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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cyber Duck

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

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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iPad has decreased lappy sale by 50% – Best Buy

Electronics retailers are revamping their aisles to focus on hand-held gadgets this holiday season to excite consumers who have grown weary of their traditional big-sellers: televisions and personal computers. Handhelds are changing electronics retailing. Above, a Best Buy employee in Chicago delivers iPads in April. Shoppers this Christmas can expect to see more smartphones, electronic readers and touch-screen computers in the most prominent store displays, underscoring a dramatic shift to powerful portable devices that is fast changing the face of consumer electronics retailing. The new priorities are plainly evident in the changing strategy of Best Buy Co., the nation's largest electronics retailer by revenue, which is now morphing into a mobile gadget specialist after decades of promoting the latest in big-screen televisions, desktop computers and high-fidelity stereos. Read more on Wall Street Journal

Welcome the new macOS - Mojave

Apple has released 3rd Beta verion of their macOS Mojave, so we thought to give it a try. What we found is that the product is really promising. They have improved many things that we never realized is actually a need. Instead of writing what we loved, we prefered to collect posts that include all new features. If anyone needs Mojave Beta release, please send an email to: Laeeq.Humam@hcl.com , we would be glad to share it. List of new features: https://gizmodo.com/all-the-new-features-coming-in-macos-10-14-mojave-upda-1826531489 https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/09/90-new-changes-features-in-macos-mojave https://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/10-useful-new-features-hidden-in-the-macos-mojave-beta-1826603113

MAKING A FILE/FOLDER INVISIBLE

How to hide a file/folder using Terminal This is one of the greatest technique that I ever came across, I had to share my Mac in office and was curious about hiding confidential data. This was when I started exploring and finally came up with this solution. These commands are to be typed in Terminal. To make a file or folder invisible in Mac OS X Finder setfile -a V testfile.txt Here is goes, the file or folder is no longer visible via the Finder GUI, though it will be by Terminal. Your files are still there and you can find them via the command line and will show with an ls command. If you want your files and folders to be visible again, use this command: To make a file or folder visible again in Mac OS X Finder setfile -a v testfile.txt Now the file/folder will be visible again to the Finder, cool isn't it? Please Note: setfile is a command line utility included in Apple’s Developer Tools, which is a highly recommended optional install included on any Mac OS X install

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