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A new Best Mac apps thread

1 - Expose (you gotta love it)
2 - Spaces
3- Final Cut Pro
4- Motion
5 - keynote
6 - iTunes
7- iMovie
8- iDVD
9- appcleaner
10- Firefox
 
Things - to do list
Office 2008 and iWork 09
Caffeine - keeps computer from sleeping
App Cleaner - app uninstaller
Carbon Copy Cloner - makes copy of hard drive
Coconut Battery - checks battery health. I dont like iStat because i dont use expose
Daisy Disk - to check disk usage
Firefox - i prefer Safari but i need some add ons and i like how firefox goes straight to full screen with the green button.
DROPBOX - Best app ever. Online storage
Pixelmator - photoshop substitute.
Ripit - for the few personal dvds i want to back up and for the ones I want to watch from my hard drive without carrying the disk around.
VLC - video player. I dont want to add plugins for quicktime and i used vlc on my windows pc.
Self Control - for the time i need to do serious work without any interruptions from email, chats or facebook.
 
scowl said:
AppZapper - If there's a better app for this, let me know please.
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dirt farmer said:
I used AppZapper a few years ago, and it would always leave behind some .plist files, and even some occasional cache files.

I'm wondering if anyone has used AppTrasher? It's description sounds much more thorough.
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I bought AppZapper 2 years ago and lately I've been trying Apptrasher. In every case Apptrasher found same files as AppZapper and occasionally another. I found a free app called Easyfind over a year ago (its more of a spotlight search replacement) but because I can sometimes find files with it no other dedicated app remover does I use it to remove app's and associated files manually (I missed Tigers Spotlight Window that I used to remove apps and associated files with manually). But I run AppZapper, Apptrasher, Hazel (in background) and Easyfind every time I remove an app just to see what they find. I still prefer EasyFind.
 
Great recommendations.
Some of mine:
Adium - IM Client
Last.fm - app for the webpage
Growl -Notifications
RAR expander -.rar unarchiver
 
Won't bother describing each app, since you guys have done a pretty thorough job of that already, but here goes.

Things
Dropbox
Evernote
Adium
VLC
Perian
Pages
Numbers
Gimp
Synergy
Gmail Notifier
Transmission
Bento
1Password

And some Unreal Tournament 2004 for when I have some time to kill. :D
 
-Google Chrome: Combines the things I like best about Safari and Firefox into one browser, I'm sure it'll only get better by final release.

-iTrash: Helps removes applications completely.

-MPlayer OS X Extended: I've found it to be just as versatile as VLC, with better tracking and better performance (with the MT binaries).

-Transmission: It does what it does, and it does it well enough for me.

-Colloquy: Free IRC client that also does its job.

-Stickies: I personally think this is the best Apple app there is...not too fond of a lot of their other options...
 
Mailplane - Great integration of gmail with the desktop
Hazel - Excellent for setting up a self organizing mac
Growl - Notifications
Papers - Extremely useful for those who need to organize academic pdfs
Medialink - Easy mediastreamer for your PS3
Alfred - Great app launcher
Transmission - IMO best mac torrent application
Google chrome - Nice fast and lightweight browser
1Password - Absolute must have for password management. Sadly does not support chrome yet.
Movist - Excellent media player with support for many formats
Hotspotshield - For those pesky sites that only work from the U.S

Thanks to the guy who mentioned ji-touch. This is exactly the app I have been looking for!
 
Here's a couple more freebies that are great that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Loginox: sets your login wallpaper to match your desktop wallpaper

Dock Library: Change your OSX dock to one of several free alternatives.
 
Applications that are a must have

I surfed google, and this forum about what applications would be necessary for a new macbook owner. But I couldn't find anything (if i DID miss a similar thread, I'm truly sorry).

I was wondering what are absolutely necessary or really beneficial applications I should get? I installed appcleaner which seems to be real good.

Any others?
 
dsprimal said:
I surfed google, and this forum about what applications would be necessary for a new macbook owner. But I couldn't find anything (if i DID miss a similar thread, I'm truly sorry).

I was wondering what are absolutely necessary or really beneficial applications I should get? I installed appcleaner which seems to be real good.

Any others?
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Back to the original question, I really like the following:

Adium: IM client that supports everything. Ugly at first but there are many downloadable themes

Rapid Weaver: Perfect for websites and blogs without messing with lots of code

Paragon NTFS: For writing to NTFS drives (there is a free program that does this but the name escapes me at the moment).

I know there are a ton missing that I'm not thinking of right now but those are a few top ones.
 
I don't have a lot of mac expirience (my first mac is 1 month old today... party! :D) but I would recommend:
Better Touch Tool - allows to use gestures as shortcut. I use gestures for pretty much everything now in Safari (opening/closing tabs, switching between them, refreshing etc) - very useful.
OpenOffice - similar to Microsoft Office but it's free :)
Onyx - deletes cache files etc that you don't need.
 
Growl - freeware, kind of event messaging software. integrates with adium, itunes, safari, etc. very good.

Perian - codecs for quicktime.

flip2mac - play WMV with quicktime

Mac The Ripper - DVD ripping software

amule - equivalent to emule.

gimp - photoshop like.
 
programs that i use..

xact
audacity
istat
coconut battery
unRARX
itunes statistician
 
I know it helped me, and it might be something to consider:

I switched to 100% Mac usage about a month ago...I sold my PC desktop and my Macbook Air and got a new high-end 15in MBP. However, I was kind of scared to 100% ditch the Windows world, so...

I bought Parallels Desktop 5 and a full version of Windows 7. Now I can run Windows 7 on my new MBP if I NEED it. Psychologically it has helped me knowing that I still have a Windows option if I need it. And in reality, I have only opened it a couple of times, most times I don't even log the Windows 7 in, it sits idle and rarely used.
 
Apps:
Firefox/Tor ( to get on the blocked sites at school :) )
Skype
Transmission
Aperture 3 ( A must have ( photographer )
Adobe CS5 Master collection ( I use photoshop for photography and am also in video production classes so... )
Final Cut Pro ( I prefer it to CS5's apps but I can't use it at school, I use it for personal projects though )
Handbrake
Max
iWork
Xbench
iStat ( can't live without it )
Toast
GFX Card Status (Thanks bitninja!)
Parallels (with win 7)
Steam
Xmarks ( can't live without this ether! )

Games:
And Yet it Moves
Bioshock
Diner Dash
Galcon Fusion
Half-life 2 series ( when they release the ports for mac :) can't wait! )
Hoyle Card Games
Machinarium
Nexuiz
Osmos
Portal
StarCraft 2 Beta ( already pre ordered :) )
StepMania
World of Goo

Computer specs in sig :)
 
First, Adobe Master Collection CS5
and here are some of the rest of my favorites...







and my torrent hero, which surprised me again just minutes ago with this:



 
david.v said:
First, Adobe Master Collection CS5




and my torrent hero, which surprised me again just minutes ago with this:



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I'm guessing you got CS5 Master Collection through your torrent hero? :cool:



I like CS5 Master Collection, iStat, Air Mouse, and Handbrake. Those are just a few.
 
Firefox
Safari
Adium
Last.FM
Bowtie
SMCfancontrol
iStatMenus
Growl
Menumeters
Traktor
VMwareFusion
Twitteriffic
Appcleaner
Tigerlaunch
Tunatic
Caffeine
MediaInfo Mac
Max
VLC
Caffeine
RARexpander
Pages
Transmission
Play
Google Chrome
PeerGuardian


on a regular basis. Sorry or not explaining but that would take forever plus most people have already done it.
 
Google Chrome - Web Browser is blazingly fast on the Mac.
I have setup the Google DNS too. WOW! It's truely a pleasure surfing the net when using Google Chrome.
 
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