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10 Best Freewares Every Mac User Should Possess

All he applications mentioned here are exclusively free for for use. All of them are full version.

 

Thunderbird

images This bird is the best technological counterpart of the pigeon or the hawk used for sending mails in earlier ages. Newsgroup and RSS feed reading comes as an added advantage.  Download and try it from here.

 

GIMP

gimp The mightiest photo manipulator is ready to ride the Snow Leopard. Forget anything that ends with a suffix -shop. No need to shop. Its free. Download and try it from here.

 

OpenOffice

openofc The free and open productivity suite. Thousands of free online templates. Impressive presentations. Everything an office gives and more. You have to see it to believe it. Download and try it from here.

 

 

Perian

perian Your Quick time never takes time off to play many other wonderful video formats on the net. Its time to teach him a lesson. Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. Download and try it from here.

 

Cabos

cabos Peer to peer file sharing is like sharing abirthday cake with Cabos. Cabos is Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. "It is free software. No spyware. No adware. Guaranteed." as proclaimed by the company itself. Download and try it from here.

 

Juice

juice Apple juice is good for health. This software Juice is best for podcasters health. Download and try it from here.

 

Cyber Duck

cduck Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files  and Amazon S3  browser for the Mac.  It features an easy to use interface with quickly accessible bookmarks. The outline view of the browser allows to browse large folder structures efficiently and you can quickly preview files with Quick Look. Download and try it from here.

 

NVU

nvu Nvu is a standalone 'WYSIWYG' (WhatYouSeeIsWhatYouGet) HTML editor based on Gecko, Mozilla's rendering engine. Download and try it from here.

SeaMonkey

SeaMonkey This is the most intelligent monkey on the software planet. It is a Browser, Email Client and HTML Editor IRC Chat client, DOM Inspector - all in one. The technology engine behind this is Mozilla- the Firefox, so there’s no doubt about it unctionality. Now stop monkeying around with paid software and enjoy this free delight. Download and try it from here.

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