HI! I'm a newbie and I'm in that stage in a mac user's life (am sure you all went through this) when everything seems so new and anything seems possible, especially after having gotten my dream machine. Having shelled out hard-earned money on our new babies, some of us can only yearn for oh-so expensive apps. Good thing there's versiontracker (and other sites) where excellent freeware abound. Thing is, it would be better for us newbies to learn from the experience of veteran Mac users, for us to weed out those freeware that don't work and simply suck. As for myself, I tried out Konfabulator and couldn't get enough of those adorable widgets. Am eager to hear from you guys which freeware/s caught your attention. SUN TZU ---------------------------------------- Admins, sorry if a thread on this topic already exists, tried searching and there seems to be none yet. Kindly point me to it if i missed it. [Note: Thread moved from iPoll to iApps. - Dominique James] [Edited on 9-14-2005 by dominiquejames]
first thing, konfabulator ain't freeware. but for freeware, here's my list: azurues sidetrack mozilla's browsers (camino, firefox) ibatt vlc player also, always do a SEARCH of the forums. i think this topic (or a similar one) has been discussed. just in case, it's on the upper right hand corner.
VLC and CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) top my list of freeware apps. Also, a great Launchbar freeware alternative is Quicksilver. Not quite as stable, but it's built in iTunes feature is to die for!
Aside from the aforementioned apps sounded off by the other dudes, another app that you may also like to try would be OnyX. It's an optimization/maintenance utility for OSX -- sort of similar to Cocktail. But whereas you'd have to shell out some moolah for Cocktail, OnyX is still freeware.
My favorite freewares are... ResEdit - resource fork editor from Apple HexEdit - data fork editor iText - SimpleText replacement
BrickHouse is a firewall app. It gives you a simple interface to configure OS X's built-in firewall without using Terminal and the ipfw command-line tool. To check if your Mac is secure, go to the Shields UP! site and run the "File Sharing" and "Common Ports" tests. ;-) ~Henjie
NeoOffice/J - an MS Office clone that is totally free (GPL/FOSS) TextWrangler - the best text editor I've used so far. [Edited on 9-11-2005 by berniej]
