Ten free apps to install on every new Mac:
• Adium
• Skype
• VLC
• Squared 5 MPEG Streamclip
• Monolingual
• OmniGroup OmniDiskSweeper
• TinkerTool
• Burn
• Stuffit Expander
• Carbon Copy Cloner
Full article, with description of and links to the apps featured above, here.
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What about iTunes ?
Acorn for a free image editor – with the possibility to upgrade to the paid version if you desire. The free version enables you to do 90% of what you need though.
Jamie, don’t Transmission and Cyberduck both do the same thing? Are they not both FTP front ends?
<Frobots</b>, iTunes comes with every Mac. You don’t have to “go get it”. I could be wrong, but I believe all the rest of the apps mentioned are third party. While I agree that iTunes should be on nearly every Mac, I believe it is installed with the OS.
CCC has worked fine for me for several years, and I have always been able to successfully boot from the periodic clones that I generate using a HDD docking station (in addition to running Time Machine on an external drive). But I’ll take a look at SuperDuper.
Just a quick note about “free.” My general take on life is that no products worth having are truly free. Someone ends up footing the bill in terms of donated time or resources, even if it is “free” to you. CCC, for instance, requests donations. If you like and use a piece of software, then I believe that you would be wise to contribute to the author of that software, even if it is not strictly required. Shareware is not freeware – you are obligated to pay if you use the product, but you have the chance to try it out, first.
Even a very modest amount from a significant percentage of users can keep a software author engaged in revising and enhancing his/her product, responding to new OS releases in a timely manner, etc. Think about how much you would have to pay for retail software. Then think about how much you would miss that piece of “free” software if it suddenly disappeared and you had to find a replacement.
I was a user of Carbon Copy Cloner I think going all the way back to 10.2.
But now that I have a Time Machine drive, I just don’t see the point.
——RM
DLMayer, Transmission is a bittorrent client, I think you’re thinking about Transmit, which is an FTP client, however Transmit is shareware.
Cheers.
Don’t tell the Linux crowd about all this free stuff. Those are the last people we need using Macs.
Censored again!
For voting for Super Duper.
I vote for MDN on the iPad also.
Some of you don’t grasp the list. FREE APPS.
Yes, there’s better choices in some categories, but again, this is a list of FREE APPS.
Lord.
Ten free apps…
How does Super Duper fit that bill?
“Those are the last people we need using Macs.”
Why on earth do you feel it necessary to censor a group of people from using a Mac? Still into high school cliques much?
Grand Perspective – free
“GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualisation. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file’s size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.”
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/index.html
“Don’t tell the Linux crowd about all this free stuff. Those are the last people we need using Macs.”
Pretty stupid. Are you a bigot on race as well?
I find Unrarx to be better that Stuffit
Monolingual is great, but there’s one big gotcha in they have any Adobe CS apps installed. Be sure to exclude all Adobe apps from ML.
Adobe apps have a nasty habit of requiring certain localizations, even though the user might not need them. Some adobe apps will go titsup if they are removed.
Cool, I love it. And I have collected some free apps for mac user. e.g.”Top 10 Best Free iPad Apps”–Some of the top 10 best applications for Apple iPad with cost nothing.
http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/top-10-best-free-ipad-apps.html
Hope somebody enjoy it.