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Apps on Mac

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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

Applications

Work

Cha-Ching
A simple money program that helps you organise your accounts, budgets and finances.

Concept Draw
More of a group of programs that offer a wide range of applications such as flow charts to mind maps.

Filemaker
A cross platform database application, that has amazing power and potential.

iWork
Apples work application package to complement iLife, a good package if you want the Apple integration although lacks on some features.

Microsoft Office
Office is one of the most prominent packages on the Windows machines for work programs. Very good on Mac, although some small annoying bugs.

Money2
Another application for managing your accounts. The interface on this program is amazing.

Neooffice
An Open Office port to Mac, like Microsoft Office, except its free.

Nvu
A very powerful webpage editor for designing and creating websites. Just as good as Dreamweaver.

Omnigraffle
A brill program that offers a really cool way of creating presentation diagrams. Check out the Omni Groups offerings for all of the cool programs they have to offer.

Process
Another program by Jumsoft on this list that lets you plan and organise your projects.


Quicken
Another personal finance program, but this one feels more corporate and official.


Yojimbo
A cool little program that helps you organise all your bits of information, great if you end up filling up dashboard with millions of stickies.

Tools

Apple Remote Desktop
One of Apples many programs that lets you work effectively on your network. This app lets you look in on a remote desktop and work with it remotely.

Battery Health
One of many tools used to help you find out how much juice is left in your Mac battery. A tool for any laptop.

BootCamp
Installing Windows on a Mac is never easier with BootCamp. A simple program that create a partition on you disk for installing windows.

BwanaDik
A menu bar monitoring tool for you network. Lets you find tons of info about you LAN and WAN in one easy to reach place.

Carbon Copy Cloner
For serious back ups you need somthing like Carbon Copy Cloner that can clone your entire drive quickly and easily.

Chmox
Chmox is a program that enables you to open .chm help files on your Mac. Chm files are not supported in preview.

Coconut Battery
A personal favourite of mine, this is another battery tool to monitor the health of your battery. I wish my laptop was run off coconuts.

DasBoot
DasBoot is a tool to create a diagnostic and repair kit for your computer to put on an iPod or flash drive.

Flip4Mac
The tool endorsed by Microsoft to help with those pesky .wmv files.

FreeDMG
This software creates drag and drop .dmg archives on the fly. Easy to use if you make a lot of disk images.

GeekTool
GeekTool is a preference pane module to show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop.

Growl
A very useful tool that is used by many applications to show a clean way of displaying messages to you. Like the bubbles in Windows except a hell of a lot better.

Hardware Monitor
Hardware Monitor is designed to check the various pieces of hardware on you computer for faults and problems as well as give messages back to you.

Editing hex files cannot be easier with Hex Fiend.


HoudahGeo
HoudahGeo allows you to add Geo data to any image within the EXIF data. Helps you find your way around the world in your images.

iStat Menus
iStat Menus off a wide range of statistical analysis of your computer including various hardware bits. Their widget is one of my favouites.

Mac Pilot
This piece of software allows you to modify various parts of your computer that you would normally have to do through Terminal.

MacJanitor
This little app cleans up various system files and other bits and bobs to keep your computer running smoothly.

MainMenu
MainMenu is another piece of software to help you keep your computer running smoothly. This one has more advance options such as rebuilding the spotlight database.

MenuMeters
Another monitor piece of software but this one is designed to run within the menu bar.


Monolingual
Who needs to know French. Monolingual removes the languages from the computer that you do not need.

Operation
A project management tool that lets you organise your projects quickly and easily.

Parallels
Highly recommended virtualization software for virtualizing other OS’s.

Service Scrubber
Helps you organise and remove services from your menus (Name of App > Services)

SquidDan
Once a very popular proxy tool for sorting out your own proxy for handling your internet connection. Has become disused over time.

Stomp
Stomp those big files down to size. Helps reduce video files into more compressed formats.

SuperDuper
Another great backing up utility although its not fully Leopard compatible at the time of writing.

Synergy2
A very cool little application that lets you share a mouse and keyboard between one or more computers.

TinkerTool
A tool that lets you access more preferences the Apple has built into the OS.

VMWare
Another very good piece virtualization software to enable to to virtualize other OS’s.