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10 More Awesome Free Mac OS X Apps

17 Responses (Add) | Monday, July 14th, 2008 at 12:57am

Did you have any of these already?

Image Tricks – “Uses Mac OS X Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced visual effects. The program can create unique artwork you may use as business card background, for web design, print materials and more.”
ArchDetect – “ArchDetect will perform a quick Spotlight-powered search for applications on your computer, then will detect the architectures for each of them. It’ll give you the results in a nice table, which you can search, sort & filter any way you like. Find something not yet Universal? You can easily select an application, and press “Update” to pull up search results from MacUpdate – or any download site of your choice.”
Esperance DV – “Module for System Preferences making a RamDisk. You can place temporary files for speed saving video, speed recording a lot of pictures, building your application with xCode,… RamDisk is the use of a part of read-write memory (RAM) as a hard disk.”
PhotoBook – “A Facebook photo browser for Mac. It makes it easy and fun to manage, share, and view your friends’ Facebook photos in one intuitive interface.”
Startrail – “Everyone likes to personalize his own Mac in various ways: wallpapers, icons, colors and even themes. But what about mouse pointer? Cannot it live its own life? Now it can. With Startrail you can add special effects to your mouse pointer!” [I found out about this one last week, and v2.0 has become shareware - I'm still using 1.5. If you can put up with this for longer than 5 minutes, I'd be surprised - but it's fun!]
MenuEclipse – “Save your constant menu pixels from getting burned into your screen! Gain better focus on your work & play, and away from the menu bar!”
Bellhop – “Bellhop uses a single-window interface that allows you to organize, edit and configure your services in one place. Publishing a new service is simply a matter of writing the script for your service and configuring some settings.”
JES Video Cleaner – “Features: General noise reduction (adaptive); Remove logo; Average two movies; Remove cross-luma; Remove periodic brightness variation”
iCal Dupe Deleter – “Straight-forward application to aid the removal of duplicates in iCal under OSX Tiger and Leopard. It is a replacement for an Applescript that had a similar function. iCal Dupe Deleter is faster, it gives the user more control over its operation and allows for a better user interface.” [I also recommend iCal Reply Checker - which is equally as wonderful.]
Web 2.0 Icon Generator – There’s really no description for this AIR app, other than it’s an easy way to create simple “Web 2.0″ styled logos. There’s a tab for creating Adobe-ish icons, too. Silly, but potentially a timesaver if you’ve ever needed to do something like it.

What other freeware am I missing out on? I’ve seen all the popular lists, but I’m looking for interesting / awesome (but largely unknown) apps. I have a feeling I’m going to need to start compiling lists of good iPhone apps, too.

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July 14th, 2008
at 10:13pm

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July 15th, 2008
at 6:17am

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July 14th, 2008
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James Mowery

July 14th, 2008
at 1:38am

Hopefully you haven’t previously mentioned this, but Minuteur is one of my favorite free applications. I am a professional writer, and I use it to time myself and as an alarm clock. It also has stopwatch functionality.

You should add it to your next list.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19356

James Mowery

July 14th, 2008
at 1:43am

I’d also like to recommend NetNewsWire. One of my favorite feed reading clients for the Mac OS X. It used to be a paid software, but now it is free! We like free!

Also, Brent Simmons has said that NNW 4 will have AideRSS support built right into the application.

I only wish there was a way to share my “flagged” (or “starred” in GReader) items to FriendFeed.

Chris, do you know of a way to do this?

Thanks.

Oh, and the link to NetNewsWire: http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/default.aspx

Martin Gommel

July 14th, 2008
at 2:25am

Hey – thanks for the links – going through them later !

*Seen on friendfeed ;)

Du Senyao Peter

July 14th, 2008
at 2:44am

Among all the free apps chris provides here, I find the most useful two being

Esperance DV and Menu Eclipse

Ramdisk through Esperance DV
For me, owning 4G ram on my laptop, I definitely would like to use some portion of that to speed up the lower tier storage system

Menu Eclipse totally rocks.. It just blocks me from staring at that sometime annoying translucent menu bar.. for the sake for looking at it.

Joe Spinogatti

July 14th, 2008
at 8:03am

I like them all!

First comment!!! Woot!!!

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