Adium (Free).

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services. No longer do you need multiple chat clients. Adium does it all.

Supported services

• AOL Instant Messenger (Including ICQ and .Mac)
• Jabber (Including Google Talk and LiveJournal)
• MSN Messenger
• Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan)
• Bonjour (Compatible with iChat)
• MySpace IM
• Gadu-Gadu
• Novell Groupwise
• QQ
• Lotus Sametime

Get it here.

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Mozy (Free).

Mozy is a secure remote backup service for you Mac. Here's how it works...

1. Sign up for an account.
Create a MozyHome user account which will allow you to download MozyHome software. It's quick, easy and our step-by-step instructions will guide you through the process.

2. Download and install software.
MozyHome downloads in just seconds, and the installation is simple and fast.

3. Select files to be backed up.
Simply check the boxes next to the backup sets, or types of files you want to back up, and MozyHome does the rest. In addition to selecting files by backup sets, you also have the option of selecting specific files and directories.

Mozy features:

• 2GB Of Free Secure Storage (Need more? UNLIMITED Storage only $4.95 A Month)
• Open/locked file support
• 128-bit SSL encryption
• 448-bit blowfish encryption
• automatic scheduling
• new and changed file detection
• support for Apple Mail
• block-level incremental backup

More information, and sign up here.

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TV Forecast Widget (Free).

If you've ever missed an episode of your favorite TV show, tuned in only to find that it wasn't airing or are just looking for a TV guide personalized to your taste, then look no further than TV Forecast.

TV Forecast helps you to keep an eye on all of your favorite TV shows by keeping them together in one place: on the dashboard.

Information at a glance

Stay posted on the next episode of your favorite TV shows with TV Forecast.

Want to know more about a TV show or an upcoming episode? Click on its name to launch the relevant TV.com page in your browser.

Leopard support.

Get it here.

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TED (Free).

What is TED? TED is the Torrent Episode Downloader.

Missed an episode of your favorite TV show? Never fear, with TED, the Torrent Episode Downloader, finding it couldn't be easier.

TED can find episodes of any TV show you like to watch. Just add your favorite shows to TED and he will search for the newest episodes and downloads them for you. TED uses bittorrent and RSS technology to get you the newest episodes as fast as possible!

There are two downloads. First download TED here.

Once installed, download the show definitions. Go to Help -> Software Updates -> Check for new show definitions.

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Celtx (Free).

Celtx is the world's first fully integrated solution for media pre-production and collaboration. It replaces old fashioned 'paper, pen & binder' media creation with a digital approach to writing and organizing that's more complete, simpler to work with, and easier to share.

Celtx has 5 dedicated industry standard editors for writing:

• Screenplays
• AV scripts, including Documentaries, Advertisements and Music Videos
• Audio Plays, including Radio Plays and Podcasts
• Theatre Plays (International and US standard)
• Plain Text

Utilizing the following industry standards:

• Start with an Idea
• Choose your Editor
• Organize with Index Cards
• Collaborate with Others
• Produce a Breakdown
• Storyboard your Project
• Schedule your Production

Access Secure Web Services is also offered.

Find a review here.

Download it here.

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iBackup (Free).

Leopard has Time Machine. But what if you're not ready for Leopard yet?

iBackup is a simple to use backup/restore utility.

iBackup supports scheduled backups of files, folders and applications. Further, it uses plugins to backup your settings like the dock, deskop picture, time, firewall, bluetooth and other system preferences. It is also able to backup Application Settings.

You can add, delete and edit these plugins.

Get it here.

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jEdit (Free).

jEdit is a mature programmer's text editor with hundreds (counting the time developing plugins) of person-years of development behind it.

Some of jEdit's features include:

• Written in Java, so it runs on Mac OS X, OS/2, Unix, VMS and Windows.
• Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Dozens of macros and plugins available.
• Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature.
• Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages.
• Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
• Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
• Word wrap.
• Highly configurable and customizable.
• Every other feature, both basic and advanced, you would expect to find in a text editor. See the Features page for a full list.

Get it here.

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VectorMagic website (Free).

VectorMagic converts bitmap images to vector art - it's an online auto-tracer.

Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you.



Vector art is useful because it allows you to scale an image without making it blurry or pixelated.

Try it here.

Check Off (Free).

Check Off is a to-do list that sits in your menu bar. Simply click the check mark and your personal to-do list will drop down.

Features

• Easily accessible from the Mac OS X Menu Bar.
• Allows creation of groups of items.
• Each item can have its own note for more information.
• Finder-like Labels.
• iPod Synchronization so you can take your tasks on-the-go (iPod must support notes feature).

Requirements

Mac OS X Leopard is the only supported OS for this application. It may still work with Tiger and Panther, but I don’t have the resources to maintain a version for multiple operating systems at this time.

Check Off 3.5 and above are Universal Binaries for Intel and PowerPC Macs

Get the Leopard compatible version here.

For those of you still running OS X 10.4 (like I am), go here for version 3.6. (Halfway down the page, file size 446k).

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Freecell Card Game (Free).

What's freecell?

Freecell is a solitaire card game in which almost any deal can be won, if you have enough skill. The card table consists of four free cells (top left), four stacks (top right), and eight columns (bottom).

A shuffled deck of cards is dealt face up into eight columns. Your goal is to move all of the cards from the columns to the stacks. The stacks must be made in rank order, starting with aces, then twos, threes, and so on.

Cards may be moved between columns, within some rules. You can only move one card onto another which has the next rank up, and the cards must be of opposite color. For example, you can move the five of hearts onto the six of clubs.

Finally, cards may be moved to and from the free cells at the top left. Each free cell can hold one card at a time. Empty columns act like free cells, too.

Get it here.

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Apple OS X 10.5 Leopard Guided Tour.

Not sure if you want to upgrade to Leopard just yet?

Apple has just released a guided video walk-through tour of OS X 10.5 Leopard. Find out more and decide.

Please note system requirements, and note that Leopard no longer supports Classic mode.

Please Click Here To View.

The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions of all Time.

Who would have thunk?

Analysts and wannabe prognosticators are paid to look into their crystal balls and predict the future, so it's not surprising they get it so wrong, so often. What's surprising is that they sometimes get to right. That said, let's look at some of the Apple predictions that have turned out so wrong.