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Acquisition. For p2p file sharing, good for music downloading.
Adium. A good instant messaging program, works with AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.
Azureus. for bittorrenting.
CharCounter. A nifty, no frills little app that counts characters and words when you cut and paste into it.
Cocktail. A general purpose maintenence utility. os x has a set of maintenence scripts set to run at like 4 or 5 am but most people shut their computers down or put them to sleep at night so cocktail will let you choose when to run them (and more.)
Firefox. Great web browser; useful extensions: flashblock, tabs mix plus: saves your sessions in case of crashes and more.
igetter. A good download manager for os x.
mplayer. A nice, simple media player for avi files.
Quicksilver. The best thing to happen to os x ever. especially if you're on a laptop and you're completely reliant on your keyboard and track pad. This tutorial might be helpful.
Smultron. A really nice, non processor intensive html and text editor (unlike dreamweaver if all you want to do it edit html.) I love this app a lot.
vlc media player. Another media player, much like mplayer but it can sometimes be useful to have both just in case one doesn't want to play a fil and another one does.
xjournal. My favorite of the available downloadable livejournal clients.
Lastly, it's not free but it is a good ftp application: transmit.
Do you guys have any other os x program recs? I'm always looking for new nifty computer programs.
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UnRarX is a nice unraring client.
Noise is a great little pink and white noise generator which helps me sleep.
Audacity is good for recording and editing sound.
Disk Inventory X shows you your hard drive in diagram so you can delete unnecessary space hogs.
OnyX is better than Cocktail for mainenance, and completely free.
Split and Concat efficently splits and joins files.
RE: CharCounter--did you know that it has a menu item under "Services"? So all you have to do is highlight the text you want counted, go up to the program's name (eg, Safari), go down to Services and Char Counter will be an option. So no copy/pasting required.
I think I had onyx on my computer before I clean installed 10.4 and then I lost it, I had been using macjanitor for 10.3 and I'm pretty sure I didn't know what onyx was or why I had it in my apps folder. I'll have to try it out.