Bundle MacRadar: a set of free programs that we recommend readers

enjoyed idea American Lifehacker: The authors have made a set of free software for the Mac, which is recommended to readers. I wondered what free programs I could recommend to our readers. The result here is a list.

Programs for work

Textwrangler - a free text editor with syntax highlighting. Compete with him is Kod. This editor offers tabs in Chrome style, the ability to edit local and remote files, fast speed - features that are sure to appeal to you heart. Official site

Dropbox - a popular service file storage. The main advantage - simplicity of operation. After installing the application on your Mac will be your Dropbox folder. Drag and drop files to it, it is immediately downloaded to the Dropbox servers and data is synchronized between all devices that are connected to this service. Official site

Wunderlist Simple and easy to use task manager. There are versions for Mac OS X, Windows, iOS, Android. Everything is synchronized over the air and is free of charge. The main drawback - you can not specify a recurring problem. Official site

Evernote - your second memory. Use a bunch of "program service" in order to save notes, articles, documents. All data synchronized through the air between the web service, Macs, the Windows, iPhones, iPads, and others. Official site

Internet & Communications

If due to some reason are not satisfied with Safari, the best alternative to it - google Chrome. Google uses the WebKit browser engine, the same as Apple's, allows you to extend the functionality by installing add-ons. If you have several working machines, you will appreciate the synchronization of bookmarks. Official site

Sparrow Lite. Minimalistic interface and deep integration with Gmail enabled Sparrow quickly win the love of the many Mac-user. Free, lite-version of the program allows to have only one account, displays advertisements and inserts a link to your website at the end of the signature. Official site

Cyberduck. If FTP-client need only from time to time and you are not willing to spend money on this kind of software, Cyberduck - the best option. The program supports the work of a variety of protocols (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, can even upload files to Google Docs and Amazon S3). A little trick: the Mac App Store for kiberutku asking for about $ 25. But the app can be downloaded for free from official site.

Adium. In some ways inferior epplovskomu iChat (for example, does not allow for video calls), and in some ways superior to. Adium supports more protocols. You can extend the functionality of the application, as well as the appearance and performance with the help of various plug-ins and add-ons. Official site.

Skype and Telephone. When it comes to Internet telephony, usually two options: Skype and SIP. For usual and svehpopulyarnogo Skype has an official client, which is actively developing. For SIP-telephony, I use a simple Telephone.app.

Twitter. Clients to use Twitter created big set. But the standard is interesting because it does not need the money, do not show ads, supports multiple accounts. Official site

Utilities

BitTorrent - one of the most popular file-sharing protocol. Created for customers a lot. Based on the results of recent among MacRadar poll readers were able to identify two of the favorites: Transmission and uTorrent. I agree with the majority of readers and also use uTorrent. Although Transmission and bad (and its recommended Lifehacker).

Caffeine - when the user is not actively working for the poppy, the computer goes into hibernation. This may strain, if you choose to see, for example, a playlist of videos on YouTube. Caffeine program resides in your menu bar and gives Mac to sleep. Finished work? Click on the program icon in the menu bar, the computer goes to sleep. Official site

Cloud App - Dropbox is useful for collaborative work. Cloud.app other interesting - you can quickly shorten a link to send to Twitter, and quickly upload a file or a screenshot to the server (in this case to exchange a link will appear at the buffer at him!). Official site

UnRarX. OS X and Windows are able to pack files into a zip-archive and retrieve them from it. So for me is a mystery, who are the people that use the RAR? If you often have to deal with this format, you have to put UnRARx program to unpack RAR-archives. Official site.

Growl. If you are used to keep an eye on you it is important to immediately learn about new messages, received messages, completed downloads, etc., can not do without Growl. Growl - a system of notification which is used by many applications. We note in particular the ability to customize the appearance of the notification. At your disposal - a variety of themes. Official site.

media

Perian QuickTime adds support for many popular video formats. With this application you can play almost any video. A nice bonus - the opportunity to connect external subtitles in the SSA / ASS format, SRT, SAMI. Official site.

VLC. The player can not be called perfect, but he's the only one who seems to reproduce everything. For a while the fate of the Mac-version is in the balance, but the worst of times - in the past. Official site.

Evom. If you want to add video to iPad / iPhone, without conversion is not likely to do. The most simple converter - Evom. Experienced users probably prefer HandBreak, Which offers more features, but we appreciate Evom for simplicity. Official site.

Vox. iTunes can not play music all audio formats. Vox comes to the rescue, who knows how to play FLAC / Musepack / Monkey's Audio / OGG Vorbis, addition Vox flaunts equalizer converter and supports Last.fm. But the main advantage of Vox - speed. Official site

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Friends, what would you include in the list of free apps? What would you recommend switcher?