Web Browsing |
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Chrome | A very simple, yet powerful and secure browser created by Google. |
Firefox | A highly popular, fast, free web browser. |
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Utilities: |
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The Unarchiver | Uncompress tar, zip, rar and everything else. |
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Video Playback: |
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MPlayer | Can play almost all video formats. |
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Word Processing/ Office Suites: |
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LibreOffice | Full featured office suite with word, excel and powerpoint. Comparable to Microsoft Office. |
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FTP: |
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CyberDuck | A very good, free FTP program. |
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Graphics: |
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Gimp | Best free image manipulation program for Mac OS X |
Inscape | Vector graphic editor |
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Wifi Scanning: |
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KisMac | Easily scan all wireless access points near you. |
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HTML Editor: |
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Nvu | HTML wysiwyg editor, comparable to Dreamweaver. |
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Audio: |
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Audacity | Simple, good audio recording tool |
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CD Burning: |
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Burn | Easily make CD and DVD videos playable in any DVD players. |
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Encryption: |
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TrueCrypt | Very good disk encryption software. |
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Virtualization: |
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VirtualBox | My favorite virtualization program, comparable to VMware. |
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Personal Finance: |
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GnuCash | Good financial manager application. |