Browser

• FireFox
• Safari
• Camino
• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla
• OmniWeb
• Opera
• Shiira

FTP

• Transmit X
• Fugu
• CyberDuck

Image Editing

• OmniGraffle
• Graphic Converter X
• RagTime Solo
• ImageWell
• iDraw
• DeskDoodle
• Gimp

Text editors and office suites

• AppleWorks
• Micorsoft Office 2004 For Mac
• OpenOffice
• Mellel
• NeoOffice
• AbiWord
• SubEthaEdit
• Smultron
• TextWrangler

HTML and web design

• FreeWay
• RapidWeaver
• Style Master
• Taco HTML Edit
• NVU
• Adobe GoLive
• Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

Multimedia players

• Mplayer
• VLC Media player
• iTunes
• QuickTime
• RealPlayer
• Windows Media Player

CD/DVD authoring software

• Toast Titanium
• Burnz
• FireStarter
• BurnX
• BootCD

News- and RSS feed readers

• NewsFire
• MacSOUP
• NetNewsWire
• Unison

Record Stream

• Audio Hijack
• RadioLover
• StreamRipperX
• iGetMovies

DC++

• ShakesPeer

Filesharing (p2p)

• Acqlite
• Acquisitionx
• mlMac
• xFactor
• Tomato Torrent
• Cabos
• Bits On Wheels

Pls report any broken link and feel free to PM me to update the list if you found any useful software(s).

good link for mac users..thx

Chilam, so what softwares are you using currently ? pointed on your list eh . recommended .

example IE with firefox
firefox - - - recommended from kokyun

I'm not a Mac user (yet) but I found a software for image editing. From what I've heard it's similar to the GIMP so you might want to add this to the list.

Seashore

Also, here's a Mac version of Soulseek (P2P programs)

soulseeX

This post has been edited by Sheonix: Oct 20 2005, 04:14 PM

both of tht u can get at applesoftwares.com

Want to add a few useful freewares for Mac :

iStumbler - Searching for wifi hot spot

AP Grapher - To graph the signal strength of a wireless base station

Easywma - Convert wma audio files to mp3, m4a or wav so that you can play your favorite songs in iTunes

Bitsonwheels - Bit Torrent Client

You Control- To control iTune

Americas Army - FPS game

Primate Plunge - Cool monkey game

This post has been edited by Epal: Oct 24 2005, 01:10 PM

Customise
Themes - ShapeShifter
Icons - Candybar

Useful sites
Theme

• Resexcellence
• Pixel
• Interfacelift
• Max Themes
• Macthemes
• Xthemes
• Vanillasoap
• Aeiko
• Superlover

Icon

• Iconfactory
• Micons
• Interfacelift
• Rad
• Le Pixel
• Ra's Page
• Rokey's Website
• Zipangu

More to Come

This post has been edited by kokyun: Aug 4 2006, 11:07 AM

View video files:

• Perian - Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.
• Mplayer - alternative video viewer plays all sort of video files including .avi, .mpg, and .wmv
• VLC - alternative video viewer plays all sort of video files including .avi, .mpg, and .wmv
• Quicktime - Apple invented application which plays .mpg, and .mov files
• Windows Media Player - Microsoft made player to play .wmv, .asx, and all WMP 9 files
• RealPlayer - Real made player used to play .rm, .ram files, and more

Do some type of file transfers:

• Interarchy - application which supports FTP, SFTP. HTTP
• RBrowser - application which supports FTP, SFTP, SSH, FTP-SSl/TLS
• Transmit - a powerful, flexible, fast FTP client
• Fetch- easy-to-use full featured FTP application
• Cyberduck- SFTP, FTP application
• Fugu- supports SFTP, SCP, and SSH

Make a word processing document or spreadsheet:

• Microsoft Office- the standard in word processing
• Appleworks- Apple made all-in-one application which includes simple database, image editing, word processing application
• Textedit- basic word processor which supports opening simple Microsoft Word files (bundled with Mac OS X)
• iWork - Wordprocessing and Presentation software package
• Mellel- advanced multilingual word processor

Create a Presentation

• Microsoft PowerPoint - standard presentation application
• Keynote - Presentations with style

Do some basic photo editing/organizing

• GraphicConverter- great basic image editor and handles many formats
• iPhoto- basic picture touch up plus catalogs your images
• iView Media Pro 2- organizes various files such as photos, illustrations, mp3s, and fonts all in one place

Chat with someone online or video chat:

• Adium- third-party AIM client which also supports MSN, Yahoo, and more
• iChat- Apple made AIM client which supports video conferencing
• AOL Instant Messenger- AOL made chat application
• MSN Messenger- Microsoft made chat application
• Fire- third-party AIM client which also supports MSN, Yahoo, and more
• Proteus- third-party AIM client which also supports MSN, Yahoo, and more

Browse the web in style:

• Safari- Apple made speedy web brower with tabs
• Camino- fast open source web brwser with tabs
• Mozilla Firefox- open source web browser

Fix/repair my hard drive or data failure:

• Diskwarrior- highly acclaimed disk repair utility
• TechTool Pro 4- disk diagnostic and repairer

Need to zip/unstuff/compress some files:

• UnRar X- unrar your files
• Stuffit- unstuff .sit, .sitx files, and compress them plus more (basic version included in Mac OS X Utilities folder)

Manage files differently:

• LaunchBar - instant access utility which saves one from searching for apps and files
• Quicksilver - same as above
• Butler - same as above

So where do I download these Freeware, Shareware, and/or Updates:

• MacUpdate
• Versiontracker
• Hyperjeff

More to come - Anyone who know any Backup application? PM me

This post has been edited by kokyun: Sep 30 2006, 10:56 AM

What about Limewire (P2P, open source)

hello can u guys tell me what codec that i can find to play avi files in quicktime?? as u know , quicktime sometimes can't play certain types of avi file. Ok thanx

lol.photoshop not included?for image editing

whats the best p2p software now for the mac? limewire is pretty slow and empty nowadays...

You can try

1.Poisoned


2. iSwipe

Transmission

A simple and clean BitTorrent client that gets the job done.

Handbrake

DVD ripper/converter. Made by the same team who brought Transmission.

OnyX

Great and free maintenance and personalization tool to keep a healthy OS X system.

File sharing

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/download.html

Any other links for View video files other than these?

* Mplayer - alternative video viewer plays all sort of video files including .avi, .mpg, and .wmv
* VLC - alternative video viewer plays all sort of video files including .avi, .mpg, and .wmv
* Quicktime - Apple invented application which plays .mpg, and .mov files
* Windows Media Player - Microsoft made player to play .wmv, .asx, and all WMP 9 files
* RealPlayer - Real made player used to play .rm, .ram files, and more

I'm using MacOS 9.2 - Mplayer and VLC only works on MacOSX

Antivirus for mac ClamXav anyone?

Don't leave out ThinkFree Office 3, which is an alternative to Microsoft Office. Cheap and good!

For utilities, I can't leave without Xupport and Onyx.

i find the software like acdsee.. don t have for mac?

no need to use ACDsee liaw.. use iPhoto, better than that..

Try these for your iTunes, they would enhance the way you listen to music :

a) OSS 3D - http://subband.com/downloads/

and

b) Volume Logic - http://www.volumelogic.com/index.asp?conte...nload_iTunesMac
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c) Karatunes- Gets lyrics automatically when iTunes is playing - http://ideographer.com/karatunes/

d) Frostwire - The twin for P2P LimeWire- http://www.frostwire.com/static/downloads.html

e) Cocktail - maintenance tools for OSX - http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.html

f) Security Softwares for your Mac i.e firewall etc - http://www.pure-mac.com/para.html#

g) Video related softwares for your Mac i.e DVD burning softwares etc - http://www.pure-mac.com/video.html#

h) And other million of softwares you can find here (updated daily) which will suit to your need- http://www.pure-mac.com/ enjoys !!!!

This post has been edited by 76radius: Mar 25 2006, 07:36 PM

Anyone know where i can get the website for Suitcase font management 10.1 ?

Pls do not ask for licensed software here.
if you want, you can buy it from Extensis.

what is the Mac equivelent of Microsoft Outlook?

Microsoft Entourage....

sorry ler... i not a mac user.. i just helping my friend to setup his mac

Or Mail + iCal.

Hi folks,

Is there a good software on the Mac that can be used to adjust the volume of mp3 files? On Windows there is mp3gain, but cant seem to find anything similar on the Mac.

Appreciate any help I can get here.

Thanks,
Steven

Hi. Can I ask is there any software similiar to AutoCAD for MAC?

Hey guys..wanted to try and start up a another discussion in the Mac forums regarding Open Source apps for the Mac OSX..

Any apps to rip audio from dvds ? cant seem to find it on download.com

Hi there,

you can check out MiniCAD.

- yap

any suggestion for a good download accelerator

Speed Download

iGetter

mAC3dec

Thanks for the link - was using audio hijack but its not freeware -
one question on Bit torrent clients for Mac- been using azureus and realised that after using bitcomet on my thinkpad - the download speed is relatively slow ! comparisons done on same download file on two machines using the same net connection

im sure there is an explanation to this - perhaps i should change to another BT client ?

maybe you try "Transmission" cos it is freeware for BT

hello..i will get my macbook soon..anyway, i dont know about computer stuff at all, so hope that u guys can help me. i need to use microsoft office in my studies, so can i simply download microsoft office without download the microsoft windows?
or it is a compulsary for me to buy microsoft office for mac?

u have to buy microsoft office 2004(the current version) and install it in your mac.....the only LEGAL downloadable version is just a 30 days trial version.....

check www.microsoft.com/mac for more details...

thanks for ur reply. just want to get the confirmation, wat i have to do now is install microsoft office 2004 only...n no need to install microsoft windows...?

oh...one more thing..if i dont want to buy office 2004, can i install microsoft windows first then followed by microsoft office xp?

Microsoft Office 2004 is designed for Mac OS X....not windows....so yeah, u can install it into your Mac.

you can install Windows XP using BootCamp, then install microsoft office xp on your windows XP.....if this is what u mean, then yes u can....

EDIT: there are a lot of other options....u dont have to use microsoft office....check the first few pages...u'll get other alternatives.....

This post has been edited by lokgotz: Aug 1 2006, 11:24 AM

Thanks so much for all the information. By they way, any recommendation of Chinese-English Dictionary softwares, either free or non-free softwares. Tq

anyone here can tell me where can I download Aperture 1.1 or 1.5 or Adobe Photoshop CS.... or any picture editing software... thanks...

You are aware that these are commercial programmes that require payment for use? If so, warez discussions are best kept off this board.

In any case, here's a great list of FREEWARE that is available for OSX:

http://pixelspread.com/site/journal/56/app...-switching-easy

u can't download.. (it's illegal anyway.... pity those ppl who worked so hard to develop em)

but if u head over to Lowyat (software exchange), they can sell u adobe photoshop CS2 and aperture.

" If your Mac could lose a few pounds around the edges, then go ahead and put it on a diet with Xslimmer. Xslimmer is able "to remove the code inside of an app that doesn't match your computer's architecture... " Taken from insanelymac.com

http://www.xslimmer.com/

Check this website guys

any1 has any links to p2ptv for mac??
such as ppstream?

If u using the intel-based macbook, u can dl the beta version of bootcamp. Check apple website for that. Then u can install MS Windows Xp and Office. Or buy Pararell (not sure the right spelling) Its open MS Windows and MAcOsX seamlessly LOLZ

My two cents worth

try check this out

Personal Backup X4 - www.intego.com
Just pay up 47 pound sterling and u will get the software


http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/Sup...escription.html


This post has been edited by kevler: Jan 29 2007, 01:54 AM

is MAC support video confrensing in MSN Messenger??

Current version of Mac Messenger does not support video chat yet.

Wondering, does opensource office suit like
NeoOffice or OpenOffice is compatible with MS Office on windows?
Since most of my fren and college is using MS Office.... so i have to make sure the files are compatible..

And ... wat is X11 ? Neooffice doesnt need X11 while OpenOffice needs it.
btw, anyone used any of the both program before? Wanna know which is better

** MS OFFICE 2004 Trial gonna end in 20+ days.. need an alternative.. lol

it is compatible.
when you save your job, save as .doc for Ms word and Ms Execel. For Ms Power Point, save as .ppt ma can adi loo is not mistaken.

Personally I prefer Neooffice compared to Openoffice. Furthermore, I dont know why, after installing, Openoffice, the only application I can see is Writer (aka Words in MS), I dont know where the rest of Open office application gone.

you can get the others from the File < New and you will see a list of application you want to use..

edited : typo

This post has been edited by darkimp: Jan 28 2007, 05:18 AM

Thank you, Darkimp.

what software u guys use to zip files?
i have stuffit installed.....but it only extracts.........not zip

Mostly I use "Finder".. just right click then Add to Archive
Easy and simple

haha....okok....i didnt know it was built in into finder....thanks!

hi there, any amv convert tool for mac? i'm looking at this freeware up and down... phew..

any good video converter, i want to edit my video too bad imovie dont support vob file, any recommendation

http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

ffmpegX - converts almost every video formats, easy to use too.

For people who want a .dpg movie convertor for a Mac(for the R4 device), try this homepage.mac.com/atkinson.d/DPG Converter.zip you will need this http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mplayer...ies20060307.zip to run it too. hope it helps for Mac users who are trying to get a .dpg convertor. My friend shared this with me and I found it usefull for some people(not me though I don't have an R4 )

I ordered the 24" iMac. Any recommendations???

Recommendations for ？

I recommed getting a copy of Windows XP so you can use XP. ALso recommend Photoshop, and hmm...PREY!!!

i'm thinking of making my own ringtones for my handphone...

i use sound forge 8 when before being a mac user...
i did searhed for some places... n those music editing software wont work...

anyone can suggest me a nice n simple music editing software for mac?

i juz need it to cut n shorten any mp3 n make it my ringtone..

thax guys...

garageband comes installed on your mac.. no need to search for anymore software

that's what I use to edit songs and create ringtones

Any good software recommendations for creating Slideshows? I kinda find iMovie hard to use..or lets say kinda leceh.

KEYNOTE! =)...

Slideshow to put pictures and all? Like MovieMaker and all...

Use iPhoto:-

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...oto%2Bslideshow

Found something that I'd like to share.
http://vixy.net/
this is just like any other web site that simply just allows you to download YouTube videos into your Mac/PC, but the special thing about this one is you get to choose the video format you want which makes it really usefull.

Highly recommend this download, it's actually an addition to iTunes, does loads of stuff, best part of it is, it recommends a list of music similar to whichever you are listening to, and free mp3 downloads too! Very cool!

http://www.ilike.com/

i need help,
i just buy a, mac pro.. im a win user.. im got no idea wer to get antivirus like AVG(free) hope all of ya can help me out, thanks. sory for my por eng..

LOL... friend, you can forget about antivirus for Macs.. You can say you most probably don't need them when you're on Mac..

are you sure? btw thanks for the info.. any one? mac don't need antivirus?

thanks.

yes, u dont need
just feel safe wif it

Hey, any converter that converts avi to mpeg or mpeg-2 format? Cause I tried to download ffmpegX but there's an error everytime I downloaded. Thanks.

You have problems downloading? Or installing? Or using it? You have to follow the installation instructions carefully there..

I have been using ffmpegx only, maybe others could recommend some..

I think he meant the download. When it almost complete, Safari will report an error saying connection reset by peer or something similiar, I can't remember, I used to get this problem for ffmpegx download.

Yep, that error. I'm not sure what is it but I tried to download twice. Same error. And I downloaded MPEG Streamclip but QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is needed. And I'm not sure where to get it. Thanks!

been using visualhub, not free, but very nice.

Thanks a lot! =)

Anyone know which software can control the power management for MacOSX?
I want to connect the screen to my LCD TV and want the screen remain active when the top closed
Thanks ya

My guess is you want to use your notebook with external monitor, with your notebook closed, right?

You dont need any software to do that, with that intention in mind I suppose you already have external keyboard & mouse?

All you need to do is close your notebook with your external monitor connected, let it go to sleep, then wake it up with your external keyboard or mouse.

This post has been edited by civic98: Jul 4 2007, 03:32 PM

Actually you can just plug in any USB device, it should wake the Mac.

thanks civic98 and wei

You guys should really try this. VERY VERY USEFUL, just exactly what I was looking for. Got it yesterday and it worked flawlessly.

http://www.caseapps.com/sofacontrol.html

It lets you control major applications just with the Apple Remote and it controls the mouse cursor too, with clicking, double click and right click abilities too!

This post has been edited by civic98: Jul 6 2007, 12:04 PM

Wei.. Wanna trade my Macbook + Apple Remote with your Mac Pro??

can... u top up cash lar

anyway, for those older mac/ mac pro users, can try Mantra TR1 to get IR support.

Just thought of sharing PhotoInfo 2.0.1, it's a simple app that you can use to change the date/time embedded in the EXIF data of your digital camera photos, in case you didn't set the time correctly on the camera.. I found it useful, coz i accidentally changed the camera date without realizing it and the arrangement in iPhoto's library went crazy...

i have found an useful links for all recommended software - Link

A FREE and very useful software to trim iPhoto:

http://www.rhythmiccanvas.com/software/iphotodiet/

iPhoto Diet is a utility that helps to slim down your iPhoto library by manipulating your photos in the following ways:

- eliminate duplicate photos created internally by iPhoto or imported by yourself
- remove iPhoto's backups of rotated or modified photos
- strip the thumbnail icons of your photos
- remove thumbnail photos that have become mixed up with your high resolution photos
- identify photos which have not been added to albums
- weed out unnecessary folders and files from the library
- and more!

How do we type mandarin character using hanyupinyin in Mac? Does Mac has this built in like XP? We just need to add input language? Or we need third party software?

It's built in. Much better than WinXP if you asked me.
Go to System Preferences > International > Add Chinese to your languages.
Then in "Input Menu", enable the chinese. And check "Show input menu in menubar".

Select the chinese from menubar when you want to type chinese.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106484

This post has been edited by wei: Aug 1 2007, 11:46 AM

Wah, good. Thanks wei for the answer.

I am still undecided... to fork out 5K for a Macbook or just 3-4K for other brand.

This post has been edited by vivienp: Aug 1 2007, 01:28 PM

Worth every cent if you ask ANY of us. Hehe..

i use PinYin on mac to type chinese character, but it still not as good as windows xp's
xp can detect 我們 if you type 'wm' only, and spacebar to insert those characters. however you will need to press return button in mac os x to insert a word, one more . must type 'wo' return then 'men' return to have 我們. take longer time.

if anyone found a solution tell me

huh, really. Usually in xp, i will type wom, then 我們 will appear already, like smart dictionary.

One more question, although i am not sure whether this is the correct thread. Anyway, can we use the same external hard disk for Windows and Mac? My current external HD is format as NTFS, can i use it in Mac?

kokyun, use Simplified chinese input.

can. but you need use ntfs-3g.