Mac has now been used by a large number of users worldwide, I have compiled a list of top 20 Mac apps in this post that will make using Mac more fun for you.
Internet & Web
Camino: This is an open source web browser by Mozilla foundation for Mac OS X. (http://www.caminobrowser.org)
Adium: This is an IM developed for Mac that enables you to connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously. (http://adiumx.com)
SpamSieve: This is a junk email filter for Mac based email clients. It offers a 30 days trial period. (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15797)
Cyberduck: A good open source FTP software. (http://cyberduck.ch)
Image and Graphic Tools:
Xee: Image viewing and browsing utility. (http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html)
Gimp: Photo editing tool for Mac OS, also available for other operating systems as well. (http://www.gimp.org)
Multimedia Apps:
Handbrake: is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder DVD ripper with MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. (http://www.handbrake.fr)
Audacity: It’s a free and easy to use audio recording and editing tool. (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/mac)
Perian: A free and open source QuickTime component for getting support for many popular video formats. (http://perian.org)
Burn: Simple software for burning your CD/DVD on Mac, offers many advanced features. (http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net)
Windows Emulation
Parallels: Lets you run Windows based programs on your Mac in their own window. (http://www.parallels.com/en/download/desktop)
Office Productivity:
TextWrangler: is a good tool for bloggers, you can use it for composing blogs, for writing comments, to compose emails offline and for other text editing purposes. (http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler)
Bean: Create and edit your documents with ease using this small word processor. (http://www.bean-osx.com)
OpenOffice: It is the leading open source office softwares suite, it has softwares for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, graphics and database. (http://www..openoffice.org)
Online Filesharing
SolarSeek: is an open-source Mac application for connecting to the Soulseek peer to peer network. ( http://www.solarseek.net)
Transmission: An open source Torrent downloader. (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19378)
Personal Productivity
ScreenRecycler: It allows you to use other computer as additional display for your Mac. (http://www.screenrecycler.com)
Things: Manage your tasks easily on Mac. (http://culturedcode.com/things)
RSS
Vienna: An open source and free RSS/Atom newsreader for Mac OS X. (http://www.vienna-rss.org)
Utilities
Tofo: An application that gives you a more better experience for reading books on you Mac. (http://amarsagoo.info/tofu)
Unarchiver: A replacement for “BOMArchiveHelper.app”, the built-in software in Mac OS X for managing your compressed files. (http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html)










Comments
Shifty
November 4th
Hey, great collection of apps!
My suggestion for RSS is NetNewsWire… maybe you can add this to the list? (it’s in active development and gets updated often)
Cheers,
Shifty
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