The Top 6 Free Tools Every Mac User Needs.
Free is good, right? Do you remember how you felt the first time you installed a free utility on your Mac and it turned out to be great?
Free Mac software is alive and well despite the Mac’s continued sales growth. Here’s my Friday list of six Mac utilities—tools every Mac user needs, and will love.
There are hundreds of excellent free Mac software titles available. Mac users on a budget will appreciate the wide variety of tools that can be applied to so many.... (excerpted).
5 Reader Comments
satcomer said:
I second Perian! With all the video on the net today all Mac users showed have the free Flip4Mac and Perian QuickTime plugins. With these two easy free plugins you can catch 98% on all internet video.
Stan Carter said:
I had to laugh at your listing of Transmission. Sure, there might be five or six places where peer-to-peer file sharing is legitimate, but mostly people use it to steal music and movies. It’s really a theft device more than anything else.
nap said:
Don’t forget MPEG Streamclip which is needed to edit the movies created by HandBrake !!
Art said:
Here’s my list of freebies that are needed:
BatChmod
AppleJack - yeah!
TinkerTool
Firefox
Flip4Mac
Perian
Onyx
Stuffit Expander
Pando - not so much any more
VLC Player
AppFresh
iSquint
BwanaDik
Skype
WakeOnLan
LogMeInMac
iStat Pro - widget
SpeedStat - widget
Dropbox
These are the must installs for every new system. Some are conveniences, some are absolute must haves.
Dropbox is the latest cool app. If you have a business with a few employees and Macs at home as well and need the potent combo of file sharing x syncing, this is your animal. My favorite new piece of software.
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matheny said:
Tough to know if this is a utility - but I think it qualifies in the same vein as PTH Pasteboard… Evernote is an absolutely sensational app for collecting and storing notes of any sort - audio, video, text, web pages, pictures (whose text, by the way, is OCR’ed by their accompanying website so that it can be searched even in the absence of tags).