodeWarrior, but free. This requires a free registration with Apple.
FileWrench
http://www.kwerkx.com/rd/products/FileWrench.html
Free. Allows you to change file information, such as type, creator, permission, etc. on batches of files. Not the most beautiful or well-designed software on Earth, but powerful and cheap.
Fink
http://fink.sourceforge.net/
Free. Provides downloading, installation and management of nearly 5000 open source Unix programs, compiled and tested under Mac OS X. If you are an Linux or Unix user looking to get your favorite tool onto your new Mac, check out Fink first. Most likely, someone has already gone through the pain of porting it for you.
IP
http://www.astrok-software.com/
Free/$5. Adds a menu that displays your current IP address(es) and MAC(s). Selecting from this menu copies the address to the clipboard. The freeware version is as useful as I need it to be, but paying the author $5 will give you a code that unlocks additional features, such as better customization and automatic e-mailing of IPs.
MacSniffer
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macsniffer.html
Free. A GUI front end around the tcpdump packet sniffer. Allows you to view all traffic going over your network connection.
Nudge
http://www.brockerhoff.net/nudge/
Free. A contextual Finder menu that corrects a minor annoyance in the Finder. Sometimes the Finder does not update folder windows when a file is added or deleted. With this plugin installed, you can “nudge” a folder refresh on the Finder window. If you don’t know what this means, this isn’t the software for you.
Onyx
http://www.titanium.free.fr/english.html
Free. A general purpose utility for setting various (otherwise hidden) options in Max OS X, such as dock “pinning” and drop shadows, permission repairing, logs, etc. It is similar to ****tail, but free.
OSXvnc
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html
Free. A full featured VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using any VNC client (such as Chicken of the VNC, above). VNC is not all that complicated, but this server seems particularly easy to use.
Renamer4Mac
http://www.power4mac.com/renamer/
Free. Allows you to do search and replace on filenames, including support for regular expressions. Sure, you could do similar things with the command line, but this is easier.
VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Free. A video player that can play more formats than the default QuickTime installation provides (including AVI and divx). Has lag problems on occasion, but can play most formats.
Adium X
http://www.adiumx.com/
Free. A multi-protocol instant messaging client. Extremely customizable. Some think it is much nicer than iChat.
Audion
http://www.panic.com/audion/
Free. One of the best music players you will ever see. Unfortunately, is a casualty to iTunes being so good, so is no longer being developed or supported. The developers, however, have made the last release available for free. This is your best bet on Mac OS X if you are an ogg fanatic.
Camino
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/camino/
Free. stable, fast, standards compliant (built using Gecko, the same HTML engine in Mozilla and Firefox) and built specifically for Mac OS X.
Chicken of the VNC
http://cotvnc.sf.net/
Free. A client to connect to machines running VNC servers. This allows you to see an image of the remote machine and control it. This appears to be one of the only free, feature rich VNC clients for the Mac still under active development. (Also see OSXvnc, below.)
Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/
Free. Widely regarded as just a Java IDE , Eclipse is really more of a platform into which functionality can be plugged. The Java plugins happen to be bundled with the download, but there are others that extend Eclipse to be much more, such as write and debug Perl and manage databases.
File Merge
http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html
Free. Part of the Mac OS X development tools, this is a slick text file comparison application. Almost as good as the one built into CodeWarrior, but free. This requires a free registration with Apple.
FileWrench
http://www.kwerkx.com/rd/products/FileWrench.html
Free. Allows you to change file information, such as type, creator, permission, etc. on batches of files. Not the most beautiful or well-designed software on Earth, but powerful and cheap.
Fink
http://fink.sourceforge.net/
Free. Provides downloading, installation and management of nearly 5000 open source Unix programs, compiled and tested under Mac OS X. If you are an Linux or Unix user looking to get your favorite tool onto your new Mac, check out Fink first. Most likely, someone has already gone through the pain of porting it for you.
IP
http://www.astrok-software.com/
Free/$5. Adds a menu that displays your current IP address(es) and MAC(s). Selecting from this menu copies the address to the clipboard. The freeware version is as useful as I need it to be, but paying the author $5 will give you a code that unlocks additional features, such as better customization and automatic e-mailing of IPs.
MacSniffer
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macsniffer.html
Free. A GUI front end around the tcpdump packet sniffer. Allows you to view all traffic going over your network connection.
Nudge
http://www.brockerhoff.net/nudge/
Free. A contextual Finder menu that corrects a minor annoyance in the Finder. Sometimes the Finder does not update folder windows when a file is added or deleted. With this plugin installed, you can “nudge” a folder refresh on the Finder window. If you don’t know what this means, this isn’t the software for you.
Onyx
http://www.titanium.free.fr/english.html
Free. A general purpose utility for setting various (otherwise hidden) options in Max OS X, such as dock “pinning” and drop shadows, permission repairing, logs, etc. It is similar to ****tail, but free.
OSXvnc
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html
Free. A full featured VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using any VNC client (such as Chicken of the VNC, above). VNC is not all that complicated, but this server seems particularly easy to use.
Renamer4Mac
http://www.power4mac.com/renamer/
Free. Allows you to do search and replace on filenames, including support for regular expressions. Sure, you could do similar things with the command line, but this is easier.
VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Free. A video player that can play more formats than the default QuickTime installation provides (including AVI and divx). Has lag problems on occasion, but can play most formats.