Top 100 Open Source for the Mac
While the web site mentioned in the previous article, lists many of these apps, it doesn't try to rank them. And it misses some.
Some of the new ones here are:
Auto Update
- AppFresh - Keeps all of your Mac applications up-to-date, automatically. Still in beta, but has made it to my dock.
Writing and Office
- Bean - a small, simple word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), with many niceties added to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable.
- xPad - xPad is the perfect simple alternative to a word processing document.
- NeoOffice - NeoOffice is a full-featured, office suite compatible with Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel.
Reading (e.g. books)
- Tofu - Makes reading on your computer much more like reading a book. Drag or paste text into Tofu and it arranges everything in crisp, classy columns that scroll side to side (not up and down).
Privacy
- Vidalia - Rock-solid anonymous web browsing for everyone. This TOR frontend keeps you anonymous on the web using open source software and military-grade techniques. To use with Firefox see: TorButton.
Video
- appfresh - Designed from the ground up from people who like to watch movies, NicePlayer does all of the things that you would expect from a media player, and all of the things you didn’t know you needed.
Video Ripping / Burning
- The Unarchiver -
The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. Designed to handle many more formats.
- Burn - Burns to DVD, VCD, and SVCD. Take your downloaded videos and burn them to disks you can watch on regular DVD players. For VCD and SVCD you don’t even need a DVD burner. Free and open source!
Gimp(shop)
- GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
WOW - and we haven't even got through the top 30.
I see an Open Source DOM coming. There are even games here.
See the full list here. here.
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