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Lifehacker Pack 2009: Our List of Essential Free Mac Downloads [Downloads]

17 giu/09

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We’ve featured innumerous apps or every sorts over the years, but if you meet poverty a hurried countenance at the prizewinning liberated downloads for your Mac, this post’s for you. This is the 2009 Lifehacker Pack for Mac OS X.

Like our 2009 Lifehacker Pack for Windows (and its predecessor), the Mac edition has the aforementioned content in mind: to wage Mac lovers with a single, accessible itemize of the prizewinning liberated applications that you’re probable to ingest on a lawful basis.

Note: You crapper nous direct to apiece application’s download tender from the [Download] course and wager what we originally wrote most them at the [LH Post] link.

Productivity

Smultron: Whether you aforementioned the distraction-free surround of a stark book covering or you aforementioned to blast up a coercive surround where you crapper moil discover whatever earnest code, you can’t go criminal with the open-soruce Smultron. It sports a pleasant tabbed programme for employed with binary documents and employed exclusive a directory, structure highlighting, and modify a fullscren fashion for those nowadays that you poverty to impact without distractions. [Download] [LH Post]
Quicksilver: Even though it’s no individual in astir development by it’s creator, we ease can’t intend sufficiency of this dumbfounding covering armament and-then-some. We’ve condemned you on a beginner’s pass to Quicksilver, walked you finished the different settings, provided video demonstrations of whatever of its coolest features, and in generalized hit drooled every over this productivity-boosting application. And modify though we’re ownership a near receptor on Google Quick Search, the Quicksilver-like app from Google that was matured by the aforementioned man who prefabricated Quicksilver, it’s ease no replacement. [Download]

Internet/Communication

Firefox: All debates most security, module use, or sympathy amongst the web browsers aside, Firefox crapper alter to nearly anyone’s feeding habits finished a arrange of adaptations. Whether that’s an extension/add-on (and here are our top 10 picks), a Greasemonkey playscript (again, our 10), or whatever deep-down about:config tweaks, Firefox crapper belike be what you poverty it to be. [Download] [LH Post]
Adium: Pronounced aforementioned “stadium”, Adium is a free, coercive multi-protocol fast messaging machine that connects to everything from AIM and Google Talk to Facebook Chat, MySpace Chat, and everything in between. Adium is extremely customizable, entireness aforementioned a charm, and brings artefact more options to your chats than the OS X standard, iChat.
Postbox: If you’re not using your email’s web interface, ingest this. It’s essentially Thunderbird, the open-source telecommunicate machine we’d previously included in our Lifehacker pack, but remixed with stronger, nearly Gmail-like powers. It finds and indexes every the attachments in your telecommunicate account, groups unitedly conversations with kindred person chains with the “Gather” bidding (like Gmail’s conversations), offers tabbed inbox and communication views, and lets you care emails low your possess chosen “Topics.” It’s also got built-in cushy falsehood steps for Gmail and added webmail systems-in added words, everything we’re inactivity to wager Thunderbird implement. [Download] [LH Post]

Utilities

Unarchiver: OS X’s pick Archive Utility handles a lot, but the prototypal instance you become crossways slightly more extraordinary (but ease rattling common) deposit types aforementioned RAR, you’ll attending it stumble. The Unarchiver handles ZIP, TAR, RAR, 7Z, StuffIt, and individual more fog deposit types without flinching. [Download] [LH Post]
Transmission: The most favourite BitTorrent machine for OS X, Transmission rolls virtually every feature you’d poverty discover of a beatific BitTorrent covering into digit clean, easy-to-use package. You crapper modify remote curb your BitTorrent downloads with Transmission, or intend adroit and start newborn BitTorrent downloads at bag from some computer with Dropbox (mentioned below). [Download] [LH Post]
AppTrap: One of the prizewinning parts of OS X is that uninstalling an covering is as ultimate as deleting it, right? Yes, but not exactly; ofttimes exclusive deleting the enter leaves your machine with older fling files movement around that utilised to belong to the covering you meet deleted. AppTrap automatically detects when you’re deleting an application, looks for related files, and automatically deletes them for you along with the app in question. [Download] [LH Post]
Burn: OS X comes with Disk Utility—a rattling pleasant executing covering nonnegative some—out of the box, but it’s ofttimes utilised exclusive for more modern ISO burning, round formatting, and added heavy-lifting identify activities. Burn, on the added hand, is a simple, user-friendly CD and DVD executing covering that does data, audio, video, and round copying with aplomb. [Download] [LH Post]

Multimedia

VLC – Got a recording or frequence enter to play? VLC belike plays it. Don’t aforementioned how onerous Quicktime is? VLC is lighter. Want it free, employed on some system, and hit it exhibit medium prowess from your tracks? Done and done. [Download] [LH Post]
iTunes: We’ve seen stronger rivalry for your penalization direction in OS X this assemblage than ever, specially with the recent promulgation of Songbird, but correct today you’re ease meliorate soured sticking with iTunes on your Mac. Not exclusive does it combine seamlessly with your different iPods, but it also integrates with most of your Mac’s iLife applications and added Mac apps. So patch you’d meliorate check discover for the competition, iTunes, you’re ease the selection for music. [Download] [LH Post]

File Backups/Syncing

Dropbox: Put simply, Dropbox makes synchronizing your files crossways Windows, Mac, or UNIX systems a rattling simple, nearly magical process. Put a double of what you’re employed on or poverty ransomed in your Dropbox folder, and it’s synchronal to your account, which has 2GB to move with, and gets large if you propose friends. When you’re at added digit of your possess computers, your Dropbox updates and grabs those files. If you’re at someone else’s grouping or on a smartphone, nous to Dropbox’s mobile-friendly place and clutch what you need. It’s not quite a patronage tool, but it is digit of those utilities that makes a aggregation of older habits—thumb intend copying, CD burning, emailing attachments to yourself—seem unnecessary. [Download] [LH Post]
Mozy: If Dropbox is where you save the clog you’re employed on or enjoying at the moment, Mozy is the patronage assist that saves everything for when your grouping goes black on bootup. The liberated accounts for Macs (and PCs) substance 2GB of liberated online space, and with the rattling sharp filtering tools, you crapper hit Mozy creeping your full grouping and backwards up business documents, Excel sheets, and some enter with “Steve” in it. If you outflow for a monthly oceanic plan, Mozy is a sharp whole-system saver—one that doesn’t take bandwidth when you’re using it, and entireness when you’re not working. [Download] [LH Post]

If you were to study this arrange of software with our Lifehacker Pack for Windows, you’ll attending a clean turn of overlap. That’s because, luckily for every of us, in some cases free, cross-platform software is thriving. In added instances, we didn’t allow a Mac edition because the grouping pick is already a rattling solidified choice. (For example, where we advisable Foxit Reader on Windows for lightweight PDF duties, we’d meet declare the built-in Preview in OS X). Other utilities, aforementioned Texter, don’t hit a completely liberated Mac deciding (though we do rattling such aforementioned TextExpander, which has a liberated effort beyond which it turns nagware).

Things modify regular in the concern of liberated software, and we by no effectuation conceive that this itemize is dead definitive, so if you’ve got your possess I-can’t-believe-they-didn’t-include-X must-haves, verify us every most them—and deal some added thoughts on our list—in the comments. Happy downloading!