Here are some great software/applications/apps for mainly OSX/Apple/Mac, but there are often a Microsoft Windows or even a Linux version too. A list to keep up to date.
OSX
Audio and video
- Video Lan Client (VLC) – play, record, unicast, broadcast video and audio streams, listen to web radio
- X Lossless Decoder – convert formats like APE and FLAC to tagged MP3s
- Songbird – audioplayer
- Spotify – audioplayer
- FFmpegX – video conterter
- Handbrake – DVD ripper
- MusicBrainz Picard – tagger
- Tagr – tagger
Music
- Hydrogen Drum Machine – Drum machine
- DoggieBox – Drums
- Soundflower – Audio routing
- Audacity – Audio editing
Authoring
- TextWrangler – text
- Serna Free XML editor – XML editor
- LibreOffice – Office suite
- Apache OpenOffice – Office suite
- Scribus – desktop publishing
- Inkscape – illustrations
RSS-feeds
- Vienna – RSS feeds
FTP
Communication
Others
- VirtualBox – create virtual environments for installaton of operating system
- Plex – server client home media sharing
- Chicken of the VNC – VNC client
- The Unarchiver – decompress files
- Blender – 3D composer
- Ccleaner – system maintenance
- Jomic – comic CBR reader
- Onyx – system mentenance
- SiteSucker – save a webpage locally
- WebArchiveExtractor – extract safari webarchives
- Ultracopier – advanced copying
- Wuala – cloud storage
- Diffmerge – compare files or folders
- Key remap for macbook – keyboard remapper (I use a windows keyboard)