“As we prepare to give thanks for our delicious Thanksgiving meals (and impending food comas), let’s not forget to pay our yearly tribute to the wonderful developers who bring us our favorite free apps,” Melanie Pinola reports for LifeHacker.
“When we asked you last week which free apps you’re most thankful for, you offered hundreds of votes for great apps (so thank you),” Pinola reports. “We’re back now to present the top free apps you nominated and a few of our own favorites. So without further ado, here are 50 free apps for your downloading feast.”
The 50 Free Apps We’re Most Thankful For
1. Dropbox
2. Google Chrome
3. Firefox
4. Evernote
5. Notepad++
45 more apps in the full article here.
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errhhh, a bunch of them link to windoze only downloads…
Yup, MDN really dropped the ball on this one.
Better read past the first paragraph when you link to an article, suckers!
And I guess they meant ‘apps’ in the generic application sense, not the iOS sense. 🙂
Or even Mac OS?
Disappointed by the misleading headline. Apps run on mobile devices. This artical refers to programs written primarily for Windows. Shame on you MDN. lol
Happy Thanksgiving!
So the Mac App Store does NOT sell “apps” for Mac. Wow! Who knew… 🙂
Apps=Applications. Check your finder and you might find an Applications folder.
Apps also run on desktops – short for applications!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Hope you all had a wonderful day with family and friends.
Apps are apps that run on the iPhone. Steve Jobs used this term when he introduced th iPhone.
He didn’t use th term before and nobody used th term before that.
Not true. At NeXT he used the term “custom app” to describe software.
And I remember declaring to a friend of mine back in 2000 how great an app Napster was.
The Atari 520ST, back in the 80s, used the extension .app for some applications. I’m sure the abbreviated form “App” has been in use for at least a couple decades.
If they run on Windows they are exes — not apps.
QED
With a few exceptions, 50 apps, geeks (less than 4% of population) will love.
Nothing here, moving along
Happy Thanksgiving everyone 😉
We don’t celebrate this day in our part of the world, but having spent years in the U.S, I appreciate and am always humbled by the meaning behind this celebration.
May the American people, the U.S and Apple Inc be strong and blaze the trail always.
Thanks! The sentiment is greatly appreciated, especially since the U.S. has not always wielded its power and influence diplomatically or wisely. But we can always be thankful for the good things that exist and try to do better in the future.
@MDN,
I thought Pixelmator would be in the top 5, at least …
Not “free”…
after i realized MDN screwed up the article…
I scrolled down. “Linux” is an app?????
not only are these guys describing programs for windows (most of them) but are also calling Operating systems as “apps”
but scrolling through I did see Teamviewer.
it IS a Mac/iOS app also. and it works great. I use it all the time. I can fire up the iPad and control any of my family/friends computers to fix their problems. Granted there are limitations to the “free” version (no file transfer, but there are ways around that even)
the iOS version will not allow an incoming connection to control it, they can only connect to others.