This article is a sequel of last week’s 100 Useful Free Mac Applications. As a part II of the article, we continue to showcase you some of the free and useful applications you can install for your Mac, concentrating on:
- Audio and Video,,
- Security Tools,
- Graphics and Image,
- Internet and Utilities
If you have not read the Part I, here’s where you can get them. Full list after jump.
More from Part I..
Before we take a look into what Part II has in store, we’d like to first featured some useful Mac application and tools recommended by readers.
System tool: iFreeMem
Recovers memory for your applications to use and helps avoid the performance hit you get when running low on Free memory.
System tool: Silver Keeper
Mac’s free backup application with scheduling ability.
Productivity: The Unarchiver
Think of it as WinZIP for Mac. Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats.
Productivity: Name Mangler
If you need to rename several files at once every now and then, this is the application you have always been looking for.
Reader: Skim
PDF reader for Mac.
Editor: Nvu
‘WYSIWYG’ HTML editor based on Gecko, Mozilla’s rendering engine.
Editor: Smultron
Yet another free text editor for Mac OS X.
Security
ClamXav main screen ClamXav
Free open source virus checker for Mac OS X.
Flame
Application that shows you what’s going on behind the scenes on your network.
IP Securitas
IPsec based VPN allowing you to transfer secure data remotely.
Rookit Hunter
Searches for popular UNIX and Mac rootkits and removes them.
Server Admin Tools
Provides information about the Mac OS X Server administration software applications.
Tiger Envelopes
Tiger Envelopes is a little program that lets you read and write email privately.
WireShark
Network protocol analyzer
Audio and Video
Audacity
Free Mac sound editing and recording tool.
Centerstage Project
Play audio, video and photo on your Mac or connect it to a TV.
Handbrake
Open-source DVD to MPEG-4 converter.
iPodDisk
Copy your music from iPod to your Mac, via Finder.
Miro
HD video player, podcast player, torrent downloader, Youtube viewer that can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts.
MPlayer
It might not have that appealing interface, but you should know that it actually play more file formats than VNC player.
VLC Player
A favourite Mac video player that supports almost all video formats!
Graphics and Image Publishing
GIMP
You probably won’t need Photoshop if you have this.
Inkscape
Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
iStrip
An application to view and archive comic strips available onlin
Paparazzi!
Makes screenshots of webpages.
PhotoBook
A Facebook photo browser for Mac. It makes it easy and fun to manage, share, and view your friends’ Facebook photos in one intuitive interface.
Xee
Lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser.
Internet and Network Utilities
Cyberduck
Open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Mosso Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac.
Classic FTP
Mac program to upload, download, delete and manage files on a remote server or website using the file transfer protocol.
Camino Browser
Powerful brower that combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with the powerful web-browsing capabilities of the Gecko rendering engine.
Chicken of the VNC
Yet another VNC client for Mac OS X.
FileZilla
Perhaps one of the most famouse FTP/SFTP around.
Firefox Browser
A no brainer must-have for those who enjoys surfing web with open standards.
Flock
A Social Web Browser
iStumbler
Wireless discovery tool for Mac OS X, providing plugins for finding AirPort networks, Bluetooth devices and Bonjour services with your Mac.
JollysFastVNC
Secure ARD and VNC client.
Juice
Podcast receiver that lets you create your own custom online audio anytime, anywhere.
KissMac
Open-source and free stumbler/scanner application for Mac OS X
MAMP
MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MySQL and PHP. It’s a one-click-install application to setup a PHP webserver.
Remote Desktop Connection
Mac application to quickly, simply and securely connect to Windows-based PCs to access Windows-based files, applications, devices, and networks from your Mac.
Serverskine
Have instant access to all of your web server, domain name, and hosting accounts. Serverskine allows you to keep everything straight in a way that’s intuitive, easy and useful.
SvnX
Allows you to browse your working copies, spot changes and operate on them but also to browse logs and revisions of your repositories !
Transmission
Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client.
Vuze (Azureus)
Powerful torrent meta-search with login support for private trackers.
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Posted by hongkiat in Tools , at 03.20.09
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Comments
Beth March 21st, 2009
Tiger Envelopes sounded great, but when I went to download it there were only options for Windows and Linux—no Mac available. Very disappointing.
ReplyAthena Emily March 21st, 2009
Thanks for the list!
ReplyGuest March 21st, 2009
The Mac version of Tiger Envelopes is on their sourceforge page: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=53007&package_id=47334&release_id=514952
Also, IFreeMem isn’t free, it’s shareware.
ReplyJason LaRose March 21st, 2009
You have Skim as a “PSD reader for Mac”. Are you sure you didn’t mean to say “PDF Reader”? ;)
Replygoldfish300 March 21st, 2009
thx for that keep that up :)
Replydlv March 21st, 2009
I’ve not a mac, but this is a good post for who really have one!
Also, i must mention “Flow” by GridIron, perhaps the soft most usefull and with more future: http://www.gridironsoftware.com/Flow
There is a new version, awesome…
adeux!
ReplyMartin Gommel March 21st, 2009
Well, thanks again. Will give it a push on twitter.
ReplyMack March 22nd, 2009
It thought it was very useful! Good stuff!
Replyhongkiat March 22nd, 2009
@Beth Try these following. Hope it helps.
Replyhttp://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10668208
http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=773823
http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/Tiger-Envelopes-Download-11802.html
hongkiat March 22nd, 2009
@Martin Thanks man, appreciate it!
Reply@Jason LaRose Shiet! You are right :-) It should be PDF. I’ve corrected it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Abdallah Mohamed March 23rd, 2009
very nice app and very nice blog . thank you for your effort .
ReplyWake March 24th, 2009
Thank you very much. These apps are very interesting!!!
ReplyYONI March 24th, 2009
thank you , very nice
ReplyAmelia Vargo March 24th, 2009
There’s some really good stuff here. Thanks for putting it all together.
ReplyCess March 24th, 2009
Thanks, found this really useful
ReplyDownloadPartyPoker March 25th, 2009
i use Centerstage Project when i connect the MBP to the Tv, works very well.
ReplyTania March 26th, 2009
thanks for sharing..u really rock man.
Replymaria cristina March 31st, 2009
Hola, me resulta muy interesante esta lista, sólo que no sé inglés y te pido por favor que me digas si hay algunas de estas aplicaciones como por ejemplo para bajar música gratis y para convertir el iwork en español. Muchas gracias. soy nueva en mac y un poco estoy aprendiendo pero también me siento frustrada por no poder tener las cosas en español y por no saber adónde recurrir. Me regalaron una mini mac 10.4.11. todita en inglés. Agradecida estoy y complicada también. De todos modos tardaré pero aprenderé. Gracias por contestar
ReplySimon April 1st, 2009
you mentioned emacs, so you may as well mention macvim and excellent Vi/m editor
ReplyJacksonville Estate Planning Lawyer April 3rd, 2009
Great list of apps for the Macintosh
ReplyMarco April 5th, 2009
@Maria Cristina: hay programas para bajar musica gratis pero me parece que no estan en esta lista, yo tambien soy nuevo al mac. Estoy casi seguro que el sistema es multi-lenguaje, deberias poder cambiar todo el Mac a español, busca en System Preferences (en el menu de la manzana), entonces en International, puedes usar el raton para mover español antes del ingles, entonces apaga y empieze de nuevo el sistema, deberia estar en español. Los programas que tienen traducción al español entonces apareceran asi tambien. En cuanto a sitios no creo que puedo poner los enlaces aqui, pero busca en google por: taringa, quinta mac, y foros en wamba. si le hace falta más ayuda me puedes enviar un correo al mjv196 en gmail.com. Mi primer lenguaje es inglés, pero me defiendo bien en español. Suerte con tu nuevo mac.
ReplyLucho April 11th, 2009
Hola,
Muchas gracias la información tan útil para Mac. Me enamoré de Mac, la compré y estoy iniciándome. Pero está lenta no se porqué… será por que instalé el Norton Antivirus? Como puedo hacerla un poco mas rápida? He instalado office de Windows y power point trabaja como un auto, “en primera”… no llega a tercera o cuarta, lo más veloz que llega es a segunda… Por lo demás es una muy buena máquina y para las clases tiene buenas presentaciones.
Tiene iMac 7,1 Mac OSX version 10.4.11 / Procesador 2 GHz Intel Core duo / Memoria 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 y Disco de arranque HD….
Que le faltará para corra en “cuarta”?
De nuevo felicitaciones y espero pueda responderme.
Gracias
Lucho
ReplyErnesto April 13th, 2009
Lucho: ¡bienvenido al mundo Mac! No te arrepentirás, te lo aseguro.
ReplyRespecto a poner en “cuarta” tu Mac: te recomiendo que quites el antivirus, generalmente en una Mac no es necesario tenerlo, aunque ahora hay que ser un poco más precavido pues aparecieron virus para nuestra plataforma. Pero los antivirus para Mac son muy “pesados”. Otra cosa, de tiempo en tiempo debes correr unos scripts de mantenimiento para que la Mac no degrade su rendimiento. Esto lo puedes hacer con una aplicación que se llama Onyx, que es totamente gratis.
Seguro con esos consejos verás “volar” a tu Mac
Lu April 20th, 2009
Hola, alguien sabe de algún programa para Mac que lea archivos midi? no solo audio, quiero ver las partituras. Gracias
Replycarlos kooiti April 26th, 2009
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ReplyBullit April 28th, 2009
Thanx great posts, only I miss a non-designer project management tool for keeping multiple projects,tasks, teams on track, any recommendations anyone?
Replythank you!
Xantifee May 6th, 2009
Thank you so much for this info! Great share!
ReplyOscar May 12th, 2009
Other than the ability to get your media onto your TV (neato) I struggle to see how Centerstage is any better than Front Row?
ReplyDave Ellis May 22nd, 2009
Great list, I’m a total app junkie!
Replycoolheart66 June 12th, 2009
thanks 4 all ppl who did this 2 know all what we miss ……;)
Replyit’s Great sweet cool you can say what you like
Devie July 3rd, 2009
thanks for the great info!
ReplyIgnacio September 10th, 2009
WOW!!! so many wonders that i did not know of, apreciated man!!!
Replyfradouan September 15th, 2009
salut tres bon article et tres util merci infiniment
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