Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Since 2001, Mac OS X has delivered more than a thousand innovative new features. With Snow Leopard, the next major version of the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X changes more than its spots, it changes focus. Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard’s enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality. Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos.

• v10.6 (more info)

Safari (Recommended)

Apple's new web browser. Since it is much faster and easer to use, we are recommending it over Internet Explorer.

• v4 (more info)
• v4 (more info)

iTunes (Recommended)

Your music collection. Your favorite movies and TV shows. Apps, games, podcasts, and more. iTunes is home to everything that entertains you.

• v9 (more info) (purchase info)
• v9 (more info)

iLife (Recommended)

iLife '09 provides Mac users with easy, innovative ways to create, enjoy, and share their photos, movies, and music. Organize and search your photos by faces and places in iPhoto. Make a great-looking movie in minutes and edit with precision in iMovie. Learn to play piano and guitar, or compose and record your own songs with the new guitar amps and stompboxes in GarageBand. iLife '09 is also part of the Mac Box Set, which includes iLife '09, iWork '09, and Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard," all in one box.

• iLife '09 (more info) (purchase info)

Quicktime (Recommended)

Multimedia player for your OS. Now plays Flash files! Featuring 3GPP and 3GPP2, worldwide standards for the creation, delivery, and playback of multimedia over new, high-speed wireless networks. Built on MPEG-4 and powered by QuickTime, 3GPP and 3GPP2 extend the reach of rich multimedia to a new generation of handheld wireless devices. As the first widely distributed, freely available multimedia technology to deliver both 3GPP and 3GPP2 capabilities, QuickTime enables users all over the world to share 3G content with others via both computers and mobile devices.

• v7.6 (more info)
• v7.6 (more info)

MobileMe

MobileMe is a new Internet service from Apple that syncs email, contacts, and calendars from a secure Internet server, or "cloud," to all the devices you use: your iPhone, iPod touch, as well as Mac and PC computers. This data is accessible anywhere and automatically ensures that you get identical email, contacts, and calendars, no matter which device you use. MobileMe also provides a suite of ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. Me.com is the place where it all comes together. MobileMe applications at me.com include Mail, Contacts, and Calendar, as well as Gallery for viewing and sharing photos, 20GB of storage, and iDisk for storing and sharing documents online.

• (more info) (purchase info)

Remote Desktop (Recommended)

Allows access to and control of your Macintosh while away.

• v3.3 (more info) (purchase info)

ChronoSync

ChronoSync is an easy to use data management tool that allows you to efficiently synchronize files and folders from one disk location to another. Using the document-based interface, you can easily identify a group of files, specify a destination, then schedule the action to occur as often as necessary. Perform trial syncs and compare files so you always know the status of every file. Filter out specific files and folders using rules and exclusions. Archive deleted files in case you need to restore an older version. ChronoSync monitors the state of all your files so it only copies files that have been changed, keeping your synchronization time to a minimum. Whether you are doing a simple backup or complex synchronization, ChronoSync is flexible enough to handle it.

• 4.0 (more info) (purchase info)

Print Therapy (Recommended)

Get you printers printing again! (Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Only) Print Therapy is the only utility in the world designed to diagnose and repair problems that can occur with the Mac OS X printing system. These problems include, but are not limited to, the inability to open the Print & Fax System Preference pane, inabillity to add printers, disappearing print jobs, corrupted preference files, and inability to create PDF files. Print Therapy also includes some useful tools for deleting extra printer drivers, installing or deleting PPD files, deleting old spool files, backing up and restoring the printing system, and resetting the printing system.

• 6.0 (more info) (purchase info)

Spotless (Recommended)

Spotless is a simple utility designed to enable and disable Spotlight content indexing of volumes with the click of a button.

• 1.2 (more info) (purchase info)

Print Setup Repair

Get you printers printing again! (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Only) Printer Setup Repair is designed to rectify situations where the Printer Setup Utility will not open, printers cannot be added, CUPS fails to operate, and numerous other errors. Although Printer Setup Repair cannot fix every printing problem, it is capable of resolving most of the common ones. Printer Setup Repair can also be used to delete unwanted printer drivers, remove a build up of spool files, and recreate the /tmp symbolic link.

• 5.1 (more info) (purchase info)

Print Setup Repair

Get you printers printing again! (Mac OS X 10.3 Panther Only)

• 4.2 (more info) (purchase info)

Print Center Repair

Get you printers printing again! (Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Only)

• 3.0 (more info) (purchase info)

Print Center Repair

Get you printers printing again! (Mac OS X 10.1 Only)

• 1.42 (more info) (purchase info)

Yojimbo

Now for the first time, Mac users can organize and manage today's onslaught of information, even across multiple computers, with a natural user experience and the reliability expected from Bare Bones Software. Yojimbo revolutionizes information organization for individuals by providing an effortless mechanism to collect, store and find information as needed. An encryption subsystem allows customers to encrypt individual data items for storage, without interfering with ease of retrieval. Yojimbo encrypts data using the secure AES-256 algorithm standard. Its simple, flexible storage system allows for additional, personally-defined organization of data. Support for Mac OS X's Sync Services synchronization provides data portability for .Mac account holders, making irrelevant which computer was used to access, add or modify an item stored in Yojimbo.

• 2.0 (more info) (purchase info)

1Password (Recommended)

1Password is a unique Password Manager and Form Filler for Mac OS X. It makes web browsing more secure and more convenient at the same time.

• 2.9 (more info) (purchase info)

Transmit (Recommended)

The absolute best FTP program available. Need to transfer files to remote computers, including your .Mac account, this is the program that will allow you to do so. Very easy to use, great support and more features than any other FTP program out there.

• 3.6 (more info) (purchase info)

Stuffit Expander

Free, award-winning StuffIt Expander™ gives you access to virtually any file you download from the Internet or receive in your email. Expander handles all common compression formats, including .sitx archives created by the new StuffIt X file format. Whether you come across a file compressed on a PC, Mac, or other platform, Expander helps you open it quickly and easily.

• v2010 (more info)
• v11 (more info)

Flash Player (Recommended)

Multimedia plug-in for your web browser. The Adobe Flash Player displays content created with Adobe Flash such as web application front-ends, high-impact website user interfaces, interactive online advertising, and short-form to long-form animation.

• v10 (more info)
• v10 (more info)

Shockwave Player (Recommended)

The Shockwave Player displays content created with Macromedia Director such as high-performance multi-user games, interactive 3D product simulations, online entertainment, and training applications. By using Xtra extensions, developers can extend the capabilities of the Shockwave Player to play back custom-built applications.

• v11 (more info)
• v11 (more info)

Acrobat Reader

View .pdf documents

• v9.2 (more info)
• v9.2 (more info)

Internet Explorer

Web browser

• v8.0 (more info)

Microsoft Office (Recommended)

Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Entourage (Microsoft Exchange version)

• Office 2008 (more info) (purchase info)
• Office 2007 (more info) (purchase info)

GraphicConverter

View almost any graphic format from any computer platform

• v6.4 (more info)

Kerio Mail Server (Recommended)

Secure mail server with access from anywhere. Kerio MailServer™ represents a new generation of mail servers designed for corporate networks. To help combat increasing security threats, Kerio MailServer™ offers a wide range of features to keep email from being intercepted, infected by computer viruses, or sent as spam. Available from S.E.A.L. Systems, email us for a quote.

• v6.7 (more info) (purchase info)
• v6.7 (more info) (purchase info)

Eric's Ultimate Solitaire (Recommended)

The best solitaire program available

• v3.0 (more info) (purchase info)
• v1.0 (more info) (purchase info)

Screen Saver (Recommended)

Looking for a great Screen Saver? Want to help search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence? Then download this Screensaver

• v6.2 (more info)
• v6.2 (more info)

SereneScreen Marine Aquarium (Recommended)

You've seen aquarium programs before, but you've never seen anything like this! Marine Life so vibrant you won't believe your eyes. Indescribable realism! Theses fish are actual 3D Models, not flat images dragged accross the screen. ? Use the SereneScreen Marine Aquarium - Mac OS X as a screensaver or as a stand-alone program.

• v2.6 (more info) (purchase info)
• v2.6 (more info) (purchase info)

Firefox

The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we've added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.

• v3 (more info)
• v3 (more info)