Essential Mac OS X Applications...
- Acquisition - Gnutella file sharing client
- Adium - Multi-protocol instant messenger client
- Address-o-sync - Sync multiple Macs without .Mac
- Amadeus - Great tool for audio enthusiast
- Audio Hijack Pro - Custom audio output filtering
- Backlight - Menu extra toggles screensaver as your desktop
- BurnX Free - Burn multiple sessions on CD
- Butler - Get more out of Finder
- CandyBar - Change your application and system icons
- Carbon Copy Cloner - Easy-to-use backup/cloning utility
- Chmox - An OS X native CHM file (Compiled HTML/eBook) reader
- Cocktail - Simplifies use of UNIX functions in OS X, and more
- Colloquy - IRC client
- CSSEdit - Visual CSS style editor
- DeepVacuum - Download entire websites
- Default Folder - Expanded functionality in "Save As.." dialogue boxes
- Deja Vu - Schedule regular file backups
- Delicious Library - Catalogue your books, cd's, games, dvd's
- Dimensionizer - Contextual Menu to display an image’s dimensions
- DeskShade - Hide desktop icons, terminal lock, and more
- Desktastic - Doodle on your desktop
- Dock-It - Add multiple multi-fucntion docks
- DragThing - An alternative to the dock
- DV Backup - Use your DV camera as a backup medium
- Evocam - Webcam application with built in web server, FTP, etc.
- FileJuicer - Extract images from Powerpoint, PDF, HTML, and CAB files
- Fink - Unix Ports for X
- Firefox - Open source web browser
- Fugu - An SFTP, SCP and SSH frontend
- Huevos - Customisable search engine helper
- HyperEdit - live previews of HTML and PHP pages
- iBank - Intuitive personal finance manager
- iBiz - Self-employed time billing manager
- iConquer - 1-to-6 player world conquest game
- iPodDisk - Utilize your iPod as an iDisk
- iRooster - Great free alarm clock
- iWipe - Secure disk and file deletion
- iZoom - Crop and resize your photos
- LiteSwitch X - Keyboard application switcher
- Little Snitch - Alerts you of outgoing network connections
- MacJanitor - Great tool for running & rescheduling OS X maintenance tasks
- MacMame - Multi arcade machine emulator
- MacSniffer - View all traffic on a network connection
- MacTheRipper - Go Ahead, Back that DVD up
- MacTracker - Database of all Mac models
- Mac Vim - The aqua version of Vim
- Mail.appetizer - Enhance Mail with this small but handy notification plugin
- Mplayer for OS X - Another great video player
- Net Monitor - Network throughput monitor
- Net Tool Box - Handy tool for the toolkit - for network issues
- NetNewsWire - RSS aggregator (If you're gonna use one, use NetNewsWire)
- Onyx - System tweaks and configuration
- OSXvnc - VNC remote control protocol
- PDF Browser Plugin - Allows web browsers to display PDF files
- Pixen - Pixel graphics editor
- Quicksilver - Application launcher and much more
- RCDefaultApp - Preference pane to set default applications
- Renamer4Mac - Rename files en masse. Useful for digital cameras
- SideTrack trackpad driver - Enhanced trackpad driver for Apple Laptops
- Simon Extreme - Classic Milton Bradley Simon game
- Skype - Uses P2P for phone-over-internet talking
- SubEthaEdit - Use Rendezvous for collaborative editing
- Synergy - Adds iTunes controls to your menu bar
- Transmit - FTP client
- Unison - Usenet newsreader handles messages, files, & media
- Virtue - Virtual desktop manager
- VLC - Play DivX encoded movies (and more).
- VoodooPad - Notepad with many advanced features
- Word Browser Plugin - Allows web browsers to display Word files
- xPad - Notebook/scrapbook supports drag & drop
- XRay - Expanded version of the Finder's "Get Info" window
- xScope - Suite of screen tools for UI designers
What would you add to this list?
Don’t forget about sKEdit!
“skEdit is a text editor for Mac OS X (10.2 or later), with a focus on web design and development.“ And about the best one there is, the price is right too - only $20.
sKEdit has .org domain and isn’t Open Source or Free!?
Cyberduck is where it’s at for a free FTP and SFTP client.
http://cyberduck.ch
Oo! Oo! TextMate, the king of text editors!
man, ty jkill i’ve been needing a free ftp program for my mac
Audacity is missing as well.
Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
How about some alternatives…Aqusitions is okay, but I prefer Cabos (http://cabos.sourceforge.jp/).
Delicious LIbrary is the most overrated software of 2005 having only a tiny fraction of the features of the competitors. Check out http://www.pure-mac.com/collect.html for a more complete listing of cataloging software. I prefer DVD Cache, but DVDAttache is also good (and free.)
I use Halime for usenet, also free.
Some others to think about:
RSS Reader
http://www.newsfirerss.com/
MacStumbler WiFi finder
http://www.macstumbler.com/
Mac IRC Client, free and very nice
http://homepage.mac.com/philrobin/conversation/
Podcast Maker, not free but it manages your sites podcast and has a built in ftp and sftp client for uploading podcast and it also manges the .xml file for the podcast feed and it also designs the .xml ready for itunes. It allows you to do chapters in your podcast and enhanced podcast. Supports PDF,m4v,mp4 and a few other formats. Deffiently a must for podcasters.
http://www.potionfactory.com/
UnRarX “is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives.“ Very nice program and free.
http://unrarx.sourceforge.net/
Azureus “implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users.“
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Growl for notifications from various apps which support it (i.e. Adium) (free):
http://www.growl.info
myPhoto for automatic iPhoto sharing on the web (free):
http://agent0068.dyndns.org/~mike/projects/myPhoto
Roxio Toast or Popcorn for all of your DVD burning needs—i.e. the next step after MacTheRipper (commercial):
http://www.roxio.com/en/products/index.jhtml
SizzlingKeys4iTunes so you can have global keyboard shortcuts to control iTunes w/o sacrificing menu bar real estate for some other iTunes controller (free):
http://www.yellowmug.com/sk4it/content.html
Spotlight plug-in for indexing zip files. Most popular Spotlight plug-in on Apple’s site.
Thought the URL would post.
Ziplight: http://www.bartastechnologies.com/products/ziplight/
Vienna - freeware and open source RSS newsreader.
What about a LaTeX solution?
SharePoints is a donationware that lets you define additional AFP/SMB mount points. Something OS 9 and before had that Apple hasn’t implemented GUI for in OS X clients. (OS X Server has nice GUI to manage the mount pointss…)
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/
newsfire is the BEST RSS newsreader. Les features, but it also has way less bloat. it does exzctly what i want, and it looks beautiful.
Menumeters: Menu bar applets that display system information. By far the lowest overhead solution I’ve found.
How can you recommend Virtue? It hasn’t been developed for over a year, and doesn’t work on Tiger. CodeTek Virtual Desktop (http://codetek.com/ctvd/) isn’t free, but is still the best available for OS X.
Platypus for turning shell & other scripts into OS X applications
I would add recorder.xhead, an easy to use voice recorder and audio player.
http://www.xheadsoftware.com/recorder_xhead.asp
and info.xhead, a secure personal database to store info like passwords, credit card info, etc.
http://www.xheadsoftware.com/info_xhead.asp
I have both and they are very easy to use and the developers very responsive to add new features.
Enzo
Platypus is at http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus
Linotype FontExplorer X: iTunes for fonts.
MarsEdit: NewNewsWire’s blog editor sibling
SuperDuper: best backup utility
Itunes plugins
Gaslight, very nice visual and free
http://www.steelskies.com/gaslight/
Coverflow, nice way to select songs by browsing through album artwork instead of names.
http://www.steelskies.com/coverflow/HomePage.html
Screensaver
Soundstream “is a Mac OS X screensaver created with Quartz Composer.
It consists of a randomly moving particle generator (reminiscent of Flurry) that reacts to the sound level picked up by your computer’s microphone.“
http://www.pcheese.net/software/soundstream/
A couple of things:
1. Acquisition is not free (but its very good—even does Torrents!)
2. Camino should replace FireFox on the Mac. FireFox is a sad port of a Windows application, and is a complete dog on the Mac.
3. I prefer NewsFire to NetNewsFire. I find it a lot simpler and better designed.
urls would be nice to see with recommendations.
Bare Bones’ TextWrangler surely belongs on this list!
renicer is a must… 1.2.9 is at versiontracker. It magically makes your computer “faster”, by raising the priority of whatever app is currently being used. Can also be set to have the opposite effect on what’s not being used. Very handy.
vuescan
I think iScroll is a better app than Sidetrack…
I’m suprised noone has mentioned WindowShade X by unsanity. This little app reproduces the windowshade effect from OS9 when you doubleclick on a window’s title bar. Best $10 I ever spent for a program.
We started using SuperDuper by Shirt Pocket alongside Carbon Copy Cloner. It is free to use but registration allows for incremental backups using sparse images. It does everything that CCC does but the interface is much nicer.
How could they forget Volume Logic from Octiv? Makes all your iTunes tunes sound like they’ve been completely re-mastered and makes even the worst audio systems blow you away. Awesome.
How about CyberDuck:
“Cyberduck is a open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript.“
The title says “Essential Mac OS X Applications”. Not “Essential FREE Mac OS X Applications”.
LaunchBar is essential. But it’s trialware, not free.
LAUNCHBAR LAUNCHBAR LAUNCHBAR
basically i wouldn’t enjoy using a mac without it.
ive used it in comparison with quicksilver and in my opinion it doesn’t compare.
get it at http://obdev.com
TextWrangler???
I can’t believe no one has added the old standard Mac apps that are always my first recommendations to new Mac users:
BBEdit for html - commercial, and their free companion TextWrangler.
Graphic Converter - view and translate almost any graphic format to any other.
I can live without almost every other app on the list or among the suggestions (the exceptions being CarbonCopyCloner and Transmit).
RBrowser is another good ftp client.
Another vote for skEdit. Great app.
I would replace CarbonCopyCloner with SuperDuper! It’s a much better backup app.
Also missing from the list - Wallet from Waterfall Sofware. Great little app for generating and storing passwords and other information. http://waterfallsw.com/
I would also remove/supplement Firefox with Camino. It’s a much more mac like gecko browser. The only real reason to use Firefox over Camino is if there is a certain extension that provides a feature you can’t get in Camino.
SafariStand should also be on the list. It’s a great addition to Safari.
X3D and VRML for Mac - how can one suffer without it?
OpenSource VRML/X3D browser for (among other platforms) OS X,
managed by me.
http://www.crc.ca/FreeWRL
I like Barquee way better than Synergy:
http://www.fourminutemilesoftware.com/barquee
Indeed! TextMate is badly missing.
http://macromates.com/
What is it about essential that people don’t understand? Canybar? Essential? Riiight.
I can’t believe no one has suggested this yet: although someone (Randall) does note that Virtue won’t work on Tiger and mentions Virtual Desktop, which sadly costs money. On the other hand, there is Desktop Manager (http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/) that is both free and still in active development, meaning it actually works (and well)! And if you’re not yet using virtual desktops, you really are missing out on all the fun.
I don’t think anyone has mentioned NoteTaker from Aquaminds.com. Best outliner, organizer, notebook, brainstormer, voice memo recorder that I have ever used. Not free, but not much.
For tracking book collections, Booxter is by far the best app out there, hands down:
http://www.deepprose.com
Awaken - iTunes Alarm Clock and Sleep Timer
http://www.embraceware.com/products/awaken/
Mac only, and perhaps one of the coolest apps out there…
handbrake
MenuMeters!!
It’s been mentioned before, but I can’t stress enough how wonderful MenuMeters is! network, CPU, memory and HD stats and usage meters right in your menu bar. I won’t go without it! and best of all it’s 100% freeware.
[url=http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters]http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters[/url]
I like DarwinPorts as an alternative to Fink. Together both are a great way of bringing opensource apps to the Mac.
http://darwinports.org/
Just like the brilliant FreeBSD or Debian port/package systems…
How about Celtx, an open source and free scriptwriting and preproduction application for film and television.
http://www.celtx.com
Don’t forget:
- Taco HTML editor (free): http://tacosw.com/index.php
- iBackup (free): http://www.grapefruit.ch/iBackup/
If anyone needs a file renaming program QuickName is easy to use and is free.
http://www.parknation.com/quickname
i still dont understand why people are suggesting SizzlingKeys4iTunes or any such application with the power of quicksilver and the trigger options…
in addition my vote goes to:
menucalendarclock
awaken
textmate
appzapper
ecto/marsedit
isquint
omnioutliner
tomato torrent
linotype fontexplorer x
Videocue is pretty darn good for making quick little QuickTime videos with a teleprompter.
Did you guys see the new application that just released on Wednesday called ApperZap? My husband was giddy about it.
This subject comes up a lot. I’ve got my list up here: http://weblog.mrbill.net/essential-mac-software/
Go with Firefox instead of Camino. Even though Camino is “Made for a Mac”, it doesn’t work worth a damn! I used it for around six months and it used to crash numerous times a day.
Chicken of the VNC’s a good free option for a VNC client. May be worth puttin’ on the list.
Link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
iSquint and HandBrake Lite need to be added to that list for sure…both are free.
Link: http://www.isquint.org
Favorite RSS reader: Vienna!
Favorite BitTorrent client: Transmission, by far!
Favorite Gnutella client: Cabos, but Acqlite is also a good choice.
If you are fed up with Spotlight, File Buddy has an incredible find file function. It’s not free if you keep it but I can’t live without it anymore.
http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/
Does anyone understand the word “essential”??? What person NEEDS every single one of these programs?\
The only essential program for OS X is Terminal.
TextWrangler is a handy freeware editor that you can use to edit remote documents over sftp/ssh.
Its so funny to me to see people bitching about the word choice ... “Essential.“ To come here and fill in your name and comment to just post something about the name of the list is cracking me up. =D
I’m a little surprised that you consider a site ripping tool like Deep Vacuum an “essential application”. Essential for who, thieves?
I didn’t see it listed, and I don’t think anyone mentioned it - but the Opera browser for Mac is the best browser for Mac that I have used. Opera.com, I believe.
Who uses the OS X Terminal?
You did mean iTerm, right?
http://iterm.sourceforge.net
Don’t forget HimmelBar, a great menu feature for your menu bar. An easy way to launch programs.
http://softbend.free.fr/himmelbar/
Essential utilities:
Diskwarrior <http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior>
Macaroni <http://www.atomicbird.com>
Camino? Best web browser for OS X…
I was quite sad to not see Rapidweaver on the list.
http://www.realmacsoftware.com
iTerm is a better terminal and found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/iterm/
What about Pacifist? This little shareware app has repaired many a corrupted installation.
What about SideNote? It can be found at http://www.chatelp.org/?s=Sidenote
What about Desktop Manager for virtual desktops (like in Linux)? CodeTek’s is commercial and works no better than this open source virtual desktop manager:
http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/
When I use a computer without virtual desktops, I feel claustrophobic
Note: XRay and DragThing are shareware.
I can’t live without several of the apps on this list, including Butler and VoodooPad. I must recommend Journler, though. It’s a free journaling app that’s become one of my essentials. One of my favorite shareware apps is URL Manager Pro. I also second Taco HTML Edit.
Saft, makes browsing on Safari so pleasant.
http://haoli.dnsalias.com/index.html
Camino.
Smultron! Awesome programmers notepad, Store Snippets in a draw window. syntax highlighting for every language i can think of and more, I was using MI before but smultron is much better and free. And if your a developer komodo might be worth a look (its onle $30) and it has active debugging, Syntax highlighting, code blocks, its just a joy to use, Supports debugging of most scripting languages and any Programming/Scripting languages it doesnt support add a run cmd in the toolbox and BAM, it supports it.
Netflix Freak
(manages your netflix account without opening a web browser)
Ipodrip
(great interface that allows you to copy from “your” ipod back to your computer)
get them here
http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/
http://www.derailer.org/paparazzi/
Paparazzi, to take an entire picture od a webpage without scrolling!
Veery Useful
SuperCard. SuperCard. SuperCard.
http://www.SuperCard.us
Fire: Multi-protocol chat client. I prefer it over adium because you can use GnuPG to encrypt your chat sessions and manage key distribution manually:
fire.sourceforge.net
I use both Cyberduck and Fugu. Cyberduck has a better interface but is slow… good for editing source code. Fugu interface is clunky, but much faster for transferring large files.
cyberduck.ch
Art Directors Toolkit has these adjustable rulers that float above everything. Great for comparing alignment between photoshop, flash and web.
CocoaWGET is a great graphical front end to wget if you find yourself downloading entire websites.
MacPAR Deluxe is a great RAR extraction utility.
Poisoned is like Acquisition only it handles FastTrack (kazaa) too:
poisoned.sourceforge.net
Senuti is a great tool for a-la carte management of your iPod.
Azureus is a great BitTorrent client.
There are a few others that others mentioned above, but I’ll add my vote to them:
Handbrake, Audacity, Firefox.
GARAGE BAND!!! must have for musicians!
.mac sync alternative
http://www.mildmanneredindustries.com/mysync/moreinfo.html
my sync .mac alternative
xACT - X Audio Compression Toolkit
Freeware full suite lossless audio encoding/decoding, file fixing, checksumming, etc. Actually a GUI built around several command-line apps like shntool and MacFLAC.
GraphicConverter
File Buddy
BBedit
Rbrowser
NeoOfficeJ (Mac-centric OpenOffice.org)
Remote Desktop Client (for when you HAVE to use a PC)
Not many games on that list. What about Professor Fizzwizzle?
http://grubbygames.com
GraphicConverter
Camino - WAY BETTER THAN FIREFOX OR SAFARI
Quicksilver
• NeoOffice/J: OpenOffice 1.1.5 (with Open Document support) redone as a full Mac OS X Java app. Uses all Mac OS X features, including installed fonts, unlike the X11 version of OpenOffice. Of course, it’s free.
• <b>Galerie: Web photo gallery / slide show maker. Very powerful, very easy to use, Mac OS X only, and free. Also check out Myriad’s awesome music notation and production software, and their games as well. All except Galerie work on Windows and Mac OS Classic as well as Mac OS X, and are either shareware or commercial (but Galerie is freeware). The music software can even sing! In harmony, no less! The high-end music program (which, combined with all of the add-ons, still costs less than the version upgrades of the likes of Finale or Sibelius) even has a built-in powerful programming language based on Lua, called Myrscript, that allows the user to add whole new features to the program. Many MyrScripts are available for free download.
Oh, and it’s a commercial app, but boy howdy is it awesome! And Windows users can’t have it, nyaaah! But I just gotta mention Studio Artist from <a href=“http://www.synthetik.com”>! It can do things that no combination of art programs on any other platform can do! Works with still images or video. If you took the latest Painter, PhotoShop CS2, AfterEffects, Morph software, etc., pump them up as if on Kryptonite-based steroids from Smallville, and combine all of their powers into one program, it’d still look like the original MacPaint in comparison to Studio Artist 3.0!
I’ll be blunt: if you do graphics arts of any kind for a living, and anyone else in your market has Studio Artist and you don’t, then you&rsqou;re simply not competitive in your market.
Interarchy - FTP
DEVONthink - Notebook
Aqua Data Studio - Database
I’ll second the mention of Smultron.
iBiz is horrible, I can’t believe it made the list. I was equally shocked that TimeNet didn’t. Check it out, it’s light years ahead of the competition!!
http://www.applesource.biz/software/timenet/
GraphicConverter!! A GREAT app.
instead of acquisition try poisoned: http://gottsilla.net/poisoned.php
it’s way better, it uses fasttrack, gnutella, and several other networks.
What about any VR or Virtual Tour apps?
Mapwing makes some pretty nice tours: http://www.mapwing.com
There is a tour of Apple’s Campus on this page too: http://www.redbugtech.com/tours/
I’d add a lot to this list: II2 installer, LaTeX, TeXShop, LaTeX Equation Editor, g77, Desktop Manager, StarfishX, Fugu, Toy Viewer, FreePhotoConverter, GUI Tar, Magic Number Machine, HP-48GX, Sidenote, Beholder Lite, Synk, iBackup, CocoView, Eigenmath, FolderGlance, ClockSaver. I’ve posted my own list for my students:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/fall2005/physics200a/mac_stuff.html
The Free App Cornerclick (http://greg.vario.us/cornerclick/) & the $10 US Fruitmenu (http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/fruitmenu/) are essential. I can’t imaginf OS X wothout them.
Map hot-corners to open any app of file (and more) with Cornerclick and customise applw & contextual menus with Fruitmenu. For example i added the freeware enable/disable Dashboard (http://www.natal.be/index.php/?p=6) Apps to my context menu so i can turn on or off (mostly off) Dashboard with a right click.
No one mentioned Clicker?
No one???!!!
No one mentioned Clicker?
No one???!!!
a tunneling software…...i’m looking for one desperately…..ichat,adium do not work on my lan connection….because they require tunneling which is not allowed on the network…...does anyone know a software or any other solution??
I want to second a nomination for Vienna, a free RSS reader. It is more powerful than NetNews lite and comparable to NetNews paid version.
Also Circus Ponies NoteBook is still more elegant than AquaMinds NoteTaker.
KisMAC, a port of the Kismet 802.11 sniffer to OS X.
Another vote for TextWrangler. Edit files remotely via ssh!
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml
DevonThink’s a bit more than a “notebook,“ fwiw. It’s not essential for everyone, and it’s not free, but if you need what it does, it’s awesome.
I’m not sure what you people are complaining about w/r/t Firefox. Camino is unfinished and unstable, but Firefox gives you access to a wealth of plugins.
I’m shocked this list has yet to mention Quicksilver positively. Someone mentioned they preferred the venerable and nonfree Launchbar, but the free and infinitely extensible Quicksilver is my serious go-to app. After using both, Launchbar seems like Quicksilver’s retarded brother. I use it hundreds of times a day, and feel like I’m missing a limb whenever I work on a machine without it.
I used to view BBEdit as essential, but I’ve given Barebones their last buck of mine. Textmate is the new king, and I use it all day.
I’ve been a user of VirtualDesktop for years, but really stopped relying on it so much with the advent of Expose. I’ve recently started using it again for some things, though, and will definitely be checking out the Desktop Manager mentioned above.
Finally, if you read feeds, I still find that NetNewsWire is the king. It’s not free, but it’s not pricey, either.
Great stuff, but the list would not be complete without Mac GNU Privacy Guard, HenWen and ManOpen!
ClipEdit for editing text clippings.
PhotoToolCM is a very handy contextual menu plugin for anyone who works with image files. It gives you instant access to Exif info, does batch resizing, batch date modifications, even lossless JPEG rotations. One of the most useful photo tools I’ve found, and it’s totally free.
http://www.pixture.com/macosx.php
The other can’t-live-without context menu for me is OnMyCommand. It lets you put anything you want on the context menu, and you determine in what cases the item should appear (folders, files, highlighted text, etc.) and you can name/order/cascade/etc your added menu items however you choose. I created a lookup sub-menu for highlighted text with URLs to Google, Merriam-Webster, and Leo long before Tiger built Google and Dictionary lookup into the context menus. I also added a “send to” menu like windows, and a “new text file here”. The menu can run unix scripts, applescripts, etc. and there are a ton of prepackaged scripts available for download. The options are limitless, and, again, it’s free!
http://free.abracode.com/cmworkshop/on_my_command.html
MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X : http://www.winlibre.com/wiki/doku.php?id=maclibre
Don’t forget TacoHTMLEdit
Writers should take a look at CopyWrite by Barta Technologies.
Thanks for the list, I’m going to check out CSSEdit, it looks really nice.
You might want to check out Xyle scope, a very neat css editor:
http://www.culturedcode.com/xyle/index.html
Tushar Kumar: Check out “SSH Tunnel”; that’s a free ssh tunnel manager. You *do* have to know a bit about SSH tunnels for it to be useful, though.
SSH Tunneling command-line notes: http://naib.webhop.org/~markfickett/tmp/tunnelnotes.txt
Backups: rsync (command-line) (and I’m prefectly happy with Terminal)
TeXShop (LaTeX): http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html
QuickImage (contextual-menu-based in-Finder simple image editing): http://www.pixture.com/macosx.php
Full list of stuff I use: http://naib.webhop.org/~markfickett/tmp/usefuldls.txt
...and I second Adium and MenuMeters.
You can’t forget to add flip4mac.
Simply a NECCESSITY for any serious user.
The amount of really good freeware and cheap shareware on the Mac (esp since the release of OS X) continues to amaze me. So much more cool stuff than is availabel on Windows.
Here’s my list of stuff to add:
Anything by Peter Maurer: http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php
One Button FTP: http://onebutton.org/index.php
MP3 Trimmer: http://www.deepniner.net/mp3trimmer/
EasyWMA: http://www.easywma.com/
FinderPop: http://www.finderpop.com/
Doug’s iTunes Scripts: http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/
Open Terminal Here: http://www.entropy.ch/software/applescript/welcome.html
Not a lot of Graphics progs on this list. How about:
potrace: Gorgeous raster to vector conversion at http://potrace.sourceforge.net/
ArtRage: Free natural media painting program for mac
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
For Illustrator users:
- Graffix plugins (esp. concatenate)
http://rj-graffix.com/
Komodo 3.5 from Activestate (http://www.activestate.com). A great PHP/Python/Perl/Ruby IDE!
Note Pad Deluxe.
My favorite note taking program for years.
Could you recomend a free and good anti virus for Mac ?
Regards
at the moment there is no use for a antivirus program on mac because there is nothing to kill
and if you want a antivirusprogram there is nothing like free and good - a free progam is better than nothing but at the moment in the windows world the free programs are all crap when you compare them to commercial programs…
Thanks Adrian.
I am using my PowerBook since last year. Normally i dont take it to my job but there are times i have to, i am using Mac more often everyday. The fact is that today at lunch i was talking with a workmate about Macs and the conversasion was pointed into the virus factor for Macs. I read some time ago that many people dont use antivirus for Mac, then i realized that my Mac use to be in our office network and i dont have any protection against that.
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