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SafariSafe - 1.1

SafariSafe is a simple application to temporarily move all of your Safari settings to a safe place, and lock your keychain.


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TeXShop - 2.13

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 output instead of dvi output.


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Startrail - 1.4

Startrail leaves a trail of shining and coloured stars behind your mouse cursor, wherever it goes.


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MarcoPolo - 2.0

MarcoPolo brings context-aware computing to your portable Mac computer. It allows your computer to determine its context through gathering evidence from your environment (evidence sources), using flexible rule-based fuzzy matching to make an educated guess (rules), and then performing arbitrary actions upon changing context (actions). MarcoPolo's concept of contexts is a generalisation of a location, and encompasses more than just where your computer is. A context might represent what you are doing, or what else is going on around you. MarcoPolo quietly stays in the status bar at the top of your screen (right-hand side of the menu bar), from where it can be configured to your own needs.


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iGTD - 1.4.5.5

You are a busy person, aren't you? And there's an easy way to track all things that have to be done... and to get those things done!

iGTD takes some concepts from Getting Things Done methodology and makes them easy to understand and use in your every day life. Just divide your tasks by contexts - where they have to be done? At home? At your office? At laptop? At any time you can access the Internet?


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Download iGTD

TeXShop - 2.12

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 output instead of dvi output.


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Download TeXShop

Sharpshooter - 0.4.1

Sharpshooter is a small application which aids the management of screenshots. When you take a screenshot on Mac OS X with Command-Shift-3 (or with another variation) Sharpshooter will presents a window where you can review the picture and choose what to do with it. You can either rename it from its default name to something more descriptive, move the screenshot to the Trash, or cancel the operation keeping the screenshot as it is.

Sharpshooter is a background agent application so you may want to add it as a login item to always have it running in the background. You can control Sharpshooter through the menu status item on the right side of the menu bar.


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Download Sharpshooter

Baseball Widget - 2.5.1

Keep an eye on your favorite baseball team (MLB or minor leagues down to Class A) - all the information you need in one single and small widget. Show the current scoreboard, full results from previous days, the schedule for the upcoming week (game times are displayed in your local time), or current division and wildcard standings. For ongoing or past games, show the score overview and current game situation while having a convenient link to the full box score only a click away. The widget is optimized to retrieve the smallest amount of data required and thus is much faster than refreshing the same data in your browser (which typically uses about 20 to 40 times as much data to display).


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Download Baseball Widget

iPod Viewer - 3.0.1

iTunes allows you to copy MP3s from your computer to your iPod, and do everything but copy those MP3s back to your computer. But now with iPod Viewer, you can do just that! Just launch the application, import the songs from your iPod, select the songs you want to copy, choose where you want to copy the songs to, and transfer the files. That's it!


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Download iPod Viewer

PCGen - 5.12.1

PCGen is a character generator for role-playing games. It currently is aimed at supporting as many RPGs as is humanly possible. The project's current focus is on OGL games (OGL is Wizards of the Coast's Open Gaming License). PCGen runs on Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Unix/Linux using Java 1.4.

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Google Reader Notifier - 1.0

Google Reader Notifier is an open source menubar plugin that will tell you if you have unread items in Google Reader pending. The icon is made so that it will fit in nicely with the official Google Notifier icons, ie. colorized icon when unread items are available. Google Reader Notifier is in no way affiliated with the fine people at Google Corp.


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Download Google Reader Notifier

Dashalytics Widget - 3.02

Dashalytics Widget is a free Dashboard Widget for OSX that offers quick access to Google Analytics statistics.


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Download Dashalytics Widget

Code Collector - 1.1

Ever had some code you are proud of, maybe something you wanted to keep somewhere for reference? Code Collector lets you store code snippets with ease.


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Download Code Collector

LimeWire X - 4.14.3

LimeWire is the world's fastest P2P file-sharing application, letting users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. Other features include dynamic querying, push-proxy support for connecting through firewalls, the ability to preview files while downloading, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an extremely intuitive user interface.


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Download LimeWire X

SafariSafe - 1.01

SafariSafe is a simple application to temporarily move all of your Safari settings to a safe place, and lock your keychain.


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Download SafariSafe

Pontoon - 2.4

Pontoon is a complete Player vs Dealer BlackJack game, ideal for practicing your skills with no fincancial loss! Customize your game by enabling the major BlackJack rules and options, including Surrender, Insurance, Five Card Charlie, Split and Double.


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Download Pontoon

Pando - 1.7.1.0

Introducing a little app with a lot of muscle.

Pando lets you send your home videos, giant presentations and entire folders of original quality photos to anyone with an email address. See how...

No adware, no spyware ... no, really.


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Download Pando

Amnesty Hypercube - 0.1.2a

Amnesty Hypercube is a free desktop widget platform designed to release Google Gadgets and other web widgets (such as Flash games and video) from the confines of the browser.

Already using Dashboard? Any widget in Amnesty Hypercube can be pushed into your Dashboard with one click, which makes it a perfect extension to Tiger's native widget environment.

And to help you manage the largest widget library available, Amnesty Hypercube automatically imports web widgets from over 150 providers.


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Download Amnesty Hypercube

LyX/Mac - 1.5.1

A fully-featured implementation of LyX, a WYSIWYM editor/formatter using the LaTeX typesetting engine, on the Mac OSX native graphics display, with the familiar Aqua GUI look & feel and anti-aliased text. LyX/Mac does not require X11. It is particularly well-adapted to technical and scientific editing and writing, but equally useful for a simple letter, articles or books.


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Download LyX/Mac

Transmission - 0.80

Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.
What's new in this version:
** Users of previous versions: COMPLETE YOUR DOWNLOADS BEFORE UPGRADING OR YOU WILL LOSE DATA! **

* Ability to selectively download and prioritize files
* Torrent file creation
* Speed and CPU load improvements
* Fix to UPnP
* Rechecking torrents is now done one-at-a-time to avoid heavy disk load
* Better rechecking of torrents that have many files
* Many miscellaneous improvements and bugfixes
* Partial licensing change -- see the LICENSE file for details

Mac-Specific Changes:

* Overlay when dragging torrent files, URLs, and data files onto window
* Ability to set an amount of time to consider a transfer stalled
* More progress bar colors
* Various smaller interface improvements
* Italian, Korean, and Russian translations


Website
Download Transmission

SafariSafe - 1.0

SafariSafe is a simple application to temporarily move all of your Safari settings to a safe place, and lock your keychain.


Website
Download SafariSafe

The Filter - 2.4.1

The Filter is a neat, free piece of software that helps you build fantastic playlists from the music stored on your Mac. It's like a musical assistant who knows exactly which songs will fit together and which songs won't.

To build a playlist you open up iTunes and let The Filter analyse your library. You then click on "Create a Playlist" to generate one based on your choice of artist or song. The music in the playlist comes from the music in your collection - it is a great way of rediscovering music you forgot you had!


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Download The Filter

Mac-Zone Junk Stopper Light - 1.0

Mac-Zone Junk Stopper Light is a free utility that stops adds from showing in any browser.


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Download Mac-Zone Junk Stopper Light

MetaX - 2.0.6

MetaX is a meta-data tagger for mp4 files and their derivatives. It uses Atomic Parsley on the back-end to write the tags to your video files. MetaX automatically searches Amazon.com to find tags (so you'll need an internet connection). Cover art data can be retrieved from Amazon.com, Yahoo!, or from the video file itself.


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Download MetaX

Startrail - 1.3

Startrail leaves a trail of shining and coloured stars behind your mouse cursor, wherever it goes.


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Download Startrail

Taco HTML Edit - 1.7.3

Taco HTML Edit is a full-featured HTML editor and PHP editor distributed as freeware. It is designed exclusively for Mac OS X and uses many of the core technologies built into Mac OS X including image transparency (in the image map wizard), toolbars, WebKit (for live previewing), and much more.

Taco HTML Edit includes the following features:

* Live previewing of HTML and PHP documents
* Projects with multiple documents
* Customizable HTML and PHP tag coloring
* Code Clips to keep track of frequently used HTML code
* The ability to choose any browser for the preview browser
* Creating new documents with the code from an existing file
* Customizable toolbar with a show/hide option
* Find panel with multiple search options
* Wizards for inserting colors, font tags, image tags, image maps, links, lists, meta tags, and tables
* Image map wizard that is easy to use and powerful
* Advanced Tag Insert Panel with all HTML 4.01 tags and attributes.
* Supports opening and saving files in Unicode and UTF8 formats to handle non-English characters.
* Checks tag syntax and structure.
* Auto-indent.
* Spell-checking, with ability to ignore HTML tags.
* Display line numbers for documents.
* Universal binary.


Website
Download Taco HTML Edit

Additune - v68

Founded by die hard Apple fans, Additune is the first major Mac only music recommendation app. It understands that the kind of music you want to listen to depends not only on what you like in general, but what you're in the mood for at the moment. Additune is free to use, free of ads, and will keep all your data secure.


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Download Additune

NightShift - 1.6

NightShift automatically downloads and updates WebKit, the Safari HTML rendering engine, to the latest nightly version. No user intervention is required, everything is fully automated.

* Downloads WebKit nightly build from web server
* Mounts the disk image
* Creates a backup archive of the original application on disk
* Copies the new nightly build to its default location
* Launches the new version of WebKit
* Option to undo latest install and revert to last version
* Option to show the change log for past week


Website
Download NightShift