> apparently still vacationing Hal Itosis

By no coincidence perhaps, while offline I missed
the one thread on this site that makes mention of
fseventer. This cool piece of software deserves a
place on the freeware list... as well as being a tool
more often recommended for troubleshooting use.
(it graphically traces filesystem events)

Check it out people!

This is my present list of open source applications:

Aquamacs Emacs
BitTorrent
Cabos
ClamXav
Democracy
Firefox (using the extensions below)
GimpShop
HandBrake
HexEdit
InkScape
iTerm
MacMame
Nvu
OpenOffice
OSXPlanet
Q
UnRarX
Vienna
VLC
WebGrabber
X Resource Graph


Firefox extensions:
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NoScript
CustomizeGoogle
Torbutton
FormFox
QuickJava
Adblock FiltersetG Update
Clear Private Data
Tab Mix Plus
Distrust
CookieSafe
Stealther
PDF Download
SafeCache
SafeHistory
FoxLingo
Adblock
FasterFox

Firefox Theme:
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GrApple (Brushed)

Note: the toolbar and tabs can be customized to look like Safari.
The functional differences with Safari are:
- the favicon on the left of each tab;
- the stop/reload button (two buttons instead of one);
- small things with the gui

Bob

Sweet outliner:

Designed for use by writers of all kinds, Scrivener is a virtual writing studio that integrates the processes of outlining, storyboarding, research and writing. It's a notebook. It's an outliner. It's a cork notice-board. It's a ring-binder. It's a place to store and cross-reference your research. It's a basic word processor. From first idea to first draft: Edit. Outline. Storyboard. Write.

Requires Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) - Universal for both Intel and PPC

Scrivener Gold

Scrivener Gold is a freeware release of an early beta version of Scrivener.

Scrivener has evolved a lot since this beta - the interface is much prettier and more intuitive, and the feature-set, whilst generally the same, has been refined and much improved. Scrivener Gold is missing the niceties you would expect from a finished application (such as state-saving) and may well have a few minor bugs lurking around, but it is nonetheless a fully-functional piece of software that writers of all kinds should find useful for maintaining and organising writing and research.

Pretty goshdarn great for a "beta".
Download it NOW from <this page>.

-HI-

I am surprised NeoOffice has not shown up prior to this. While it is OpenOffice at the core it is much better integrated into OS X and does not require X11 to run.

I have always cursed that it takes me so long to find the cursor, especially when first swithched on or from sleep so am ecstatic with the Mouselocator Freeware suggested by you. Many, grateful thanks.

PDFLab

“PDFLab lets you split and join PDF documents as well as insert images and blank pages. You will also be able to easily create PDF documents out of several images.”

See also

VersionTracker — PDFLab

dianne.

Although it is not comprised entirely of freeware, this list, "An overview of some of the text editors available for Mac OS X as of Jan, 2007," prepared by propeller-head, is an excellent resource.

PaulShades appends Papyrus and RagTime 6 to the list here.

Update: 63 great Mac programs that won’t cost you a bundle (both freeware and shareware).

The MacWorld article Summer of Mac Gems ’08 describes a number of great freeware (and shareware) programs, which may not have been included in the listings above.

Okay... apparently this is really *old* news, but -- if you didn't already know it -- get ready for a treat!!!

These freewares come courtesy of one German and one Frenchman.
[as a "subscriber" to G-Force, I think I'm done with SoundSpectrum]

Download these two items (be patient... the servers are slowwww):

iVisualize 1.6 (2006-Sep-25)
BeComposed 1.5.1 (2006-Dec-20)

iVisualize is an iTunes plugin that plays quartz compositions, such as BeComposed.

All downloaded? Okay, now...

• quit iTunes
   
• run the iVisualize 1.6 installer
   
• find and remove the old version of BeComposed that iVisualize installs: /Library/iTunes/iVisualize/BeComposed
   
• replace it with the newer BeComposed_1.5.1.qtz
   
• launch iTunes and select iVisualize from the View-> Visualizer menu
   
• play a fun song (such as "Make Me Sway" by Echolyn)
   
• start the visualizer (command-T)
   
• go into iVisualize's prefs and select BeComposed_1.5.1
   
• now the "composition settings" button allows us to tweak BeComposed_1.5.1's prefs
  [e.g., turn off "Christmas_mode" and "Show_help_on_start", etc.]

ENJOY