GUI enhancements, system tools, utilities
Meteorologist (Freeware)
Displays weather forecast on the menu bar.
TinkerTool (Freeware)
Configure OS settings not available through Apple's own System Preferences program. Nice tool, but read before wildly checking dialog boxes
SnapNDrag (Freeware) |
Snapz Pro X (Shareware)
Two fine Screenshot utilities. (By the way, you can change the .pdf suffix of OS X screenshots to .tiff without problems...)
Carbon Copy Cloner (Freeware)
Copy your installation of Mac OS X to another harddrive, create images and backups. (Doesn't support OS X 10.4 yet)
DropDMG (Freeware) |
Zippist (Freeware)
An easy way to create OS X disk images (or .zip files, respectively)
MPlayer (Beta) |
Video Lan Client (Beta)
The best alternative movie players out here.
MEncoder (Beta)
Converts DVDs to DIVX/XVID.
Delocalizer (Freeware)
Removes non-english language packs for 800 MB of space on your hard disk.
MenuMeters (Freeware)
Displays LAN traffic, cpu usage and other things on the menu bar.
USB Overdrive (Shareware)
If your USB peripheral won't work, USB Overdrive will do the job.
Programs
GraphicConverter (Shareware)
Very good digital image handler. I can't name a graphic format it can't read yet.
PageSpinner (Shareware) |
SubEthaEdit (Freeware for private use) |
BBEdit (Shareware)
Some good HTML and/or text editors.
iCab (Beta)
Sadly this webbrowser gets little attention. It has some good features (like the HTML validator). You may give it a try...
Adium X (Beta) |
Fire (Freeware)
Instant Messaging and IR Chat applications.
Time Burners
Fish Fillets (Freeware)
Help two secret agent fishes to do their job... by solving puzzles. Nice graphic art in my opinion.
Glider Pro X (Freeware)
OS X port of a Mac OS classic. Navigate your glider through a house by profiting from air vents and avoiding water drops.
For more freeware games go
here (attention, 2 MB of screenshots). The text is in German, but the screenshots speak for themselves.