The year 2011 I can call out as a year of change. I switched jobs, left eBay started at Geeknet, moved back to San Francisco from San Jose, and I went all Mac! With that last change came the need to find new software for the Mac. And since SourceForge distributes open source software, I spent some time in the last 5 months to try out a large number of free software alternatives for the software I used to work with on my PC. Here are my top free Software alternatives I started using in the last 5 months
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GIMP
On my home Mac I have the full Adobe Creative Suite 4 installed. I have the Windows version of Photoshop creative suite, so I'm running Parallels Desktop especially for all my windows software. On my work Macbook Pro, I only have the Apple OS, so I was in search of good image/photo editing software. Multiple people told me I should try out Gimp, which is a great alternative for Photoshop. If you miss the normal Photoshop layout and tools set up, I recommend you download GimpShopwith it, so you can customize your pallets and tools according to how you would work in Photoshop.
This project provides pre-build GIMP application bundles for Intel and PPC Macs.
Xenu is a open-source/Apple public source project aimed at adding Xen Virtulization to the XNU kernel. Allowing users to run other operating systems and architectures binaries under Mac OS X. Allowing users to run other operating systems and architectures binaries under Mac OS X. Xenu's Link Sleuth is spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links. It performs verification on normal links, images, frames, backgrounds, and local image maps. Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on 'normal' links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. Xenu s link sleuth free download - Xenu's Link Sleuth, US-Browser, G4S The Link, and many more programs.
Skitch
On my former work laptop I always used SnagIt for making screenshots. I simply loved the special features to give your screenshots a special treatment. Since SnagIt is a paid piece of software, I was looking for a free screenshot software solution. A months before Evernote bought the company, I started using Skitch. I just became a paid user of Evernote, which is one of my other pieces of software, but is not free. I can't wait until a deeper integration between Skitch and Evernote is being announced.
Integrity
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For my SEO work, I used Xenu Link Sleuth to find broken links on websites. Unfortunately, Xenu is only for Windows, so I couldn't add it on my brand new Macbook Pro. After asking a couple of people, and searching The Google, I found Integrity, a great alternative for Mac users to find those broken links on any website, yours or a potential link partner.
Handbrake
Want to rip a DVD for on your iPad? Download Handbrake to convert any DVD video into Mac format. This only works for DVD's without copyright protection. Handbrake is not able to remove the DRM protection for you! More info on the official handbrake.fr website
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows
VLC Media Player
Ever had the problem that you could not play a certain media file on your computer? So frustrating if you really would like to watch that video, but cannot find the player online. Just download VLC. The VLC Media Player is themost popular video player at this moment, is free, and plays practically all media files out there.
VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats.
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If you have a Canon video camera, like I do, you might have some trouble with the MTS format of your video's on your Mac. VLC will be able to play these video's for you, but in the highest quality you would expect. For that reason I would recommend to buy MTS converter software.
FreeMind
Not necessarily new on my list of software, but still made it on my new computer. I use Freemind, the Free mind mapping software primarily to sketch out the hierarchy of a new site. As stated in the project description:
Download Xenu Link Sleuth
A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two different things, just two different descriptions of a single application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.
Download Xenu For Windows 10
Wireshark
Next time you sit next to me on a conference, better watch out using the open wifi, as I have WireShark on my Mac. Formally known as Ethereal, I use WireShark now to check what packages go up- and downstream on the network I'm on.
Wireshark is a powerful network protocol analyzer developed by an international team of networking experts. It runs on UNIX, OS X and Windows. (Looking for Ethereal? You're in the right place. We switched names in May 2006 due to trademark issues.)
QuickSilver
Frustrated about the search functionality on a Mac? Enhance your search experience with Quicksilver app for Mac. Almost every week since I started to use Quicksilver I find new features and plugins you can add to the app. The learning curve for using Quicksilver is steep, and I have the feeling 'I'm not there yet'.
XAMPP
For local installation of WordPress I used to download MySQL and Appache server software directly to my PC. Installing it was a piece of cake there. With the start on a new fresh Mac, I started to use XAMPP.
XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.
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Stylizer
Having a good CSS editor on my Mac is essential to build beautiful websites, or change any great CSS. I just downloaded the free version of Stylizer last week, and so far so good. I might be turning into a paying customer here, as this will give me extra added features and auto updates!
This project provides pre-build GIMP application bundles for Intel and PPC Macs.
Xenu is a open-source/Apple public source project aimed at adding Xen Virtulization to the XNU kernel. Allowing users to run other operating systems and architectures binaries under Mac OS X. Allowing users to run other operating systems and architectures binaries under Mac OS X. Xenu's Link Sleuth is spidering software that checks Web sites for broken links. It performs verification on normal links, images, frames, backgrounds, and local image maps. Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on 'normal' links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. Xenu s link sleuth free download - Xenu's Link Sleuth, US-Browser, G4S The Link, and many more programs.
Skitch
On my former work laptop I always used SnagIt for making screenshots. I simply loved the special features to give your screenshots a special treatment. Since SnagIt is a paid piece of software, I was looking for a free screenshot software solution. A months before Evernote bought the company, I started using Skitch. I just became a paid user of Evernote, which is one of my other pieces of software, but is not free. I can't wait until a deeper integration between Skitch and Evernote is being announced.
Integrity
Xenu software, free download Mac Download
For my SEO work, I used Xenu Link Sleuth to find broken links on websites. Unfortunately, Xenu is only for Windows, so I couldn't add it on my brand new Macbook Pro. After asking a couple of people, and searching The Google, I found Integrity, a great alternative for Mac users to find those broken links on any website, yours or a potential link partner.
Handbrake
Want to rip a DVD for on your iPad? Download Handbrake to convert any DVD video into Mac format. This only works for DVD's without copyright protection. Handbrake is not able to remove the DRM protection for you! More info on the official handbrake.fr website
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows
VLC Media Player
Ever had the problem that you could not play a certain media file on your computer? So frustrating if you really would like to watch that video, but cannot find the player online. Just download VLC. The VLC Media Player is themost popular video player at this moment, is free, and plays practically all media files out there.
VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats.
Xenu software, free download Mac Emulator
If you have a Canon video camera, like I do, you might have some trouble with the MTS format of your video's on your Mac. VLC will be able to play these video's for you, but in the highest quality you would expect. For that reason I would recommend to buy MTS converter software.
FreeMind
Not necessarily new on my list of software, but still made it on my new computer. I use Freemind, the Free mind mapping software primarily to sketch out the hierarchy of a new site. As stated in the project description:
Download Xenu Link Sleuth
A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two different things, just two different descriptions of a single application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.
Download Xenu For Windows 10
Wireshark
Next time you sit next to me on a conference, better watch out using the open wifi, as I have WireShark on my Mac. Formally known as Ethereal, I use WireShark now to check what packages go up- and downstream on the network I'm on.
Wireshark is a powerful network protocol analyzer developed by an international team of networking experts. It runs on UNIX, OS X and Windows. (Looking for Ethereal? You're in the right place. We switched names in May 2006 due to trademark issues.)
QuickSilver
Frustrated about the search functionality on a Mac? Enhance your search experience with Quicksilver app for Mac. Almost every week since I started to use Quicksilver I find new features and plugins you can add to the app. The learning curve for using Quicksilver is steep, and I have the feeling 'I'm not there yet'.
XAMPP
For local installation of WordPress I used to download MySQL and Appache server software directly to my PC. Installing it was a piece of cake there. With the start on a new fresh Mac, I started to use XAMPP.
XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.
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Stylizer
Having a good CSS editor on my Mac is essential to build beautiful websites, or change any great CSS. I just downloaded the free version of Stylizer last week, and so far so good. I might be turning into a paying customer here, as this will give me extra added features and auto updates!
Filezilla
On my list of free software, I cannot leave off FileZilla, a free ftp program. Up- and download effortless all your files to your server using Filezilla.
FileZilla is a cross-platform graphical FTP, FTPS and SFTP client a lot of features, supporting Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server for Windows. Nuff said…
phpMyAdmin
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phpMyAdmin is the old-school way of backing up my database of WordPress blogs. There are plugins available which do it automatically for you, but there is nothing like it as downloading the tables of your MySQL database straigh through the phpMyAdmin panel. Let alone resetting your admin password if you might have lost it straight in the table 🙂
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
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Which Software am I missing? Can you recommend more free software I can test and expand the tools I have on my computer?
