Mac OS X animated Freebies List

Description: Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a booming technology for sharing information on the web. Popular news sites like Yahoo!, BBC News, The New York Times, CNET and Wired, along with tens of thousands of personal blogs and independant media sites all publish RSS feeds that you can subscribe to.Naturally, the volume of information being published every second is hard to grasp and keep abreast of. If you had to visit each site and click 'Refresh', you'd never get anything done. Enter NewsFire, which is like a turbocharged bookmark menu for your news sites. NewsFire constantly checks for freshly published news from your list of news feeds and notifies you. There's even some eye-candy involved - NewsFire's list of news feeds is animated just like iChat, so feeds swoop around as news is discovered.There's a variety of RSS readers on Mac OS X, but none offer the style of NewsFire. NewsFire is brimming with Aqua-beauty and a rich, dynamic user experience. The others feel aesthetically unpleasant, bloated, and stuc...

Keywords: information personal bookmark animated media .net news site 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 735 kb; Updated: 2008-07-26

Description: Stat pro is the ultimate System monitoring widget, consisting of 9 sections which can be minimized, expanded or closed. It features detailed information on CPU, memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, CPU temperature, battery, uptime, temperatures and fans. You'll know exactly what's going on inside your mac!Not for the feint hearted or anyone with a small screen.What's new in this version:Much, much nicer animated section dragging.Improved support for vpn connections.Improved network connection ordering.Fixed bug that could cause widget to crash in network code.Fixed bugs with multi terabyte disk support.Improved battery monitoring on PPC systems.Fixed filter checkboxes with 10.5.4.Improved disk and process icon caching.Improved support for 8 core mac pros.PPP Connections will now be hidden by default. You can enable them if you wish in the filtering tab on the back.Fixed bug where sidebar labels could become stuck after changing skins.Various other UI and code bugfixes.

Keywords: information connection monitoring animated network system filter screen 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 777 kb; Updated: 2008-07-24

Description: Inspired by the tickers of 24-hour cable news, Tickershock is an RSS and Atom news reader that displays news feeds anywhere on your screen in a animated crawl or billboard display.Tickershock is a departure from typical RSS applications that emulate traditional web browser or email reader environments. Focusing on the "push" nature of the technology, Tickershock aims to be a passive experience -œ but only until you decide a headline is worth exploring: a double-click on a news headline brings up a "News Inspector" (or your default browser) from which you can explore a story in greater depth.And since it's optimized for performance, Tickershock requires a fraction of the CPU time used by more conventional stock and news tickers, freeing you to work but keep an eye on the news all the time.What's new in this version:New feature development on Tickershock has been discontinued and as a result, the product is now freeware.Added new icon and Spaces support for Leopard.Improved HTML entity parsing in ticker ...

Keywords: development animated freeware browser screen nature email html 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1331 kb; Updated: 2008-05-27

Description: MSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:Display picturesCustom emoticonsMulti-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)Webcam supportSign in to more than one account at onceFull-speed File transfersGroup supportNormal, and animated emoticons with soundsChat logsTimestampingEvent alarmsConferencing supportTabbed chat windowsWhat's new in this version:0.97 is our best and most stable release to date. It includes numerous feature enhancements, such as a new contact list, offline messaging, voice clips, and a brand new default skin. We're sorry to announce that MSN Spaces support is not included with this release, due to a late protocol change by M$, that means our (reverse) implementation is now broken.

Keywords: animated contact source free file skin best 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 11878 kb; Updated: 2007-12-28

Description: iPlace is a small contextual menu plug-in for Safari. It is designed to help you browse images in web pages and to manage your image downloads. iPlace allows you to specify a set of locations to which you can save images and then allows you to either save single images or to browse all of the images in a page without seeing any of the text in between. In this way you can easily select and save multiple images at once.What's new in this version:Compatibility with Safari 3.0.4.Support for playing animated gif images has been added to the image browser.Double clicking on a location drop box in the image browser opens that location in the Finder.

Keywords: downloads animated browser browse images image text save 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 267 kb; Updated: 2007-11-21

Description: The plug-in displays the cover art work of the currently playing audio track.Lyrics of the track are displayed on top of the album cover artwork.Artist name and track title are displayed bottom-aligned.With the options window some settings can be customized.Cover: The cover art work can be animated as a flapping flag, as a rotating cuboid, as a kaleidoscope or with Vertigo effect.Track: The font that displays track artist and title can be changed.Lyrics: The text of the lyrics can be displayed centered or left-aligned.Display: The screen resolution of full-screen display can be changed.What's new in this version:Some minor bug fixes.

Keywords: animated screen window effect audio album text 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 629 kb; Updated: 2007-11-07

Description: iStat nano is our best ever stats widget, and it's free!View detailed information on CPU, memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, CPU temperature, battery, uptime and the top four processes.SysStat nano features the lowest CPU usage of any stats widget we've seen (compare it if you don't believe us, I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised!).All view:CPU bar meterMemory bar meterPrimary disk space bar meterIn and out bandwidthCPU temperatureCPU view:Detailed CPU bar meterMemory view:Detailed memory bar meterDisks view:Detailed disk space bar meter for 2 drivesNetwork view:IP and total bandwidth statsExternal IP and bandwidth throughput statsProcesses view:A list containing the top 4 processesUptime view:Uptime and load averagesBattery view:Battery charge meter and remaining time (for supported systems)Other features:3 coloured skins (blue, black and red)Animated transitions when changing sectionsCPU temp in degrees Celsius or FahrenheitA built in update checker, so you'll always have the latest...

Keywords: information animated memory space free time disk best 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 840 kb; Updated: 2007-10-22

Description: CocoThumbX is a freeware thumbnail creator for Mac OS X.It is capable of creating and removing thumbnails from the common image file formats as BMP, TIFF, TARGA, GIF (animated), PNG, JPG, PICT, PDF, EPS, ICNS, JP2, SGI ... text files such as DOC, RTF, RTFD, HTML, CSS, TXT and QuickTime supported Movies.CocoThumbX creates a thumbnail from your image and add the thumbnail as icon to your image file.

Keywords: thumbnail freeware animated creator movies image files text 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 1434 kb; Updated: 2007-04-08

Description: CocoViewX is an cocoa nativ Image browser and viewer for the common graphic formats. Supported are png, jpg, jp2, psd, tga, pdf, tiff, gif (animated), sgi, bmp.CocoViewX features included:DropBox : easy access to files and foldersRename series of imagesexport images as png, tif, bmp and jpeg WITH geometry changes.quick export. Export every file with the same option to the same folder as the last one by one shortcutfullscreen viewfullscreen slideshowfull drag&drop from filescopy/paste/link files.auto refresh of changes in current directory.set images as desktop wallpapersimple gui... and many more.

Keywords: directory animated desktop browser graphic access images folder 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 1638 kb; Updated: 2007-01-07

Description: Mac-O-Lantern (formerly Jack-O-Mac) is an animated (or not animated) Halloween Jack-O-Lantern for your desktop.

Keywords: animated desktop 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3; File size: 712 kb; Updated: 2006-10-29