Free Mac OS X Software

ByMike Moffit

I stumbled upon a site called FreewareOSX this afternoon. It catalogs tons of free software available for the Mac. They break it down into sections and give a little description of what each application does.

Here’s some of my recommendations:

Audio/Video:
Flip4Mac
VLC
CenterStage

Communications:
Skype
Thunderbird

Internet/P2P:
Azureus
Camino
Flock
Fugu
Mozilla FireFox
Transmission

Graphics:
Blender
Pixen

Utilities:
gDisk
MenuMeters

Word Processing:
Smultron

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