mac Overdose

An Overdose of Cool (mostly free) Mac Software!

 
xPad is the ultimate notepad, TextEdit and Stickies replacement for Apple’s OS X. With a simple, easy-to-use interface and powerful multi-document features, xPad will quickly become your daily text editor of choice.
With xPad you can create as many documents as you like, all of which are managed in one window. Attached to that window is […]

 

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

 

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

 

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 […]

 

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 […]

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 […]

 

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. […]

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.

 

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 […]

 
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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

When opened, it will create a catalog of applications and some frequently used folders and documents. Activate it, and you can search for and open anything in its catalog instantly. The search is adaptive, so Quicksilver will recognize which items you are searching for based on previous experience. It also supports abbreviations, so you can […]

Organize your life by contexts - now they’re nested!
Just divide your tasks by contexts - where they have to be done? At home? At your office? At laptop? At any time you can access the Internet?
 
Organize your life by projects - hierarchically
Some of your tasks are related to your life projects. If you’re a student, […]

  

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