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Almost one year after jumping into the mac world, these are my must-have (free) apps for Mac OS X:

Video

	1) Connect 360 Stream audio (iTunes) and video (anything playable on your Mac) directly to your Xbox 360.
	2) VLC This great video player works just as well on Mac OS X as it does on other platforms, and is able to play just about every video format out there.
	3) ffmpegX Nice little video and audio encoder, great for embedding subtitles directly in the video for example.
	4) DivX for MAC The DivX origin story is quite interesting, and the codec itself is still widely used.
	5) MPEG Streamclip Another great tool for encoding, decoding and authoring video.
	6) Flip4Mac Allows to play Windows Media Video and Audio files on Mac OS X (also embedded WMV in web pages).

Blogging Tools

	7) Cyberduck A great lightweight ftp client.
	8) TextWrangler A great text editor, with syntax highlighting.
	9) GIMP Although I never liked the multi window GUI, It’s definitely the best free graphics editor, and it can run on X11 on Mac OS X.
	10) MAMP The easiest way to get a Apache - MySQL - PHP test environment up and running on a Mac.

Geolocation

	11) Exif Viewer A nice little tool to view the EXIF information of a image file.
	12) Geotagger Works in combination with Google Earth to offer manual geotagging of image files.
	13) GPSPhotoLinker A tool for automatically geotaging photos by reading previously saved geolocated logged data.

Other Niceties

	14) XCode Apple’s developer tools, and, amongst other things, the easiest way to get gcc on Max OS X.
	15) NeoOffice Based on OpenOffice, but runs slightly faster.
	16) Little Snitch An excellent (and above all discrete and not annoying) network monitor. Great for keeping an eye on what you are letting in and out.
	17) MenuMeters A nice little system monitor that sits in the menu bar, allowing to get info on network, cpu and memory usage.
	18) UnRarX Mac OS X can not handle rar files out of the box, so UnRarX can be very useful.
	19) utorrent The best lightweight torrent client.
	20) NTFS-3G Enables write operations on NTFS filesystems on Mac OS X. Specially useful if dual os’ing.

Tags: Connect360, cyberduck, DivX for MAC, Exif Viewer, ffmpegX, Flip4Mac, Geotagger, GIMP, GPSPhotoLinker, Little Snitch, mamp, MenuMeters, MPEG Streamclip, NeoOffice, NTFS-3G, TextWrangler, TVUPlayer, UnRarX, utorrent, VLC, XCode