<p>Sorry for the Windows developers out there, this solution is for Macs only.</p>

<p>This set of applications accounts for: Usability Testing, Screen Capture (Video and Still), Version Control, Task Lists, Bug Tracking, a Developer IDE, a Web Server, A Blog, Shared Doc Editing on the Web, Team and individual Chat, Email, Databases and Continuous Integration. This does assume your team members provide their own machines, and one person has a spare old computer to be the Source Repository and Web Server. All for under $200 bucks.</p>

<p><strong>Usability</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://silverbackapp.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Silverback</a> </p>

<p>Licenses = 3 x $49.95</p>

<p>"Spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for designers and developers."</p>

<p><strong>Source Control Server and Clients (multiple options)</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Subversion</a> = Free</p>

<p>Subversion is an open source version control system.</p>

<p><a href="http://versionsapp.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Versions</a> (Currently in Beta) = Free</p>

<p>Versions provides a pleasant work with Subversion on your Mac.</p>

<p><a href="http://lucidmac.com/products/diffly" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Diffly</a> = Free</p>

<p>"Diffly is a tool for exploring Subversion working copies. It shows all files with changes and, clicking on a file, shows a highlighted view of the changes for that file. When you are ready to commit Diffly makes it easy to select the files you want to check-in and assemble a useful commit message."</p>

<p><strong>Bug/Feature/Defect Tracking (multiple options)</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://www.bugzilla.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Bugzilla</a> = Free</p>

<p>Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees.</p>

<p><a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Trac</a> = Free</p>

<p>Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects.</p>

<p><strong>Database Server &amp; Clients</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/?rz=gdl#downloads" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MySQL</a> = Free</p>

<p><a href="http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CocoaMySQL</a> = Free</p>

<p><strong>Web Server</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://apache.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Apache</a> = Free</p>

<p><strong>Development and Build Tools</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#xcode3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">XCode</a> = Free</p>

<p><a href="http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CruiseControl</a> = Free</p>

<p>CruiseControl is a framework for a continuous build process. It includes, but is not limited to, plugins for email notification, Ant, and various source control tools. A web interface is provided to view the details of the current and previous builds.</p>

<p><strong>Collaboration Tools</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://www.writeboard.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Writeboard</a> = Free</p>

<p><a href="http://www.tadalist.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Ta-da List</a> = Free</p>

<p><a href="https://signup.37signals.com/campfire/free/signup/new" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Campfire Chat</a> for 4 users = Free</p>

<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/download/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">WordPress</a> = Free</p>

<p>"WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time."</p>

<p><a href="http://www.gmail.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Gmail</a> = Free</p>

<p>"Gmail is a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful."</p>

<p><strong>Screen Capture (Video / Still)</strong></p>

<p><a href="http://www.jingproject.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jing</a> = Free</p>

<p>"The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere."</p>

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<p><strong>Lots of great responses:</strong></p>

<p>TeamCity [Yo|||]</p>

<p>Skype [Eric DeLabar]</p>

<p>FogBugz [chakrit]</p>

<p>IChatAV and Screen Sharing (built-in to OS) [amrox]</p>

<p>Google Docs [amrox]</p>

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[{'answer_id': 72543, 'author': 'Steve McLeod', 'author_id': 2959, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2959', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Change CruiseControl for JetBrains' TeamCity. It's free for up to 20 users, and is more powerful and usable than CruiseControl.</p>\n\n<p>It's easy to set up, and has some amazing features. Such as automatically sending off a build to be performed on any spare computer you may have sitting around in the office.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 72548, 'author': 'chakrit', 'author_id': 3055, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3055', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>How do you do time tracking/scheduling/release planning?</p>\n\n<p>Those that help you ship on time? ala FogBugz</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 72581, 'author': 'Eric  DeLabar', 'author_id': 7556, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7556', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><strong>Collaboration Tools</strong></p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.skype.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Skype</a> = Free - If you can\'t work face-to-face a tool like Skype can get you pretty close for no cost assuming everybody already has broadband.  The mac client works great and since most modern macs have a camera already you should be mostly set.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 74265, 'author': 'Community', 'author_id': -1, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/-1', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Trac and Subversion have a pretty nice integration that lets you link Trac tickets to SVN change sets and vice-versa (SVN change sets can actually move a Trac ticket to a new state).</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 74346, 'author': 'amrox', 'author_id': 4468, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4468', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Some built-in Leopard tools that I find useful are iChat AV and Screen Sharing.</p>\n\n<p>Also, Google Docs, especially spreadsheets and forms are nice (and free).</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 78068, 'author': 'ran6110', 'author_id': 14248, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/14248', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': "<p>You've got most of it covered.</p>\n\n<p>I always add space, time and money for 2 more things you might consider strange.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><p>A machine set up just like the average user. No development or debugging tools installed. Make it look like someone just bought it from the Apple store. I do image switching but I've know people who swear by switching to an external boot drive.</p></li>\n<li><p>Also include a 'free' lunch for a virgin. This is someone to come in and test your program that is NOT a developer and doesn't know squat about your software. You might have to do this more than once but don't ever use the same person again.</p></li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>As an added note, make very sure the 'free' applications and web sites you use are truly free, not just free for personal use!</p>\n\n<p>Good luck on your project!</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 101445, 'author': 'Paul A. Hoadley', 'author_id': 18493, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/18493', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<ul>\n<li><strong>Version control</strong>: <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/svnx.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">svnX</a> is a <em>free</em> GUI-based Subversion client.</li>\n<li><strong>RDBMS</strong>: <a href="http://postgresql.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">PostgreSQL</a> is a <em>free</em> relational database with a track record stretching back a couple of <em>decades</em>.  It\'s <a href="http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">easily installed on OS X</a>.</li>\n<li><strong>IDE</strong>: If (and possibly only if) you\'re coding Java, <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Eclipse</a> is an unbeatable (and <em>free</em>) IDE for Java (and other platforms, though I\'m not vouching for anything other than it\'s Java ability).</li>\n<li><strong>Screencasting</strong>: <a href="http://www.flip4mac.com/screenflow.htm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ScreenFlow</a> is outstanding at $US 99.</li>\n</ul>\n'}, {'answer_id': 2796608, 'author': 'Tim', 'author_id': 10755, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/10755', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Consider hudson as a CI server</p>\n'}]
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