David Fredh

I’ve listed my favourite freeware applications for mac.

Image
CocoViewX - Classical windows style imageviewer. (power pc only).
FastPic – Small and fast imageviewer with realtime zooming and rotating. Not universal.
Gimp - Image editor.
Image Tricks – Image editor with meny ”core image”-effects.
ImageWell – Image manipulator with watermark and framefeatures. Included Ftp-uploading.
Inkscape – Pagemaker ripoff that is opensource and is getting better and better.
iPalette – Get HTML-codes from colortones fast and easy with iPick.
MacOSaiX – Create beautiful mosaicimages with this app.
Seashore – Fast GIMP-based image editor that is written in cocoa.
SnapNDrag – Utility that makes it easier to make screenshots.
Google SketchUp – Create models fast and easy with this app from Google.

Editors
Smultron – A multilingual editor that has powerful features and is customizable.
TeXShop – Good LaTeX-editor with built-in viewer.

Media
Flip4Mac WMV – Get Windows media-support in Quicktime applications.
LAME-framework – Export to MP3 files from applications that uses quicktime.
Audacity – Audio editor
djay – A very nice dj-application that integrates with your iTunes library.
Isquint – Video conversion application. Convert many formats to .mov with this application.
MacTheRipper – Copy a DVD-movie to your harddrive. (powerpc only)
MPlayer OSX – A media player that plays many formats.
QTAmateur – A small media player. It can play any format that QuickTime can understand, handle fullscreen video playback, and export files to any format that QuickTime can write.
QuickTime Broadcaster – Record videos from your webcam with this.
RealPlayer – Media player that also install plugins for your web-browser so you can stream real media files directly in your browser.
VLC – A media player that plays many formats.

Messaging
Adium – Multi messenger. Can handle many protocols like ICQ/MSN/Jabber/Yahoo…. It is customizable and has a nice interface.
aMSN – Good MSN-messenger clone with Jabber support and Webcam-feature.
Skype – Internet telephony and video calling.

Office
OpenOffice.org 2.0 – Mac-version of Openoffice, the free Microsoft office-clone. (requires X11)
Neooffice Aqua – Openoffice but written in aqua so you can run it without X11 with nice osX-look.

Web
Camino – Same mozilla engine like Firefox but written 100% for Mac OSX look and feel.
CamiTools.dmg – Extension application for Camino.
Firefox
Google Earth – The classic application from google. Offers maps and satellite images
Opera – Good web browser with menu included features.
SafariBlock114.dmg – Adds adblock feature for Safari.
SafariSpeed – Speed up safari.
Shiira – Cool webbrowser with many new inspiring features. Same rendering engine as Safari (Webkit).
Vienna – Great RSS-reader for mac.

Tools
Mail.appetizer – Get a beautiful notification when you have a new mail.
MenuMeters – Get information about CPU-usage etc.
MouseZoom – Is the mouse pointer to slow? No worries, just install MouseZoom.
Burn – Great simple burning app.
CocoaBooklet – Make PDF-booklets fast and easy.
CoconutBattery – Get control of your battery
coconutWiFi – Great WiFi-application that will help you to find networks.
CoreDuoTemp – Get information of your current clock-speed and cpu-temperature.
Cyberduck – Great FTP-application. You can edit files directly from your server.
PureFTPd-Manager-1.6.3 – A powerful ftp-server with easy administration.
VirtueDesktops – Virtual Desktop application with nice transition effects.
Fugu – SCP file transfering client.
Gdisk – Makes your gMail accont to a disc drive.
HandBrake – Convert a DVD movie directly to mp4-format, fast.
IalertU – Anti theft program that uses information from your harddrive sensor.
IpodDisk – Get access to the music in your iPod with this.
Iterm – Terminal application with tab-features.
IwebSites – Makes it possible to run multiple web-projects in iWeb.
OneButton FTP – Another ftp-client with less features than Cyberduck, but it’s fast and stable.
OnyX – System management application. Change a lot of hidden features in MacOSX and clean up your system.
OSXvnc – VNC server for MacOSX.
PDFLab – Edit PDF files
Phew – Safecopy application (PowerPC only)
QuickErase – Erase your RW-media fast and easy.
Quicksilver – Application launcher with many features and extensions.
SeisMacs – It access your laptop’s Sudden Motion Sensor in order to display real-time, three-axis acceleration graphs.
Senuti – Access your iPod files, copy them to your computer and play them directly with this.
SimplyBurns – Another simple burn application with a copy disk to disk feature.
SuspendNow! - Get your computer to deep sleep directly with this app.
TeX FoG – A manual application for TeX-commands.
WhatSize – Get information of folder sizes, tree view.
X-Charge – Battery monitoring software, graph view.
Xbench – Benchmark application.
Yasu – (Yet Another System Utility) was made to do a specific group of maintenance tasks quickly within a few clicks.
Fink – With fink you’re able to install and compile a lot of UNIX/LINUX-applications. For example: LaTeX, Imagemagick, Xdvi, Xmms, Emacs. Many of these apps will need X11 that you can install from your MacOSX-install disk.
Witch – Do you like the Alt-tab command? Then witch makes it more powerful.

Widgets
AlbumArt – Get CD-cover from Amazon when playing file in iTunes.
Amazon Art – Find album art quick and easy from Amazon.
App Update – Automatically find out if there exists new versions of any of your installed applciations.
coconutBattery – Get battery information
CoreDuoTemp_widget-1 – Information about CPU-temperature
Cyberduck – Just drop a file on it and it will upload it to a predefined path on your ftp-server.
Day in History – What happened on this day?
Deep Sleep – Press to get your computer into deep sleep.
DoBeDo – View, add, edit and delete iCal todo items.
Hitta – Swedish hitta.se-widget.
iCal Events – Displays upcoming events from multiple iCal calendars.
iLifeDock – Launch iLife applications from Dashboard.
iStat nano – Get information about CPU/memory/etc.
iStat pro – Get information about CPU/memory/etc. More detailed than the nano version.
PHPQuickReference – The name says it all..
Swedish Lexin – Swe-eng lexicon.
tvinfo – Get information about swedish TV-programs.
Uploader – FTP uploader. Preset with ftp logon information and drop a file here for upload.
Wikipedia – Great widget for a great web-service.