Firefox is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had about 15% of the recorded usage share of Web browsers as of January 2008 making Firefox the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide after Internet Explorer. Firefox has been considered a “rival” to Internet Explorer.

Firefox uses the open-source Gecko layout engine, which implements some current Web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.

Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and a search system that uses Google. Functions can be added through more than 2,000 add-ons created by third party developers; the most popular include NoScript (script blocker), FoxyTunes (controls music players), Adblock Plus (ad blocker), StumbleUpon (website discovery), DownThemAll! (download functions) and Web Developer (web tools).

Latest version: 2.0.0.13 ^updated

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Yahoo! Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when friends come online and send them instant messages. It can also alert you to new email in your Yahoo! Mail account.

Features:

• Webcam
• Emoticons
• File Transfer
• Stealth settings
• Display images
• Avatars
• Instant message with Windows Live^™
• Apple Address Book Integration
• Confrencing
• Voice, call PC-to-PC & PC-to-Phone
• Automatic Updates
• Stay connected from your mobile phone
• Tabbed Conversation
• Message Archiving
• “New IM” indicator in the OS X dock

Latest version: 3.0 beta 3 (build 98855) ^updated

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Cyberduck is an FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) client with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.

Features:

• Supported protocols: FTP (File Transfer Protocol), FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS) and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer)
• Document based, list and outline view, caching, cut & paste, drag & drop and arbitrary character encodings.
• Localizations are available in English, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Russian, Swedish, Hungarian, Danish, Polish, Indonesian, Catalan, Welsh, Thai, Turkish and Hebrew.
• Seamless integration with external editors: SubEthaEdit, BBEdit, TextWrangler, Text-Edit Plus, TextMate, mi, Smultron, JeditX, CSSEdit, CotEditor and Tag.
• Support for Growl, the global notification system
• Spotlight Importer for bookmark files.
• Powerful bookmarking in a the browser drawer. Drag and drop bookmarks to the Finder.app and drop files onto bookmarks to upload.
• Auto discovery of services on the local network
• Use Cyberduck as default system wide protocol handler for FTP (Requires RCDefaultApp). Open .inetloc files and .duck bookmark files from the Finder.
• Resumable transfers, both download and upload.
• Recursive transfers, both download and upload.
• Full AppleScript integration.
• Synchronize bookmarks with .Mac iDisk.
• Synchronize local with remote directories (and vice versa) and get a preview of affected files before any action is taken.
• Modify permissions on multiple files and recursivly.
• Convert line endings on the fly in ASCII transfers.
• Supports Public key authentication, Keyboard Interactive (PAM) Authentication, Support for various encryption ciphers (3DES, Blowfish, Twofish, AES, CAST) and Authentication algorithms (MD5, SHA1).

Latest version: 2.8.4 ^updated

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AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

AssaultCube is provided as a 19mb package of pure fun.

Thanks to the efficient networking code, AssaultCube requires very little bandwith, you can play it with a 56k modem internet connection.

Like its origin Cube, AssaultCube comes with full source code, available under a zlib like OpenSource license.

Because AssaultCube uses the SDL library, it can be used on multiple platforms. The officially supported platforms are Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

AssaultCube runs on old hardware, with the correct settings you can run it on a P3 800Mhz gf2.

Create new maps (virtual worlds) together with other people online. The cooperative editmode makes it possible..

Latest version: 0.93

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Blackjack International is the most creative and comprehensive blackjack game on the Mac. And its absolutely free.

Represent one of sixteen countries and bet with items unique to your country of choice. Customize the game’s appearance and manipulate any table rule imaginable. Compare your scores with the best from around the world.

Learn the game via hints and view your report card at any time to see how many correct moves you missed. Are you the A+ player you want to be? Why go to Vegas before Blackjack International certifies your ability?
As the inaugural release from Candywriter, this game, which outdoes its pricey competitors, is completely free. Download the Universal Binary now and find out for yourself how much fun blackjack on the Mac just became!

Features:

• Pick one of sixteen countries and bet with items unique to each nation: Boomerangs for Australia, Shamrocks for Ireland, Cheeseburgers for the USA, etc.!
• Configure any table rule imaginable including decks, penetration, dealer hitting, double after split, double down, etc.
• View your “Report Card” at any time and examine detailed analysis of your performance including percentage of correct versus incorrect moves.
• Turn on hints so you learn exactly what is the correct move in any given situation.
• Turn on the “Notify when Wrong” option to be alerted whenver you select an incorrect move.
• 16 unique countries with different betting items and simulated playing styles.
• Card counting capability included.
• Turn on or off speech commentary and sound effects.
• Change the table and deck colors as you wish.
• Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up your game.
• Turn off the running totals for more realistic practice.
• Keep track of the high scores on your personal computer and compete against the scores of other Blackjack International players around the world.
• Blackjack International is a Universal Binary which means it will run optimally on either Intel or PPC-based Macs.

Latest version: 2.0.9

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NeoOffice is a fully-featured office suite (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can import, edit, and exchange files with other popular office programs such as Microsoft Office.

Features:

• No X11 software required
• Native Aqua menus
• Integrated with Finder and Mail
• Uses Mac OS X fonts
• Handles international keyboards
• Native printing support
• Native copy and paste support
• Native drag-and-drop support

Latest version: 2.2.3 ^updated

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FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. The operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click “fold / unfold” and “follow link” operations.

Latest version: 0.8.1

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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Features:

• Input Media: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, TCP/RTP Unicast, File, DVD, VCD, SVCD, Audio CD (without DTS)
• Input Formats: MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3), ID3 Tags, AVI, ASF / WMV / WMA, MP4 / MOV / 3G, OGG / OGM / Annodex, Matroska (MKV), WAV (incuding DTS),
  Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52, Raw DV, FLAC, FLV (Flash), Standard MIDI, Creative™ Voice
• Decoders: MPEG-1/2, DIVX (1/2/3), MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.264, Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime), DV, Cinepak, Theora (alpha 3), H.263 / H.263i, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1
• Subtitles: DVD 7 (Partial) SVCD / CVD (Untested), DVB, OGM, Matroska, Text file (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Vobsub
• Filters: Deinterlace, Cropping, Image wall, Image adjust, Rotate/Mirror, Logo overlay, Magnification, Image distortion, Bluescreen, RSS/Atom feeds
• Outputs: Native (GDI OpenGL Quartz), ASCII Art
• Etc.

Latest version: 0.8.6

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HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Supported sources:

• Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
• PAL or NTSC
• AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

• File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
• Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
• Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Misc features:

• Chapter selection
• Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
• Integrated bitrate calculator
• Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
• Grayscale encoding

Latest Version: 0.9.2

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Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client with a focus on being lightweight yet feature-filled.

Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.

Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, protocol encryption, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.

Latest version: 1.0.6

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