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Since: 11-17-05
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Useful Software for Apple Macintosh



This list aims to provide you with links to Useful Software for Apple Macintosh. It also aims to provide links to useful Apple related websites.


Web Browsers
Safari -- Mac's default browser. Comes with Mac OS X.
Internet Explorer 5 for Mac -- Microsoft's browser, for Mac. support ends December 31, 2005
Mozilla Camino -- Mozilla's browser designed specifically for the Mac.
Mozilla lololol -- Cross-Platform goodness.
Opera -- More Cross-Platform goodness
OmniWeb -- shiny Mac browser. 30 day free trial.



Mail Clients
Mail -- Mac's default Mail Client. Comes with Mac OS X.
Microsoft Entourage -- Mac equivalent to Outlook and part of Office 2004 Supports use in an Exchange Server 2000 (or later) environment.
Mozilla Thunderbird -- Cross-Platform goodness.
Bare Bones Mailsmith -- simple mail incorporating BBedit's text-fu
Gyazmail -- mmmm Cocoa



Instant Messaging, VOIP, Chat and IRC
iChat -- Comes with Mac OS X. Supports AIM.
Adium X -- Open-source, multi-protocol Instant Messaging. Powered by libgaim.
Fire -- Open-source multi-protocol IM client for OS X
Colloquy -- IRC & SILC Client for OS X.
XChat -- Cross-Platform IRC Client
Skype -- free VoIP tool for OS X
Gizmo Project -- free VoIP tool for OS X
Unsanity Chat Transcript Manager -- allows you to search chat logs from Adium and iChat.



RSS Readers
PulpFiction -- RSS for OS X



Peer to Peer
Azureus -- Powerful, Java based BitTorrent client
BitTorrent -- Official (and original) BitTorrent client.
LimeWire -- Free Gnutella client. Cross-platform



FTP Clients
Transmit -- FTP client for OS X.



Video and Audio
QuickTime -- Apple's Media Player.
iTunes -- Music and media for OS X. May support the iTunes Music Store if it's available in your country. Part of the iLife suite of products.
VLC -- Media Player which supports most audio and video, DVD's, VCD's and streaming
GarageBand -- Digital Music creation / mixing. Part of the iLife suite of products.
iMovie -- Movie editing. Supports HD Video. Part of the iLife suite of products.
iDVD -- DVD Authoring. Part of the iLife suite of products.
Final Cut Studio -- Apple's Professional video and audio tools. Includes Final Cut Pro 5 (editing), Soundtrack Pro (sound), Motion 2 (animation) and DVD Studio Pro 4 (DVD authoring).
Logic Pro -- Apple's music toolkit
Shake -- Apple's digital compositing and effects
Predixis MusicMagic -- analyses your music and generates playlists based on similar features in the music.



Photo Editing / Graphics
Aperture -- Apple's own Photo Editing software, designed for Professional Photographers.
Adobe Photoshop -- Adobe's powerful, professional digital imaging software.
Painter IX -- Powerful Natural-Media software (emulates real painting and drawing materials)
Pixen -- Cute open-source software for small-scale or pixel-art.
iPhoto -- Photo editing, sorting, slide-shows, etc. Part of the iLife suite of products.
the GIMP -- funny name, powerful open-source image editing.



Office / Productivity Software
Office 2004 -- Microsoft's Office suite, for the Mac. Includes Word, Excel, Entourage, PowerPoint.
iWork -- Presentation/Publishing from Apple. Includes Keynote (presentations; like PowerPoint) and Pages (Word Processing).
OpenOffice.org -- open-source alternative to Office and iWork.
OmniGraffle -- Diagramming software for OS X
OmniOutliner -- Project planning software for OS X.



Text / HTML / etc Editors
Taco HTML Edit -- Free HTML editor for OS X. Color-codes your code.
Text Wrangler -- good, native text editor for OS X.



Antivirus Solutions
Norton AntiVirus for Mac -- Norton's AV solution for OS X.
Virex -- McAfee's AV solution for OS X.



Utilities (ie, Zip Tools, VNC.. etc.. etc)
StuffIt Expander -- Zip... unzip...self-extract...tar...
Quicksilver -- Launcher/Search/Command. Great for quick access to Applications. Current version requires Tiger, but older versions support Panther.
Unsanity Shapeshifter -- Sick of the default Aqua theme? This allows you to skin OS X.
Chicken of the VNC -- for all your VNC needs.



Apple Related Websites
Apple -- Uh... Apple's Website
AppleInsider -- Apple Rumors
ThinkSecret -- More Apple Rumors
Slashdot: Apple -- Slashdot's Apple section
Infinite Loop -- ArsTechnica's Apple Blog
MacOSXhints -- Handy OS X hints


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IM
Proteus - $15 multi-protocol IM Client

FTP
Cyberduck - Free, simple FTP and SFTP browser
Fetch - $25 FTP Client. 15 day trial available

Audio
Peak Pro - Very high quality music making program

Photo
LightWave 3D - 3D Image making software
Macromedia Fireworks - A multi-platform image design tool
Raccoon Sam

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Since: 11-20-05
From: Correct

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Flock — A kew web browser
Flip4mac — Play WMA and WMV in Quicktime. (Site temporarily down)
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