Unique Mac OS X and Windows Freeware
You’ve likely seen hundreds, if not thousands, of “top 10″ lists of Mac OS X freeware floating around. Everybody seems recommend the same titles, which doesn’t make it easier for you to discover equally free, unique software. Popular titles are usually popular for a reason: they’re good. But obscure binaries can be just as nice to use.
- MacOSaiX: From a source image, create mosaics easily with image searches from Google, Flickr, etc.
- CosmicPainter: Spin art for your desktop (without the clean-up). Export still images and movie compositions, too!
- QT Sync: Correct audio / video sync, ratio issues on-the-fly.
- Sloth: There’s no easier way of discovering which files are open on your system at any given time (like, to the geekieth degree).
- Tunatic: Identify a song simply by playing a sample of it into your microphone. Also available for Windows!
- Bricksmith: Virtual Lego modeling. Try it, if only for the minifigure generator!
- Mario Paint Composer: Eat your heart out, GarageBand. Also available for Windows!
- RGB MusicLab: What does an image sound like? Find out by importing pixels and exporting sound bytes with the least amount of fuss and maximum amount of customization. Also available for Windows!
Not quite a list of 10 unique apps, but I’ve struggled to find items that aren’t listed “everywhere” else. Do you have any suggestions for me? Like, truly suggesting programs that “nobody” has heard about before?
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July 9th, 2008
at 2:26am
t have to step on them in your bare feet in the middle of the night! We used it for 5 minutes and it hurt our heads, but we bet you can come up with something great. Take a screenshot and put the link to it in the comments. [viachris pirillo]
WEBKEEPS
July 2nd, 2008
at 7:00pm
unFun built an interface for you to lo in and download all the songs you want, for your personal listening and partytime enjoyment, but it took forever to log into the system, so we wouldn’t hang our hats on that feature. [viachris pirillo]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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June 30th, 2008
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July 2nd, 2008
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unFun built an interface for you to lo in and download all the songs you want, for your personal listening and partytime enjoyment, but it took forever to log into the system, so we wouldn’t hang our hats on that feature. [viachris pirillo]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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July 4th, 2008
at 4:45pm
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July 3rd, 2008
at 2:19am
This is a really handy dandy tool, and the source is available too for monkeying…er, slothing around. One of the superior parts about Sloth is that it’s a Cocoa app, and runs nice and slick on your Mac. [viachris pirillo] Read Share This Share This
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July 23rd, 2008
at 8:51pm
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July 2nd, 2008
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This is a really handy dandy tool, and the source is available too for monkeying…er, slothing around. One of the better parts about Sloth is that it’s a Cocoa app, and runs nice and slick on your Mac. [viachris pirillo]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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June 30th, 2008
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Lilxkid24
June 29th, 2008
at 9:41pm
I will try this for sure on my cousins mac pro since he doesn’t even know much on it lol. Thanks chris for this useful information
Jon Cline
June 30th, 2008
at 10:05am
Hey Chris,
I find that many people still don’t know about Wakoopa. It is very useful as it leads to other great app discoveries and is Mac focused.
http://wakoopa.com/
Glad to help.
jc
Matt Harris
June 30th, 2008
at 10:47am
On number 7 Mario Paint Composer Both the Mac OSX and the PC Download options download the PC version. I tried them both a couple times.
Evan
June 30th, 2008
at 1:47pm
Bricksmith sounds fun LOL, cool
vixpta
July 1st, 2008
at 2:00am
Hey, Amsn is a cool aternative to the “real windows msn for mac”
found here : http://www.amsn-project.net/
bradleybradwell
July 1st, 2008
at 12:04pm
This sounds really interesting. I just got windows, but i am craving to switch to Macintosh. I will have to think about it for a while, but i think my switch is coming soon.