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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).

  1. Gmail Notifier lets you check your mail without logging into Gmail
  2. Adium allows me to keep in contact with all my MSN, Yahoo, AIM and Gmail Chat buddies, all in one program.
  3. Quicksilver allows you to launch programs super fast, among other things
  4. Notepad Widget allows me to write down all kinds of things that I need to remember in the dashboard.
  5. TimeOut forces me to rest my eyes at certain intervals.
  6. NetNewswire Lite is a newsreader that helps me keep up with my favourite web sites without having to visit them one by one.
  7. Fetch Art automatically fetches all the artwork you don’t have for your music in iTunes
  8. Firefox is my favourite web browser
  9. 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.
  10. Windows Media Player allows you to watch all those weird videos people send you in the mail.

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