Zork the Almighty's Journal: Good OS X Programs

Here is a list of my favorite Mac OS X programs, which I use on a regular basis. Feel free to post your own, but to get on my list programs must be freeware or open source, and they must use native widgets.

FFview - an image viewer. Great for large, organized photo collections (see my iPhoto rant earlier). Designed for reading manga.

MPlayer OSX 2 - _the_ movie player. Handles everything, no questions asked. I don't even bother with that quicktime shit.

Adium X - IM client. Connects to all the networks I care about. Small and unintrusive if you change the dock icon. Themeable. Very nice program.

Frozen Bubble - game. More like an addictive, polished game. A must have for any platform.

Temperature Monitor - self explanatory. I leave this running, because I like seeing graphs of sensors. This guy makes lots of other great software too. Be sure to check out TinkerTool.

Ogg Vorbis Quicktime components - lets you play .ogg files in iTunes.

Panther

[Jucius Maximus]

I've been resisting spending the extra cash to upgrade my iBook from Jaguar to Panther, but these are tempting.

Really I should just wait for the G5 Powerbooks [thinksecret.com] to be released and get one with Tiger on it.

Good start. Here's a few more.

[insensitive claude]

I'm too lazy to link them, but macupdate is your friend.

Anacron: a MUST for powerbooks. Runs your cron scripts when your computer wakes up.

Snood: Yes, it's shareware, and Frozen Bubble is OSS, but Snood is more fun.

Quicksilver: THE launcher.

Battle for Wesnoth: Turn-based RPG. Not sure about the widgets.

VLC: Another quality media player

Fire: Another good IM client

Abiword: a basic but useable word processor