So somehow my recently released widget made it over to the folks at Softpedia. Here is the email they sent me: Hello, Your product “CCIE Rack Availability 1.0″ has been tested by the Softpedia labs and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep this [...]

#1. Synergy Synergy is a great application and a must have for those people with more than one computer at their desk. Basically, Synergy is a KVM but done through software. This means that you can use the same mouse and keyboard across all your multiple machines, even if one is windows, one [...]

#2. Chicken of the VNC At the number two spot is a great way to connect to your computer from home with out paying a dime. If you have leopard, then potentially you already have this feature, known as back to my mac. However, this requires a DotMac account. Which again is not [...]

#3. Skype If you haven’t herd of Skype you must be living under a rock. Skype is a great application which allows the user to make free Skype-to-Skype calls and very cheap Skype-to-Lan calls (Skype Out). There are other programs which make this program even better such as the new iPhone application Fring. Also, [...]

#4. Transmission Simply put Transmission is a fast, simple, and super easy to use bit-torrent client. As, mentioned in the #18 Azureus, bit torrent is the fresh peer-2-peer file transfer protocol.Azureus is great, but it is a bit large and can be a bit more complicated than necessary. When you want a quick and [...]

#5. MindNode After a short hiatius I am back with the number 5 free Mac application. I’ve always had a problem with writing down ideas and when I do actually write them down, say in OmniOutliner, I usually forget what the goal is. What problem I’m trying to solve and how this is idea [...]

#6. VLC VLC is a media player that extends support past QuickTime formats, but it also supports WMV (a typical Windows formatted media file) streams as well as a host of other formats. One of the main draws to VLC is that it is capable of playing a movie even if it is not fully [...]

#7. Google Earth If you are a fan of Google’s other applications, such as Google SketchUp(free 3d modeling), then you are probably no stranger to application number 7. Google Earth provides a great way to go sight seeing with out getting on a plane, in your car, or leaving that comfortable spot on the [...]

#8. Camino Number eight is a browser alternative to Safari or Firefox. The benefit is that it is a native os x application which makes it faster to open and browse sites than Firefox. Some of the features include Toolbar search, find bar, slick tabs, auto-update, rss feed detection and more. It’s worth [...]

#9. Quicksilver Quicksilver is usually #1 in a list of Mac software, but since the I use mostly spotlight to open applications I use quicksilver a lot less than I use to. However, it’s still a great way to interface with your applications. There is a lot of support and add-ins for the application [...]