And this is what you'll get.įirefox - The first in the list and probably one of most important of the whole article is a fast open source browser that has as main features an extreme customizing ability through extensions and blazing fast webpage load times.Īdium - A free instant messaging app which features support for most of the IM services out there.Ĭolloquy - A free IRC client with a Mac-like interface that will surely satisfy even the exquisite tastes of the hardcore Mac fan boys.įileZilla - My FTP client of choice when working on Mac mainly because of its highly intuitive double-panned interface. In this class of apps, one would expect to find browsers, p2p clients, chat clients and other programs of this sort. In the sixth, I have included the programs that wouldn't fit in any of the first categories. The content in the first five categories is pretty obvious.
#Best timer app for mac open source install
The exact same question seems to haunt a lot of Mac switchers out there and thus, I decided to put up a list of the most important free applications I would install on my own Mac after performing a clean install.īecause I do want to give the list some type of order, I have put the apps in six categories, again, in no particular order: Internet, network, audio/video, graphics, games, editors and miscellaneous. Those were the apps that I could remember at the moment, while still trying to write down other apps in no particular order. To be fair, I kind of slowed down about 30 minutes after I started writing the list but still got pretty far to cover two pages.
#Best timer app for mac open source software
If he had known that I would start writing down every piece of free and/or open source software capable of running on a Mac and keep talking about them for a whole hour, I think he wouldn't have asked me that question in a million years. A couple of days ago, I met an old friend of mine who just got his hands on a brand new Mac and, after about half an hour of showing the ins and outs of the machine, he asked me why the Mac community has so few free applications.