NUS | SoC | Computer Systems Lab | Marian Mihailescu

Here is a list of must-have applications for Mac OS X.
Last updated: 20 Feb 2007.

	Quicksilver A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.		Visor Terminal Systemwide Quake-esque Terminal access via hotkey.
	Boot Camp Boot Camp Public Beta provides a straightforward means of letting your Mac run Windows.		Fink The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X.
	iEatBrainz Uses MusicBrainz (musicbrainz.org) to fix your mp3 and aac tags in iTunes after theyÕve been ripped using acoustic matchings.		Pando Pando is free personal P2P software that makes sending, receiving and publishing large files a breeze.
	Tunnelblick Tunnelblick is a simple graphical user interface for the great VPN software OpenVPN 2.0 and higher		Transmit A very Mac-like excellent FTP/SFTP client.
	Overflow An application designed to quickly launch applications, open documents, or access folders while keeping the size of your dock in check.		Clutter A small Mac OS X application that lets you fetch album art from the Internet to put your music CDs on your desktop.
	Eclipse Open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software.		Witch Witch lets you access all of your windows by pressing a shortcut and choosing from a clearly arranged list of window titles.
	VLC media player Highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.		Senuti Senuti is a simple application that allows you to transfer songs from your iPod to your computer.
	Screen Mimic Allows you to create screencasts that can be saved as Adobe Flash (SWF), Flash Video (FLV), or Quicktime (MOV) files.		The Unarchiver A much more capable replacement for BOMArchiveHelper.app, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X.
	AppZapper Completely remove unwanted apps with a single click.		Comic Life Create comics for posting on th web.
	Perian Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.		MediaFork Multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter.
	iAlertU Remote controlled motion sensitive alarm system for the MacBook Pro.		Virtue Desktops Virtual desktop manager for AppleÕs Mac OS.
	Salling Clicker Remote control utility to turn a compatible mobile phone or PDA into an advanced wireless two-way remote control for your Mac.		Yahoo! Messenger The popular messenger client from Yahoo!.
	TexShop Free graphical front-end for teTeX under Mac OS X.		Tangerine Analyzes the beats per minute (BPM) and beat intensity of the songs in your iTunes library.
	SvnX Open source GUI for most features of the svn client binary.		Stop Dashboard Widget A 1-button widget which stops the Dashboard and removes it (and all its widgets) from memory.
	Skype Free Internet calls.		Papers Papers bundles all the great technologies that come with Tiger to give you a completely new workflow for reading scientific articles.
	JustLooking JustLooking is a program to view images and pictures on your Mac OS X-based computer.		iBank Intuitive full-featured personal and small business financial manager.
	Growl Growl is a freeware notification system for your Mac.		Disco A simple and fun workflow-based clean interfaced utility for disc burning.
	Delicious Library Macintosh software to catalog, browse, and share books, movies, music, and video games.		Awaken Awaken is a digital alarm clock that wakes you up by playing the iTunes playlist of your choice.
	Cha-Ching Cha-Ching is a fun and easy to use money manager, done Mac OS X style.		Azureus Java Bittorrent client.
	A52Codec Universal A CoreAudio component that can decode stereo and 5.1 surround sound from A52 and AC-3 audio.		iTheather iTheater is an aesthetically pleasing way to manage, play and share your photos, movies and music.
	SnapNDrag Lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off.