mac Overdose

An Overdose of Cool (mostly free) Mac Software!

FontExplorer™ X sets a new standard for font management software. Linotype is pleased to announce the missing link to your font collection. With the new FontExplorer™ X, font management, font sorting, font shopping and font discovery are simple and fun! FontExplorer™ X gives computer users all the functionality they ever dreamed – easy to use with an elegant style.

 

Organize your […]

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.  Instead of reinventing the game with yet another variation of the rules, the goal of Quinn is to combine the simplicity of the original idea with […]

A complete Web Authoring System for Macintosh users to rival programs like Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for “new view”) makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
 

WYSIWYG editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter […]

RhapsOGL is a visual plug-in for iTunes. It was the first plug-in developed for iTunes on MacOSX back in Spring 2001. It shows several 3D abstract shapes and backgrounds and supports textures. You can customize your textures with your own photos via preferences.
 

Now, the new version 2.6 is a Universal Binary (PowerPC + Intel). So […]

XBMC for OS X is a port of the highly functional and successful XBox Media Center to the Apple Macintosh OS X platform. Like XBMC, XBMC for OS X is open source and licensed under the GPL.

 
This is an alpha release, we will not consider this project “production” quality until 1.0. It is still very early days. […]

 
Layer compositing for Everyone.
LiveQuartz makes layer management very easy. With its layers list, you can add, remove, drag, drop, re-order and merge layers in a very intuitive and non-destructive way.

Dynamic filters for Everyone.
LiveQuartz is born around the same time as CoreImage. Since then, LiveQuartz has a very powerful non-destructive filters list for each of its […]

 
ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world.
ooVoo Video Chat is remarkably easy to use: easy to download, easy to install, and best of all:
it’s FREE!

FREE calls from ooVoo to a landline or […]

Are you looking for something on eBay but tired of eBay’s slow web site? Finally there is a better way! Now you can use a slick, full-featured client application for all of your search and purchasing on eBay. Welcome to GarageBuy.
Searching eBay with ease. Finally, an application that looks the way it should (using the Mac’s native […]

 

Are you a Gmail, Facebook, Campfire or Pandora fanatic? Do you have 20 or more browser tabs open at all times? Are you tired of some random site or Flash ad crashing your browser and causing you to lose your (say) Google Docs data in another tab?
If so, Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) provide a great […]

Get the best shuffles
With Moody you can create streamlined shuffles with songs in the same mood.
Twitter Support
Twitter about your favorite songs, and Moody displays your tweets.
Download tags
Use our database when you get tired of tagging. Now also in a new automatic way.
Loads of small new features
Moody version 1.0 is packed with new stuff. This screencast […]

Simplicity
Just turn the knob to set and start a timer. And push the button to stop. That’s all.

Experience
The knob slides smoothly, the button fades gradually and shines in modesty. It’s not only simplicity and lightness.

 

Quicklook plugin to display the folder’s contents

 

 

iTerm is a full featured terminal emulation program written for OS X using Cocoa. We are aiming at providing users with best command line experience under OS X. The letter i represents a native Apple look and feel of the program interface, and an emphasis on complete international support. iTerm was merged from two projects, CTerminal and […]

 

DejaMenu will display the current application’s main menu as a context menu when a key combination is pressed.
This is particularly useful for people using multiple monitors. Since the Menubar only appears on a single monitor, it is awkward to use applications on a different monitor. DejaMenu solves this - just press the configured key combo, […]

 

Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
Stop printing and start skimming.
Explore the links to the right to investigate Skim and consider helping out with the project.

Features:

Viewing PDFs
Adding and editing notes
Highlighting […]

 

With the ability to sort and organize your assignments, exams, and projects quickly and easily Schoolhouse is a must have for any student on-the-go. The power of smart notebooks allow you to interact with your work as simply as your iTunes library.

Classcasts give the ability to publish your assignments to the web automatically for anyone […]

 

GanttProject is a free and easy to use Gantt chart based project scheduling and management tool. Our major features include:

Task hierarchy and dependencies
Gantt chart
Resource load chart
Generation of PERT chart
PDF and HTML reports
MS Project import/export
WebDAV based groupwork

 

iCompta is an application that lets you manage your personal accounts with ease.
Each account can have its own currency and you can organize operations by type.
You can then sort and filter operations to make statistics on your incomes and expenses.
You can show a graph of the balance evolution of an account and even have a […]

About attach2mail
When saved as a finder plugin, lets you select any object/s in the finder, then opens mail with a new email-window and attaches the selected objects.

Photo Effects is a simple but useful program that allows you to apply a quartz composition filter to any photo in you iPhoto Library or anywhere on you computer.  It currently accepts the following types of images: BMP, GUF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PICT, PNG and TIFF image formats.  We have just updated it to version […]

We have found the built in features for backup in iTunes to be subpar.  This is where Mac 2 Media comes in.  If you feel the same way as us then come and download Mac 2 Media which allows you to backup you playlists, videos, podcasts, music, and any other media file that you have […]

 

The Digg You Know
DiggUpdate will instantly inform you of new Digg stories that hit the front page. Whenever a new item is dugg to the front, a window will roll down from your menu-bar (resembling Digg.com itself) and pleasantly inform you of new tech news. If multiple stories are found at the same time, DiggUpdate […]

 
Delibar is a simple del.icio.us desktop client for macosx. 
Delibar collects all your bookmarks in the system bar, so you can access them comfortably.

Delibar offers you many of the del.icio.us features and a lot more, like:

Tag and bundle catalogation
Sorting entries by alpha or frequency
Recent bookmarks
Exporting in a html page
Bookmarks autoreload
Proxy support and auto detection

 

 

MailCountX adds a count of unread e-mail to your OS X menu bar. This can be very useful if you keep your dock minimized. This product integrates with Apple’s Mail.app. MailCountX is currently available as a public beta.
- Features -

Adds icon to menu bar indicating how many unread messages you have
Integrates with Apple’s Mail.app
Display a […]

TinyCal is a menubar calendar with Google Calendar integration. It can show multiple months, use custom calendars, and show holidays and personal calendars.

Multiple Months TinyCal can be customized to show 1, 2, 3 or 12 months at one time. The display can be arranged as tall or wide.

 
Google CalendarTinyCal can display public Google Calendars for holidays for […]

 
PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen. Excellent for designers or anyone who wants to measure a distance on their screen in any window or application.
Most of what PixelStick does is obvious. Drag the endpoints to change the measurement. Click the locks to constrain the movement. Launch it, play around, you’re […]

 

About Bean
Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool […]

MetaX is a meta-data tagger for MP4 files and their derivatives, as well as QuickTime movie files. It uses a modified versionof Atomic Parsley at its core to write the tags.
 

 
 

Preset System - Allows you to easily define a set of tags that you will use again and again. Great for tagging TV shows!

Tag Archive - Automatically stores […]

 

What is Vega Strike?

 

Trading
Exploration
Plenty of shoot ‘em up action
Preliminary multiplayer Deathmatch (testing server only)

Vega Strike is an OpenSource 3d Space Simulator. Work is proceeding on both the Vega Strike game engine and a Vega Strike Universe game data set. Both engine and data are in a playable state, but still under development. Each release serves as […]

Ridiculously useful tool for those who do a lot of screen grabs during the day.
Grabup is a Mac OSX mini app that makes taking screen grabs on your computer and sharing them easy. It cuts down a process that usually takes minutes and makes it almost instant.
 

Timesheet is a Free desktop time tracking utility
 
Features

Runs on all Operating Systems with a Java Virtual Machine (tested on OS X, GNU/Linux, Windows)
Prepackaged for different Operating Systems for better Desktop Integration
Localized User Interface
Flexible time and date formatting (independent from user interface language)
Supports unlimited Projects
Export of recorded entries to Comma Separated Values files
Allows instant recording and […]

VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind

This game is in the early stages of development but is already very playable. Currently the game features:

19 Tracks: Barcelona, Brands Hatch, Detroit, Dijon, Hockenheim, Jarama, Kyalami, Laguna Seca, Le Mans, Monaco, Monza, Mosport, Nürburgring Nordschleife, Pau, Road Atlanta, Ruudskogen, Spa Francorchamps, […]

SuperTuxKart is a Free 3D kart racing game, with many tracks, characters, and items for you to try.

 
Cenon is a graphical tool of a special kind. Build upon a modular graphical core, Cenon offers a wide variety of possibilities and applications.
The best of all, the Cenon core is free software, available with full source codes, and at home on many computer platforms.

Cenon is being developed with love. The clean user interface on […]

Scribus is an open-source program that brings professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2.  Scribus supports professional features, such as CMYK color, spot color, separations, ICC color and robust commercial grade PDF.

 

An open source application for the digital photo workflow, the blueMarine project will provide you an all-in-one tool for managing your photos, from the shoot up to the archiving and beyond. blueMarine is an expandable, open platform and includes specific support for different photographers communities, as well as the latest technologies.

 

 
Targeted at communities
blueMarine focus is also on communities. […]

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