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?
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???!!!