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Ross Barkman's Home Page. 10 Fabulous Free Mac Social Apps. If you're a Mac user and a social media addict, what's better than social apps for the Mac? Free social apps for the Mac, of course! In this post we'll take a look at 10 gratis programs for connecting to your social world via OS X. From file sharing to instant messaging, from Twitter to social television, there is very likely something on this list for you. Do you know of any great free social Mac applications that are not listed? 1. Looking for a dead easy way to share even large files with people quickly? A bit of a Swiss army-knife type of app, Dropbox does a lot of other things besides file-sharing. Further, you can increase the amount of your free space by 250 MB for every new user you refer to the service. 2.

We really can't rave enough about Skitch (we recently profiled it in our fun image generators list). Included in the cost of this free app is server space for file storage, so in one click you can send an image to the web. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. More Resources from Mashable. Telekinesis - Google Code. Hacks - Music Hack Day. Titanium Software. Downloads - Networking & Security - Undercover. Download. 100 Free Useful Mac Applications (Part I) | Tools. If you’ve just got yourself a new Mac and totally clueless what to install, this article is for you. If you are looking for alternatives for some applications you are currently using in your Mac, the following list might come in handy too. This week, we’d like to showcase you a list of useful yet free applications you can install for your Mac.

Full list after jump. Recommended Reading: 100 Free Useful Mac Applications (Part II) Productivity Anxiety Provides a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice. Appointments Keep record of customers, contact persons and important events related to them. BackBoard A Mac app to collect notes and tasks. Camouflage Hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper Evernote EventSync Allows you to sync your Facebook events with iCal. HimmelBar iClockr Simple way to track your time. MindNode NameChanger Namely Fast way to open applications. Punakea Quicksilver.

iSofa. 50 Things Every Mac Geek Should Know. Posted 03/04/2009 at 5:01am | by Mac|Life Staff You probably didn’t know you could change these options, but you can. Apple tried its best to give us the most useful set of icons in various iPhone menus, but there are also more ways to customize them than you might think. In the case of the icons that appear at the bottom of the screen when you tap iPod from the Home screen, you can change the default icons (Playlists, Artists, Songs, Videos) if you want to. Tap More, then tap Edit. On the resulting Configure screen, you can select an icon from the middle, hold your finger on it for a moment, and drag it down to the bottom to replace one of the defaults.

If you like to separate your music collection by genre, for example, move Genres down to replace one of the defaults. When a contact has two phone numbers, you’ll get your choice of which to text. Favorites and Recents are handy for quickly placing phone calls to people in your Favorites and Recents lists, but you can also text too. Freeware Audio Software - DAWs / Wav editors MAC and PC - inthem. On the same topic (pulled off another forum) ================================================== ====== A Free & Complete, Portable Software Studio ================================================== ====== The selected software balances excellent functionality, great sound quality and accessible graphics user interfaces.

Download it now! No installation necessary, just unzip and go! The entire pack comes to just 66Mb unzipped, so you can carry it around on a USB pendrive...! AW & Audio Editor: ================== DAW -Reaper (Supports VST plugins, audio recording and midi sequencing!) Audio Editor -Audacity (Can export Wav & MP3) ============== :Creative Tools: ============== ---Filter Effects--- -EQ- >Cockos ReaEQ (Parametric EQ) -Filter- >Ohm Force Fromage (Multiband Resonant Filter) >Ohm Force Ohmygod (Comb Filter) >KarmaFX Filter (LP/HP/BP/BR + Hi/Lo Shelf EQ & Overdrive) >Atlantis Filter (Filthy) Wink ---Delay Effects--- -Delay- >Kjaerhus Audio Classic Delay. 100+ Free Applications for Mac OS X. Most of the time, Windows users are reluctant to switch to a Mac. One amongst many reasons is that they found it hard to search for free softwares/applications for the Mac. Some of them have already switched to a Mac, but they’re still running Windows OS on a Mac.

It’s such an irony that actually there are mountains of free Mac applications available for us. After days of working on this, I’ve come out with list of free and useful Mac applications. I’ve categorized and arranged the order of applications so that it will be extremely easy for you to find applications you need for your Mac. Continue reading and you will see fabulous list of 100+ Free Mac OS X Applications! Productivity Tool System Tools and Utilities File Management Application Launcher Social Networking Chat Client Text Editor Email, RSS and Atom Reader PDF Reader FTP Client BitTorrent Client Network Web Browser Audio Video Games Image Editor File Compressor Google Uploader Programming IDE QuickTime Plugin Converter. Download: OpenOffice.org Download. <h2>JavaScript not enabled? </h2><div class="notice"><p>Your browser does not seem to allow JavaScript on websites.

This technique is used on this webpage for presenting the actual download links. If you want to download Apache OpenOffice, go to the alternative <a href=" page</a>, and you will skip this page. Our apologies for the inconvenience. </p></div> Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1 - Full installation sets and language packs Full Installation vs. If you want to use more than a single language in Apache OpenOffice then it is recommended to use language packs.

They are not integrated in the full installation file and it contains only resource files to show, e.g., menus, dialogs, error messages in your favorite language - but there is no program logic. Please check the integrity of the downloaded file It is recommended that you verify the integrity of the downloaded file. We also provide PGP signatures. Important Notes: Source code. Today: Data. Algorithm.com.au - Software. This is a big page. It was designed to be, so that you could print it out and read it in bed at your leisure. I’ve personally used all of these applications and will testify to every single one’s usefulness and usability. (Almost all, if not all, of the applications below are Universal Binaries, so they’ll run at full speed goodness on your shiny new Intel Mac.) Free Stuff While the Mac is primarily known for its incredibly healthy shareware community, there’s also a ton of good freeware for it, with a growing amount of open-source software.

Here’s my shortlist. MenuMeters adds a very useful set of network, disk, memory and CPU usage meters to your menu bar. Quicksilver is regarded by a ton of people to be the most invaluable utility they’ve ever installed, although I personally don’t use it much. Perian is probably the only extra QuickTime codec you’ll need to install. I’m quite happy with Safari as the standard Web browser, but a ton of people prefer Mozilla Firefox. Home.