CandyBar - Icon customization

CandyBar - Is a great application that allows you to customize all icos. In addition it can be used to manage icons.

DeskLickr - Desktop

DeskLickr is a simple application that uses the large photo resource of Flickr to change your wallpaper every so often. Makes a cool change.

GraphicConverter - Conversion

GraphicConverter is a great image-manipulation applicatoin that used to come free with the Mac.

ApGrapher - Wifi detection

ApGrapher is a great little program that offers the ability to find information about the wireless networks whizzing around your head.

UnRarX - File compression

UnRarX is an applications that gives you the abilty to easily uncompress .rar files. Very good, although stuffit can now handle .rar files.

Disk Inventory X - System maintenance

Disk Inventory X is a simple program that scans your disk and visually shows what files takes up how much space, good to visualize if you are running out of space and you have some size hogs.

Skim - PDF Reader

Skim is a great application for PDF reading. The new version is almost perfect certainly in the field of full screen reading and presentation. Easier to use as a viewer than Adobe Reader. The ability to attach notes is an added plus.

iWillQuit - Maintenance

iWillQuit is a a very usefull little application that is sure to save your laptops hard drive. If you have a network in your house, schedule it to download files at night so as to not slow down others using the network or to keep your VOIP working without delay. Apple’s scheduler will not shut down/sleep while there is an internet radio stream, but iWillQuit does. iWillQuit works just as it said it does, shuts down, sleeps, etc.

ImageWell - Picture editing

ImageWell is the easy way to edit, rotate, crop, and resize your image and upload it to your iDisk (.mac account), FTP server, or WebDAV server. No need to launch multiple applications to add text, labels, thought clouds, talking balloons, drop shadows, watermarks, and shapes.

iCompt - Personal finance

iCompta is an application that lets you manage your personal accounts with ease and it also lets you reconcile transactions which are on your bank reports and therefore check that you are up to date with your accounts

Quinn - Games

Quinn is an arcade-style tetromino puzzle game written and designed specifically for Mac OS X. It features a clean, elegant user interface, beautiful graphics, and smooth, subtle animations for fluid gameplay. One of the most simple yet addictive games ever.

iAlertU - Alarm system

iAlertU is the first of its kind alarm system for your Apple MacBook computer. Basically iAlertU is a car alarm for your Apple Mac. iAlertU uses the built in sudden motion sensor (SMS) device to detect movement of your Apple MacBook and triggers an audible and visual alarm. The alarm can also be triggered by keyboard and mouse/trackpad movement.

iShowU - Recording

iShowU is an application that takes a direct recording of your screen. Great if you want to make recordings of specific applications. A good CPU is important for this application

Name Mangler - Editing

Name Mangler is a usefull application if you need to rename several files at once every now and then. It supports all common tasks: Find and Replace (including support for regular expressions); Number Sequentially; Change Case; Set Extension; Add Prefix/Suffix; Remove/Insert Characters.

Drive Genius 2 - Maintenance

Drive Genius is an excellent application that allows you to manage your harddrive. Although not free it is an excellent tool to speed up your Mac after having used it for some time. Defragmentation is something for Windows, but Mac drives also get cluttered. This application allows you clean up your Mac.

Desktop curtain - tool

Desktop curtain is a small application that allows you to throw a curtain up in front of your existing desktop. If you have a messy desktop and often give presentations this may the solution. Just "close" the curtain and you have a clean desktop.

Tidy Up - Organization

Tidy Up is a nice application that allows you to search through a list of files finds duplicates. Great if you have many files and you need to organise them.

Free Icon - Icon Picture

Icon Drawer is not an application but is a web site that offers a wide variety of free icons for your Mac. Ready to change the colours of your standard icons such as iPhoto etc to classy black and blue? Or simply want to change them competely? Here you can find the options.

SiteSucker - Web

SiteSucker is an application that automatically downloads web sitesfrom the Internet. It does this by copying the site’s HTML documents, images, backgrounds, movies, and other files to your local hard drive. Just enter a URL and click a button an SiteSucker can download an entire web site.

Compress - File compression

Compress is an applicaton that lets you compress your files or folders (for sending them over the internet or whatever other reason) in a variety of formats — tar, bzip, gzip, p7zip, and zip — by simply dragging and dropping.

AppFresh - System Maintenance

AppFresh is very useful free tool that keeps all applications on your Mac up to date by checking the internet for new releases and makes downloading and installing them a breeze.

MorphX - Fun

MorphX is an application that you can really have some fun using. With MorphX, you take two pictures and transition between the two of them smoothly make it a funny ensemble.

Spark - Utility

Spark is a powerful and easy to use shortcuts manager that allows you to create and organize accessible shortcuts any time. With Spark you can create Hot Keys to launch applications and documents, execute AppleScript, command iTunes, and more…

Assignment Tracker X - Organization

Assignment Tracker X is a great application for the students amongst you looking to keep good record of their assignments and classes for school. It has great features like time management tools and assignment lists.

Hidden settings - System Maintenance

Hidden Settings is an easy to use and free OS X preference pane that installs into the System Preferences application on your Mac. The purpose of the Hidden Settings preference pane is to provide users an easy way to access some hidden features in the operating system and some applications that ship with it.

Slife - Productivity

Slife is an application that allows you to monitor what your time on your Mac is spent on. It is even possible to reward yourself for spending time on certain tasks.

MacTheRipper - Ripping

MackTheRipper is an application that as the name may reveal allows you to copy DVD's to your Mac. Start ripping now.

LittleSnapper - Screenshot

LittleSnapper is an application that allows you to take screen shots of your entire screen or specific parts of a web page.

Growl - Audio Converter

Growl is a simple yet essential application that allows you to convert audio files to almost all different types of existing extentions.

Flip4Mac - Converter

Flip4Mac is an application that allows you to play Windows Media Files on your Mac. After installation Quick Time can handle all Windows Media files be it on your computer or on the internet.

iSquint - Converter

iSquint is a very useful application to convert video in order to import all your video material to iTunes allowing you to play it on your iPod and iPhone. This application no longer exists but can still be found in certain places.

iStat Pro - Utility

iStat Pro is a highly configurable widget that lets you monitor every aspect of your Mac, including CPU, memory, disks, network, battery, temperatures, fans, load & uptime and processes.

Set Icon - Tool

Set Icon is a small application that lets you quickly and easily set a custom icon for one your drives either from an ICNS file or any old image file that Mac OS supports.

RSSOwl - RSS

RSSOwl is yet solid cross-platform open source RSS client.

Poladroid - Picture editing

Paladroid is an application that allows you to create high resolution polaroid-like ictures from digital pictures.

Carbon Copy Cloner - Back up

Carbon Copy Cloner is an application that allows you to clone, synchronize and backup your files

Think - Organization

Think is simple utility to help concentrate on your current activity

Cocoalicious

Cocoalicious is an application that let's you easily post to del.icio.us.

Camino -Browser

Camino is an excellent web browser by the makers of Firefox but with Mac feel to it. It is an open source browser, that has a great layout and and is easy to use.

CC Publisher - FIle hosting

CC Publisher is an application that can be used to host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org.

NetNewsWire - RSS

NetNewsWire is an RSS applicaiton that allows you to order, mark and mail the content. This RSS reader offers some additional possiblities compared to Safari.

Xmarks - Browsing experience

Xmarks - This application allows you to seamlessly synchronize your booksmarks with all your different Apple machines (including iPhone). It supprots both Safari and Firefox. Instead of using Apple's MobileMe you can now use this free application. In addition to synchronizing it gives you tips regarding web sites.

Alarm Clock - Fun

Alarm clock is an application that allows you just what the title indicates, it turns your Mac into an alarm clock using the music in your iTunes library. A nice alternative to the monitinous sound you hear every morning.

Komodo Edit - Web design

Komodo Edit is a an alternative for iWeb. Where iWeb is great for people with limited HTML knowledge, Komodo Edit allows to edit HTML andedit all aspects of the side and can be used for the languages PHP, CDD and many others.

Simplify Music - Media

Simplify Music is an application that allows you to enjoy songs from home while at work or from any WiFi location. Explore friends' music while they are online.

Buddi - Personal Finance

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background.

Bean - World Processing

Bean is a very fast and easy to use word processor. Live word count, autosaving, and more.

SolarSeek - Fileshring

SolarSeek is a simple and solid filesharing client for Mac.

iTunes - Media

iTunes is the most talked about media player available. Large in size but great with the number of posibilities including, burning, ripping, internet radio and not to forget the acces to Apple's iTunes Store where you can download everything from music to movies.

Transmit - FTP

Transmit 3 takes Mac OS X FTP to the next level. Very effective and a nice layout.