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* [http://bittornado.com/ BitTornado]
* [http://bittornado.com/ BitTornado]
* [http://bittorrent.com/download.html "Official" client]
* [http://bittorrent.com/download.html "Official" client]
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* [http://www.transmissionbt.com/ Transmission]
== RSS ==
== RSS ==

Revision as of 17:44, 31 December 2007

Contents

Editors

Blogging

Launchers

Audio/Video/Image

  • 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.
  • iPhotoToGallery adds an option to iPhoto to export photos to a Gallery account like gallery.antiflux.org
  • Seashore is an image editor based on the Gimp with a native Cocoa interface

Bittorrent

Also see bittorrent tv shows.

RSS

File Transfer and Remote Access

  • SSHKeychain manages your SSH keys. Works great with Fugu and ssh/scp in the Terminal.
  • Fugu is a free GUI SCP/SFTP client
  • Transmit FTP/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

Instant Messaging

  • Adium X an IM client for multiple IM systems (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.)
  • Colloquy a very Mac-like IRC client

Misc.

  • Growl Single notification system. Get all IM, IRC, Current Song, etc. notifications via one app.
  • GeekTool - A tool for geeks, like us.
  • Menu Meters - Keep track of whats going on in your system via a menu bar display.
  • svnX - a decent looking subversion client GUI.
  • Desktop Manager - a virtual desktop manager for OS X
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