#20. VirtualBox VirtualBox is a OpenSource alternative to running Windows on your Mac. This isn’t BootCamp. No, this is similar to Parallels or VMware Fusion, without the price tag! Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT [...]

#21. Handbrake When it comes to backing up your dvd collection so you can watch it on your Apple TV or iPhone, there isn’t a better free program than Handbrake.  The current version for Mac includes a lot of upgrades and is even faster than previous versions. Download now! From the developers site: HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, [...]

#22. Last.fm Last.fm is one of those applications that once you use it, you really understand how cool it is.  It’s basically a great music station on your computer.  Gives you the ability to scrobble your tracks, share your music taste, listen to personlised radio streams, and discover new music and people.  By typing in a [...]

#23. Argonaut The #23 Free Leopard application is a game. That’s right gaming isn’t just for Windows users any more and there are a number of free games for Mac. This spot was going to be for PlasmaPong ,but since Atari owns the copyright to Pong the site is down.  However, the download is [...]

#24. The Unarchiver In the 24th spot is a small but great utility to extract files.  I have used this application for many years and it works for 99% of all the archives out there.  Supported file formats include Zip, Tar-GZip, Tar-BZip2, Rar, 7-zip, LhA, StuffIt and many other more or less obscure formats. Download here. From [...]

I download and try almost any application I can get my hands on.  Over the next 25 days I decided to create a list of the best free mac applications that have survived getting deleted from my machine.   The first app is #25 on the list and it’s SuperDocker.  This is a great application [...]