mac Overdose

An Overdose of Cool (mostly free) Mac Software!

If you have been looking for a way to manage your personal DVDs collection, you have found it !
DVDtheque is the easiest program available for Macintosh. Easy-use design, yet powerful and flexible, DVDtheque allows you to track information from internet. Thanks to it and to the copy&cut and the drag&drop shortcuts, you can manage then […]

It is very easy to fall into bad habits when using a computer for hours on end. You care about what you are doing, so can sometimes push yourself too far, or over-strain yourself. The human body isn’t built to sit in one position for endless hours, gripping a mouse or typing on the keyboard.Dejal […]

CLIX (’command line interface for OS X’) makes it easy to harness the power of Unix. It becomes both a fish to buy and a series of lessons in how to fish and ultimately a handy way to work.

AppDelete is an application for Macs that will delete the application you choose and any associated items (files and folders) that belong to that application.

Jalbum is a free gallery software that creates personalized web albums of your digital pictures. Download Jalbum today and set your pictures free 
 

Edit your images and add filters
Customize your albums to your liking
Publish to yourname.myjalbum.net or any other site
Share your albums on jalbum.net

 

Jack (the Jack Audio Connection Kit) is a low-latency audio server, written originally for the GNU/Linux operating system, and now with Mac OS X support. It can connect any number of different applications to a single hardware audio device; it also allows applications to send and receive audio to and from each other.
Jack is different from other audio server efforts […]

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine. It’s main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. 

DAZ Studio is free 3D software that allows anyone to liberate their creative genius. We strive to make DAZ Studio easier to use, but without sacrificing features and quality. DAZ Studio 2.1 delivers images equal to or better than software costing hundreds of dollars. It’s professional quality software for free!

Q [kju:] emulator is a feature packed Cocoa port of QEMU: Run Linux, Windows, and other systems on your Mac.

 
Switch fast between guest PCs. Save and restart guest PCs at any stage. Easily exchange Files between Host and Guest. Q emulator makes use of OS X most advanced technologies like openGL and CoreAudio to accelerate your […]

Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your […]

 

Do It is a small application to manage categorized to do lists.  Each to do item can be linked with a file on your computer, a URL, such as the address of a website, or a contact from your address book. The linked item can be opened directly from the Do It window.  To do items […]

 
Colorate is a utility for creation of harmonized color palettes and color schemes, aimed from hobbyist to professional designers.

Colorate fully automatizes the palette generation from a particular color swatch, selected from the standard Color Panel, dragged from other application or obtained from an image through the integrated Image Analyze feature.

Once the palette has been generated, […]

 
Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student’s first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming […]

 
If you’ve ever missed an episode of your favorite TV show, tuned in only to find that it wasn’t airing or are just looking for a TV guide personalized to your taste, then look no further than TV Forecast.
TV Forecast helps you to keep an eye on all of your favorite TV shows by keeping […]

Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 which is both easy to use and powerful.  It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users. It should work perfectly for a whole variety of needs - like web programming, script editing, making a to do list and so on.

Smultron has […]

 
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a good way to specify the styles of fonts and other page elements on your sites. It makes it easier for you to update styles too, because when done right, you only need to make a single change to update the styles on multiple pages and elements.

Another bonus is that your […]

 
Cooliris Previews is a free browser add-on that lets you preview links and rich media without clicking or leaving your current page, so you can browse the web faster than ever. Simply mouseover your link or our Cooliris icon, and a preview window instantly appears with your content. No more clicking back and forth!

Interactive preview.
Our […]

MainMenu will run all the various tools and scripts and system maintenance routines to keep your Mac running smoothly right from your menu bar. It will rebuild your Spotlight library for faster searching, repair permissions, clean caches to improve application performance, etc.

 

iGetter is a full featured download manager and accelerator. With iGetter you can get the most out of your Internet connection (dial-up, wireless, cable, DSL, T1 etc.).
iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented (accelerated) downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, scheduling downloads […]

It allows users total control over their weather viewing, including simultaneous interlaced weather reports from multiple weather locations, weather alerts, and much more.

Senuti is a simple Mac OS X application for transferring songs from your iPod back to your computer.
There are many good reasons that someone would have to transfer music from her iPod back to her computer. There are many good ways to do it, too. Senuti is the only alternative that will give you the power and […]

 

Now compatible with Leopard.
Newly found images now “zoom” into place.
Image sources can now be designated as “filler”.
Saving mosaics as very large images is now handled more gracefully.
Handling of EPS images is improved.

 

NewsFire - Free RSS Reader

RSS for Everyone
Simple to use and packed with features, NewsFire makes it a joy to keep atop the constant flow of information on the web.

Smart & Organized
It’s easy to filter and organize your news with NewsFire’s smart groups. Build your own feeds with custom rules, or drag and drop to create groups of related content.
Fit […]

Cocoalicious is a del.icio.us client for Mac OS X. It acts as a desktop interface to your del.icio.us bookmarks

Propagator is made for schools with large Mac file servers and tech people who would like to copy one file (or many files, or many folders) into the folders of dozens, or hundreds, or thousands of users. Great for preference files.

Crash course:
Drag all the preferences you want to copy to all users into the big […]

It’s many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it’s infinitely free-er.
It’s also really easy.

Just drag in your file, and click Start.
You can also choose “TV” or “iPod” size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer.
On a 1GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video […]

Tired of writing the same text over and over again?
Anytime you type text into an application, RapidoWrite can help you do it faster and more accurately!

Whether it’s your name, your e-mail address, the URL of your blog, your personal address, etc,
you probably often find yourself typing the same text again and again.
RapidoWrite is here to […]

 
RapidoSerial is an easy to use database software that allows you to quickly build a permanent record
of your applications and their related licenses. With RapidoSerial, you can backup important information
such as serial numbers, software information, vendor information, license files and much more.
RapidoSerial was designed to be used by all kinds of people. The user-friendly, easy-to-use […]

gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet.

 

 
The abbreviation MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X! 
MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, […]

 

Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.

Also found here is Neverputt, a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game using the physics and graphics of Neverball.

 
 

Anxiety is a super-lightweight To-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.

 
Synchronized
Anxiety utilizes Leopard’s Calendar Store — a new system-wide database that contains […]

SignatureProfiler is a plugin for Apple’s Mail application that adds missing features from the way that signatures are handled and managed with your outgoing mail messages, especially if you have multiple mail accounts (and who doesn’t these days). It was originally written to make up for the complete lack of signature management in versions 1.x of the program, […]

Celtx is the world’s first fully integrated solution for media pre-production and collaboration. It replaces old fashioned ‘paper, pen & binder’ media creation with a digital approach to writing and organizing that’s more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.

 
CHOOSE YOUR EDITOR
Celtx has 5 dedicated industry standard editors for writing:

Screenplays
AV scripts, including Documentaries, […]

HyperEngine-AV, Arboretum Systems’ award winning video editing software is now free, complete with full source code. Users can capture, arrange, edit and process video, audio and text in a free-form, trackless document, to create movies and slide shows

 

KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.

KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

 

In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Apple has introduced Time Machine, a very convenient way to make backups. Unfortunately the backup interval is preset constantly to one hour. Apple uses an launchd daemon to control the timing, but changing the interval value in the launchd.plist file has no effect.

TimeMachineScheduler disables the automatic backup function of […]

Scorched 3D is a game based loosely (or actually quite heavily now) on the classic DOS game Scorched Earth ”The Mother Of All Games”. Scorched 3D adds amongst other new features a 3D island environment and LAN and internet play. Scorched 3D is totally free and is available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac […]

Butler’s purpose is to make it easier for you to perform different — potentially recurring — tasks. Butler lets you arrange these tasks in its fully customizable configuration. There, you can assign one or more triggers to a task:
Due to its unique variety of triggers and tasks, Butler is more flexible than any other productivity […]

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. In making this software, I have attempted to make things as simple as possible, while still retaining enough functions to satisfy most home users.

Amua is a status bar application for Mac OS X that allows you to play Last.fm web-radio streams. It is an alternative to the official Last.fm player.

Wonder which song is playing? Just move over the note icon on top right of your screen without switching away from what you’re currently doing. A click on the icon displays the […]

Radar in Motion is a Dashboard widget that grabs radar images from The Weather Channel or NOAA and displays the animation. One can access the radar for a given zip code or get a regional map.

OneButton FTP is a graphical FTP client for Mac OS X with a strong emphasis on simplicity, drag and drop usability, and file queuing. It allows you to easily transfer files to and from remote servers, such as the ones hosting your website, simply by dragging files to and from your computer.

OneButton FTP costs nothing; […]

iDMG is an easy to use application to create .dmg files of a folder with a simple drag and drop. Also supports encryption and internet enable. HUD style!

 

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme.

A magical lightning strike

Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand! Choose units from a large pool of specialists, and hand-pick a […]

Record video segments using your iSight camera and upload them to YouTube.

An iTunes controller for mouse.

 

mail unread menu is a simple menu bar application which can provide you with a quick and easy way to see how many unread email messages are in apple’s mail. unlike other menu bar notification applications, mail unread menu is actually a plugin for mail, which means that the count is instantaneously updated whenever you recieve […]

Nexuiz is a fast paced 3d deathmatch game project created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive).

The first version was released May 31st 2005, released entirely GPL and free over the net, a first for a project of its kind. Since […]

 
TubeTV is a freeware program for Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, and above which enables you to search for, save, and convert YouTube and many other flash videos to a format suitable for playback on your favorite devices.
A built in search bar and web browser helps you conveniently locate your favorite videos from common sites such as YouTube. If you […]

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