Here is my list of the best free and open source software for Mac OS X.
| Web Browsing | |
|---|---|
| Chrome | A very simple, yet powerful and secure browser created by Google. |
| Firefox | A highly popular, fast, free web browser. |
| Utilities: | |
| The Unarchiver | Uncompress tar, zip, rar and everything else. |
| Video Playback: | |
| MPlayer | Can play almost all video formats. |
| Word Processing/ Office Suites: | |
| LibreOffice | Full featured office suite with word, excel and powerpoint. Comparable to Microsoft Office. |
| FTP: | |
| CyberDuck | A very good, free FTP program. |
| Graphics: | |
| Gimp | Best free image manipulation program for Mac OS X |
| Inscape | Vector graphic editor |
| Wifi Scanning: | |
| KisMac | Easily scan all wireless access points near you. |
| HTML Editor: | |
| Nvu | HTML wysiwyg editor, comparable to Dreamweaver. |
| Audio: | |
| Audacity | Simple, good audio recording tool |
| CD Burning: | |
| Burn | Easily make CD and DVD videos playable in any DVD players. |
| Encryption: | |
| TrueCrypt | Very good disk encryption software. |
| Virtualization: | |
| VirtualBox | My favorite virtualization program, comparable to VMware. |
| Personal Finance: | |
| GnuCash | Good financial manager application. |
Reference:
For a lot more good, free programs/applications for Mac OS X, check out this Ubuntu list: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ListOfOpenSourcePrograms
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Update with one more favorite app: Download Manager.
iGetter: http://www.igetter.net/downloads.html
This is as good as GetRight on Windows.