sixtyPercent: Cochlear Implants, Aviation, Technlology, and Philosophy 2007/03/07
The obligitory Mac OS X Applications I Use Post
Here's the obligitory "3rd Party Applications I use on Mac OS X" post. I find these lists useful when I stumble across them, as I often find tools that I didn't know about before. A good case in point in the "Thrupp" application (see below). I learned about that while reading a post like this one, and now find it to be a useful way of getting my iTunes music on our Tom Tom GPS in an organized and consistent way.
Here's my list, broken up into classes of frequency of use, but otherwise in no particular order.
Key Applications
These are the applications that I use these every day or nearly so.
- Mac OS X Mail
- Safari
- iTunes http://www.apple.com/ilife/
- Adium http://www.adiumx.com
- Yojimbo http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo
- Vienna http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.html
- Mac Ports (formerly Darwin Ports http://www.macports.org
- OmniOutliner Pro http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner
- TextMate http://www.macromates.com
- Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox
- Skype http://www.skype.com
- Backup http://www.apple.com/dotmac/features.html
- Quicksilver http://quicksilver.blacktree.com
- Synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ and http://software.landryhetu.com/synergy/
Secondary Applications
I use these from somewhat frequently -- they are all great applications, just not things I need all day every day.
- Chicken of the VNC http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/
- Delicious Library http://www.delicious-monster.com/
- HandBrake http://handbrake.m0k.org/
- iStumbler http://www.istumbler.net/
- NeoOffice http://download.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
- OmniGraffle Pro http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
- Thrupp http://www.utsire.com/thrupp/
- SubEthaEdit http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
- Tofu http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/index.shtml
- CanoScan http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ProductCatIndex1Act&fcategoryid=104
- Transmission http://transmission.m0k.org/
- VLC http://www.videolan.org/
- Wx http://hunter.pairsite.com/wx/
- Parallels http://www.parallels.com/
- Pages and Keynote http://www.apple.com/iwork/
- iPhoto and GarageBand http://www.apple.com/ilife/
Tertiary Applications
The are the tools I use very occasionally -- again -- they seem like good applications, I just don't need them for my daily routine.
- Seashore http://seashore.sourceforge.net/
- Inkscape http://inkscape.org/
- MonoLingual http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
- ServiceScrubber http://www.manytricks.com/servicescrubber/
by David Creemer : 2007/03/07 : Categories technology (permalink)
