Programas disponibles para Windows y Mac a menos que indique otra cosa.
Web, Navegacion
Mozilla Firefox
El navegador más rápido y mejor en una calificación media. Con las pestañas, bloquea pop ups, barra de navegación intuitiva y cientos de extensiones gratuitas.
Video Reproductor/ Video Podcasting
Download Miro
Miro icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Miro
Plays virtually any video file in a beautiful interface. Subscribe to video RSS, download, and watch all in one. Torrent support. Search and download from Tube sites.
Telephone
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Skype
Talk with anybody in the world for free using Skype. Buy some credits and you can call any phone number in the world, cheap.
Video Converter- MP4, iPhone, iPod
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Mac App Store (free)
Miro Video Converter
Convert any type of video to mp4 or theora. Convert any video for use with iPhone, iPod, Android, etc. Very clean, easy to use interface.
IM - Instant Messaging
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Trillian (Windows only)
A powerhouse of an IM client. Supports AOL IM, MSN, ICQ, and Yahoo as well as voice chats, file transfers and more. - Download Page
Pidgin (Windows / Linux only)
Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and Google Talk. 100% open source. - Download Page
Adium (Mac only)
Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously, including: AOL IM, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and Google Talk. Beautiful, themable interface.
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Mozilla Thunderbird
Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.
Application Launching
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Quicksilver (Mac only)
Incredible app with cult-like following. Quicksilver lets you start applications (and do just about everything) with a few quick taps of your fingers. - Download Page
Colibri (Windows only)
The closest you can get to Quicksilver on Windows.
Windows Viruses and Spyware
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Microsoft Security Essentials
MSE is Microsoft's own anti-virus tool. It's free, and it works. - Download Page
SpyBot (Windows only)
Clean out spyware and adware. If your computer has lots of pop-ups and weird applications, run this immediately.
Utilities
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The Unarchiver (Mac only)
Uncompress RAR, 7zip, tar, and bz2 files on your Mac. Many new Mac users will be puzzled the first time they download a RAR file. Do them a favor and download UnRarX for them! - Download Page
RSSOwl
Solid cross-platform RSS client. Open-source. - Download Page
FeedDemon (Windows only)
Simple, solid rss client. Easy to use. - Download Page
NetNewsWire (Mac only)
The slick integration of tabbed browsing makes this RSS reader our top pick for Mac users. - Download Page
Vienna (Mac only)
Very nice, native mac RSS client. Open source.
Peer-to-Peer Filesharing
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uTorrent (Windows only)
A simple, fast Bittorrent client that will download your files without slowing down your computer. - Download Page
Soulseek (Windows only)
The community-based filesharing client. Still one of the best ways to find rare music online. - Download Page
Cabos
A simple, easy to use filesharing program. Gnutella network. - Download Page
Miro
In addition to being a video player, it's currently the fastest torrent client on Mac. On Windows, comparable speeds to uTorrent.
Podcasting
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Juice
Solid podcasting client.
Video Playback
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VLC
Plays more video files than most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX, OGG, and more. Pretty good interface. - Download Page
MPlayer
The interface and buttons are not as nice, but it may play even more video files than VLC. - Download Page
Perian (Mac only)
A plugin that allows quicktime to play additional video formats. (Included in Democracy Player.) - Download Page
Real Alternative Lite (Windows only)
A lightweight, ad-free version of RealPlayer.
Jailbreak Your iPhone / iPod Touch
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Ziphone
Liberate your iPhone or iPod touch to do things apple won't allow.
iPod Ripping
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Yami
Get music off of your iPod onto any computer. - Download Page
Senuti (Mac only)
Very nice interface. Get music off of your iPod onto any computer.
DVD Ripping
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Handbrake
DVD ripper and MPEG-4 / H.264 encoding. Very simple to use.
CD / DVD Burning
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CDBurnerXP (Windows only)
Burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs, and burn and create ISOs. Despite the name, it does work on Vista.
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Burn (Mac only)
CD and DVD Burner. Burn any video to a disc that plays in your DVD player!
Privacy
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Vidalia
This TOR frontend keeps you anonymous on the web using military-grade techniques. For use with Firefox see: TorButton.
Word Processing / Office Suites
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LibreOffice
Big, full featured suite of tools for word processing and spreadsheets. Compatible with and a free replacement for Microsoft Word documents. Also supports OpenDocument Format.
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Bean (Mac only)
Very fast and easy to use word processor. Live word count, autosaving, more. - Download Page
AbiWord
A word processor. Leaner and quicker than OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft Word documents and OpenDocument Format.
PDF Exporting
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PDF Creator (Windows only)
'Print' to PDFs from any Windows program, just like God intended. Great for saving receipts, rebates, plane tickets, etc. 100% free and open source.
Photo and Graphics
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Picasa Test
The best photo album for Windows. Lets you share photos too.
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GIMP
Open source photo editing application that rivals Photoshop in features. - Download Page
Seashore (Mac only)
More native Mac version of GIMP.
Music
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iTunes
Obvious choice, very corporate, but ultimately hard to beat as the best music player. Rip and burn CDs and download podcasts too.
Wifi Scanning
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KisMac (Mac only)
The best wireless scanner for Mac. Find wireless access when you're on the go.
Maps
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Google Earth
The 3D map of the world that just gets better and better...and creepier. Total must-have.
Sound Recording
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Audacity
Simple sound recording and editing tool.
Running Windows on a Mac
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Q Emulator (Mac only)
Run Windows on your Intel Mac at near native speed. Works on G4 / G5 Macs too, but much slower.
FTP / SFTP
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SmartFTP (Windows only)
A popular FTP program.
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Filezilla (Windows only)
Excellent FTP program. 100% free and open source.
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Cyberduck (Mac only)
Very good all-around ftp program.
HTML / Text Editing
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NoteTab Light (Windows only)
Text / html editor.
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Smultron (Mac only)
Text / html editor. Integrates with Cyberduck for editing websites.
Financial Transactions
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Bitcoin
A "peer-to-peer" digital currency so you can buy things without paying transaction fees.
IRC
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mIRC (Windows only)
The most popular Windows IRC client.
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Colloquy (Mac only)
Great IRC client.
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KVIrc
A cross-platform IRC client that's free and open source.
