Finding excellent free software for your Mac is increasingly tough. In our fourth annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac, we're highlighting the best free downloads for better productivity, communication. The Lifehacker Pack is a yearly snapshot of our favorite, must-have applications for each of our favorite platforms. If you’re curious to see how things have changed this year, here’s last year’s Lifehacker Pack for Mac.
Everyone needs a place to store little notes and clippings, but not everyone needs the same thing. So, for our note-taking portion of the pack, we give you two options: ResophNotes and Evernote.
ResophNotes is about as simple as they come, syncing through or and letting you get back to work. Evernote, on the other hand, is more of a filing cabinet for notes, web clippings, and just about anything else you could possibly need. It may seem like overkill, but once you actually, it can be indispensable for work and play.
Picasa may not be the ultimate professional photo editing and storing tool, but for us normal folks, it's a for keeping everything organized. It scans your photo folders and will automatically update your library if it detects anything new, ensuring it never misses anything. It's also got some great basic editing tools that are easy enough for even beginners to use, and it syncs with Google for cloud-based backup. Of course, if you aren't a fan of photo management apps, you could just skip Picasa. Picking a music player is one of the more personal choices you can make when it comes to apps, so we recommend trying a few things and seeing what fits you. If you aren't sure what you want, as a good place to start (replacing our former choice, Winamp).
It's customizable, lightweight, and easy to use—a hard combination to find. It has tons of options to tweak the interface, install extra plugins, and otherwise get everything working just so.
If MusicBee, check out the extended pack below for a few more options. No matter how careful you are, installed. If you pick the right one, it'll be lightweight enough that you never notice it, but strong enough to pick up any infection that comes your way.
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For us, that balance is almost. It's free, light, and fantastic at catching infections. It's replaced Microsoft Security Essentials as our favorite antivirus because MSE's virus detection skills have gone downhill. We were nervous about trying something else, but Avast is everything we could have hoped for—just make sure you. Most of you probably don't use desktop email clients anymore, so we've removed this from the regular pack and put it down here with the extended pack. They may not be popular anymore, but desktop clients are —they'll handle multiple accounts like a champ, give you offline access, provide a backup for, and a lot more.
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Thunderbird may have, but its and level of customizability make it a great choice of desktop client (not to mention its $0 price tag). If you're looking for something a bit more advanced, we love (which is based off Thunderbird) as a paid alternative. There's some good stuff in this article, but some of the tools are not worth their usage if you're on a lower end machine, so weakling netbooks be warned. AutoHotKey is amazing if you have the right scripts.
It can make so many programs obsolete. I use AHK for launching my programs, advanced window managing, enabling transparency, live monitor windows, managing my clipboard, popping out flash videos of sites, extending my mouse's functionality, and so much more- all without eating up memory. It's simply, hands down, my favorite tool- period. I love Teracopy, Revo, and Dropbox too. And as long as you have something like, you don't need any special launcher program. You can use it to modify the Start Menu to do everything you need. If I can add.
I'd take with plugins any day of the week over Picasa simply for gif support and just the general customization/lightness of the program. There's also lack of system monitoring tools here, so I'd like to suggest. Also, if you have premium Last.fm, Spotify, or Grooveshark account, is the only media player you need for streaming your music PLUS playing your local tracks. It's so feature rich and slick, it's just awesome.
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