Awesome Free Mac Apps
So many great apps here, all free of course! Jan 7
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Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back.
Caffeine
Edit any file with your preferred editor. To edit files, a seamless integration with any external editor application makes it easy to change content quickly. Edit any text or binary file on the server in your preferred application. Distribute your content in the cloud.
Cyberduck
The latest build on 3/27/2012 can be downloaded here ( 7.10 MB ). Requires OS X 10.7 (Lion) and a 64-bit Intel Mac. This release does not support Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Please update to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) to receive further updates and support for Colloquy. The last supported release for Leopard and Snow Leopard can be found here .
Colloquy
Miro
Watch an introduction to Miro Download this Video HD SD ShareThis Works with your current music library It's very easy to switch from iTunes to Miro -- without any copying.NetNewsWire
I can see plenty of pretty apps that have one or two of the above features, but not all 3, and those 3 features are just the basics, even in relation to the free version of NNW which I'm currently using (by the way, what a shame Vienna doesn't sync with Google Reader). There are certainly better alternatives out there for the iPhone and as with a lot of people, I had a rough time last year failing to sync NNW properly but, as someone who somehow kept with it (luckily the syncing now seems ok for me), who spends most of my time reading, not posting feeds, Netnewswire on a Mac still fits my needs as a stand alone product and compares favourably to the competition out there. In that regard, it is inevitable that in this day and age, many will demand new features, like posting to Twitter, etc, and for the GUI to look more like a shiny, pretty iPad app.
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Opera
Prism is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn't have the menus, toolbars and accoutrements of a normal web browser.
Prism
Steam
Instantly access your favorite games Over 1,100 games are available to purchase, download, and play from any computer. Check out the new releases, indie hits, casual favorites and everything in between. Join the Steam Community Find someone to play with, meet up with friends, connect with groups of similar interests, and host and join chats, matches, and tournaments. Chat with your friends while gamingLook around your screen right now. It’s okay, we’ll wait. At this very moment, applications are fighting for your attention. Between chat windows, Finder windows, Web browser windows, and everything else, it’s amazing any of us can concentrate at all.
Think
TinkerTool
Customize many aspects of OS X. Free TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system. The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don't need administrative privileges to use the tool.
smcFanControl
In 2010 I bought a used 2009 MBP running Leopard, and noticed the first day that the bottom was very hot. During the next couple weeks of use, I noticed the temp was always around 170 degrees when idle, often hitting 185 or more while surfing, and would easily rise to 210 when running Disk Utility or some other small app - I don't do any audio or video editing or anything intensive. There was about a month of warranty remaining when I bought it, so I called about the temps, and after a few calls they agreed it should be looked at. They ended up replacing the thermal module, both fans and the Superdrive.Maintenance and optimization tool (beta). Free OnyX is a multifunctional utility for Mac OS X. It allows you to verify the startup disk and the structure of its System files, to run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, to configure the hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Spotlight, and of some of Apple's own applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.