NeoOffice
March 17, 2008
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
Freemind
March 6, 2008
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
VLC
March 6, 2008
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
March 6, 2008
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
March 6, 2008
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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