Some nice utilities for the Mac:

New!

Missing the great windows function that allows you to create standard files with  right click and selectiong ‘new…’? Get it here for free: http://ego-systems.com/Products/newcmi.html

Multi-Tail

A multi tabbed CONSOLE/SHELL freeware log viewer that was written for *nix flavours. They offer a mac binary too. Homepage for sources + *unix: http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/, package for mac: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/multitail, fink downloader to get package: http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php?phpLang=en. If you don’t want to use the fink system, you could also use the version by mac ports.

Burn.

For those that need to burn CDs/DVDs of data/audio/video or just duplicate cd’s. Freeware/opensource from sourceforget: http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html.

MacNTFS-3G

The right tool for those that want to work on the same USB-HD with Windows and Mac or if you just need to get data from your old NTFS drive. Freeware, based on FUSE (MacFUSE): http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/.

SMARTReporter

A little tool that read the S.M.A.R.T. status from your harddiscs. Comes in handy when you replace the far too small macbook HD’s with a proper sized one and worry about the temperature. Download for free from: http://www.corecode.at/smartreporter/.

MediaInfo Mac

If you are used to the powerfull video tools from the windows world you’ll run into lots of problems on the Mac since the support on that platform is rather pathetic. MediaInfo helps you with analysing what’s missing on your system by reading the media info from video files and displaying them. Download for free from: http://mediainfo.massanti.com/.

AppCleaner

For those that miss the comfortable uninstalling mechanism from Windows and that want something comparable – here’s your rescue. Finally not searching through several folders to find the files the application you want to delete left everywhere. Download: http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/

MU Commander

Freeware Norton Commander Clone. Two panel file management. For those us that still remember it from DOS times i guess. Download: http://www.mucommander.com/