My nephew David sent me this one: “One Hundred Free Useful Mac Applications Part 1″. The author already has Part 2 posted as well. (I also found a list of 42 Apps.)
What is unique about this list is that a screen shot is posted with each application listed. Of course, there is also a link to the app.
Part 1 has the following:
Productivity
Anxiety (To Do list)
Appointments (Record customers contacts and events)
BackBoard (Collect notes and tasks)
Camouflage (Hides icons and leaves only wallpaper)
Evernote (Multi-system note taking)
EventSync (Syncs Facebook events with iCal)
HimmelBar (Access installed apps by scanning standard locations)
iClockr (Track your time)
MindNode (Mindmapping application)
NameChanger (Rename a list of files)
Namely (Open applications)
Punakea (Tag your files and bookmarks)
Quicksilver (Interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data)
SketchBox (Sticky Notes Manager)
Slife (Keeps track of where you spend your time on your computer)
SyncMate (Keep all your documents, text messages, contacts, etc. organized)
TaskMate (To-do list)
Think (Helps concentration)
Todos (Shows you all your applications in a dock)
Tools and Utilities
AppFresh (Used to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins up to date)
Burn (Burn discs)
Font Explorer X (Font management)
Garagebuy (Find and purchase on eBay)
Set Icon (Quickly and easily set a custom icon for your drive)
TextWrangler (Text editor and Unix/server administrator’s tool.
NeoOffice (Office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database)
Emacs (Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more)
Readers
Adobe Reader
NetNewsWire (RSS reader) for Mac by NewsGator
NewsFire (RSS reader)
ThunderBird (Email application from Mozilla)
System
AppCleaner (Thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps)
Caffeine (Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers)
Carbon Copy Cloner (Clone, synchronize, backup)
Deeper (Enable and disable the hidden functions of Finder, Dock, Dashboard, Exposé, Safari, Login window and many Apple’s apps)
EverSave (Save all of your documents in a specific time interval)
Growl (Lets Mac OS X applications unintrusively tell you when things happen)
iStat pro (Monitor every aspect of your Mac, including CPU, memory, disks, network, battery, temperatures, fans, load & uptime and processes)
Loginox (Customize your Mac’s login screen)
MacLoc (When logging in, all open documents and applications will be right where you left them)
Mactracker (Detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made)
OnyX (Verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance, configure some hidden parameters)
Monolingual (Removes unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X)
PresentYourApps (Hide Dock and menu bar for every Cocoa application you choose)
SMARTReporter (Warns of some hard disk drive failures)
SuperDocker (Tweaks your Mac’s dock)
Chat Clients
Adium (IM to connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more at the same time)
Colloquy (Advanced IRC, SILC & ICB client)
Gabtastik (Keep chat sessions open on your OS X desktop outside of web browser)
Messenger (Mac’s MSN Messenger)
Skype (Skype for Mac)
Part II contains a list of categories of:
* Internet & Network Utilities
* Audio and Video
* Imaging
* More tools
See it all at: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-free-useful-applications-for-mac-part-i/
Additionally, I came across a list on a web site that called Lap Top Logic that isn’t a Mac specific site. It lists 42 Great Freeware Apps here: http://laptoplogic.com/resources/42-great-freeware-apps-for-mac
