free software for mac and windows

Icon Sets

Many thousands of new icons for free use both personal and commercial can be found at
http://icons.mysitemyway.com/ . They also have free clip art. All are very high quality.

LifeHacker's Complete Guide to Windows 7

http://lifehacker.com/5386953/lifehackers-complete-guide-to-windows-7

VistaSwitcher is an Absolutely Awesome Alt-Tab Replacement

Windows Vista or Windows 7 Window switching utility VistaSwitcher replaces the boring Alt-Tab built into Windows with an incredibly useful alternative—complete with eye candy and loads of keyboard navigation options.

VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS. Once installed, it replaces the default Windows Alt-Tab dialog with a nice box that shows a list of all running tasks with their names and preview snapshots and enables the user to take actions on them using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts. With just one click, you can switch to a task, minimize, maximize, restore the main window or close the process.

http://www.ntwind.com/software/vistaswitcher.html

Picasa 3.5 Can Organize Your Photos with Facial Recognition

The new Picasa 3.5 contains a facial recognition feature similar to the one already present on Picasa Web Albums, but letting it run over your likely vast collection of assorted photos stashed on your hard drive is a lot more convenient. Picasa creates a new sidebar menu list of "People," and asks you to name the folks it finds in its main "Scanning" menu. If you're signed into Web Albums with a Google account stuffed with contacts, that's pretty easy, actually—just start typing a name, then select the contact that pops up as you type.

Picasa 3.5 for Windows or Mac OSX

The Slate Mac Desktop

Fancy a new Mac Desktop?

http://lifehacker.com/5352954/the-slate-mac-desktop

If you like weird and wonderful games, you'll just love MACHINARIUM by Anamita Designs.

To watch a trailer, go to http://machinarium.net/index.html

To enjoy a playable demo, go to http://machinarium.net/demo/

The retail full version is US$20.00 for Windows, Mac or Linux