| Butler | This is the most awesome app ever conceived. Will replace LaunchBar or Quicksilver and add the functionality of several other apps, using up practically no memory! Universal binary too. | http://www.petermaurer.de/ |
| MenuMeters | If you like to keep an eye on whats going on under the hood, this is pretty useful. Universal. | http://www.ragingmenace.com/ |
| SysStat Nano | This is a Dashboard widget which can show every stat about your computer at the click of a button. Universal binary. | http://www.islayer.com/ |
| ClamAV | If you are worried about viruses, here is a free scanner. | http://www.markallan.co.uk/ |
| HenWen | Intrusion detection system for the paranoid. | http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/ |
| OSXvnc | Incredibly useful if you want to access your computer from away from home. UB. | http://www.redstonesoftware.com/ |
| Chicken of the VNC | Use this when away from home to view your VNC session. UB | http://sourceforge.net/ |
| Carbon Copy Cloner | Essential tool if you want to clone your drive. Also try NetRestore. | http://www.bombich.com/ |
| Fink | Great tool to make it easy to install the wealth of open-source command-line utilities etc. | http://fink.sourceforge.net/ |
| Firefox | One of the best browsers on the planet, with hundreds of plugins. Universal binary here | http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ |
| Camino | Fast, slick browser, and very functional too. | http://www.caminobrowser.org/ |
| Opera | This browser works on anything. They're even building a browser for the DS. | http://www.opera.com |
| Cyberduck | Excellent easy to use FTP and SFTP client. Universal binary. | http://cyberduck.ch/ |
| Fugu | Another great FTP/SFTP application. | http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/ |
| Transmission | Very simple and fast BitTorrent client. Universal. | http://transmission.m0k.org/ |
| PureFTPd Manager | The most perfect FTP server software out there and a sweet GUI on top of it. If you wanna FTP, get this. | http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/ |
| Adium | Awesome multi-protocol Instant Messaging client. UB as well. | http://www.adiumx.com/ |
| Skype | Make internet calls for free, or calls to anywhere in the world for dirt cheap. | http://www.skype.com/ |
| Colloquy | Nice looking, simple, full featured GUI IRC client. UB. | http://colloquy.info/ |
| Vienna | Very nice RSS newsreader. Can you believe all this cool stuff is free? | http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/ |
| gDisk | Amazing little tool lets you use your gmail account as storage space. | http://gdisk.sourceforge.net/ |
| VLC | The swiss army knife of video players. Can play almost everything except new WMVs. Required. Universal binary here | http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ |
| HandBrake | This is the VLC of DVD video encoding. It will take a DVD and convert it into almost anything else. Universal. | http://handbrake.m0k.org/ |
| iSquint | This will convert almost any video to a video iPod compatible format. Universal as well | http://www.isquint.org |
| Handbrake Lite | Converts DVD directly to iPod video format. UB. | http://www.isquint.org/ |
| MactheRipper | Very useful if you just want to copy your DVD's to your HD to view later. | http://www.versiontracker.com/ |
| Audacity | Cross-platform audio editing tool. Very useful for chopping audio or changing formats etc. Capable of multitracking too. | http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ |
| MidiKeys | Lets you use your computer keyboard to send MIDI signals. | http://www.manyetas.com/ |
| Crystal VST | Wicked little freeware synth program. Very powerful. Rax will let you try this out. UB. | http://www.greenoak.com/ |
| Acquisition | Fast LimeWire and other P2P network client. UB. | http://www.acquisitionx.com/ |
| xFactor | The same as above, but does some other cool stuff. UB. | http://www.xfactor.cc/ |
| WireTap | Lets you record audio from any source or application. Very useful for recording internet streams. | http://www.ambrosiasw.com/ |
| TextWrangler | If you need something more than TextEdit, this is a wicked editor with more advanced functions. Kicks ass. Universal | http://www.barebones.com/ |
| SubthaEdit | Another excellent alternative to TextEdit. Universal too. | http://codingmonkeys.de/ |
| NeoOffice | Java implementation of OpenOffice.org for OS X. Nice. | http://www.neooffice.org/ |
| Nvu | Full featured, fast cross-platform HTML editor. Why pay for Dreamweaver when this is free? | http://www.nvu.com/ |
| GIMPshop | Almost all of the features of Photoshop at an infinitely smaller price. Requires X11 but thats on your OS X install disc. | http://plasticbugs.com/ |
| Blender3D | If you have time to do 3D, this is an excellent tool to make 3D stuff with for free. | http://www.blender.org/ |
| Google Earth | This isn't really an Editor, but its extremely cool nonetheless. | http://earth.google.com |
| iPhoto Buddy | If you have a LOT of photos, this will let you manage multiple photo libraries. | http://nofences.net/ |