Its bills itself as as a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.Ĭaffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. VLC plays any video and audio format under the sun. The darling of the all back up solutions, saving any file to Dropbox also instantly saves it to your computers, phones, and the Dropbox website, making it accessible from anywhere. Coined as the perfect A/V conversion tool for those of us that are not A/V experts, its drag and drop interface is the answer to all the “other” confusing and complicated alternatives. Permute is an easy way to convert audio and video formats. Kaleidoscope helps you spot the differences in text and image files and review changes in seconds with “the world’s most advanced file comparison application.” This app might have the most gorgeous logo ever created for app, but I digress. Google Reader enabled, you’ll up and going in no time flat. Only avaliable in beta right now, it still manages to be one of the best ways of comsumng RSS feeds on the Mac with a clean, uncluttered, uncomplicated and rather elegant interface. Reeder is an RSS reader favourite on iOS devices, and it will be coming to OS X very soon. With the additional Powerpack add-on, you get file system navigation, clipboard history, address book, email and terminal control features to name but a few. It’s a keyboard driven app launcher, quick web searcher, calculator, spelling app, iTunes control, search result action taker, and comprehensive searcher. It loves Perl, Python, Tcl, PHP, Ruby and Javascript.Īlfred is like Spotlight on steroids.
Switching your trusty code editor is hard, but give Komodo Edit (or its big brother Komodo IDE) a try: it’ll be worth your while. Komodo Edit is a fast, smart, free and open-source code editor. When you’re ready to uninstall, AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily. Maybe you need to transfer files to an FTP or SFTP server, or the cloud via Amazon S3, or using WebDAV. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration. OmmWriter is a simple text processor that makes writing a pleasure by throwing away all the bloat that distracts the writer. The Swiss army knife for chat clients with support for all the major instant messaging services including AOL, MSN and Yahoo, with secure SSL support built in. If you’re a fan of the interface, be sure to check out the aforementioned Sparrow mail client. Simply the best looking Twitter client for Mac.