Mac OS X reading Freebies List

Description: VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.What's new in this version:Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS buildsClosed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2Fixed various potential crashes and memleaksFixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog statesRight-click menu to select playlist columns reenabledVarious fixed in playlistMMAP module is now deactivated by defaultUpdate of Brazillian, Swedish translation

Keywords: multimedia playlist reading player files video media audio 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 30925 kb; Updated: 2008-10-26

Description: Inquisitor... it's like Spotlight for the web.Start typing and websites pop up immediately, along with ideas to refine your search.It'll autocomplete your words (is it reading your mind?) and you can add more search engines to Safari with customized keyboard shortcuts.

Keywords: keyboard reading search 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 634 kb; Updated: 2008-10-16

Description: MacSword is a free and open-source application for research and study of God and His Word. It is developed specifically for Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. MacSword allows you to read and browse many different bibles translations in different languages from Hebrew to Albanian. As well as reading devotionals, commentaries, dictionaries and lexicons, it also supports searching and advanced features such as services so that you can access the Bible in any program.

Keywords: application advanced reading browse access source free word 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 4813 kb; Updated: 2008-09-24

Description: Cocoa Packet Analyzer (CPA) is a native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer. It uses libPCAP for reading packet trace files and for capturing network traffic.Supports the Cocoa bundles technology for creating TCP/IP application layer protocol "Analyzer PlugIns".What's new in this version:fixed Mac OS 10.4 compatibilty issues.fixed a bug with the default preferences (Packet View: only the time column did appear).fixed a bug with searching the time column.

Keywords: application network reading files time view 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1024 kb; Updated: 2008-06-05

Description: ToolPlayer is a little and simple music player for OSX with support for many file types, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM and others. Includes numerous effects like Equalizer, Reverb, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Echo. Moreover, all supported files can be exported to WAV format with enabled effects.What's new in this version:Leopard compatibilityCompletely rewritten playback manager using the BASSReduced CPU and RAM usageGapless playbackSupport for True Audio, WavPack, Speex and NeXT/SunSupport for Games MusicSupport for 24 bit / 96 kHz FLAC filesSupport for files greater than 4GBImproved Musepack compatibilityImproved tags reading with TagLibNew export file formatsOn-the-fly output device switchDetection of hot-plugged devicesApple Remote and Keyspan RF supportReorganized effectsTuned EqualizerHighly improved Time Stretch and Pitch Shift effectsTracked music settingsAnti-Aliasing output settingsExport during playbackFolder Drag & DropRew...

Keywords: manager reading effects remote format player files music 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2150 kb; Updated: 2008-04-08

Description: FireStarter is a pure Cocoa, Mac OS X only, burning applicationIt allows you to easily back-up CDs that Apple's Disc-Copy cannot copyIt allows you to back-up as easily CDs that even Roxio Toast cannot copyIt makes brings for the first time on Mac OS X the burning of cue/bin disk-images from the PC worldIt brings for the first time overburning available to Mac OS XYou can easily burn complex CD formats such as VCDs and SVCDsBecause you don't want to compromise on quality, FireStarter FX sports all the features you want to see in a commercial grade burning application:SimulationCustomizable RAM cacheHigh speed burningBuffer under-run technology to prevent wasting your mediaMulti-session burningParanoia audio-cd ripping, for best error protection copyCDDB access to automatically create CD-TEXT dataCD-TEXT reading and writing with drives that support itand many more powerfull featuresWhat's new in this version:FireStarter FX 1.0RC1 has been redeveloped from scratch and now supports officially only Mac OS X 10...

Keywords: application protection reading create access images audio error 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 5018 kb; Updated: 2008-03-26

Description: Found an admirable tome but it's in praise of the wrong god? Faith Converter is a godsend for priests, vicars, rabbii and holy men of all descriptions. Preach next Sunday's sermon from the Vedas, Noble Eightfold Path, Torah or Das Kapital!The premier theological plagiarism solution for OS X, Faith Converter converts text between the vernaculars of thirty-one different religions, encompassing Atheism, Biopsychosocialism, Buddhism, the Cargo Cult, Christianity, Communism, Confucianism, Druidism, Falun Gong, Global Warming, Hinduism, Islam, Juche, Judaism, Keynesianism, Linux, MacEvangelism, Mahanism, Maoism, NIMBYism, Roman, Scientology, Shinto, Sikh, Stalinism, Taoism, Thatcherism, Trotskyism, Unitarian Universalism, Veganism and Voodoo.Converted text can be copied, saved or printed.Sample Conversions:"Attend church at Christmas or else God will send you to Hell, with Satan, for not reading your Bible."becomes:"Attend collective farm #897 at Leninmas or else Dialetical Materialism will send you to the pove...

Keywords: converter christmas reading text 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 216 kb; Updated: 2008-01-27

Description: Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.Stop printing and start skimming.Features:Viewing PDFsAdding and editing notesHighlighting important textMaking "snapshots" for easy referenceNavigation using table of contents or thumbnailsView all your notes and highlightsConvenient reading in full screenGiving powerful presentationsHandy preview of internal linksFocus using a reading barMagnification toolExtensive AppleScript supportBookmarksSupport for Apple Remote ControlInteraction with LaTeX and PDFSyncSpotlight supportHighly customizableAnd much more...What's new in this version:Add hidden defaults for modifiers of reading bar navigation and resizing shortcuts.Revert shortcuts for reading bar navigation and resizing shortcuts to Option-arrow and Shift-Option-arrow.Rename some AppleScript properties of default line styles to avoid conflicts.Avoid tracking rects during load. Fixes a bug that ...

Keywords: reading remote table notes file easy stop 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3379 kb; Updated: 2008-01-12

Description: eBook Library supports speed reading plus an eBookshelf. You can practice your speed reading skills using plain text eBook files with speeds between 50 wpm and 1500 wpm. Reading speed is set using four ranges (very slow, slow, medium, and fast) and a slider is provided to adjust the speed within each range. Speed settings are saved between sessions. Any plain text file may be used but eBook text files can be downloaded free from the internet. The user should copy just the eBook text, paste into a TextEdit file and save as plain text with Unicode UTF-8 encoding. This file is then used as a source file. Select this source by clicking on the "Choose New Source" button and navigating to the file. The line number of the line being displayed is shown together with the total number of lines in the source text file. You can pause and continue at any time. If you do not finish reading a text file, eBook Library will remember the last line read and provide this information when you relaunch to continue reading. In ...

Keywords: information internet library reading button source files ebook 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2560 kb; Updated: 2007-11-25

Description: Flesh is a freeware Java application designed to quickly analyze a document and display the difficulty associated with comprehending it.After processing a document, Flesh produces two scores: the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and the Flesch Reading Ease Score. Each of these scores is calculated after determining the number of sentences, words and syllables a document contains. Using those numbers, the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and Flesch Reading Ease Score can then be calculated.

Keywords: application freeware document reading java 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 4813 kb; Updated: 2007-05-05