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5 Essential Freeware Mac Apps

One thing I love about my Mac is the tremendous amount of freeware out there for it. There is a free app to accomplish almost any task.

Here is a list of my most used essential freeware applications:

1. Quicksilver - This app is much more than a launcher, you can also run scripts on the items you search for, and much more. The more you read on Quicksilver, the more it will do.
2. Orator - Got a webpage that you have to read for work, research, or school, but would rather lie down and close your eyes? Get this program. This programs takes any text and converts it to a .mp3 file so that you can listen to your webpage instead of read it. Sweet.
3. Smultron - Weird Name, Great Notepad. This little program is a replacement for Notepad. It can be used just to compose (it wraps text), or for programming with keyword coloring. I used to use Textwrangler, but this program works so much better. It does the same stuff and more. And oh yeah, it has Tabs like any good program should.
4. Writeroom - True Full screen writing. You can set the color, font, size, screen widgth, and more to create the writeroom that works best for you. Mine is Black with Green writing. It look Matrixy. This is a feature that I used to only be able to find in programs like MacJournal, which I had to buy. This little program is great.
5. Evernote -This little program is a piece of the Evernote application set, which includes a mac app, a windows app, a web app, a windows mobile app, and, coming very soon, an iPhone app. It is a program that lets you write notes, store webpages, images and pdfs, sort them all in to groups, which can be made public. The best thing of all… all of the Evernote apps sync with each other effortlessly. Snap a photo on your iPhone and it can instantly be on your mac. 

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