Mac OS X animation Freebies List

Description: Adobe Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are deployed immediately across all browsers and platforms, attracting and engaging users with a rich Web experience.

Keywords: application animation player flash adobe 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 5530 kb; Updated: 2008-10-16

Description: Blender is the first and only fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility - all in one tidy, easily and free downloadable package!This software is open-source and licensed under GPL.Sources are available from the developer site.What's new in this version:The game engine is back! Now with new logic editing, physics and GPU shader support. And much more...

Keywords: animation graphics source logic free game site 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3520 kb; Updated: 2008-10-16

Description: Tired of your dock? Spice things up a little with Docker. Access dock settings from a simple interface, and Leopard users can customize the style and color of their dock too!Docker allows Leopard users to switch between 2D or 3D dock, or customize the Dock further by individually changing the color of and style of Dock parts. If you are feeling creative, you can easily select your own images, or a vast array of downloadable styles.Docker also lets users of OSX 10.2 to 10.5 access settings normally hidden out of sight. Choose from a larger range of dock sizes, extra animation options and more. It is also now possible to prevent users from accessing certain Dock settings from the Finder, and hide or remove the menubar and Dock.What's new in this version:Two new options have been added to the Kiosk options for the Finder in 10.5The heading buttons now correctly appear pushed when Docker is loaded

Keywords: animation remove access images color hide 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 5222 kb; Updated: 2008-08-12

Description: MailFX is a notifier which replaces (or complete) the sound warning of Mail OSX by a graphic animation (Quartz composition).What's new in this version:Correction of bug (a crash could occur while clicking on the notifier).

Keywords: animation graphic sound mail 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2355 kb; Updated: 2008-06-27

Description: I Love Stars is a very simple menu bar application that lets you view and change the rating of the currently playing song in iTunes. It does nothing else.What's new in this version:Hide when playing podcastsCorrectly show album ratingsAccept input from scroll wheel for rating songsSlow-mo animation when shift key is held down

Keywords: application animation album hide show view 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 246 kb; Updated: 2008-06-05

Description: Try the Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional preview. Take your inspiration to new heights: Create beautiful, sophisticated animations and effects more effectively than ever with Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional. Animate freely and with even more flexibility using new Shape Layers and the new Puppet tool. Use the new Brainstorm feature to naturally evolve animation variations based on parameters you choose.Whether you are a motion graphics designer, visual effects artist, video editor, or a rich media designer for the web, new Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional lets you design and animate with greater creative freedom.What's new in this version:provides Panasonic P2 format support, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard compatibility fixes, Mac OpenGL support for supported video cards under Mac OS X v10.4.10 and v10.5, and other important fixes.

Keywords: animation graphics effects editor format opengl create design 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 108544 kb; Updated: 2008-01-23

Description: MacLampsX will place bulbs around the edges of your display. Users can create their own bulbs, as well as arranging the included ones as they choose. A number of other options, such as opacity, flashing, and bulb chase are available as well. Favorite setups can be saved as themes.What's new in this version:Added a welcome dialogAdded a screensaver, along with screensaver mode in MacLampsXAdded a basic music playerAdded random flashing modeAdded support for multiple displaysSides/corners of the screen can now be configured to be emptyChanged data handling for bulbs to reduce memory usageBulbs can now be dragged from the list, even in detail modeThe bulb list is now sorted alphabetically (as opposed to randomly)Fixed a bug which caused opacity preferences to be ignoredMacLampsX now stops animation calls when you switch to another user accountReorganized preferences to give more flexibility and controlBulbs can now have a custom "preview image" that they draw in the list - useful for spacer bulbs, or bulbs b...

Keywords: screensaver animation memory screen create image music data 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 317 kb; Updated: 2008-01-19

Description: Paintbrush is a Cocoa-based paint program for Mac OS X, similar to Microsoft Paint and the now-defunct MacPaint. The project's ultimate goal is to recreate the basic functionality of Microsoft Paint, which has been noticeably absent from Mac OS X for years. Paintbrush can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF.What's new in this version:Added in 1.1:Fill tool completely rewritten, resulting in a significant speed gainLimited undo stack to 10 undos (reducing chance for memory overflow)SUBMITTED: Grid overlay now availableZooming image will not cause funny scrolling to occurBy default, images created by Paintbrush will open in Paintbrush in the FinderBomb tool animation can be immediately completed by pressing ESCPreliminary support for Shift key in Selection toolText insertion uses front color, automatically opens font panelColor accuracy has been improved (now using calibrated instead of device colors)Added button to switch foreground and background colorsToolbox shor...

Keywords: animation microsoft memory button images image color tool 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2765 kb; Updated: 2007-12-27

Description: FadingImages is a Mac OS X screen saver plugin that displays several pictures at a time from a specified folder, iPhoto album or iTunes CoverFlow database and slowly fades them out or flies them by, replacing them with new images. Also includes a little app to help non-technical users run it as a desktop animation.What's new in this version:Improved drawing efficiency.Fixed a misbehavior that was generating excess messages to the console.log in Leopard (and wasn't a good idea before that either.

Keywords: screen saver animation database pictures desktop screen images folder 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 100 kb; Updated: 2007-12-18

Description: A Dashboard widget that grabs radar images from the Weather Channel or NOAA and displays the animation. One can access the radar for a given city in the United States or get a regional map, including several international maps. The widget has options for displaying and updating the maps, including weather alerts and the ability to save maps for a specified period of time.What's new in this version:Now that I have Leopard, I can actually try Radar In Motion on it. It led to one more fix, so here is Version 2.5.2. This version also fixes the map of France.

Keywords: animation access images time save 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 296 kb; Updated: 2007-10-29