Useful Mac Apps
Audacity
Free, Mac X 10.4 and up
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
The ultimate open source audio editor. Everyone should have basic knowledge of Audacity; which literally lets you edit any music file endlessly.
iFunBox
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
http://www.i-funbox.com/ifunboxmac/
Easy to use file manager for Apple iDevices, if you're needing to get into file systems without jailbreaking your device.
CoconutBattery
Free, Mac X 10.7 and up
http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/
Learn about you're laptops battery intelligently
CineBench
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
http://www.maxon.net/pt/products/cinebench/overview.html
Measure your Mac's performance
ClamXav
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
https://www.clamxav.com/
Free malware scanner
Pixillion
Free, Mac X 10.4 and up
http://www.nchsoftware.com/imageconverter/index.html
Free mass image converter for Mac
Disk Inventory X
Free, Mac X 10.3 and up
http://www.derlien.com/
Outstanding portable app that shows the sizes of files and folders on any drive
DosBox
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1
x86 Emulator with DOS for Mac!
EasyFind
Free, Mac X 10.4 and up
http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html
Better finder than the traditional mac Finder, and faster.
Hardware Monitor
Paid, Mac X 10.4 and up
http://www.bresink.com/osx/HardwareMonitor.html
A nice paid utility showing you all sensor outputs your Mac has.
Handbreak
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
https://handbrake.fr/
Free easy to use video conversion application
Paintbrush
Free, Mac X 10.4 and up
http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/
The missing mac pain application!
Second Bar
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
http://boastr.de/SecondBar.zip
Extend another menu bar to any screen!
Steer Mouse
Paid, Mac X 10.4 and up
http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/
Precision mouse pointing for Mac. This is extremely useful for over clocking your mouses tracking speed the Mac OS pointlessly reserves.
Super Duper
Paid, Mac X 10.6 and up
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Backing up your entire hard drive has never been easier. Super Duper does it in real-time while you can still use your system. Great utility for backing up full volumes when migrating.
Mac Vim
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
https://code.google.com/p/macvim/
Text editor 'vim' for Mac
SMC Fan Control
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
http://www.eidac.de/
Control fan speeds on your Intel Mac
TFTP Server Mac
Free, Mac X 10.4 and up
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11116/tftpserver
GUI to help setup Mac's built in TFTP Server
Taco HTML
Paid, Mac X 10.6 and up
http://tacosw.com/
Super light weight HTML editor. Very intuitive.
Tunnel Blick
Free, Mac X 10.4 and up
https://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/
Open VPN GUI application for configuration files
Unrar
Free, Mac X 10.4 and up
http://www.unrarx.com/
Lightweight & fast unrar utility.
Wine
Free, Mac X 10.6 and up
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
The ultimate application to run Windows applications in MAC natviley. Comes with pre-installed packages like Internet Explorer and TextPad
Xbench
Free, Mac X 10.3.9 and up
http://www.xbench.com/
One of the most comprehensive Mac benchmarking applications availiable
ZTerm
Free, Mac X Universal
http://www.dalverson.com/zterm/
Best terminal emulation for mac that's free
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