This is a list of the Free OSX Tiger software I use that kick major booty. No down payment, no monthly payment, No BS! Don’t leave your mac without ‘em.
- Adium iChat is good, Adium rox, IMHO, they just added Google Talk support
- Quicksilver mouse? what’s that? have you tried these?
- Cyberduck FTP software that does what it needs to, without scaring you
- CronniX GUI for crontabs
- Iterm Terminal for OSX with tabs and bookmarks
- JellyfiSSH SSH GUI for OSX, kinda like Putty for Windows
- CocoaMySQL manage MySQL db, local or remote, nice!
- MenuMeters now i can finally see what my mac is doing
- TextWrangler If you don’t have the bux for BBEdit this one is almost as good
- VoodooPad Amazing, its a wiki based notepad
- Tofu reading just got a whole lot easier thanks to horizontal scrolling
- PTHPasteboard keeps a log of your copy/past buffers
- Eclipse one of the best IDEs, the Mac OS X implementation has been significantly extended and improved
- Sidenote Just a lil notepad, usefull when you dont have a pen
- NetNewsWire Lite Free RSS/Atom reader
- SeeSS funny title, shows you CSS info in a widget, very handy
- Free Ruler Do you measure your pixels? I do
- HexColorPicker, QuickPicker color pickers galore
- Paparazzi Simple app to get screenshots of webpages, real handy
- FinkCommander After you get Fink, you will make your life much easier with this toy
- TinkerTool Kinda like TweakUI for XP, loads of good stuff
- Diablotin an admin panel like msconfig in XP, shows what you’ve added to your Library folder
- Yasu ok last administration tool, very simple, mostly cleans your mac
- Synergy Sharing is caring
- Widgets Preference Pane tweak your Dashboard
- Picture Namer simple is good, just rename photos before they go into a black hole called iPhoto
- Recent Tunes wanna see what you just heard on iTunes? goes in the menu bar and can FTP too
- VideoLAN Play media without worries
- Cocoalicious If you are a deliciousaholic, this is a must
- delimport runs in the bg and imports your delicious into spotlight
- Khronos time tracking app, shows your earnings in real time
- Check Off keep track of tasks so you dont end up kicking yourself in the head later
- Dash Blog Simple yet usefull, a dashboard widget that post to Blogs using XMLRPC
OK now for some not so free and experimental apps to poke around with BluePhoneElite let your Tiger pick up the phone, doesn’t work with my Treo 650 yet, I’m waiting… TextMate New age text editor with some unique features CandyBar icon changer thingy, i haven’t played with this thing yet TrailBlazer view your history as images, kinda cool but not too practical 3DOSX Great proof of concept, a Virtual 3D desktop! Apple should hire these guys for OS11