#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 [...]

#10. Cyberduck Into the final ten applications. The top ten are free applications for OS X that I use almost everyday. At number 10 is Cyberduck. Cyberduck is a great free FTP/SFTP/WebDAV & Amazon S3 browser. It is very easy to use and includes support for bookmarks, quick look, keychain, spotlight, Growl, [...]

#11. Bean & Smultron Today we have two great applications Bean and Simultron.  First, Simultron is a great free text editor.  This application is geared towards programmers and is similar to the very popular TextMate.  While TextMate is, undoubtedly, a better application.  It isn’t free .  So the alternative is Simultron. Smultron Details: Smultron is a free [...]

#12. AppCleaner Now that you have downloaded all of these applications you might want to delete one.  Perhaps, you didn’t like them as much as I did.  It happens.  To solve this the #12 application is to help remove unwanted programs.  Most Mac applications can be deleted by simply moving it to the trash can and [...]

#13. TGEmu with Military Madness (Game) What in the world is TGEmu?  Well TGEmu is a Turbo Grafx 16 Emulator (PCE).  Since the PCE is dead and it had one of the best strategy games of all time on it, Military Madness, todays download brings these two things back to harmory via emulation.  Military Madness did [...]

#14. Growl Today’s great free application for Mac Os X is Growl.  Essentially, Growl is a notification service that runs quietly in the background and alerts you when specific events happen.  The messages can range from changing songs on iTunes to receiving new mail.  Other programs such as Adium integrate in with Growl to notify you [...]

#15. AppFresh So, now that you have downloaded apps 25-16, you’re going to need a way to keep these applications up to date.  To do this, you can launch the applications and check for updates on each one individually, or use AppFresh.  This application updates widgets, applications, preference panes and Apple updates.  It also integrates in nicely with your [...]

#16. Perian When it comes to watching videos on OS X, I believe that many users have multiple applications to watch them.  VLC is one of the most popular media players for Mac, second only to QuickTime.  Wouldn’t it be great to just enable QuickTime to support all the codecs that VLC supports (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, [...]

#17. Adium One of the best all-in-one messenger clients around.  Adium is a free chat client that has support for Windows Live Messenger (MSN), AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Jabber (XMPP), Google Talk, Bonjour, Apple .Mac, Lotus Sametime, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Gadu-Gadu, Live Journal talk, and MySpace IM. Overall, besides supporting so many different protocols, [...]