For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. It may be the raw power, the stability or they may just look rather - cool? Well, both of us know why that really is. It’s the apps! The software that makes the hardware bling, and it’s not necessarily thanks to Apple. Aperture and iCal may be nice, but often we rely on the smaller, even more useful applications. Here’s a list of great little applications that the Mac-powered freelancer should consider.
Desktop Manager is my own pet project to implement a (hopefully) easy to use virtual desktop manager for OS X. I've put it up here in the hope that it will be useful to others. Simply run the app and a pager should appear in the status bar and on the desktop.
Space.app provides "virtual workspaces" to help you to organize your use of the desktop. Space.app is provided free of charge for individual and commercial use under the QPL (version 1.0) and may be redistributed according to the terms of that license.
Welcome to online FreeSoftware Mac User Group. Tutorial, info, news, help on end-users Free and OpenSource Mac software
From XX century best computer, for XXI century best FOSS computer
Validator S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex) is a stand-alone, easy to install, version of the W3C's HTML / XHTML Markup Validator for Mac OS X. Validator S.A.C. is a normal Mac OS X application.
"The Levelator takes an entire podcast and adjusts the volumes automatically so that every speaker comes out at the same volume. It's pretty much magic and eliminates any need to monitor or adjust levels during the recording." -- Joel Spolsky
HenWen is a network security package for Mac OS X that makes it easy to configure and run Snort, a free Network Intrusion Detection System. HenWen's goal is to simplify setting up and maintaining software that scans the network for undesirable traffic.
Now imagine the next revolutionary application for phones, and what platform it's going to be on if Apple doesn't cut this crap out. (Hint: rhymes with "manbloid.")