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Open-source app which logs your laptop’s network location (and optionally a snapshot from the webcam) to a DHT distributed database at irregular intervals.

In ye olde days, displaying PDF documents in the browser drove me nuts. You’d unwittingly click on a link, and your entire web browser would freeze up for 30 seconds while Adobe Reader started. But since PDF is baked so closely into the OS X system, this Firefox plugin is wicked fast, and thoroughly helpful.

Testing tool for iPhone development — Replace your mouse cursor with a lifesize finger. Needs a dirty-fingernail easter egg, if you ask me.

Web remote-control plugin for the Transmission bittorrent client. Very handy.

Lightweight menu-bar app for OSX which displays, and lets you edit, the star rating for the current track in iTunes.

Port of the XBox Media Center to OS X. Works with the Apple Remote, making it more elegant than my usual VLC + Sofa Control combination. Looks good.

Command line tool for interrogating and diffing Time Machine backups.

Another NIN album released for free download under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. It should be noted that Ghosts I-IV was the first NIN album I’ve ever bought, after enjoying its free release earlier this year.

The excellent TrueCrypt now runs on OS X, as well as Windows and Linux. I’ll definitely be shunting some of my files onto an encrypted thumbdrive later.

Gorgeously-retro 8-bit-esque system icons for OS X.

OS X system-wide plugin that adds color palletes from Adobe’s kuler community to the ColorPicker widget.

Cool prototype application by Tom Insam which monitors your foreground application in OS X, and tries to provide you some context by matching it to someone in your Address Book. It’s early days yet, but decidedly cool (and written in Python)

Freeware CD burner app for Windows. If this means I can nuke bloody Nero off my work PC, I’ll be a happy, happy man.

Free development environment for Python code under .NET. Will definitely be having an in-depth play with this soon.

Handy “Time Machine” menu bar icon which Apple removed from the released version of Leopard. (Make sure and read the installation instructions in the comments)

Improved version of the essential ssh client for Windows

Automatically downloads, installs and runs the Windows versions of IE natively on OS X using Darwine.

The project formerly known as “Piano Hero”.

Automatically swap your desktop background for snaps from Flickr. I’ve had some gorgeous stuff come up in the couple of hours I’ve been running it.

OS X GUI which makes it a piece of piss to add your own ringtones to the iPhone. Those wily hackers!