On the occasion of upgrading a laptop and desktop to OS X Tiger, I thought it would be a good idea to create a list of some of the best open source and shareware software. The list is mainly open source but also includes shareware less than $100 in price. If the software costs more than $100 it really no longer fits into the low cost spirit of shareware. The software is free (as in price) unless noted with a ($$).

Browsers

Firefox The best browser you can get, period.

Mozilla For those old school people who like everything in one package, you can still get the Mozilla Suite.

Internet

Adium A cool cross-vendor chat client that supports AIM, Yahoo, Goole and just about any IM client out there.

Azureus Java based BitTorrent client.

Chicken of the VNC An open source VNC client for OS/X that is compatible with TightVNC protocol and regular VNC.

Cyberduck A nice open source FTP client.

OS X VNC Server

Netnewswire ($$)

RSS Owl

RSS Owl

Thunderbird

The best e-mail client on the planet along with an RSS Reader and a Usenet news client all rolled into one.

Transmit ($$)

Office

Desktop Manager

Graphics Converter

NeoOffice - Open Office for OS X

Yahoo Widgets

Programming

Eclipse

JEdit

Netbeans

TextMate

TextWrangler

Other Lists

Here are some other Mac software lists worth checking out.

• http://www.opensourcemac.org/