What are your top 5 free applications?
 

What are your top 5 Free Mac Applications ?

We're not talking shareware or trial downloads just the free stuff (Freeware & Open Source)

OpenOfficeAqua (eqv of MS Office)
eDrawings (for viewing cad drawings)
McDwiff (for viewing cad drawings)
Perian (plugin for viewing more video in Quicktime)
Skype (video chat)

TextWrangler - powerful and very useful Text editor
OpenOffice - for when I have Office docs
CocoaBooklet - takes a PDF file of pages and creates a new PDF as 'printer pairs', imposed to print as a folded booklet
CyberDuck - Superb FTP, WebDAV client - and more!
Oolite - 3D space trading and combat game, based on Elite

EasyFind--when Spotlight isn't enough
HexEdit--when you need to explore and edit what's inside a file
XMenu--dropdown menulet for quick access to apps
MenuClockCalendar--all in one convenient and configurable menulet app
TextWrangler (ditto with benwiggy)

Although some have been replaced by newer apps, I've been using these so long that they're simply part of what I expect of my workspace.

TextWrangler - It's like BBEdit without the HTML
MacPorts - It's not really an application on it's own, but I could not function without the software it provides.
Gimp - It's the Photoshop stuff I use, without the price.
Audacity - An amazing audio editor.
AlephOne - I almost forgot this, but ... you know: Marathon rules.

Adium used to make this list. It would probably replace Audacity if I still IMed much.

OPenOffice Aqua
Fink/worker/gqview
adium
TrueCrypt
VLC

iStat menus (before that MenuMeters for many years)
MailUnreadMenu
Growl
Viscosity
TextWrangler

I think what you mean here is:

reverof nohtaram

Firefox
OpenOffice.org
MPlayer
rsync
subversion

Trying to find one not already mentioned...

CocoaMySQL (and Apache, PHP, & MySQL, but are they considered apps?)

Play Sound is a simple, no-fuss sound player for Mac OS X. I use it in my Entourage rules to get custom sound notifications for special mail.

Here are details on how to use in Entourage rules.

NeoOffice
Firefox Web (with FTP plug-in)
Thunderbird Email
Audacity
VLC


=Honorable Mentions=

MPEG Streamclip
Google Earth
Handbrake
PiP

Firefox
VLC
Transmission - bittorrent client
Skitch - screen capture
SMARTReporter - disk monitor

I also use the free part of SuperDuper!

Not in any order:

VLC
TrueCrypt
CyberDuck
Handbrake
Chicken of the VNC

OpenOfficeAqua
Chicken of the VNC
VLC
TextWrangler
CyberDuck
not necessarily in that order though.

1. Quicksilver
2. Jumpcut (the clipboard utility)
3. Firefox + NetNewsWire
4. iTerm (only for the full screen mode)
5. Skim

OK I cheated and did 6, but I use my feed reader as much as my browser, heh.

Sebastian

1. Adium
2. Growl
3. Quicksilver
4. Visor (needs a lot of tweaking before it's of any use though)
5. Cyberduck

all of these are open source (there's just something satisfying about compiling your own software)

Xshelf
Demeter
Perian (has nearly eliminated my need for VLC/MPlayer)
Handbrake
You Control Tunes

A few useful freebies that haven't been mentioned, I think, and that see a lot of use in our household:

Linotype FontExplorer X (manage your fonts)
MkConsole (display logs, etc., on desktop)
OnMyCommand (add commands to contextual menu)
X Lossless Decoder (convert audio formats)
OpenArena (Quake 3 derivative fragfest)

I'm amazed that I see Skim only mentioned once: it's a truly excellent app if you read PDFs at your computer for prolonged periods.

Handbrake is definitely one of mine. Everybody should have Handbrake. I have to say though - The Windows version sucks.... just like Windows itself...:p

Bean (word editor)
Firefox
Adium
VLC
CyberDuck (FTP)

hmmm this is kind of tough

1. TextWrangler
2. VLC
3. Filezilla
4. Firefox
5. Fink (technically a package manager and not an application)

Some contenders that are awesome, and probably will be in my top 5 depending on the day are:

6. Virtual Box
7. Handbrake

1. xampp
2. coconut -battery -WiFi -IdentitiyCard
3. zenmap

firefox
vlc
adium
songbird
transmission

A couple that haven't been mentioned:
OnyX
X Font Info

NeoOffice
Adium
NVU
Tofu
Nocturne

VLC
Firefox
Skype
Thunderbird Email
MPlayer

Quicksilver
Opera
Plex
NeoOffice
JustLooking

Honourable mentions go to:

VirtualBox
Adium
VLC