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crazycat

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You just got a brand new Mac, you set it up, you switch it on and you are ready to go. What are the apps that you would install?

Here is my list:

- Firefox
- VLC media player
- Toast (i dont really download it)
- Transmission (torrent)
- Microsoft office
- World of warcraft
- Windows media player
- Super Duper
- Tomato torrent
 
Main apps i will install are:

- Toast
- Appzaper
- Interarchy
- Mplayer / Mencoder
- Fairmount
- Dvd2oneX2
- Handbrake
- C&C Generals
- Photoshop CS2
- Lightroom
- MySQL
- VLC
- Flip4Mac
- Xcode
- Eclipse

Every other app is installed on a when needed basis..
 
Quicksilver (Ohhhh yeah)
Growl
Adium (IM)
Colloquy (IRC)
SafariStand, PithHelmet, Inquisitor (Safari plugins)
Transmit (FTP)
iTunes Alarm (duh)
SIMBL and Visor (Terminal drop-down)
Adobe Creative Suite (depends on the machine)
Final Cut Studio (depends on the machine)
iWork
Perian (QuickTime components)
Flip4Mac (Because **** Microsoft! ..!.,)
Toast

And then other things as I thought of them.
 
Quicksilver
You Desktops
TextExpander
Growl
Default Folder X
Adium
Snak
NetNewsWire
Inquisitor
Saft
VoodooPad
BBEdit
Path Finder
Dragster
SharePoints
Chicken of the VNC
VLC
Transmit
Remote Desktop Connection
Xtorrent
Xcode
X11
Fink
Parallels (with my XP work VM)
Microsoft Office for Macintosh
Scrivener
OmniOutliner Professional
DEVONthink Pro
SandVox
FileMaker Pro
Mail Steward
Max
Media Rage
MacJournal
Skype
Wallet

and then others as needed, such as OmniGraffle, OmniPlan, NovaMind, iWork, etc. :)
 
The apps I simply must have on my Macs are:

Quicksilver
Adium
NewsFire
BT client (BitRocket or Transmission)
TextMate
AppZapper

More than that is gravy, but I must have at least those :)
 
My brand new install set:

TextWrangler
Adium
Flip4Mac WMV Player
Colloquy
Firefox (plus a boatload of extensions and user scripts for Greasemonkey)
Fission
QuickTime Pro
Parallels

Additionally, to be installed inside Parallels, once Windows is set up:
Winamp
Silence Remover

I deliberately omitted my collection of emulators :eek:
 
Adium
Aurora
Camino
Candybar
Copernicus
Firefox
Flip4Mac
GammaSlamma
GraphicConverter
Growl
GrowlTunes
Journler
krank
Perian
Pixadex
Quinn
Realplayer
Skype
SuperDuper!
Unarchiver
Vienna
VLC

widgets:
Countdown Calendar
DoBeDo
iCalEvents
iStatPro
Package Tracker
RadarinMotion
VideoSpace
 
To add to what is already posted:

Optimized FireFox with a bunch of extensions (AdBlock being the first and most important)
Onyx
Default Folder X
Fruit Menu
Witch
UNO
Whatsize
Flash
Divx codec pack
Snood

And a bunch of other stuff I can't think of right now.
 
Adium
Xtorrent
Acquisition
NeoOffice (or Microsoft Office once I get the money for it)
Cyberduck
Toast
Mac The Ripper
VLC
Growl plus addons for Mail, Safari and iTunes.
Gimpshop
iStat Pro
Wikipedia Widget
 
Adium
Camino
Neooffice
Stella (atari 2600 emulator)
RockNES
ZSNES
Phoenix Slides
Seashore
Uapp
VLC
Flip4mac
Perian

Just the essentials baby....
 
flip4mac
NeoOffice (NEVER a MS product!)
adium
Mac the ripper
iStat
gonna try quicksilver!
iBank
some widgets.

others I am sure
 
Oooh, these threads are fun. =)

Quicksilver.

Then:
1Passwd
Adium
AppZapper
iBank
iPartition
MAMP Pro
NetNewsWire
Photoshop
SuperDuper!
TextMate
VLC
WebnoteHappy
Yasu
Yummy FTP
 
FireFox (Safari does have some cool stuff that Firefox does not though)
Neo-Office ( open source alternative to Office
Joost (might be best to wait until its out of beta if yur new to OSX)
Xtorrent (the only thing better then uTorrent)
Audacity (unlike the $1200 version of Bias Peak, it can read .ogg files, great all around audio editor)
Disk Warrior (Disk utility that has saved my behind before)
HandBrake (converting DVDs to iPod, and others)



There are tons more too, but thses are ones that I can't be with out.
 
Macs are mostly ready to use out of the box. I tend to use the same extra software I use on my windows/linux box:

Firefox (adblock+, paste&go, repagination, google browser sync)
Openoffice
Audacity
Skype
GIMP
GoogleEarth
 
I install these apps:
Firefox
VLC
TextExpander
Handbrake
Transmission
VisualHub
Mactracker
WhatSize
Toast 8 Titanium
uApp
sixtyforce
Lab Tick (depending if it's a MacBook Pro/PowerBook G4 or not)
Cyberduck
CoreDuo Temp (depending if it's a laptop or not)
BluePhoneElite 2
Azureus
Audacity
 
Toast
AppZapper
FireFox
MS Office
Aperture
VLC
Flip4Mac
Google Earth
iWork
iLife (obv)
Transmission (torrents)
Folding@Home

Oh yeah:

Cyberduck
iSquint
Disk Inventory X
 
Quicksilver first and foremost...

I was at the Apple Store today, and I was trying out some of the iMacs. I about hit "option-spacebar" to pull up Quicksilver and realized that it's not on all Macs...

So that would be the first app I installed. Everything else would be secondary.
 
I just did this with my Macbook. Unlike my previous Macs, even though it's the newest, it's not replacing my main Mac, so I only installed what I need on it. So far:

CS3 (beta)
AppZapper
CSSEdit
TextMate
Fetch
Serial Communicator
XCode
MATLAB
Quicksilver
Microsoft Office 2004
The apps I'm currently developing.

Basically only the apps I need to get my development/web design work done (since that's what I bought this Mac for anyway). Those are really the only apps I need besides the stock/included ones.
 
Creative Suite 2 Premium
Dock Dividers
Firefox [with Adblock Plus, FlashBlock, Smooth Wheel, and McAfee Site Advisor extensions]
iWork
FontExplorer X
Office 2004
Stuffit Expander
Yasu

What I use at work at least on the G5.

Once I get a Mac Pro later this year, I'll check out some other apps like Handbrake, Toast, and Transmission. And I'll use Neo Office instead of Office 2004. Hopefully by then I'll also be able to get CS3. ;)
 
-Firefox :D
-Transmission
-Adium
-iWork, Pages to be exact then Office for powerpoint and excel :D
-App Delete
-Toast
-Stuffit :D
-Main Menu
-cmcFanControl
-StickyWindows :D

MAYBE

-Quicksilver
-Deskshade
-Disk Inventory X
 
Heh, just saw my old post from just over a year ago. Just about all the apps I use have changed since then :).

The only ones that are the same are:

Adium
Growl
Toast
VLC
iStat Pro
Cyberduck.

I've stopped using Gimpshop in favour of the the build of Gimp 2.4.5 here. I don't really use any torrent or P2P apps anymore and spend far more time using applications like Xcode now.

Plus I now install Logic Studio 8 :). Great software that.
 
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