| Adium X | http://www.adiumx.com/ |
| A powerful, pretty, and highly customizable multi-protocol chat client. It supports all the major protocols, including AIM, Y!IM, MSN, Jabber, even Rendezvous. | |
| From Adam Iser, Evan Schoenberg et al. | |
| Cacophony | http://bannister.org/software/cacophony.htm |
| Edit and manipulate sound and music files in a number of formats, including everyone's favorite, MP3. | |
| From Richard Bannister | |
| Camino | http://mozilla.org/products/camino |
| A full-featured web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Like Firefox, but with OS X style tabs and form inputs, and other OS X accomodations (like Keychain support). | |
| From The Mozilla Organization | |
| ControllerMate | http://orderedbytes.com/controllermate |
| A very powerful USB-controller handling application with an easy-to-use graphical interface for building actions and reactions. | |
| From OrderedBytes | |
| ffmpegX | http://homepage.mac.com/major4/ |
| ffmpegX is a deep and versatile tool that allows you to reencode audio and video from/to a wide variety of formats, while maintaining control over such things as bitrates and screen sizes. You can even use it to add subtitles and create disc formats like VCD and DVD! | |
| From Major | |
| Forty-TwoDVD-VXPlus | http://www.kaisakura.com/Forty-Two_DVDVX_Plus.html |
| Though designed for use with DVDs, Forty-TwoDVD-VXPlus can be used to convert between multiple video formats - a great way to watch WMV movies without Windows Media Player. | |
| From Ronin no Sakurakai Softronics | |
| GeekTool | http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/ |
| GeekTool allows you to put a small window of information anywhere on your screen, making it as clear or unobtrusive as you like. You can display plain text, the contents of a file, an image, or even the results of a shell command or script. | |
| From Tynsoe | |
| iScroll2 | http://www-users.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~razzfazz/iscroll2/ |
| Powerbooks and iBooks sold in 2005 added system functionality to use two fingers on the touchpad to scroll. iScroll2 is a kernel extension (controlled through a System Preferences prefpane) that adds this functionality to iBooks and Powerbooks sold before the switch. | |
| From Daniel Becker | |
| MenuCalendarClock | http://www.objectpark.net/mcc.html |
| Not only puts a customizable date/time readout in the menu bar, but also puts an easy-to-open calendar, complete with events and to-do lists, within a single click. Integrates seamlessly with iCal. | |
| From Objectpark Software | |
| MP3 ID3X | http://www.three-2-one.com/321apps/main/global/index1.htm |
| Small and easy-to-use util for editing MP3 ID3 tags. Has batch-editing capability. | |
| From 321apps | |
| MusicPublisher | http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/musicpublisher/ |
| Use the iTunes music sharing protocol to share things other than your library or playlists, including specific folders, or your iPod. | |
| From Tynsoe | |
| Play Sound | http://microcosmsoftware.com/playsound/ |
| A simple scriptable application for playing sound without having to open or deal with a full-fledged media or music player. | |
| From David Blache, Microcosm Software | |
| ScriptGUI | http://homepage.mac.com/cnorris/ScriptGUI |
| An extremely useful utility for running and editing scripts written in Perl, Python, Sh, and others. You can edit the source in one tab of the GUI, and see the results of the running script in another tab. | |
| From C.L. Norris | |
| SizzlingKeys | http://www.yellowmug.com/sk4it/ |
| Control multiple aspects of iTunes, such as play/pause, next/previous, volume up/down, and more using only keyboard shortcuts. SizzlingKeys is entirely invisible, unless you also enable the floating window which presents you with information on the currently playing track. | |
| From Yellow Mug Software | |
| Soundflower | http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower |
| A kernal extension that makes a dummy audio input/output entity, allowing you to manipulate audio output and input in applications (e.g. make a sound effect your audio input). | |
| From Cycling '74 | |
| Spark | http://chezjd.free.fr/Creation/logiciel.php?id=3&lang=1 |
| Configure global hotkey combinations for certain tasks, e.g. controlling programs and running scripts. | |
| From Shadow Lab | |
| SubEthaEdit | http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ |
| A robust and well-polished network text editor. Using Rendezvous or remote IP addresses, you and your friends can edit a text file simultaneously and collaboratively. | |
| From TheCodingMonkeys | |
| TeamSpeex | http://www.savvy.nl/blog/ |
| A (beta) TeamSpeak client for Mac OS X, developed by a third party since the official TeamSpeak brand refuses to make a Mac client. | |
| From Savvy | |
| TextWrangler | http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.shtml |
| More full-featured and OS X savvy than BBEdit, TextWrangler is still a solid, non-intrusive text editor for any purpose. | |
| From Bare Bones Software | |
| Thunderbird | http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird |
| A multiplatform robust and well-made email client. Supports multiple email accounts, has RSS integration, a built-in Bayesian spam filter, and many more features. | |
| From The Mozilla Organization | |
| USB Overdrive | http://www.usboverdrive.com/ |
| Allows you to manually map input functions (cursor movement, specific keys, key combinations, etc.) to any USB input device, from mice and trackballs to joysticks and gamepads. Different input settings can be set for individual applications, e.g. your controller functions differently in different games. | |
| From Alessandro Levi Montalcini | |
| VLC Media Player | http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html |
| VLC is a powerful, multiplatform media player. It has the built-in ability to play a bevy of formats Quicktime can't, including MPEG2. | |
| From The VideoLAN Community (open source) | |
| WinSwitch | http://wincent.com/a/products/winswitch/ |
| A replacement for Panther's Fast User Switching menu. You can customize what shows up in the menu bar (like an icon instead of the name), change what appears in the menu, even switch to the root user. | |
| From Wincent Colaiuta | |
| X-Chat Aqua | http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net/ |
| An Aqua GUI for the XChat IRC program. | |
| From Steve Green | |