11 Free OSX Downloads that every Mac User should have
Quicksilver I Strongly recommend Quicksilver for anyone using MacOSX its the definite MUST-HAVE from this list. Quicksilver is an application launcher which lets u type out names of applications instead of making shortcuts on your Dock. After using this app my dock has gone from maybe 14 icons to 3. Great for productivity.
iPodDisk makes your iPod’s music visible in Finder and accessible from any app. Hook up your ‘pod to your Mac, enable disk use, fire iPodDisk up, and you’ll mount your iPod as a drive.
IconDroplet is an AppleScript Droplet that takes raw icon files (*.icns) and turns them into files that are embedded with the icon. After the files are processed you can “Get Info� on the resulting files and copy/paste the icons to other items.
MediaFork turns your DVDs into iPod-compatible files.Based on the open source Mac DVD ripper Handbrake, MediaFork’s features include 640×480 iPod video, anamorphic encoding, faster copies of x264 and ffmpeg. Runs on OSX and Windows, too!
smcFanControl is a free menu bar application that lets you monitor the temperature of your Intel Mac and customize the fan speed- so you can turn it down if your mac is making noise and you aren’t really doing anything.
Carbon Copy Cloner makes a byte-by-byte copy of your Mac’s entire hard drive, very important before sending it for repairs or personal backups.
Transmission is an open source, lightweight bittorrent client.
Unarchiver is an archive unpacker designed to handle several more formats and offer more flexibility than Mac OS X’s built-in archive app which lacks support for many file formats.
AppDelete is an uninstaller. Removing apps from Macs is a simple matter of deleting the application folder, but you’ll normally have a few preference and config files that stay behind. AppDelete scans your computer and automatically deletes any items associated with the app you’re removing,this is great for faulty installs that you would like to install fresh.
FlickrBooth plug-in for Photo Booth automatically uploads your Photo Booth pics to your Flickr account.
VLC 0.8.6 now supports playback of Windows Media Video 9 (WMV9) and Flash video alongwith anything you can throw at it. Fast and Lightweight.
I enjoy WriteRoom 1.0 because it is free,
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/files/releases/WriteRoom-1.0.dmg