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-	* [http://www.videolan.org/ VLC]	+	* [http://www.videolan.org/ VLC] is an excellent media player. It can play Quicktime movies in full screen unlike Apple's free Quicktime player. It also plays DVDs, Windows Media files, and pretty much anything else.
	* [http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ MPlayerOSX]		* [http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ MPlayerOSX]
-	* [http://www.skype.com Skype]	+	* [http://www.skype.com Skype] is a Voice Over IP (VOIP) application available for OS X, Linux, and Windows that actually works.
	== Bittorrent ==		== Bittorrent ==

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Revision as of 23:45, 5 March 2005

Contents 1 Editors 2 Blogging 3 Launchers 4 Audio/Video 5 Bittorrent 6 RSS 7 File Transfer 8 Web Browsers

Editors

• Vim
• SubEthaEdit

Blogging

• ecto

Launchers

• Quicksilver

Audio/Video

• VLC is an excellent media player. It can play Quicktime movies in full screen unlike Apple's free Quicktime player. It also plays DVDs, Windows Media files, and pretty much anything else.
• MPlayerOSX
• Skype is a Voice Over IP (VOIP) application available for OS X, Linux, and Windows that actually works.

Bittorrent

Also see bittorrent tv shows.

• Azureus
• BitTornado
• "Official" client

RSS

• NewsFire
• Shrook
• Sage, a Firefox extension. Bforsyth has improved an existing Safari-like CSS style for Sage that he finds to be much better than the standard layout style.
• Thunderbird does RSS as well as email now

File Transfer

• Fugu SCP/SFTP client

Web Browsers

• Camino gecko-based web browser
• Safari is fine, as long as you turn on tabs (Safari->Preferences->Tabs->"Enable Tabbed Browsing")
• Mozilla and Firefox, naturally
• Although Tim doesn't use the modern OS X incarnation, he remembers using OmniWeb on a friend's NeXT back in the day.
• iCab