Lately, I have a few emails from people that know I use a Mac (what thinking person doesn’t these days?) asking what apps are on my computer.
Here’s a list of stuff that I use all the time.
Freebies/Part of OS X:
- iPhoto
- iTunes
- iCal
- Address Book
- Disk Inventory X
- Firefox
- Mail.app
- Skype (Free, but I have paid for various services and add-ons)
- iChat with Chax
- Adium
- Cyberduck FTP/SFTP client
- Twitterific
- Tea Timer (Useful for keeping track of the parking meter when I’m not wearing a digital watch with alarm)
- Audacity
- Azureus
- Flicker Exporter for iPhoto
- Flip4Mac WMV Player
- Google Earth
- Handbrake
- Mac The Ripper
- PocketMac Sync Manager
- TNEF’s Enough
- VNCThing
- SSH Tunnel Manager
- Gizmo Project
- Gleam
- Growl
- Spanning Sync
- Stuffit Expander
- VLC
- XCode
- CoRD
Paid for Applications:
- PGP
- Parallels
- BBEdit (Text Wrangler is almost as good…also, by Bare Bones and is FREE!)
- Adobe CS2 (esp Photoshop)
- FileMaker Pro
- Roxio Toast
- Super Duper
- VueScan
- Visual Hub
