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