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Thursday, April 16, 2009

More Mac Freeware

Continued from Mac Software: Must Haves six months ago...

Video Players:
  • VLC - fantastic video player.
  • MPlayer OSX - a low memory, low RAM video player.
  • NicePlayer - a truly OS X program in that it's simple and slick, but somehow the interface is very weird and clunky. Seems to cover more formats than the above programs. Hopefully it gets better.
Other programs:
  • Burn & Liquid CD - burn programs. ISOlator - for just burning ISOs
  • Camino - a light-weight variation on Firefox, which I prefer to Safari.
  • ClamXav - viruses have started to appear for Mac and this program was prepared.
  • CoconutBattery - tells you the age of your machine and the status of your battery. That's it.
  • iBackup - basic and free backup tool. Much more customizable and gentle on hard disk space than Time Machine.
  • iScreenShot - a quickie solution so you don't have to look up the weird keyboard combination (cmd+shift+4) to do a screenshot.
  • KompoZer - great basic HTML editor
  • LiteIcon - change your icons ... I recommend these.
  • Lock-My-Mac - a one-button solution for locking your machine. Or just enable Fast User Switching and select "Login Window" from the drop down menu.
  • Renamer4Mac - like the name - batch renaming of files.
  • Seashore - basic graphics editor for mac based on GIMP.
  • Rainlendar - prefer it over iCal for looks, ease-of-use, and ICS compatibility.

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