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Most of these are free applications that I use and find very useful. FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THE LIST!

Disk Inventory X: This shows the size of your disk and all exactly how much space your applications are taking up, including your music or movie library.

FireZilla: One of the faster FTP applications for the Mac OS.

TextWrangler: A more advanced TextEdit program which can do much more and is also a Programmer’s Text Editor and a Unix And Server Administrator’s Tool with many advanced features.

Google Chrome: Amazingly fast web browser from Google. A must have that, in my opinion, beats both Safari and Firefox. Extensions available are slowly increasing and catching up to Firefox.

FireFox: An amazing powerful open-source web browser that embarrassed Internet Explorer and still continues to laugh in its face.

SimplyBurns: A simple but powerful application that burns CD / DVD media.

VirtualBox: A program that allows you to run Windows or Linux on a Mac computer.

VMWare: A slightly more advanced program than VirtualBox that allows you to run Windows or Linux or any other OS on a Mac. [shareware]

Calibre: An application that manages your Ebooks and is able to convert any format into any other format. (Epub to PDF, etc.) [shareware]

VLC Player: A must have on top of QuickTime 7 or X. This video player can read nearly any movie format and supports and makes subtitles easy to use. This app can also increase the regular sound of the audio by up to 400%.

HandBreak: An application that can change DVD formats into something more readable, especially good if you want to put your movies on to an iPod or iPhone.

Onyx: Go beyond what the Mac OS allows you to do and change many settings for enhanced productivity and increased speed for the Mac.

MacJanitor: Clean your Mac of many unwanted and unneeded files in order to speed it up.

Skype: Whether a Windows or Mac User, Skype is just a must have for anyone looking to communicate through video.

UnRar X: This allows you to unrar compressed files that are in the .rar format.

SimplyRar: This allows you to compress files or folders into .Rar format.

FreeMind: An amazing mind mapping program that allows you to get your thoughts and ideas out and on to a page that can extend beyond your imagination.

Genius: A flash cards program that tests you and helps you memorize anything you need to memorize.

DeTune: Have some music files you have on your iPhone or iPod that you need to get off and back on to your computer? This is the program to do it.

FaceTime: Not quite sure why Apple is charging for their own useful application. The link is to a free download anyway. This program allows you to talk with people who have iTunes, iPhone, or the iPad 2.0.

Tor: A program that will hide your proxy and allow you to appear elsewhere in the world. Great for hiding your IP address and your identity.

NeoOffice: Although OpenOffice.org will work with Mac OS, this program was designed for the Mac. It is equivalent to Microsoft Word and gets updated often. Very good program to have.

Transmission: This is probably one of the best and native Torrent clients for the Mac.

QuickTime 7: QuickTime 7 Pro for the Mac is an amazingly powerful editing tool that puts its newer sibling, QuickTime 10 to shame. While QuickTime 7 is free, the Pro version will cost you, but it is very worth it when it comes to editing videos or making them. [shareware]

AppFresh: Very useful program that checks your applications to see if they are up to date and will help you keep those apps up to date.

Audacity: Great software for audio support and editing.

Perian: A must-have for adding all kinds of video support to the Mac OS.

MacFuse: A must-have for any Mac user who uses Linux or Windows. Adds fully functional file system support (i.e. NTFS).

NTFS-3G: A must-have for any Mac user who uses Windows -- allowing for Mac to move files back and forth between Windows and the Mac via Bootcamp.

Paintbrush: A paintbrush program for Mac OS.

Winclone: Create an image of your bootcamp drive in just a few minutes for quick backup.

DOSBox: A DOSBox emulator, mainly for being able to run games there were made for DOS.

The rEFIt Project: rEFIt is a must-have program that is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. Use it to boot multiple operating systems easily, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp.

QuickSilver: an application that lets you reach any program, folder or file in a few keystrokes and contains a large library of plugins.

Todos: This application will show you every application you have on your computer in icon-view and will allow you to launch any of those applications.