For absolutely no reason, a quick top five of my favorite Mac freeware applications...
Transmission
Transmission is, without a doubt, the most reliable, usable, and best looking Mac BitTorrent client I've ever used. It offers great customization, and can handle a large amount of files while remaining relatively lightweight.
Sequel Pro
Sequel Pro is a fantastic MySQL application for the Mac. Its clean, fast, and as far as I can tell, bug free. If you have to spend a significant amount of time working with MySQL, I'd really suggest trying this.
Symbolic Linker
Symbolic Linker is a tiny contextual menu plugin that when clicked, will create a Symbolic Link for the selected file for you. This is a huge time saver if you ever create symbolic links on a Mac. Its one of those apps that I was wishing existed, and was incredibly happy when I discovered that it did exist. Its just plain genius.
NetNewsWire
I actually bought NetNewsWire many years ago, long before it became a freeware app. It is a fantastic RSS news reader. Many have created beautiful themes for the app. However I don't always use NetNewsWire for its news reading capabilityes. I use it most of the time for it's dock menu. It has a great dock menu that lets you know when your favorite websites have updated via RSS. The best way for me to explain it is with a screenshot.
Fluid
Fluid is another genius app. Fluid allows you to create "SSBs", or site specific web browser. Basically you can make custom browsers that only go to a designated site. The fact is that there are many websites that we frequent constantly, or that we always have up in a browser window. The natural next step is designated 'apps' for those sites that you always have to visit, and Fluid does it wonderfully.
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