10 essential free Mac OS X applications
Posted on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 6:39 am
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10 free Mac OS X programs I find absolutely essential.
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My good friend Craig Hatting called me the other day to ask what programs he should download onto his new Macbook (which he won, lucky guy). I thought that this kind of information would help others, too, so I’ve decided to make a blog post out of it. Here are 10 Free Mac OS X applications I can’t live without (if you like them, please consider donating to the authors).
- Gmail Notifier lets you check your mail without logging into Gmail
- Adium allows me to keep in contact with all my MSN, Yahoo, AIM and Gmail Chat buddies, all in one program.
- Quicksilver allows you to launch programs super fast, among other things
- Notepad Widget allows me to write down all kinds of things that I need to remember in the dashboard.
- TimeOut forces me to rest my eyes at certain intervals.
- NetNewswire Lite is a newsreader that helps me keep up with my favourite web sites without having to visit them one by one.
- Fetch Art automatically fetches all the artwork you don’t have for your music in iTunes
- Firefox is my favourite web browser
- NeoOffice is a Mac version of OpenOffice. OpenOffice is a free office application suite. There’s a spreadsheet, word processor, database, presentation program and more included.
- Windows Media Player allows you to watch all those weird videos people send you in the mail.
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One Comment
On Sat 22nd Dec 07 @ 6:46 am MW said:
I think I may want to try TimeOut. Didn’t know about it before. Thanks.