On the occasion of upgrading a laptop and desktop to OS X Tiger, I thought it would be a good idea to create a list of some of the best open source and shareware software. The list is mainly open source but also includes shareware less than $100 in price. If the software costs more than $100 it really no longer fits into the low cost spirit of shareware. The software is free (as in price) unless noted with a ($$).
Browsers
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FirefoxThe best browser you can get, period. |
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MozillaFor those old school people who like everything in one package, you can still get the Mozilla Suite. |
Internet
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AdiumA cool cross-vendor chat client that supports AIM, Yahoo, Goole and just about any IM client out there. |
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AzureusJava based BitTorrent client. |
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Chicken of the VNCAn open source VNC client for OS/X that is compatible with TightVNC protocol and regular VNC. |
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CyberduckA nice open source FTP client. |
OS X VNC Server
Netnewswire ($$)
RSS Owl
RSS Owl
Thunderbird
The best e-mail client on the planet along with an RSS Reader and a Usenet news client all rolled into one.
Transmit ($$)
Office
Desktop Manager
Graphics Converter
NeoOffice - Open Office for OS X
Yahoo Widgets
Programming
Eclipse
JEdit
Netbeans
TextMate
TextWrangler
Other Lists
Here are some other Mac software lists worth checking out.