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  Link   How to use AppTrap to completely uninstall Applications in OS X - http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/23/how-to-use-apptrap-to-completely-uninstall-applications-in-os-x/
Written by Ross McKillop on 7/23/07 for Simple Help (simplehelp.net)
  Link   AppTrap - http://konstochvanligasaker.se/apptrap/
  Link   FreeMind - http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. It is an open source alternative to Inspiration.
  Link   Using open source software on Mac OS X - http://www.linux.com/articles/48255
Written on 10/06/05 for Linux.com by Dmitri Popov.
  Link   ClamXav - http://www.clamxav.com/
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.
  Link   Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser.
  Link   Cyberduck - http://cyberduck.ch/
Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, QuickLook and th
  Link   Squash - http://code.google.com/p/squash/
Squash allows resizing of images in a batch mode. It is friendly and usable and does one thing well - resizing images.
  Link   Childsplay - http://childsplay.sourceforge.net/
Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children, like gcompris, but without the overkill of c/c++ and the gnome environ.
  Link   SuperTux - http://supertux.lethargik.org/
SuperTux is a classic 2D jump'n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original SuperMario games.
  Link   Smultron - http://smultron.sourceforge.net/
Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X which is both easy to use and powerful.
  Link   VLC - http://www.videolan.org/
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
  Link   KompoZer - http://www.kompozer.net/
KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing.
  Link   GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
  Link   Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
  Link   Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
  Link   NeoOffice - http://www.neooffice.org
NeoOffice is an Aqua native version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. Which means that it does not require X11.
  Link   PHP Binary for Mac OS X - http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/
Marc Liyanage takes the PHP source code and puts it into a nice PHP Apache Module installation package for everyone!
  Link   Fink - makes it easy to compile open source software on Mac OS X
  Link   MacPorts - makes it easy to compile open source software on Mac OS X
  Link   penguinppc.org - http://www.penguinppc.org/
penguinppc.org has information about Linux Distributions for Power Macs (Macs with PowerPC processors)
  Link   rEFIt Boot Manager for OS X
  Link   Open Source Mac - a list of open source software for Mac OS X
  Link   Chicken of the VNC - http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
Chicken of the VNC is a VNC client for Mac OS X
  Link   Desktop Manager - http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/
Desktop Manager is an open source virtual desktop manager for Mac OS X.
  Link   VirtueDesktops - http://virtuedesktops.info/
VirtueDesktops is a virtual desktop manager for Apple’s Mac OS X.
  Link   List of Open Source Software for the Mac from nothickmanuals.info
  Link   UNIX & Open Source Downloads from Apple's Official Website
  Link   Free OpenSource Software Mac User Group