30 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Productivity
About Gcal.app
Gcal.app is a Google Calendar client for Mac OS X - a very minimalistic (WebKit-based) browser, that only displays Google Calendar. Nothing else. It’s meant to be as distraction-free as possible, allowing you to focus on tasks and events.
30 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Productivity, Utilities, Web Utilities
About Chicken of the VNC
A fast, lightweight VNC client for Mac OS X. A VNC client allows one to display and interact with a remote computer screen. In other words, you can use Chicken of the VNC to interact with a remote computer as though it’s right next to you.
Chicken features automatic server discovery via […]
30 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Productivity, Utilities
ShoveBox catches all those little scraps of information that you can’t act on now but would rather not forget. It sits up in your menubar, waiting for you to drag in text, images, URLs, and more.
It also provides a sensible interface to sort everything you shoved. It’s all about spending less time processing and more […]
Do you like the media browser that Apple includes in some of its applications, but wish you could use it from any application? Now you can.
Download the free Karelia iMedia Browser and use it whenever and wherever you need to access your library of photos, music, videos, and bookmarks. (Requires Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” or […]
30 Apr
Posted by admin as 3D Graphics, Freeware, Graphics
Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, export and present 3D models. Whether you want to design a new deck for your house, build models for Google Earth, or teach geometry to your fifth-graders, you can use SketchUp to see your ideas in 3D. And when you’re done, you can export an […]
A free OpenGl billard game for linux and OS X.
This is the FooBillard homepage. Below you see some snapshots of FooBillard in action - click to enlarge.
Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound.
Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, […]
29 Apr
Posted by admin as Educational, Freeware
What’s the point of all this technology around us? It’s gotta be something more than decreasing costs or increasing productivity or enabling new things or changing the world. Those are empty goals. What do they mean? Exactly how many times over must we change the world? For what?
The real problems in our world are not […]
29 Apr
Posted by admin as Educational, Freeware, Games
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
features
in version 0.9.1
sky
default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
extra catalogues with more than 210 million […]
imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply (or an image in your collection).
ThemeChanger switches your theme in MacOS X. It supports the .theme and .dlta formats, and generates an aqua backup automatically. You can also restore the aqua backup via single-user mode, if an installed theme damages your system.
ThemeChanger is designed to be fast, free, and most importantly, easy to use.
It’s localized in English and French
Theme sites
macthemes
Max […]
29 Apr
Paintbrush adds very little new to the genre and is pretty much a straight rip-off of MS Paint. That said, it’s primitive tools are great for producing smiley faces and houses in seconds, and it is fun to play around with if you’re feeling nostalgic. The fact that the program supports a range of different […]
Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface.
Xee is useful as a more powerful replacement for Preview, or most any other image viewer available on Mac OS X. It is very fast, and […]
Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our […]
28 Apr
Posted by admin as Entertainment, Freeware, Media Players
Miro is free, open-source software, licensed under the GPL. We’ve built on top of excellent open-source projects and anyone is free to use our code to make something new. That’s the beauty of free and open-source software.
Just as important as the openness of our code is the openness of the technical standards that it employs. […]
In Blackjack International 2 , we reengineered the game, re-hauled the interface, and really put the “international” in Blackjack International.
If you’ve ever sat at a real blackjack table, you’ll know that all players bet different amounts. You could be betting $10 a hand and the person next to you could be wagering $10,000.
In Blackjack International 2, the players are […]
28 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Plugins, Productivity, eMail
What’s all this, then?
So you have Google Notifier and you’re unhappy with that “new message pop-up” window announcing your new mail or calendar events. How do you change it? Simple: you install Google+Growl (a plugin for Google Notifier).
Growl notifications are small windows showing some text. Out of the box, Google Notifier shows its own pop-up and doesn’t […]
28 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Plugins, Web Utilities
iStumbler is the leading wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac.
Release 98 includes a re-written AirPort plugin which now correctly reports signal for all current AirPort chip-sets, and provides more information about all networks. The info window is now resizable and the AirPort Inspector shows dBm values […]
Bitmap graphics in style
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It’s designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it’s great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile […]
What is MacFreePOPs
Many providers don’t allow users to access their mailboxes with traditional e-mail client (Mail, Outlook, Eudora …). For many users the only access method is the web-mail interface that peraphs is not flexible and efficient enough.
Main features
- Integration with Dock and Menu-bar
- Starting, stopping ad monitoring of freepopsd server
- Set-up of all communication […]
26 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Menu Bar, Plugins, Social Networking
FMenu is a program for Mac OS X and Facebook that sits in the menu bar (near the clock) and provides notifications about various events. In addition, it provides a menu to easily access common Facebook pages and keeps a count of your messages, pokes, events, friend requests, wall posts, and photo comments. It also features a “Quicklaunch” box which […]
26 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Graphics, Productivity, Utilities
Features:
• A horizontal and vertical ruler which can be used independently or simultaneously.
• Measurement in pixels, inches, picas, or centimeters.
• Automatic alignment of rulers.
• The ability to group rulers and move them around as a unit.
• Shadowless rulers with customizable transparency.
• Interactive tick marks which follow the mouse location for more precise measurement.
• Independent resizing […]
Connect with all your friends
Instant message with a world of friends who use Yahoo! (or Windows LiveTM Messenger).
Make cheap PC-to-Phone calls
Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls. Plus call regular or mobile phones in the U.S. and worldwide for as low as 1¢/min.
Share away
Swap photos and files (huge ones) in real time. Plus enjoy chat rooms, conferences and […]
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional preference settings Apple has built into Mac OS X. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect the current user. You don’t need administrative […]
FlightGear for OS X
Wondering if there is a flight simulator for Mac OS X? Well of course there is, best thing is that it’s free too!
FlightGear is an open-source project free flight simulator for OS X. This means as long as you abide by the terms of the GPL license you may freely download […]
Subs Factory is a free but powerful utility designed to make the creation, modification and resynchronization of subtitles easy. Featuring advanced functions, it allows you to do whatever you want with your subtitle tracks.
What’s new
Simple affine shifting by choosing two reference subtitles.
On-the-fly subtitling-standards compliance checking (with modifiable settings).
User’s manual.
Advanced search and replace function.
Italian version.
Features
Creation, deletion […]
Bugs have invaded your home. Buzzing, flapping, and biting; bugs now plague every corner of your world and irritate you at every turn.
It’s a good thing you’re a bullfrog; a very hungry bullfrog.
Eat all those pesky bugs to return peace and quiet to your lovely home. But, you must eat all those bugs before time […]
iRemove .DS_Store files: Deletes the invisible .DS_Store files on all mounted Disks from all folders and application packages.
For those of you who want to delete the .DS_Store files quickly without resorting to the Terminal, this AppleScript does the trick.TechTool Pro users can choose to mount the eDrive and clean the .DS_Store files from it. At the […]
25 Apr
Posted by admin as Entertainment, Freeware, Media Players
QuartzCube is a configurable, wide-angle, rotating video cube. The easy-to-use interface allows you to immediately apply different videos or still images to the faces of the cube. You can also alter the tension of the roll axis to adjust the rotation of the video cube. But watch out, it’s highly addictive. A lava lamp for […]
As discreet as the invisible man, TotalTunes Control gives you the control of iTunes.
TotalTunes Control offers the ability to create shorcuts to control iTunes and toggle shown TotalTunes Control controller window.
With shortcuts, you can quickly change the current playing song, the iTunes volume, increase current track rate, and more !
iTunes is too large, close it and […]
Insurance for your data.
Mozy is a simple and safe way to back up all the important stuff on your computer. A copy of your data is stored in a secure, remote location for safekeeping, so that in the event of disaster your data is still retrievable.
24 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Health/Exercise
TrailRunner is a route planning software for all kinds of long distance sports like running, biking, hiking, inline-skating, skiing and more. If you ever asked yourself how long your workout routes are and what route you should choose for this evening — then TrailRunner should be your training-partner. TrailRunner can calculate a route for your desired distance […]
Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. Sweet Home 3D is available in English and French and may be run on Windows, Mac OS X 10.4, Solaris and Linux.
24 Apr
Posted by admin as Entertainment, Freeware
Dvd Hunter is a free application for Mac that catalogue, sort, and organize your movie collection. You can query online database to easily get all information about your favorite movies.
Requirement
It works only on Leopard and Tiger.
Function
- iTunes like interface
- Get information quering online database
- list to organize your library
- self updating smart-list
- Address book integration
- […]
Danger from the Deep (known as dangerdeep or DftD) is a free (as in free speech), Open Source World War II german submarine simulator. The program and source code is available under the GPL license and most of the artwork/data is released under a Creative Commons license (Attribution/NonCommercial/Non-Derivative works).
Cube-OSX is a port of the open source Cube 3D first person shooter to Mac OS X. Currently everything works (hopefully) except for networking. It gets pretty good performace: about 35-70fps on a 500MHz G4 with Radeon 7000 PCI video card and about 200-400fps on a Dual 2.0GHz G5 with Radeon 9600 video card.
Quick list of features […]
24 Apr
Posted by admin as 3D Graphics, Freeware, Graphics
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems
Interface
Revolutionary non-overlapping and non-blocking UI delivers unsurpassed workflow
Flexible and fully configurable window layout with as many screen setups as you prefer
Undo support on all levels
Anti-aliased fonts with international translation support
Windows for animation curves/keys, outliner, schematic scene diagram, generic node editing […]
Cashbox is a personal finance application for Mac OS X designed to make managing your personal finances a breeze.
Cashbox was designed from day one to be a quick and simple to use application for managing personal finances. As it has evolved, it has become more feature packed while keeping with the original goal of simplicity. […]
24 Apr
Posted by admin as Audio, Entertainment, Freeware, Media Players
CenterStage is the Media Center Application that will allow you to use the digital content stored on your Apple Macintosh computer & play it in a more comfortable enviroment such as your living room using any standard Televison set.
If you want to listen to podcasts, this program is for you. Juice is the premier podcast receiver, allowing users to capture and listen to podcasts anytime, anywhere.
Why should I squeeze Juice?
Juice is free
Juice supports more than 15 languages
Juice supports multiple media players
Juice is free software licensed under the GPL (open source)
Juice’s primary purpose is […]
About Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex […]
Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP’s technology and uses the same native file format.
However, unlike the GIMP, Seashore only aims to serve […]
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:
Record live audio.
Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
And […]
23 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Instant Messaging, Plugins
Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple’s iChat more enjoyable.
Features
Unified contact list shows all contacts from all accounts in one window
Growl notifications for new messages and users changing status
Automatically resize the contact list to fit the number of visible users
Built-in log viewer
Activity log that displays your contacts’ status changes
Auto-accept file transfers, […]
Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Hold down the Command key while clicking to show the menu.
23 Apr
Posted by admin as Entertainment, Freeware, Social Networking, Web
net4mac is a FREE social networking service built exclusively for Mac users.
In order to become a part of the community and use all features, you will need to download an application designed
for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The net4mac application allows you to…
Create an account and login to the […]
23 Apr
Posted by admin as Freeware, Plugins, Productivity, Utilities
Useful notifications that you control
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
What are notifications?
Notifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information, without you having to switch from the application you’re already in.
To the right is an example of Growl’s Candybars display. […]
Inquisitor… it’s like Spotlight for the web.
Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with ideas to refine your search.
It’ll autocomplete your words (is it reading your mind?) and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts.
Have a look at your incoming email without switching to Mail. Mail.appetizer is a plug-in for Apple’s Mail and integrates seamlessly. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window. It gives you a brief summary of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention.
Features
Resizable notification window to […]
22 Apr
Posted by admin as Entertainment, Freeware, Media Players
VLC media player - the cross-platform media player and streaming server
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast ormulticast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.