There are many free applications available for Mac OS X, however not all are very useful. Here are my top 12 applications for Mac OS X that are 100% free and no 30 day trials. All of the listed apps are available on the latest release Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
VLC is a free and open source multimedia player. VLC allows you to play most video and audio file available. This includes optical media like: CD, DVD and VCD.
Handbrake is an open source video transcoder. Convert your DVD's to Mp4 or Mkv video file format. Handbrake is powerful, customizable, and compatible with Apple TV. Handbrake is also compatible with Bluray (too bad Apple does not support Bluray). Did I mention it's 100% free?
Burn is a simple yet advanced CD/DVD burning application for Mac OSX. Burning a disc is as simple as drag and drop. Burn also has advanced features like CD-Text and mp3 tag editing to fully customize your CD.
Openoffice.org is a free and open source office suite. It is the best free alternative to Microsoft Office and iWork. OpenOffice.org can do word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. Because OpenOffice.org is compatible with all Microsoft Office files, you can easily migrate your work over.
And because it's free, you don't have to worry about software licensing ever again.
And because it's free, you don't have to worry about software licensing ever again.
Skype allows you to make voice and video calls over the Internet, you can also chat, do file transfers, and do instant messaging to other Skype users. Skype is free to download and all calls to other Skype users are free.
Camino is a free and open source web browser powered by Mozilla's Gecko layout engine (the same engine that powers Firefox). Camino is specifically designed and fine tuned for the Mac OS X operating system. Camino integrates with Mac OS X's Aqua UI and links to a number of Mac OS X services and features such as the Keychain for password management and Bonjour.
Camino also features tabbed browsing, and ad blocker and pop up blocker.
Camino also features tabbed browsing, and ad blocker and pop up blocker.
VirtualBox is an operating system virtualization application. Unlike Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion, VirtualBox is open source and can be downloaded and used for free. Supported host operating systems are: Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Solaris, and OpenSolaris.
Plex is a free media player based on XBMC Media Center. Plex is an advanced alternative to Apple's Front Row. Plex Media Center integrates with iTunes and iPhoto and unlike Front Row, it can play more media files such as: avi, mkv etc.
FreeDMG is a simple drag and drop disk imaging application. You can create Apple Disk Image(.dmg) and ISO files quickly and easily.
TextWrangler is a free text editor for Mac OS X which is more advanced than the standard text editor included with Mac OS X.
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open source graphics editor. GIMP can do image retouching and free-form drawing and image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP is great free alternative to Adobe Photoshop.
MPlayerX is a free and open source media player specifically designed for Mac OS X. Like VLC, almost every media file format can be played. MPlayerX has features that are tailored to Mac OS X like: Multi-touch controlling and Apple Remote support.
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