Useful Mac OS applications

As a great enthusiast of freeware, free and open source software I check almost everything I can download and install on mac. If you don’t want to waste your time testing hundreds of apps, here’s my short list of recommended software.

! great application   + very good   +/- stable with some bugs or usability issues   - good enough

• Browsers
  • Mozilla Firefox (!)
  • Safari (+)
  • Camino (+)
  • Other tested: Flock, OmniWeb (shareware), Opera, Shiira
• Archiving:
  • CleanArchiver (+)
  • The Unarchiver (!)
• Maintenance:
  • AppCleaner (!)
  • Onyx (!)
  • TinkerTool (+)
• Productivity:
  • Freemind (+/-)
  • Graphviz (!)
  • Highlight (+/-)
  • Skim (+)
  • TextCite (+)
  • CocoPad (!)
• Terminal:
  • iTerm (!)
  • Midnight Commander (+/-)
  • Vim (!)
• Editors:
  • Smultron (+)
  • MacVim (!)
• Add-ons:
  • macam (+)
  • Perian (+)
  • MacPorts (!)
• Networking:
  • BitTorrent: Transmission (!)
  • IRC: Colloquy (!)
  • IM: Adium (+)
  • Firewall: WaterRoof (+)
  • RSS: Vienna (!)
• Multimedia:
  • Play (+/-)
  • Musorg (+)
  • HandBrake (+)
  • VLC (+)
• Programming:
  • pgAdmin3 (+/-)
  • svnX (+/-)
  • SQLite Database Browser (-)
• Games:
  • OpenTTD (!)
  • Wormux (!)
  • Freeciv (!)
  • Tremulous (+)

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a part. -- Richard Feynman

Last modified: 2010-01-31 07:31:51 CET