i put this thread together on another site last year
i dont own a mac,so i cant test the apps i have to go by what i read on the sites ,
links check 19/08/09
if you find a broken link pm me

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PEERGAURDIAN 2 FOR MACS
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EMULATORS
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PUT WINDOWS ON YOUR MAC
Apple Boot Camp
Apple Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install WIDOWS XP OR VISTA

Q,EMULATOR
Q [kju:] emulator is a feature packed Cocoa port of QEMU: Run Linux, Windows, and other systems on your Mac. ,,FREEWARE


GAME EMULATORS
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MAME EMULATOR
MAME[ ARCADE ]ROMS
To play MAME games, you must first download an emulator, the program that runs the roms (games)

SEGA GENESIS EMULATOR
SEGA GENESIS ROMS
To play Sega Genesis games, you must first download an emulator, the program that runs the roms (games).


SNES [SUPER NINTENDO]EMULATOR
SNES [SUPERNINTENDO ]ROMS
To play SNES games, you must first download an emulator, the program that runs the roms (game

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CD AND DVD SOFTWARE
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BurnX Free
BurnX Free makes it very easy to burn CD's with multiple sessions in an hybrid format for compatibility with other platforms. Freeware,

MacTheRipper
MacTheRipper is a DVD extractor for MacOS X. It removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, sets the disc's region to '0' for region-free, and has the ability to disable RCE region checking. It does not depend on the drive to retrieve the keys to unlock the DVD
Freeware,
YuBurner
YuBurner is CD/DVD disk burning software.
This application can do additional burns. Freeware,

Disc Burner
Disc Burner for Macintosh lets you create and share your music, video, photos and data on CD and DVD with power and simplicity! Built for Mac OS X. Protect your valuable data on CDs or share it with Windows PC users. The perfect burning companion to iMovie, iTunes, and DVD authoring software that burns fast, burns clean, burns on more drives, and now burns in the background too. Freeware,
handbrake
DVD ripper and MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. Very simple to use. FREEWARE

BURN
CD and DVD Burner. Burn any video to a disc that plays in your DVD player! ,freeware

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Avid Free DV
Professional DV Editing for the enthusiast Perfect for students, DV camera owners, video enthusiasts or anyone exploring video editing - Avid Free DV software is an easy, free way to join the Avid family and test-drive the industry-standard ..freeware

SheerVideo Reader
SheerVideo Reader is a decoder-only version of SheerVideo Pro, a powerful faster-than-real-time perfectly lossless software video codec for production, postproduction, and archival. Compared to uncompressed formats, Sheer will * double your disk ..freeware

mp4vDecoder
libavcodec based QuickTime Media Decompressor component. Support mp4v, MPEG-4 Video Media. This compoent overrides default Apple MPEG-4 decoder compoent. Support some MPEG-4 ASP features, including B-frame with Open/Closed GOP. And also supports freeware

VCode
VCode is a set of applications to support the video annotation workflow. It has an interface for researchers to define which variables coders will be coding on the interactive timeline. It supports multiple synchronized video streams and ad-hoc ... freeware
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DVD UTILLITES
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fennel DVDManager
fennel DVDManager (aka fsDM) is our next-generation DVD manager (sic) for Mac OS X. With its clean interface, available in 12 languages, it makes maintaining your DVD library as easy as Macintosh! * Retrieve & Update your DVDs' details through ..freeware

DVDTheque
DVDTheque allows you to organize your film collection by DVD, film, picture, staff, language and bonus. French, German, Italian and English versions are included. What's new in this version: * Rewrite Html Export Module -> Fixed crash bug ... freeware

HandBrake
HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux. * Supported sources: o Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS ... freeware

Jubler
Jubler is a tool for editing text-based subtitles. It can be used an an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct, and refine existing subtitles. Some of its key features are subtitle preview, smooth freeware

JING
Snap a picture of anything on your desktop.Record video of what you do, or what you see.Instantly uploaded. Share in email, IM, or blogs,,freeware


MP3 PLAYERS
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Audacity
A free (open-source) multi-track audio editor and recorder. It can record live audio, and import or export sound files in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF, WAV and other formats. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo: Freeware,

iTunesK1
iTunesK1 allows to control your iTunes through a very simple graphic interface similar to the quick-well of your iPod. on the interface there can be shown the title of the song, the artist or the album, the elapsed and remaining time. Freeware,

iTunes skin Cappuccino
Tunes skin Cappuccino allows you to change iTunes appearance to Cappuccino color, and aqua button. Freeware,

YamiPod - an application to efficiently manage your iPod. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation Compatibility: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

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Video Editing Software


Avidemux
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.


Jashaka
The worlds first open source, hardware accelerate editing and effects system! Well worth to check it out.

HyperEngine-AV
Multimedia authoring software for capturing, editing, organizing, processing, and exporting video, audio, and text to create DVD quality movies and slide shows.

Atomic Learning's FREE Video StoryBoard Pro


ZS4 Video Editor
ZS4 Video Editor is video editing and compositing software which aims to provide media experts with a facility to combine a variety of media types (currently photos, videos and audio files) into one (or more) output file(s).


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BROWSERS
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Firefox for Mac: Freeware,THE-WALL

CAMINO
Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users.,,CCZX
flock for mac,: FreewareTHE-WALL

Opera for Mac,: Freeware,THE-WALL

Bumper car
The Mac OS X web browser just for kids. Offering unparalleled content-control and customization features, BumperCar is the most powerful Mac web browser for concerned educators and parents alike,,THE-WALL

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MEDIA PLAYERS
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VLC PLAYER,for macs ,view your movies ect Freeware,,THE-WALL,

REAL PLAYER 10 ,for mac os x Freeware,, THE-WALL

MIRO,
to watch free internet video channels and play any video file,, Freeware,

Perian
Perian is a free, open source, QuickTime component that supports many popular media types, including AVI, DivX, and XviD. MKV, Freeware,,ccxz

NICE PLAYER
Uses QuickTime. NicePlayer takes advantage of QuickTime and all of the codecs available to it, but without any of the nag screens. That means that you can play anything QuickTime can, and with our plug-in support even more -- including DVDs, Freeware,,ccxz
FLASHFETCH
Grabs most .FLA streams. Built-in Download manager.Youtube and other video sites support.Built-in FLV viewer.Supports all Browsers.

Wimpy - a cross platform (Mac and PC), standalone Flash Video FLV player, which will allow you to watch your FLV, and SWF videos, from your desktop.


XBMC
XBMC media center is a free cross-platform media-player jukebox and entertainment hub.


ON-LINE TV
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JOOST
What's Joost? It's video â€" more than 15,000 shows, with more added daily. It's online â€" all you need is a broadband internet connection. And it's free. Between this and VeohTV I hardly turn on the television anymore. freeware

VEOH TV
VeohTV is a free specialized video browser that turns online video into Internet Television. Watch video from thousands of web sites, in one easy-to-use full screen application.,,freeware
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Graphics Design & Editing
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GIMP
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software


Aqsis Renderer
Aqsis is a cross-platform, RenderMan-compliant, 3D rendering solution. Features include programmable shading, true displacements, 3D depth-of-field, motion blur, NURBS, subdivision surfaces, constructive solid geometry (CSG), procedural plugins and more.



Arbaro
Arbaro is an implementation of the tree generating algorithm

BRL-CAD
BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform open source solid modeling system that includes interactive geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing for rendering and geometric analysis, image and signal-processing tools, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, libraries for robust geometric representation, with more than 20 years of active development.

Blender
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.


CinePaint
Image editor geared for video production.


Cosmos3d
This program was created to visualize a fractal pattern which was used to render a cosmological model by Hoyle


DAZ Studio?
DAZ Studio is a free, feature rich 3D figure design and 3D animation tool that enables anyone to create stunning digital imagery. This is the perfect tool to design unique digital art and animation using virtual people, animals, props, vehicles, accessories, environments and more. Simply select your subject and/or setting, arrange accessories, setup lighting, and begin creating beautiful artwork.


Delineate
Raster to Vector coverter


Dusty
Dusty is a nice realtime 3D Smoke Simulator. It allowes to simulate smoke and fire in realtime.


EOS Image Manager
EOS Image Manager Saves You Time.
Easily rename, move, copy, view, and thumbnail all of your image files with simple mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts.


Equinox3d
3-D illustration, modeling, rendering, and animation application.

Fractal Flames
Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. The software was originally written in 1992 and released as open source, aka free software. Since then it has developed a lot. It has been incorporated into many graphics programs and ported to most operating systems. The shape of each image is specified by a long string of numbers - a genetic code of sorts.



Fractal Trees
fractal toy, where you can play around with with fractal trees with sliders that move it around and adjust the parameters in real time.


Freyja 3d
Freyja 3d is a modeler and animator focusing on low polygon game content with wide range of model import/export plugins. Freyja has some unique features such as Lua macros, tools for reverse engineering, and use of GLSL shaders while editing. Currently supported platforms: Linux, PS3Linux, Windows, and OS X

GardenSketch
GardenSketch is design software which can help plan and lay out any area, from the smallest garden plot to the largest landscape, enabling the planner to visualize a garden space before any plants are purchased, in color, in any season.GardenSketch's specialized drawing tools make designing landscapes easy.


Gimpshop
Gimp organized more like Photoshop.


Hugin - Panorama Tools
an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.
With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

ImagePlay
ImagePlay is a nondestructive image editor based around "chaining" effects together. No more mucking with pixels and brushes. Simply apply the effect you want and see the results instantly. You can even save your favorite effect groups for repeated use.


ImageMagick
[/b]ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and License: Freeware, ]


Active Page Item Runtime
Most of Rorohiko's plug-ins rely on this runtime plug-in to be installed. What's new in this version: * Beg window can bow be dismissed with the Return key * New opcodes added to app.callExtension(0x90B6C,opcode,...):License: Freeware, ]


Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.


Jpatch
Spline based 3D modeling tool (a patch modeler). It can be used to create 3D models for POV-Ray or RenderMan compatible renderers (e.g. Aqsis).


K-3D
3-D design, illustration, modelling, and animation which can utilize Renderman engine as well as others. Available via Darwine Ports

LiveQuartz
Image editor.
LiveQuartz has all of its user interface in one window. Available tools settings appear as you select the tool.
Layers and Filters list can be hidden easily to have all the window space available for your photo



Mac PovRay
Open 3-D design for OS X.


MegaPOV
MegaPOV is a custom unofficial version of POV-Ray with a lot of additional features.


Pencil
Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.


Pixen
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it's Free!


planetGenesis
planetGenesis (pG) is a Java program designed to produce models of planets and landscapes.
A little like Mojoworld but free (as in beer and speech) and no where near as goo

QCAD
QCAD is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions (2d). With QCAD you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors, mechanical parts or schemas and diagrams. QCAD works on Windows, Mac OS X and many Linux and Unix Systems. The source code of the QCAD community edition is released under the GPL (Open Source).

Seashore
Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMP's technology and uses the same native file format

SharpConstruct
SharpConstruct is a 3D modeling program designed to let users paint depth on to polygon models in real-time. Unlike traditional modeling programs, SharpConstruct makes it easy to quickly model organic shapes.


Sketch It Up
3-D design, illustration, and modelling brought to by Google.
UVMapper
UVMapper Professional is a stand-alone texture mapping utility for the creation and modification of UV coordinates for n-sided polygonal 3D models. UVMapper Professional offers multiple, fully configurable viewports with completely interactive 2D and 3D views.


Wings 3D
Wings 3D is a 3-D subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

XaoS
XaoS is an interactive fractal zoomer. It allows the user to continuously to zoom in or out of a fractal in a fluid, continuous motion. This capability makes XaoS great for exploring fractals,





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SECURITY
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HOTSPOT SHIELD
Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop and the wireless router. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers and hackers from viewing your email, instant messages, credit card information or anything else you send over a wireless network. Which means you remain anonymous and protect your privacy.freeware


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ANTI VIRUS
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avast! Mac Edition

iAntiVirus™
With PC Tools iAntiVirus™ you are protected against the most nefarious cyber-threats attempting to gain access to your Mac and personal information.

ClamXav
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.Freeware,, ,,THE-WALL

OS X Rootkit Hunter
OS X Rootkit Hunter is based on Michael Boelen`s "rootkit hunter" but little modified for easier/better usability on Mac OS X. OS X Rootkit Hunter is scanning tool to detect nasty tools on your Mac. This tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and,,Freeware,,

ChkRootKit_MacOSX
ChkRootKit_MacOSX is an utility to detect WORMS, LKM TROJANS and other small dirty animals which could invade your computer. ChkRootKit_MacOSX is a GUI integration of the CLI "chkrootkit" of Pangeia Informatica. What's new in this version:,Freeware,,

MPP Free Edition
MPP Free Edition is a high performance application that provides virus and spam protection with ClamAV and SpamAssassin, with GUI management, optional end-user review of virus and spam quarantines and many extras like email signatures, max file size ... ,,Freeware,,

Zebra scanner
Zebra scanner is intended to search for applications, hidden behind another extension than 'app' . It checks if any of the files in the selected folder(s) has either the real extension '.app' or the file type 'APPL' , plus, if the OS considers the ... ,,Freeware,,

ANTI SPYWARE
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WebTunnel All-in-One Privacy & Security
Strongest Real-Time online defense against spies, ID thieves, profilers, ISPs and Network Admins. All-In-One defense prevents Spyware from reading your email, activity and surfing. Removing Spyware is a partial solution at best because you are,.Freeware,,

FIREWALLS
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NoobProof
NoobProof is a basic firewall configuration tool for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. You can filter incoming connections using a very simple interface. You can remove or add custom services and save a startup script to keep rules active after reboots. Use ..,.Freeware,,

IPSecuritas
IPSecuritas is a front-end of the Mac OS X IPSec subsystem built in the kernel and allows to configure and establish secure IP tunnels between your machine or network with a remote network (for example your office network) using the non-secure ...,.Freeware,,

GlowWorm FW Lite
GlowWorm FW Lite is a rule-based network security and monitoring application based on plugin-accessible framework. By defining rules based on a set of connection criteria including the addresses, ports, the relevant endpoint and protocol, as well as ..,.Freeware,,

HenWen
About HenWen A network security package for Mac OS X that makes it easy to configure and run Snort, a free Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). HenWen s goal is to simplify setting up and maintaining software that will scan network traffic ... .,.Freeware,,

PASSWORD MANAGERS
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Stronghold
OSX application to keep notes and information safe under 448 bit blowfish encrytion system. The GUI is designed to resemble the addressbook GUI. What's new in this version: * Added undo/redo functionality. * Added preferences panel and .,.Freeware,,

RapidoSerial
RapidoSerial is an easy to use database software that allows you to quickly build a permanent record of your applications and their related licenses. With RapidoSerial, you can backup important information such as serial numbers, software ... ,.Freeware,,

Pastor
Pastor stores all your passwords, website logins, program serial numbers, etc. RC4-encrypted and password-protected. With built-in password generator. Pastor is "Donationware". Pay any amount of money Pastor is worth to you or use it for free. ... ,.Freeware,,

YPassword
YPassword is a widget which calculate the SHA1 digest of the concatenation of a web domain and your password. You remember only one really strong master password, the rest follows. It is a safe way to manage password when you must remember them on ..... ,.Freeware,,

i23
i23 is an application to securely store your important data like passwords/serials/pins/tans credit card numbers and software registration numbers. i23 uses a 320bit encryption and by quitting the application the clipboard is cleared. WHAT'S .... ,.Freeware,,

SecureVault
SecureVault is a graphical manager of private-only (secret) data, such as credit cards, internet passwords, bank codes, etc. It is a small, portable application that can be run off a USB drive, so you can take all your secrets with you wherever you ..... ,.Freeware,,

KeyManager
KeyManager is a utility to keep track of your passwords, logins and more. Keep information safely stored in your computer with the main password protected feature. Create types. It's free! * Create diferent types * Live Search field to fast ..... ,.Freeware,,
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GAMES[free ones]

THE BEST FREE MAC GAMES ,THE-WALL


Armagetronad Advanced
Rework of Armagetronad a 3-D remake of Tron.

BZFlag
3-D online tank game.


Barrage
Barrage is a rather violent action game with the objective to kill and destroy as many targets as possible within 3 minutes. You control a gun that may either fire small or large grenades at soldiers, jeeps and tanks. Targets are fast paced and require careful aiming as it takes half a second to reload the gun. Additionally you have to keep an eye on your ammo and reload in time. Useful to kill some minutes of idle time.


The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures...

Celestia
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

Circus Linux!
Circus Linux!" is a clone of the Atari 2600 game "Circus Atari," produced by Atari, Inc. (which is itself a clone of an earlier arcade game named, simply "Circus").

Critical Mass
Space shoot'em up game.


CUBE
Free single and multi player 1st person shooter game with some satisfying fast oldskool gameplay. A large variety of gameplay modes from classic SP to fast 1 on 1 MP and objective based teamplay, with a great variety of original maps to play on.

Defendguin
Defendguin is a clone of the arcade game "Defender," but with a Linux theme. Your mission is to defend little penguinoids from being captured and mutated.

Dofus
MMORPG halfway between and 2d video game and an interactive cartoon.


DreamChess
DreamChess is an open source chess game. Our primary target platforms are Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. DreamChess features 3D OpenGL graphics and provides various chess board sets, ranging from classic wooden to flat figurines.



Egoboo.
Egoboo is a 3d dungeon crawling adventure in the spirit of NetHack.

Electric Sheep
Electric Sheep is an open source screen saver founded by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.


Excalibur
EMR 3.0 is a unique scenario based upon the Aleph One (Marathon) engine. It is a first-person action adventure game, featuring an epic and in-depth story line.


Exult
As computers evolve, we risk losing classic games from the not-so-distant past. One of these, Ultima 7, an RPG from the early 1990's, still has a huge following, and many consider it to be one of the most immersive games ever produced

FarmersMahJongg
Its time to relax again. This is yet another version of the old Chinese MahJongg game - a tile game with old traditional images and the taste of something elegant.


FlightGear
FlightGear has a seamless, continuous oblate ellipsoid world available for you to explore. Our terrain is based on 90m SRTM data and is very detailed. There are over 20,000 airports you can visit world wide. You can download 10x10 degree chunks of the world, run a utility called terrasync to fetch scenery as you fly


FooBillard
3-D Pool.

Freeciv
Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization. The game commences in prehistory and your mission is to lead your tribe from the stone age to the space age...


FreeOrion
FreeOrion is a free, open source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest (4X) computer game being designed and built by the FreeOrion project. FreeOrion is inspired by the tradition of the Master of Orion games, but is not a clone or remake of that series or any other game.


Frozen Bubble
Frozen Bubble is a popular free puzzle game (especially in Linux platform). User controls a small canon, shooting bubbles and tries to hit other bubbles so to create groups of 3 or more bubbles of the same color. Whenever this is accomplished these bubbles go away. The purpose of the game is to eliminate all bubbles from stage.

GCompris
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational.

Glypha III
Glypha III is a Mac OS X port of the classic arcade game in which you are placed inside an Egyptian temple and forced to do battle with Sphinxes in order to gain the honour of a place in the High Scores. The game is based on Joust and features sound and animated graphics from the original Mac version.


Hexen II
The classic Hexen II GL.

JMaPacman
JMaPacman is a clone of the old Arcade Game Pacman with new features and news design.
Now you can play Pacman with many of your friends together in one Game. You have many levels to explore and many dots to eat



Jose Chess
Chess 2-D or 3-D views, timers, etc.


kiki the nanobot
kiki the nanobot is a 3-D puzzle game. It is basically a mixture of the games Sokoban and Kula-World.

MacGLQuake
Quake, Hexen II, etc.


Maelstrom 3.0
You pilot your ship through the dreaded "Maelstrom" asteroid belt -- suddenly your best friend thrusts towards you and fires, directly at your cockpit. You raise your shields just in time, and the battle is joined.
The deadliest stretch of space known to mankind has just gotten deadlier. Everywhere massive asteroids jostle for a chance to crush your ship, and deadly shinobi fighter patrols pursue you across the asteroid bel


Minions of Mirth
A massively single player, multiplayer, persistent world RPG. Its epic scope and diverse gameplay will keep novice and hardcore players coming back for more, and more!

Neverball
Neverball, cool rolling marble game and Neverputt, Cool 3-D Putt Putt.



Nexuiz
Nexuiz is a fast paced 3d deathmatch game project created online by a team of developers called Alientrap. It is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux (all the same archive).
this looks cool



OpenGL
You may need to install OpenGL for some of these games.


Mortal Kombat
Open Mortal is a parody of the once popular coin-up fighting game, Mortal Kombat,


Pac-Man
Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man are back! Pac the Man X has more than 140 challenging levels and a new difficulty level: Master. Available in single player mode only, Master plunges the levels in total darkness. Are you daring enough to try it?


Penguin-Command
This is a clone of the classic "Missile Command" Game, but it has better graphics and music. The gameplay has only been slightly modified. Penguin Command is licensed under the GPL.


Risk
The game of Risk.

SDL
You may need to install SDL for most of these games.


Scorched 3D
Scorched 3D is a modernization of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth "The Mother Of All Games" on which it is based. Scorched 3D incorporates a lively three dimensional landscape that includes animated jets, naval vessels, water, and even birds, in addition to detailed tanks and projectiles. Other enhancements include LAN and internet play and music. Scorched 3D is totally free to play and is available for both Microsoft Windows and Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris etc.) operating systems.


S.C.O.U.R.G.E.
S.C.O.U.R.G.E. is a cross platform, open source rogue-like game in the fine tradition of NetHack and Moria It sports a graphical front-end, similar to glHack or the Falcon's eye.The design of the 3D UI is an attempt at the best of both worlds from old to new: It lets you rotate the view, zoom in/out, view special effects, etc with the feeling of the old-school isometric games like Exult or Woodward.


SolarWolf
SolarWolf is an action/arcade game written in Python. It is free and open source, created with the Pygame game development library.


Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.


StepMania
StepMania is a free dance and rhythm game featuring
3D graphics, dance pad support, and a step editor.


SuperTux
SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games covered under the GPL.



Transfusion!
Remake of Blood. Online play

TuxMath
TuxMath is an arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts. The main goal is to make it effective and fun!


Tux Racer 0.61
Tux Racer lets you take on the role of Tux the Linux Penguin as he races down steep, snow-covered mountains. Enter cups and compete to win the title! Tux Racer includes a variety of options for gameplay, including the ability to race courses in fog, at night, and under high winds.


VDrift
VDrift is a cross-platform, open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind. The driving physics engine was recently re-written from scratch but was inspired and owes much to the Vamos physics engine. It is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2. It is curr


Vega Strike
Vega Strike is an Open Source 3D Action-Space-Sim that lets you trade, fight, and explore in a vast universe.
Vega Strike is built on top of OpenGL and runs on Win/Lin/Mac platforms. Vega Strike (the game) is currently in a playable state, but both game engine and dataset are under continued development.


Wormux
Have the mascots of your favorite free software titles battle it out in the Wormux arena using dynamite, grenades, baseball bats and other bazookas... Exterminate your opponent in a 2D environment with toon-style scenery.



X-Moto
X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics plays an all important role in the gameplay. You need to control your bike to its limits, if you want to have a chance to finish the most difficult challenges.

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UTILLITES
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StuffIt Expander
is often pre-installed on new Macs, so it's easy to forget that it's not actually part of OS X. The Mac equivalent of WinZip, StuffIt Expander extracts .zip, .rar, and .sit files. The app is essential for opening downloaded files, which are usually compressed.

The Unarchiver
The Unarchiver is a much more capable replacement for "BOMArchiveHelper.app", the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. ,,freeware

WSManager
Multiple desktops in OS X.


Zipeg
Zipeg allows you to open and explore content of zip, rar and other archives, preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only the files you want. Zip thru photo archives. See image thumbnails. Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract. You can choose what to extract and where to put extracted files or just drag and drop them. Windows: XP and Vista, Mac OS X: Tiger and Leopard.

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BIT TORRENT CLIENT
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AZUREUS
JavaScript-based interface offers the greatest versatility for Mac users,,FREEWARE,,ccxz

BITROCKET
BitRocket is a Native(Open Source) BitTorrent client for Mac OS X. At the heart of it's core resides the powerful libtorrent BitTorrent library. BitRocket is aimed to be a good alternative to other Mac OS BitTorrent clients. ,,cczx

TRANSMISSION
Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client with a focus on being lightweight yet feature-filled.,,cczx

Cabos
Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It is free software. No spyware,,freeware

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SEARCH ENGINE
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XTORRENT
Xtorrent is all about search. Type keywords in and the results show up right in Xtorrent. ,,YEOR

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MISCELLANEOUS
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TeXShop
TeXShop is a TeX previewer for Mac OS X, written in Cocoa. Since pdf is a native file format on OS X, TeXShop uses "pdftex" and "pdflatex" rather than "tex" and "latex" to typeset; these programs in the standard teTeX distribution of TeX produce pdf License: Freeware, ]



AgileRss
RSS reader that reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates; It's able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content. It provides a consolidated view of,,,,License: Freeware, ]
Tonto
Tonto is a set of tools for the the popular Pronto line of programmable remote controls manufactured by Philips. The main tool in Tonto is a graphical editor similar to ProntoEdit. What's new in this version: After some time off, I've begun to .License: Freeware, ]

ESP Ghostscript
ESP Ghostscript is a customized version of GNU Ghostscript that includes an enhanced autoconf-based configuration script, the CUPS raster driver to support CUPS raster printer drivers, and additional patches and drivers from various Linux,,,,License: Freeware, ]

DashQuit
DashQuit is a small widget able to free RAM by quitting Dashboard. It displays the amount of RAM used by all your widgets. It allows you to quit Dashboard with a simple click, with or without asking confirmation. WHAT'S NEW Version 3.0: * .,,,License: Freeware, ]

GROWL
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: i,,cczx

ADIUM
Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.,,cczx

QUICKSILVER,,
Quicksilver is a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data. ,,freeware

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OFFICE APPS

AbiWord 2.6.8
Word processor, with spell check, formatting, translation, etc

Go-oo - Improved version of OpenOffice [faster loading, nicer user interface, etc] Compatibility: Windows, Linux, Mac OSX - 1010mk


LyX
LyX combines the power and flexibility of the TeX typesetting system with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content and structured documents. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well designed document layouts are built in.


NeoOffice
Port for Open Office to run native on OS X! This is easier to deal with than Open Office at the moment. A must have if you need Office products on your Mac.


OpenOffice.org
Office suite, like Microsoft Office and compatable with MS Office formats. Word processor, Spreadsheets, Publisher, Presentation, HTML, and Powerful database (like Access) products. Impress (Like Powerpoint) exports to many formats including SWF (Flash). All can be exported as PDF.




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SERVERS

AOLserver
AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server. AOLserver is the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in the world. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server used for large scale, dynamic web sites.


Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (jsp) technologies.



Apache Web Server
Web Server, the best imo. Acache is most likely already installed on OS X.


Locomotive
Locomotive is a Cocoa GUI application that simplifies the process of developing Ruby on Rails applications on Mac OS X 10.4


MAMP
Similar to a Linux-Distribution, MAMP is a combination of free software and thus it is offered free of charge. MAMP is released under the GNU General Public License and may thereby be distributed freely within the boundaries of this license. Please note: some of the included software is released using a different license. In these cases, the corresponding license applies.


ProFTPD
Highly configurable GPL-licensed FTP server software


Pure-FTPd
Pure-FTPd is a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server. It doesn't provide useless bells and whistles, but focuses on efficiency and ease of use. It provides simple answers to common needs, plus unique useful features for personal users as well as hosting providers.


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PROGRAMMING


Aptana
Development environment geared towards web development, Ajax style! Autocomplete and assistance for HTML, CSS, Java Script.


BlitzMax IDE
Basic programming IDE for use with the Blitz game development environment.

Code:Blocks
Code::Blocks is a free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.


DotGNU
DotGNU Portable.NET, an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), more commonly known as ".NET", includes everything that you need to compile and run C# and C applications that use the base class libraries, XML, and Systems.Windows.Forms. Currently supported CPUs: x86, ppc, arm, parisc, s390, ia64, alpha, mips, sparc. Supported operating systems: GNU/Linux (on PCs, Sparc, iPAQ, Sharp Zaurus, PlayStation 2, Xbox,...), *BSD, Cygwin/Mingw32, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX.



Eclipse
Eclipse java IDE for OS X.


FScript
IDE for the lightweight object-oriented interactive and scripting layer specifically designed for the Mac OS X object system (i.e. Cocoa).


Goliath
Goliath is an application that creates and edits websites. It uses a technology called WebDAV (frequently called Web Folders) to make changes to the files stored on web servers. It was the first application to implement WebDAV on the Macintosh. Goliath exposes functionality similar to that found in the Windows version of Internet Explorer 5 plus many other features that are unique to the Mac.


Groovy
Groovy is an agile, dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Groovy includes features found in Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk, but uses syntax similar to the Java programming language.


IPhoney
Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It's the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it's free.



Komodo Edit
Free, feature-rich editor for JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl, on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.


Lazarus
The Lazarus IDE is a stable and feature rich visual programming environment for the FreePascal Compiler. It supports the creation of self-standing graphical and console applications and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX and Windows.


NVU
NVU - Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (pronounced N-view, for a "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.


Netbeans
IDE with the following features and language support Ajax | C/C++ | Databases | Debugger | Desktop | Editor | GUI Builder | Java EE | Java ME | Java SE | Javascript | Mobile | Profiler | Refactor | REST | Rich Client Platform | Ruby | SOA | SOAP | UML | Web | WSDL | XML.


Selenium
Web application test tool. Tests run directly in a browser, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Firefox. Supported platforms Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. Languages include C#, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.


Simple CSS
Download your free copy of Simple CSS 2.0 and start creating Cascading Style Sheets the fun and easy way! Available for Mac OS X and Windows.

Spket IDE i
Spket IDE is powerful toolkit for JavaScript and XML development.
The powerful editor for JavaScript, XUL/XBL and Yahoo! Widget development. The JavaScript editor provides features like code completion, syntax highlighting and content outline that helps developers productively create efficient JavaScript code.


Taco HTML
Taco HTML Edit is the premier HTML editor and PHP editor for the Mac. As an HTML editor, Taco HTML Edit empowers its users to rapidly create their own web sites. It is designed exclusively for Mac OS X and has many advanced features including spell checking, live browser previewing, PHP previewing, syntax checking, and much more.


Vex
Vex is an editor for XML documents. The "visual" part comes from the fact that Vex hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a wordprocessor-like interface. Because of this, Vex is best suited for "document-style" XML documents such as XHTML and DocBook rather than "data-style" XML documents.


Xerlin
The Xerlin Project is a Java™ based XML modeling application written to make creating and editing XML files easier. It runs on any Java 2 virtual machine (JDK1.2.2 or higher). The application is extensible via custom editor interfaces that can be added for individual DTD's.

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please feel free to post any you think should be in here
and ill tag you to your find

looks like a very well built list, hopefully some other mac users can chime in as well

Thank you VERY VERY much!!! Mac freeware is so very hard to find!!! This is much appreciated!

your welcome nettieschu
I wish I could have more input from mac users as I don't use one so don't really understand their needs .

if you are after an application not listed post a request with as much info for your requirements and i will look for you,
as long as its for freeware,i dont mind searching the web,
but as i say i dont own a mac so as much info as you can to make the search easier

Thanks for this!!!

just updated the list to include games ect
if any mac users want to contribute I would be grateful thanks

Thank you very much for all of these!

thanks a lot !!!!

I ave a couple onl G4s and a G3 that have been collectiing dust for some tiime. I've been looking for an excuse to drag 'em out and find something to do w/ 'em.
This covers iit. Now, at least II have somewhere t o begiiiin... (Gonna fix my "i" button before anything.)
But, this is awesome, Thanks.