The Ultimate Mac Apps List

Everybody loves the drag and drop nature of OS X. Drag an app into your Applications folder, and it’s installed. You’d think uninstalling would be just as easy dragging it to the trash. But it’s not — applications install preferences, caches, and other support files throughout your computer that take up space and generate clutter. App Zapper automates the process for you, because deleting these by hand every time you delete an app is a pain. Free alternative AppDelete.

Choose a playlist, pick from either a weekly or specific date alarm, set the time, and enter a reminder note if you wish — and you’re done. The volume of the music can be set to fade from 0% to the desired level over a specified number of minutes to gently wake you from a peaceful slumber without a sudden jolt. You can also use the sleep timer to fall asleep to your favorite iTunes playlist. The volume can be set to slowly fade to 0% as you fall asleep. Once the timer reaches the end it can put your Mac to sleep and later wake itself at alarm time. This might be the greatest thing since the Snooze Button. The free alternative Aurora.

Parallels Desktop for Mac allows you to install your favorite Windows applications and games on Mac OS X. Parallels includes an easy to use, single click interface, which makes installing Windows software simple and fast. Once installed, your application integrates seamlessly in OS X or in a virtual machine window. You can also use your bootcamp hard drive!

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. A Windows port is under development.

RSS web feeds and podcasting are hot technologies, and NewsFire is even hotter. It’s packed with features, blindingly simple to use, and ground-breakingly elegant. NewsFire is the ultimate RSS experience for the Mac. Free alternative Vienna.

On The Job is an unobtrusive, easy to use time tracker. It’s not bloated with features you’ll never use, yet it’s powerful enough to handle all of your time tracking needs. On The Job is perfect for anyone billing by the hour.

Pzizz combines Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), enchanting music, sound effects and a binaural beat to achieve a wonderfully relaxed state in the listener, similar to that experienced during the Rapid Eye Movement (REM) stage of sleep.

With Tables you can not only organise data but also calculate and compare them, too. Add, multiply, or otherwise manipulate numbers or process data by using different functions. Tables offer extensive options to format the data to currency, an amount, as percentage rates, scientifically or with different dates.

TextMate brings Apple’s approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike. The Free alternative Text Wrangler

Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. It features a simple, intuitive interface on top on an efficient, cross-platform back-end.Transmission is open source (MIT license) and runs on Mac OS X (Cocoa interface), Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD (GTK+ interface) and BeOS (native interface).

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