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#12 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#12. AppCleaner
Now that you have downloaded all of these applications you might want to delete one. Perhaps, you didn’t like them as much as I did. It happens. To solve this the #12 application is to help remove unwanted programs. Most Mac applications can be deleted by simply moving it to the trash can and […]
#13 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#13. TGEmu with Military Madness (Game)
What in the world is TGEmu? Well TGEmu is a Turbo Grafx 16 Emulator (PCE). Since the PCE is dead and it had one of the best strategy games of all time on it, Military Madness, todays download brings these two things back to harmory via emulation. Military Madness did […]
#14 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#14. Growl
Today’s great free application for Mac Os X is Growl. Essentially, Growl is a notification service that runs quietly in the background and alerts you when specific events happen. The messages can range from changing songs on iTunes to receiving new mail. Other programs such as Adium integrate in with Growl to notify you […]
#15 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#15. AppFresh
So, now that you have downloaded apps 25-16, you’re going to need a way to keep these applications up to date. To do this, you can launch the applications and check for updates on each one individually, or use AppFresh. This application updates widgets, applications, preference panes and Apple updates. It also integrates in nicely with your […]
#16 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#16. Perian
When it comes to watching videos on OS X, I believe that many users have multiple applications to watch them. VLC is one of the most popular media players for Mac, second only to QuickTime. Wouldn’t it be great to just enable QuickTime to support all the codecs that VLC supports (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, […]
#17 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#17. Adium
One of the best all-in-one messenger clients around. Adium is a free chat client that has support for Windows Live Messenger (MSN), AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Jabber (XMPP), Google Talk, Bonjour, Apple .Mac, Lotus Sametime, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Gadu-Gadu, Live Journal talk, and MySpace IM.
Overall, besides supporting so many different protocols, […]
#18 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#18. Azureus
Azureus is a great BitTorrent Client. That does much more than download your favorite torrents. In case you don’t know, BitTorrent is a p2p protocol which is widely used in the distrobution of software, movies, music, and pretty much anything else.
More information on the BitTorrent Protocol can be found on wikipedia:
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer […]
#19 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#19. Caffeine
This is a small application, in both size and functionality, but I have found invaluable. Using a MacBook Pro one of the things that bothers me is how often and how frequent the monitor dims and the computer goes to sleep. However, sometimes, while not at the computer I want the computer to fall […]
#20 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#20. VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a OpenSource alternative to running Windows on your Mac. This isn’t BootCamp. No, this is similar to Parallels or VMware Fusion, without the price tag!
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT […]
#21 Leopard application of the day (Free)
#21. Handbrake
When it comes to backing up your dvd collection so you can watch it on your Apple TV or iPhone, there isn’t a better free program than Handbrake. The current version for Mac includes a lot of upgrades and is even faster than previous versions.
Download now!
From the developers site:
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, […]