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MAC is the short form of Media Access Control.  Mac OS X was first mentioned in Apple’s OS strategy announcement at the 1998 WWDC. MAC OS is the apples operating system for Macintosh computers. This software is created in the UNIX foundation. It is based on the openstep technology. Some of the top MAC softwares are listed below.

1.  Quicksilver (keyboard interface)

URL : www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=14831

Quicksilver allows you to navigate to what you need quickly and easily, while keeping your hands on the keyboard. It works like a search engine, an application launcher, address book finder, an iLife shortcut app and many more. It helps for launching an application hidden in depths of our system. When there is no use for Quicksilver, it keeps out of our way. It does search very fast and predictive. It makes an innovative way for searching of our files.

2. Text Expander (text substitution)

URL : www.fastfox-typing-expander.nch-swift-sound-software.qarchive.org/

FastFox Text Expander is very simple and very easy to use typing expansion utility that can create and store keyboard shortcuts that, when pressed, will expand to lines of text. FastFox allows the user to define keywords that become the shortcuts. When FastFox sees that a keyword has been typed by the user that keyword will then be replaced by the expanded text. This shorthand software is ideal for people who are continually typing the same thing over and over. Make it easy on ourself by adding our address, email, phone and fax numbers to our snippet library.

3. Growl (system notifications)

URL : http://wafflesoftware.net/googlegrowl/

Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X. It’s main purpose is to allow an application to communicate with you, by displaying a small notification on top of any other window. This is particularly useful if we want to use an application in the background at the time. It helps you to know whats happening on our Mac in a quiet, non-obtrusive interface. When we open our mail account and stored in the background of our screen and engaged in any other work, it helps you know how many new mails are there.

4.  GeekTool (desktop overlay)

URL : www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=10404

GeekTool is a system Preferences module for Panther or Jaguar to show system logs, Unix commands output, or images on your desktop . It monitors everything under the sun, and sticks it right at Desktop level on your screen so you can always reference it. My favorite use for it is a continuous top command so I always know which application is hogging my ram/cpu. It is a very handy stuff.

5. Hazel (automated folder actions)

URL : www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=22694

Hazel is your personal housekeeper, organizing and cleaning folders based on rules you define. Hazel can also manage your trash. Some of its features are automatic management of files based on rules and automatic handling of trash based on rules. Hazel will help you organize all your files using a familiar rule interface. Filter on the file’s name, type, date, the site or email address it came from and more. We can set color labels, Spotlight keywords and comments and even archive files. Hazel also cleans, sporting options to clean out incomplete and duplicate downloads.In addition, Hazel can manage your Trash for you, relieving you of having to empty it yourself.

6. RCDefaultApp (file associations)

URL : www.rcdefaultapp.en.softonic.com/mac

RCDefaultApp is a simpler interface for file associations. It is a preference pane that allows a user to set the default application used for various URL schemes, file extensions, file types, and MIME types. RCDefaultApp also allows entries to be disabled, such as URL schemes that have security issues. Softpedia guarantees that RCDefaultApp 2.0.1 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

7. AppDelete (software uninstaller)

URL : www.softpedia.com/reviews/mac/AppDelete-Review-54117.shtml

AppDelete will delete the application that we choose and files and folders that belong to that application. Just drag the application or folder containing the application we want to delete onto the AppDelete icon. After that there is no need to look through our system to find these items and delete them manually. For the deletion we will be asked for confirmation to Log or Delete these items in the main window.

8. Ejector

URL : www.download.com/Ejector/3000-2199_4-10279498.html
Ejector adds an Eject icon to the Mac OS X menu bar. We can eject any disks, e.g. an iPod, a CD, a DVD, an USB Key and even a .dmg or a hard disk etc from it. Dismount all the disks mounted on your Mac in one click from the menu bar, especially handy for extricating your Mactop from all those external FireWire drives.

9. MenuMeters (system monitor)

URL : www.download.com/MenuMeters/3000-2238_4-10676252.html?tag=lst-3&cdlPid=10676251

It keeps an eye on disk, network and memory usage right in the menubar with MenuMeters. Customize the look and feel of each of the MenuMeter graphs and icons, which live update on your menubar as you work. MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X.

10. MagiCal (calendar)

URL : www.download.com/MagiCal/3000-2274_4-10653193.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10653192

MagiCal is a free menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate in conjunction with, or as a complete replacement for the built in system menu clock. If there’s one thing the menubar’s missing, it’s a one-click monthly calendar, and MagiCal fills the void. It makes clearly visible of the current month and date at all times.