My Top 5 Most Awesome Free Apps for OS X!

Posted: January 4th, 2009 | Author: Remi | Filed under: OS X | 2 Comments »

As you might have guessed I quite love macintoshes, and thus I feel compelled to tell the world about some of my favorite free software for OS X!

# 5  Cyberduck

A truly great ftp client, with excellent features like bonjour, growl, and quick look support.  As far as I’m concerned, this is the only FTP client you will ever need for OS X.  It has mostly all the good features of programs like transmit.  With great reliability and nice interface, it is a download you can’t miss.  The only complaint I have is that webDAV support isn’t great.  Visit Site

#4 The Unarchiver

This is an amazing program that brings support to OS X for extracting an amazing amount of archives, even archives made on machines from other countries.  The icing on the cake is that it has almost no presence and blends with the OS X gui perfectly, practically replacing the default unarchiving program in OS X.  This program is a must download and is definitely worthy of the “the” at the beginning of its name.  Forget Stuffit, this is the only unarchiving program you’ll need. Visit Site

VLC#3 VLC

A must for any operating system.  VLC can play virtually any video or  music file right out of the box! (or disk image rather).  But the amazing video bliss doesn’t stop there, it can even re-encode the video and save it back to disk.  It can even capture video from your camera or your screen.  This is an amazing application that follows the mac ideals of “just working.” Visit Site

#2 Adium

This instant messenger is a great choice for any multi-protocol user on OS X.  It supports an amazing amount of protocols including MSN, AIM, Google Talk, Bonjour, and the new Facebook chat protocol.  If that wasn’t enough, it has growl support, custom themes, scripting support, and tons of plugins and extras.  The only downside is that it does not have video or audio support, but it is supposedly going to take advantage of leopard’s new video features for the 2.0 release. Visit Site

#1 Smultron

I use this application all the time.  It is close to an equivalent to textmate, but with not quite the same features.  In my opinion, smultron gives a better range of features and has a great reliability, and impressive usability.  I use this for writing HTML, Javascript, PHP, and any other scripting languages.  It can open any file as plain text, which is something you may take for granite if you are new to OS X.  This gets my number one spot basically because of the essentialness of this program to my OS X experience, and because it never fails to surprise me with helpful features. Visit Site

2 Comments on “My Top 5 Most Awesome Free Apps for OS X!”

  1. 1 David said at 7:52 am on January 4th, 2009:

    Please file any issue you have with WebDAV at http://trac.cyberduck.ch/newticket

    Version 3.1 (available as nightly build) will feature some improvements to WebDAV with support NTLM and Digest authentication.

  2. 2 Remi said at 10:07 pm on January 5th, 2009:

    No problems per say, what I was referring to was the lack of digest support. I am so excited for the 3.1 release now. Thanks.

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