Shawn's Tech Place

NTFS-3G

Previously, I’m not able to updates or copy any files from my Mac to my old NTFS external hard disk.  My another new external hard disk works well as I had converted to FAT format after I bought it. But, I don’t think that is a good idea for me to reformat my old NTFS external hard disk as it still not solving the problem.

In this case, I found out users around Internet already came up with binary version (in DMG) of ntfs-3g, which enables my Mac book to load NTFS with read and write capability. Ok! You can try it if you want to.

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Mac, Tips 'n' Tricks FAT, hard disk, NTFS, Open source, OS, OS X

Top 12 FREE software for Mac

First of all, let’s get the best of Windows apps that are also available on the Mac.

1 – VLC Media Player – http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

THE media player for any platform. Handles anything you throw at it, including DVD media, and it’s fast. I’ve personally been using it for a year plus and nothing even comes close to competing with it. Screw those codec packs, here’s the world famous VLC.

2 – Firefox – http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Firefox may not be as necessary as it was on Windows because we are now on Mac, without IE, Mac users are a lot less likely to get spyware and trouble.  Still, Firefox is a lot more compatible than Safari, not to mention the tons of useful plug-ins you can addon to Firefox.  So, it’s a must have.

3 – utorrent – http://download.utorrent.com/

YES! The best bit torrent client on Windows has no match on the Mac.  You may opt to download the latest version by going to utorrent.com.

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Mac audacity, Freeware, Open source, OS X, Top, torrent, utorrent, yamipod

iChat

iChat is Apple’s take on instant messaging, and as usual, it’s among the best application of its type. Ichat has a great interface that make for the most Mac-like chatting experience around

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Mac chat, Download, Free, Mac, MSN, Online, OS X, Top

Mac Messenger For OS X Download (webcam support)

As my Mac Messenger not able to support webcam. Therefore, I’m using Mercury Messenger for Mac as alternative. Initially, beside Mercury, aMSN is also another recommended option.

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Mac chat, Download, Free, Mac, MSN, Online, OS X

Monolingual

Monolingual is a tool for removing unneeded language resources from Mac OS X, for the purpose of reclaim few hundred megabytes of disk space.

Accordingly, It requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) as well asMac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

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Mac Download, Freeware, Mac, OS X, Remover

DESCRIPTION

easyMule is a another version that based on eMule. More importantly, it is a freeware. In overall, easyMule has better downloading speeds, user friendly and ease of use interface, as well as more humane new features.

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Mac Download, eMule, Freeware, Mac, OS X

World Clock

•Show multiple digital or analog clocks in the menu bar, in the dock and a vertical or horizontal palette.
•Display 200 time zones and over 1,000 cities time as well as world times (Coordinated Universal Time, Internet Time); Read more…

Mac Clock，, Mac, OS X, Time, World

Fruitz

One of my flavor games in dashboard widget. It is the addicting time waster, and enjoyable to have fun slots game for OSX.

Download Details

* Company: Kevin Andersson
* Version: 1.2
* License: Freeware
* File Size: 1520K
* URL Type: Download

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Entertainment, Mac Download, Freeware, Games, Mac, OS X, Top, Widget