Mac OS X Freeware Bonanza

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Eye Candy   I love free stuff. In fact, 'FREE' is the best of prices. I can understand when something costs more than nothing, but I always enjoy the price of free. This free-icism even spreads to my computer. Sadly, hardware is hard to come by for free but software isn't.
   So, I've decided to showcase some freeware software that I don't believe that I would be able to live without on Mac OS X. The list isn't a 1, greatest, to 10, worst, list but just a list with the software placed arbitrarily in it.

1.  MenuMeters
   Ah, all that empy space in the menubar just begs for something useful to be put up there. This, of course, is where MenuMeters comes in. It provides plenty of function in a small system preference.
   It allows various types of graphs and sorts to be placed in the menubar. For instace, it can put a graph of the CPU usage or temperature up there. Or, it could put a graph showing disk activity. The main reason I have it, though, is for its graph showing network activity. I like to know when something is going out or in of my computer via the Interwebs.

2.  XMenu
   The good ole days of Mac OS 9. Its 'Apple Menu' provided a very easy place to gain access to the 'Applications' folder or any folder you placed in there for that matter.
XMenu brings some of this ease of use back with its ability to show a menu in the menubar that allows easy access back to OS X's 'Applications' folder, or the 'Document's' folder, or a folder of the user's choice. It can show big icons for item in that folder, small icons, or even no icons at all (my personal choice).
Simply put, that's about the gist of XMenu.

Well, I don't feel like writing up anymore short reviews of these things. Nevertheless, I will do so tomorrow or the day after that. Don't worry, I have many more OS X freeware to throw your way.

4 Comments

cappy said:

speaking of FreeWare, what was that MacOSX Dock you were using on your PC?

--- poop

Thomas Mc. said:

The name of the program was 'Aqua Dock'. It is a most excellent recreation of OS X's dock.

bubu said:

two review and your tuckered out? come on tom! youre a college student!

Nina said:

Long Live Freeicism!

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