A few months back David from Korporate Media sent an email to a few folks titled “Dear Macintosh users, let’s talk apps” and a bunch of people replied. It took a while to compile, but here’s my list. Some of these I don’t use much anymore in Mac OS X 10.5 but still do in Mac OS X 10.4, and some of these I almost never use, but still think they might be useful to others…
- Adium - multi-protocol IM
- Audio Hijack - re-route audio, record anything your Mac can play
- Chicken of the VNC - VNC client
- CocoThumbX - nice thumbnailer
- Colloquy - IRC client
- Combine PDFs - handy utility to merge PDFs into one file
- Desktop Manager - like Spaces, but not… (yeah, I still use Tiger on some Macs!)
- EvoCam - awesome webcam/timelapse software
- ffmpegX - GUI front-end to ffxmpeg
- Final Cut Express - awesome video editor for under $200
- FontDoc - display fonts in their face (blows away Font Book)
- GarageBand - fun with music composing!
- GraphicConverter - can’t afford Photoshop? need to convert images?
- Growl - system notifications, including roll-your-own
- Interarchy - file transfers, ftp, sftp, Amazon S3 support, etc.
- iSquint - converts .wmv files to QuickTime
- iTerm - blows away Terminal.app, IMHO…
- jEdit - multi-platform text editor, no one likes it but me
- Linotype FontExplorer X - manage fonts the right way
- Mactracker - details on every freakin’ Mac model ever
- MetadataHootenanny - embed metadata in media files
- MPEG Streamclip - awesome video converter (easier to use than ffmpegX)
- MrDrum - simple drum machine app
- NeoOffice - word sucks, this is open source
- OmniOutliner - nice outliner, if you use an outliner
- OmniGraffle - nice grapher, if you use a grapher
- Parallels - run that crappy Windows thing
- PsyncX - automate backups on the command line
- Senuti - move music from iPod to iTunes
- SWF & FLV Player - free player for weird formats
(Oh, and Perl, which does everything else.)
