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#1 2007-02-18 2:00 pm
- papadopolis
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your fav free application
there are tons of free applications from macs out so i thought we could share some of your FAVS
try to give a short discription of it and a link to it so we can download it 
my app is
Coconut Battery- appliation
coconut battery is an app that tells how much charge your battery is holding (in percent) and how much charge it is holding (also in percent)
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#2 2007-02-18 3:27 pm
- Donkey Butter
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Re: your fav free application
Xmenu, XMenu brings the much-loved Mac OS 9's Apple menu back from the dead, adding its functionality to Mac OS X. Adding one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar lets you easily access your preferred applications, folders (and subfolders), documents, and files, just like the good old days..
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#4 2007-02-18 4:04 pm
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Re: your fav free application
VLC is a truly MUST have. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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#5 2007-02-18 4:59 pm
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Re: your fav free application
VLC++
Also Liquid CD. Great little burning app.
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#6 2007-02-18 5:16 pm
- papadopolis
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Re: your fav free application
whats so great about VLC you cant play DRM encoded videos bought on itunes so whats great about
sorry to get off topic in my own thread
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#7 2007-02-18 5:20 pm
- 333imacman
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Re: your fav free application
VLC is a must because it can play just about any format. That's a good thing. There are more (alot more) media files besides iTunes content that needs playing, and VLC allows for it.
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#8 2007-02-18 6:23 pm
- maleko
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Re: your fav free application
i cant believe im the first to mention Quicksilver, and il say VLC too.
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#9 2007-02-18 6:48 pm
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Re: your fav free application
My current favourite free application, one without which my productivity would plummet:
VirtueDesktops. Virtual desktop manager.
The rest:
1001. Desktop client for use with Flickr.
Adium. Universal IM client.
Chmox. .chm reader.
Colloquy. IRC client.
dead.licious. Verifies that your del.icio.us links are still valid.
iScrobbler. Submits iTunes data to last.fm.
iTerm. Terminal replacement.
Licensed. Keeps track of serial numbers.
OnyX. System maintenance.
Quicksilver. Uh.. it does everything.
sidenote. Brilliant little note taker.
Songbird. Media player, MP3 blog reader.
TigerLaunch. Menubar-resident launcher.
Transmission. BitTorrent client.
VLC, already mentioned.
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#10 2007-02-18 8:32 pm
- FutureDreamz
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Re: your fav free application
333imacman wrote:
VLC is a must because it can play just about any format. That's a good thing. There are more (alot more) media files besides iTunes content that needs playing, and VLC allows for it.
I just use Perian and Flip4Mac, a;tough there are still a few variations of formats that can't be picked up.
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#11 2007-02-18 8:51 pm
- FutureDreamz
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Re: your fav free application
Mine are:
ByteController: Menubar app, controls iTunes
Check Off: Menubar app, makes ToDos
Compress: self explanatory
Ejector: Menubar app, self explanatory
Jumpcut: Menubar app, Clipboard history archiver
Keyboard Cleaner: disables the keyboard exept for a specific combination
Mactracker: Mac history, wish it had OS X initial startup movies
MagiCal: menubar app, puts the date at-a-glance
Rember: memory scanner
sidenote: alternative to stickies
SMARTReporter: menubar app, constantly polls your HD and wars if there is any change in the SMART number
StuffIt Expander: tried The Unarchiver, but no support for .sitx files
TigerLaunch: menubar app, application launcher
Transmission: BitTorrent client
uApp: app uninstaller
VirtueDesktops: Menubar app, multiple desktops, like Spaces
Wallsaver: run a screensaver as your desktop
XShelf: hard to explain, see website
Aquallegro: music quizer
ClamXav: the best AV for Mac
iEatBrainz: Mass Music Renamer
Flip4Mac: to watch Windows Media formats
Google Earth: See a virtual version of the earth
Microsoft Office 2004: not very good
NeoOffice: good alternative to MS Office
Seashore: image editing, based on The Gimp
Journler: a daily jounaler (never used)
LiveQuartz: image editor
Image Tricks; ditto, but diffrent kind
Vienna: Really Nice RSS reader
WebKit: backup if Safari freezes
TypeTrainer4Mac27L: sister uses it
FrostWire: ditto
Schoolhouse: ditto
everything, Except for MS Office (which I am forced to have,
altough not forced to use), is Freeware and all, exept for MS Office and iEatBrainz is Universal.
Thanks for clicking.
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#13 2007-02-18 9:27 pm
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Re: your fav free application
Blender, THE open source 3D app.
http://www.blender.org/
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#15 2007-02-18 11:11 pm
- FutureDreamz
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Re: your fav free application
Thrica wrote:
FutureDreamz wrote:
StuffIt Expander
Stuffit has become such a bunch of nagware whores that I don't count their products as free anymore.
But i am forced to use it, even let it set itself as default for even ZIP.
but i can't use The Unarchiver because i need to open .sitx.
wait. the last time i had to open one was for...
off to The Unarchiver i go.
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#16 2007-02-19 12:11 am
- MattElmore
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Re: your fav free application
FutureDreamz wrote:
Thrica wrote:
FutureDreamz wrote:
StuffIt Expander
Stuffit has become such a bunch of nagware whores that I don't count their products as free anymore.
But i am forced to use it, even let it set itself as default for even ZIP.
but i can't use The Unarchiver because i need to open .sitx.
wait. the last time i had to open one was for...
off to The Unarchiver i go.
You could use both. 
Use Unarc. for everything except for what you have to use Stuffit for.
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#18 2007-02-19 10:04 am
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Re: your fav free application
Photoshop
when surrounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
and the women come out to cut up what remains,
just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
and go to your god like a soldier...
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#20 2007-02-19 10:20 am
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Re: your fav free application
Here's a vote for
Services Scrubber
Get's rid of all those "Services" you never use, and leave the ones you love
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#21 2007-02-19 10:21 am
- papadopolis
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Re: your fav free application
justG wrote:
My current favourite free application, one without which my productivity would plummet:
VirtueDesktops. Virtual desktop manager.
WOW that is a great app its just like spaces!
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#22 2007-02-19 11:48 am
- justG
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Re: your fav free application
Topic: your fav free application.
Ribtorus wrote:
Photoshop
Alien wrote:
GraphicConverter.
papadopolis wrote:
justG wrote:
VirtueDesktops. Virtual desktop manager.
WOW that is a great app its just like spaces!
Yeah, I can't wait for Spaces. Having that functionality built into the OS will no doubt provide more stability than VirtueDesktops does; but in the meantime, it's really great.
Here are some more:
Pathway. An application that archives the path followed through Wikipedia by creating a graphical "network" representation of visited articles, that can be saved to disk and reopened.
gDisk. Software that turns a GMail account into storage space.
Podsize. A Dashboard widget that checks the dimensions of a video prior to encoding, ensuring that it is iPod-compatible.
Quinn. Tetr-- uh... "Falling blocks game" with network play.
Type Cast. Font preview Dashboard widget. Quickly move through font families, styles and sizes using the keyboard. Presents font info and reveals font in Finder.
Hallon. Create menubar-accessible bookmarks in applications that don't support bookmarking, like a favourite track in iTunes or an e-mail that requires a reply by the end of the day. Open the source by selecting its bookmark in Hallon's menu.
KeepAnEye. Multi-purpose monitoring and notification utility. Tracks an unlimited number of data sources and displays data in desktop stickies, the menu bar, or the Dock.
Pixen. Graphics editor for pixel artists.
iSquint. iPod video converter.
Enjoy.
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#23 2007-02-19 11:58 am
- maleko
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Re: your fav free application
FutureDreamz wrote:
Thrica wrote:
FutureDreamz wrote:
StuffIt Expander
Stuffit has become such a bunch of nagware whores that I don't count their products as free anymore.
But i am forced to use it, even let it set itself as default for even ZIP.
but i can't use The Unarchiver because i need to open .sitx.
wait. the last time i had to open one was for...
off to The Unarchiver i go.
change your defaults then, this is one of my favorite apps
http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/
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#24 2007-02-19 1:23 pm
Re: your fav free application
justG wrote:
Topic: your fav free application.
Ribtorus wrote:
Photoshop
Alien wrote:
GraphicConverter.
Piracy and comes with the computer, respectively.
Blender certainly ranks among my top free applications, along with Cyberduck, gvim, and Apple's developer tools. I don't think I use any non-free applications in my daily computing. (that is, assuming you count the regular apps that come with OS X as free)
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#25 2007-02-19 1:25 pm
- Ribtorus
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Re: your fav free application
I was being facetious.
I should have used a winky.
when surrounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
and the women come out to cut up what remains,
just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains,
and go to your god like a soldier...
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