You're favorite shareware apps

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themacko

Barking at the moon.
We haven't done this in a while and I find it's a good way to be exposed to new software that I wouldn't have ever found otherwise.

So, what are your 5 (or less) favorite shareware/freeware apps? Please give us a little description and a link. I'll start:

Acquisition It's gotta be the best P2P client out for the Mac.

MacPublisher Pro A simple, yet quite functional desktop publishing app that's perfect those who don't want to drop $100 on a similar Adobe product.

Moodstats A little app that's like a personal journal. I find it perfect to keep track of my diet, excersize, mood and other routines. Quite interesting if you keep up with it!

Omnigraffle This software is awesome if you make a lot of flowcharts or diagrams.
 
yea, graphic converter is a gem

others i use are -

PhotoLine - for when i don't really need all that GC has to offer. quick and easy to use.

Folder icon X - creates custom folder icons

IconComposer - for creating custom icons

FreeSpace - really handy with multiple drives for getting an overview of the amount of used and free space available on all of them - individually and combined.

in truth, all 3 of my drives are littered with such apps that i find at versiontracker and rarely use. some i've never even tried or been able to figure out how to use.
 
I just had a little problem installing it as I had never worked with the terminal command before but the httpmail app is solid.

http://www.versiontracker.org/dyn/moreinfo/macos/18189

It works great now, letting me have access to my hotmail account and my .mac account through the Mail application.
Others include:

iBert, cuz you gotta have your regular dose of Dilbert.

http://www.versiontracker.org/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18346

WeatherPop, although I wish there was a way to use this app with international sites as well.

http://www.versiontracker.org/dyn/moreinfo/macos/14483

Cocktail, a nice system utility, especially for freeware.

http://www.versiontracker.org/dyn/moreinfo/macos/18282

RocketLauncher, which lets you put apps in the menu bar rather than the dock or an alias.

http://www.versiontracker.org/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16618

Delocalizer, which cleans up some pre-installed language packs.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/9281

Plasma Tunnel Saver, a cool screen saver.

http://www.aquafiles.com/pages/Detailed/563.shtml


Ok, before I go on, among others I use on a regular basis are msn messenger, voicebox, googlenews, kinoma producer and palmreader.
 
Goldberg is an excellent bare-to-bones image editor (and it's freeware BTW), while ImageIndexer builds perfect HTML portofolios with them.

Transmit_is a FTP client that rocks.

Acquisition (P2P) is great too.

BBEdit_is the ultimate bare-to-bones text/code editor.

iPulse and Konfabulator are super desktop add-ons. CandyBar_also customizes your Desktop in the most beautiful way.

MPlayer OSX_beats all media players (incl. VLC, IMHO, check specific thread). DivX Doctor and Avi2Mov (free) also helps with some AVI files.

Finally, I like Web Devil_(site sucker, equivalent to Windows HTTrack) a lot. Helped me a lot when I wasn't on DSL.
 
I went to look for iPulse and came across this...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/

Most of the apps mentioned so far are here, some updated. So someone at Apple must read this forum. :cool:

Btw, just saw on WeatherPop, that if you upgrade to advance (14 day trial), you get more info plus the option to add international sites.
 
I just downloaded sofa. it really rocks. it displays the album cover for the currently playing song in iTunes. it also acts as an itunes remote, but I assigned the F1-F5 keys to do that via keyboard maestro.

in any case, sofa rocks. every time a new song comes up, the sofa window maximizes to 192 x 192 and goes to the top left of my left monitor and a white window with the album name, artist name and song name pops up. After a little while the info window fades away and the cover art window minimizes into a 32 x 32 square at the bottom left of my left screen. This is very cool!

I have dual monitor setup - would use on the right side on single monitor setup.
 
In my first 20 or so days that I have owned a Mac I have purchased all of the following. I have found them all exteremly easy to use and CHEAP.

Little Snitch
Great for monitoring where your apps are trying to communicate on the internet. Shareware $24.95.

Little Snitch Web Site

Taco HTML Editor
Great Freeware HTML editor. Great little app.

Taco HTML Editor Web Site

EasyCrop
Great little image program for a very basic and single use. $5.95

EasyCrop Web Site

Net Monitor
Want to track your Ethernet or Dial up connection and visually see when traffic is going in and out? This app is for you $6.95.

Net Monitor Web Site

Ok unlike most of the people around here I don't use versiontracker. I find the site poor and not a great interface. Sorry i don't mean to tick any one off. I myself really like MacUpdate site. They have a great easy to use and comfortable look. On top of that they have a nice little client called udateradar for only $12.00 to track all your software.
Check it out :
http://www.ricciadams.com/programs/updateradar/index.html
 
X11 and OpenOffice - no more MS Word/Excel/anything else.

DVDbackup and OSEX, FFmpeg

GraphicConverter (used it for years brill!)

Space (Virtual Desktops)

Logmaster

Chimera/camino
 
This may surprise some folks since I'm using OS X 10.2.4, complete with doc, but my vote for best shareware goes to James Thompson & his dock, DragThing.

I use the Dock as the reposity of running programs, folders full of documents, folders full of application aliases, etc..

The DragThing doc is divided into 8 catagories with 51 possible applications per catagory. This is where I store things like my communication & networking apps, my graphic & fractal programs, productivity & word processing programs, etc.

This dual dock approach helps keep the Apple dock slim, but also keeps all of my freeware, shareware, and commercial software close at hand. HTH, but YMMV <vbg>


Regards,

Albert
 
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