Note Taking
Freemind
An innovative application for note taking and outlining. Takes time to get used to, but some people swear by it.Download Page
Personal Finance
Buddi
A personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background.Download Page
MSN Chat
More Web Browsing
SunriseBrowser
Good webkit-based browser created with special tools for web designers.Download Page
PDF Viewer
Screensaver
More Filesharing
3D Graphics and Modeling
Planetariums and Outer Space
Celestia
Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space).Download Page
Stellarium
"Renders realistic skys in realtime." See what you would see if your city wasn't so light-polluted. Used in real planetariums.Download Page
Comic Reader
Dance Dance Revolution
Games
Marathon: Aleph One
Engine for Bungie's free FPS series Marathon. Play online, solo play with rich original story, many total conversions and thousands of maps.Download Page
del.icio.us Client
Free File Hosting
CC Publisher
Host Creative Commons video or audio files for free on archive.org with this easy uploader.Download Page
Quick Links
Viewers
Comic viewer: Comical
Comic viewer: FFView
OpenDocument viewing application: ODF Viewer
RSS and Usenet
RSS Reader: Feed
Cross-platform RSS reader: BlogBridge
RSS video podcast player: I/ON
Usenet Reader: OSXnews
IM, IRC, Chat
Multi-IM: Fire
Powerful IRC client: X-Chat Aqua
Videoconferencing client: XMeeting
PBX / Voip system: Asterisk
Graphics and Art
Draw on a moving canvas: Cosmic Painter
Image editor: Seashore
An artwork scaling calculator: Scaletron!
A Paint-like program designed for pixel-pushers: Pixen
A VRML/X3D Browser: FreeWRL
Video
Realtime Editing and Effects System: Jahshaka
Video transcoder: ffmpegX
MPEG convertor: MPEG Streamclip
Music and Audio
OGG Vorbis encoder (ogg is an open source audio codec): Ogg Drop
Music notation: LilyPond
Play and compose live music: Miraton
Max/MSP style realtime music and multimedia environment: Pd
Manage chords, lyrics, and projection: OpenSong
Wifi / Networking
Discover open wifi networks: iStumbler
A Prism/Prism2 driver 802.11: WirelessDriver
Fast, lightweight VNC client: Chicken of the VNC
VNC server providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse: OSXvnc
Utilities
Manage disk space: DiskInventoryX
Book management: Books
CD / DVD Burning: SimplyBurns
Disable sleep on a Mac: InsomniaX
Protect your laptop with a car-alarm style alarm: Multialarm
Remove extra languages from OSX to save disk space: Monolingual
System event notifications: Growl
System performance monitors: MenuMeters
Virtual desktop tool: Desktop Manager
Virus checker: ClamXav
Share mouse and keyboard between 2 or more computers: SynergyKM and Quick Synergy
Check available RAM: Memtest
Monitor CPU, RAM, battery, CPU temp, network, I/O, and more: X Resource Graph
Control your Mac via Bluetooth: Romeo
Writing and Typesetting
Screenplay writing and pre-production support: Celtx
Bibliography manager, BibTeX .bib format: BibDesk
Typesetting - TeX previewer for Mac OS X: TeXShop
Typesetting: iTexMac
Education
Education course management system: Moodle
Student information system: Focus / SIS
Another student information system: Centre
Programming
Development platform: Eclipse
SQL Editor: YourSQL
Math and Engineering
General purpose computer algebra system: Yacas
GNU S language: R
MATLAB style rapid engineering and scientific prototyping / data processing: FreeMat